Killer dolls have been a popular horror mainstay ever since Talky Tina murdered Telly Savalas in that classic Twilight Zone episode, so leave it to B-movie producer Charles Band to proclaim “Hold my beer” and give us a dark and gloomy mansion that was simply chock full of tiny toy terrors with dash of gore…
Tag: Old Dark House
Night Monster (1942) – Review
If you are invited by a bitter invalid to an old dark house, one that is located near a foggy swamp, don’t go as it’s not going to end well for anybody. But without such examples of Darwinism in action we wouldn’t get such fun classic horror films like Universal’s Night Monster.
The Black Cat (1941) – Review
The 1930s and 1940s were a Golden Age of “Old Dark House” stories with such offerings as The Cat and the Canary and Horror Island populating theatres, but when you blend that “Old Dark House” setting with one of the works by the greatest Gothic writers of all time, Edgar Allan Poe, you are pretty…