It really can't be a good sign if the movie poster has to reference a much better film to try and drum up an audience. No, this film has absolutely nothing to do with The Last House on the Left. In fact, the only real connection is being distributed by American International Pictures, and while … Continue reading Don’t Look in the Basement (1973)
Let's take a minute to go in a totally different direction, to Japan, so we can focus on a "vampire" movie that doesn't really feature vampires at all. Yet it's still so well done that it wouldn't have been out of place in the midst of Hammer's gothic horror work of the 1960s. Even if … Continue reading The Vampire Doll (1970)
Do you like movies where a super helpful narrator tells you exactly what you're seeing on screen, despite you not actually needing any of his help to understand the ridiculous plot? No? Too bad, because you're getting it here. Italy, 2000 years after the destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Mount Vesuvius. A worker digs … Continue reading Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
It surprises me both in what that movie poster gets wrong about this film as well as what it gets right. The creature does kind of look that way, except half his face is mangled. The dude in the foreground attacking a lady doesn't happen. And Joseph Cotton's name is on there, which is fantastic. … Continue reading Lady Frankenstein (1971)
Ah, New England islands. They're cold. They're foggy. They're full of townsfolk willing to off each other at the first sign of trouble as well as killer critters, ghost pirates, and whatever other nasties can hide out in or on the water to come after you. They're my reference point for what life is like … Continue reading Island Zero (2018)
Peter Cushing is almost a modern day Jack the Ripper in this cheesy psycho killer flick from a very 1960s England. Cushing plays an aging surgeon with a much younger fashion model girlfriend. They go to a swinging party, but Cushing's not a hip cat and doesn't want a sleazy photographer taking pictures of his lady naked … Continue reading Corruption (1968)
William Castle gave me another mid-1950s awful horror delight with this one. A doctor in a small town has just learned his daughter was kidnapped and buried alive! Can he rescue her in five hours before she runs out of air and suffocates? Unfortunately, while the film starts with a great premise, as time whittles … Continue reading Macabre (1958)
Movie Reviews by a Mook 