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Classic Horror films of the 1940s

Posted on May 21, 2024May 12, 2024 by Mike Brooks

The 1940s saw the continuation of the golden age of Universal Monsters, a series of films that literally laid the groundwork for the horror genre, and while iconic monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolf Man and the Mummy reigned supreme during this era, other rivals studios would launch their own thought-provoking entries that would…

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The Most Dangerous Game (1932) – Review

Posted on November 3, 2023January 11, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” may be one of the most influential stories ever written, inspiring and influencing countless movies and television shows from Bill Bixby being hunted by a rich asshat in an episode of The Incredible Hulk to Jean Claude Van Damme being hunted by a group of rich asshats…

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The Black Scorpion (1957) – Review

Posted on April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 by Mike Brooks

The 1950s were all about giant monsters raging across the countryside, or at least that’s how I like to think of them, full of radioactive insects and cranky dinosaurs, but in 1957 the father of one of the greatest movie monsters of all time, the father of King Kong, stop-motion legend Willis O’Brien, would take…

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Cat People (1942) – Review

Posted on April 4, 2023February 10, 2025 by Mike Brooks

When one thinks of low-budget horror films, such as I Was a Teenage Werewolf, we imagine movies that were designed to fill the neighbourhood Drive-Ins with their cheap thrills and cheaper production value, but in the early 1940s RKO Pictures had an ace up their slave in the form of producer Val Lewton, a man…

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King Kong (1933) – Review

Posted on May 3, 2016September 1, 2020 by Mike Brooks

During the 1930s escapism from the realities of The Depression made movie-going more important than ever and in 1933 Merian C. Cooper gave the world just that with King Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World, a film that defined the term escapist entertainment.

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