When I first heard of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, I thought it was an anthology film like Tales from the Darkside: The Movie or Trilogy of Terror. It’s not. Based on a series of books by Alvin Schwartz, the movie combines elements of stories found within theContinue Reading
Count Dracula is one of the most iconic and well-known characters in horror. His origin is, of course, found in the pages of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. Since then, countless versions of Dracula have become fixtures in film, literature, and popular culture. In most cases, it is Bela Lugosi’sContinue Reading
When his wife delivers a stillborn baby, American politician Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) adopts another child. He doesn’t tell Kathy (Lee Remick) that the boy that they’ll name Damien isn’t actually theirs. Soon afterwards, the happy family relocates to London from Rome when Robert accepts the position as U.S. AmbassadorContinue Reading
As a movie fanatic, it’s hard not to daydream about certain films and the characters within them. But what if a movie fan completely lost his grip on reality and began using those daydreams as weapons against those who have wronged him over time? That is the premise of 1980’sContinue Reading
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die centers around Dr. Bill Cortner (Herb Evers,) a man who’s been performing some unethical experiments involving human patients. He’s grafted body parts from corpses onto living bodies to various degrees of success. When he uses his techniques to revive a man who’s been pronounced dead,Continue Reading
Based on both the 1977 book and the original 1979 movie of the same name, 2005’s version of The Amityville Horror tells the story of the Lutz family and their supposedly true experiences inside a haunted house. The book by Jay Anson posited that George and Kathy Lutz moved intoContinue Reading
Horror and comedy have always gone together quite well. One of the first successful combination of the genres was 1948’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Taking Universal’s classic creatures, Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, and The Wolf Man, and pitting them against Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, one of comedy’s great duos,Continue Reading