Hammer Films wasn’t just about Peter Cushing creating monsters or Christopher Lee hissing over a candelabra. They also dabbled in voodoo, Cornish superstition, and the occasional zombie infestation. 1966’s The Plague of the Zombies is one such detour; a gothic, fog-drenched curiosity that manages to be creepy, silly, and weirdly influential all at once.
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House of the Dead (2003) – Review
Uwe Boll once described 2003’s House of the Dead as a prequel to the 1997 arcade game, which is already a sentence that should have triggered a wellness check. The original game barely had a plot beyond “shoot the zombies before they eat your face,” so naturally someone decided it needed lore. What we got…
Voodoo Island (1957) – Review
If you’re expecting a thrilling, spine-tingling adventure packed with dark magic and voodoo curses, Voodoo Island might leave you as lifeless as the zombies it barely features. This low-budget island horror film promises supernatural terror but mostly delivers sluggish jungle trekking, bad special effects, and a serious lack of, well…voodoo.
Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972) – Review
The filmography of Bob Clark is a truly interesting thing, his work includes such titles as the horror classic Black Christmas, the classic sex comedy Porky’s and one of the all-time greatest holiday movies A Christmas Story, but today we will look at one of his earliest offerings, a grim little horror flick called Children…
The Earth Dies Screaming (1964) – Review
Cinemas of the 1950s saw a variety of threats from outer space but come the 1960s flying saucers and death ray-toting aliens would step aside from some more insidious types of attacks from beyond. In the case of Britain’s The Earth Dies Screaming we have a film that isn’t so much about an alien invasion…