Out of Darkness (2024)
Andrew Cumming’s Stone Age horror film, Out of Darkness, immediately reminded me of 2022’s Prey. It takes a group of people with primitive weapons and pits them against an unseen threat. The difference here is that the adversary doesn’t have high-tech weaponry. But it does have the upper-hand by havingContinue Reading
Grizzly (1976)
When Jaws broke box office records in the summer of 1975, there were bound to be knock-offs. As fast as possible, filmmakers the world over marched out a cavalcade of similarly-themed killer animal movies. If it wasn’t a shark doing the dirty work, then it could be virtually any animal.Continue Reading
Maniac Cop (1988)
Two of my favorite genre actors are Tom Atkins (Night of the Creeps) and Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep). Both are capable of livening up any film in which they’re cast. To see that they appeared in a movie together was like a dream come true. Unfortunately, in 1988’s Maniac Cop,Continue Reading
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
1982’s The Slumber Party Massacre is a prime example of the generic 80s slasher film. It’s chock-full of oversexed teenagers and lame excuses to get those same teenagers naked and/or dead. You know, all the cliches and tropes that typified the genre and, eventually, of which audiences eventually grew tired.Continue Reading
Night Creatures (1962)
Nestled inside an eight Blu-ray collection of Hammer Horror movies I own is 1962’s Night Creatures. When I chose it for this year’s Halloween Fifteen, I assumed it was a horror film. Known as Captain Clegg outside the United States, Night Creatures is actually more of an action/adventure film withContinue Reading
Werewolf of London (1935)
When I was a kid, I remember seeing pictures of the werewolf makeup from 1935’s Werewolf of London in books and thinking it looked much better than the Lon Chaney version. That might be the case in still photos, but almost everything else about this precursor to 1941’s The WolfContinue Reading
Doctor Blood’s Coffin (1961)
There’s a lot to be said for a good movie title. With a name like Doctor Blood’s Coffin, the subject of my review today couldn’t be anything other than a horror movie, right? The lurid title conjures up images of mad scientists, gore, macabre experiments, and, possibly, a cemetery orContinue Reading