Roger Corman’s The Tomb of Ligeia is the last of his Poe cycle with Vincent Price, and it goes out with a whisper rather than a bang, a whisper wrapped in gothic fog, cat scratches, and questionable romantic decisions. It’s a slow-burn blend of death, obsession, and reincarnated cats, with more hypnotic mumbo-jumbo than a…
Tag: Supernatural
Kuroneko (1968) – Review
Kaneto Shindō’s Kuroneko (aka Black Cat) is a ghost story whispered in moonlight, where revenge prowls softly through the reeds and bamboo. It’s a film of elegant restraint; lyrical, haunted, and beautifully strange, less an outburst of horror than a quiet dirge for the cruelty of men. Think Onibaba with fewer holes and more spectral…
Kwaidan (1964) – Review
Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan is one of those rare horror films that feels less like a movie and more like a spell. Four eerie tales unfold in ravishing colour and painterly compositions, each drawn from Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese ghost stories. It’s an anthology drenched in atmosphere, but less blood and thunder, more moonlight and melancholy, proof…
The Haunted Palace (1963) – Review
Roger Corman’s The Haunted Palace is a slice of H. P. Lovecraft shot through an Edgar Allan Poe lens. It’s gothic, it’s spooky, and it’s got just enough B-movie weirdness to make you grin through the fog. This is the kind of movie where the atmosphere does most of the heavy lifting—because the plot sure…
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…