There are movies you watch and think, “Wow, that was tight, coherent, and thematically rich.” And then there’s Lifeforce, a movie where you watch a fully nude space woman suck people’s souls out through their faces, and you think, “What in the actual hell is going on, and why am I kind of into it?”
Tag: Queen of Blood
Queen of Blood (1966) – Review
Let’s say you’re a low-budget filmmaker in the mid-60s, you love weird horror, and you’ve just gotten your hands on some cool Soviet sci-fi footage, stuff that looks a hundred times more expensive than anything you can shoot in California. What do you do? If you’re Curtis Harrington, you spin that into Queen of Blood,…
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) – Review
There’s something undeniably charming about the made-for-TV horror movies of the 1970s. Maybe it’s the sincerity. Maybe it’s the slightly off studio lighting. Or maybe it’s the sheer audacity of a film that asks you to fear a floppy-eared family pet with glowing eyes. Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell is one of those gloriously…