Sometimes a movie crawls out of the cinematic swamp so strange, so proudly low-budget, and so completely unaware of its own limitations that it achieves a kind of mad genius. The Flesh Eaters is that movie. It’s part beach party, part mad science experiment, and part bucket of guts. This atomic-age B-movie somehow manages to…
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Mill of the Stone Women (1960) – Review
Italian cinema of the early ’60s had a flair for grand horror melodrama. Still, Mill of the Stone Women (Il mulino delle donne di pietra) might be its most baroquely unhinged example. It’s beautiful, bizarre, and far too committed to its premise to be brushed off as just another knockoff. This is a film that…
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968) – Review
There’s weird, and then there’s Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell, a movie so jaw-droppingly odd it makes you wonder if everyone involved was under the influence of either experimental sake or sheer despair. Directed by Hajime Sato, this 1968 “sci-fi horror” flick tries to combine political satire, vampire aliens, and airplane disaster melodrama, and ends…
Matango (1963) – Review
Sometimes Japanese horror goes for ghostly chills, sometimes for kaiju-sized spectacle. 1963’s Matango, however, takes the road less travelled: stranding a group of bourgeois day-trippers on a rotting island and feeding them psychedelic mushrooms until they lose their humanity and their dignity. Directed by Ishirō Honda, best known for Godzilla, this damp, mouldy little nightmare…
The Creeping Terror (1964) – Review
Some horror movies are so terrifying that you can’t sleep at night. The Creeping Terror is so terrifying that you might not stay awake at all. This 1964 “monster” movie is the kind of thing that makes you wonder if Ed Wood had an evil twin who was even worse at his job.