Edgar G. Ulmer movies on TCM: ‘The Black Cat’ & ‘Detour’ Turner Classic Movies’ June 2017 Star of the Month is Audrey Hepburn, but Edgar G. Ulmer is its film personality of the evening on June 6. TCM will be presenting seven Ulmer movies from…
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Alien: Covenant review: Michael Fassbender plays android brothers David and Walter in this effective sequel to Ridley Scott’s muddled Prometheus. ‘Alien: Covenant’ review: Recapturing ‘some of the excitement, awe, and horror’ of 1979 original Before we get to Alien: Covenant, a rant about its predecessor,…
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Yvonne Monlaur: Cult horror movie actress & Bond Girl contender was featured in the 1960 British classics Circus of Horrors & The Brides of Dracula. Actress Yvonne Monlaur dead at 77: Best remembered for cult horror classics ‘Circus of Horrors’ & ‘The Brides of Dracula’…
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Don’t Breathe movie: Dylan Minnette is a burglar who discovers the hard way that blind man Stephen Lang is not quite like earlier blind film victims Audrey Hepburn (Wait Until Dark) and Mia Farrow (Blind Terror). ‘Don’t Breathe’ movie review: Fede Alvarez succeeds with horror…
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‘The Beast with a Million Eyes’: Roger Corman Beats Alfred Hitchcock with Nature vs. Humans Thriller
The Beast with a Million Eyes: Hardly truth in advertising as Roger Corman’s micro-budget sci-fi thriller is no “monster movie.” ‘The Beast with a Million Eyes’: Alien invasion movie predates Alfred Hitchcock classic Despite the confusing voice-over introduction, David Kramarsky’s[1] The Beast with a Million…
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Donald Trump vs. Starbucks’ War on Christmas: Movies to remember range from ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ to Kirk Cameron documentary. The War on Christmas: Movies that come to mind & fighting ‘haters and atheists’ We’re still in November, but the War on Christmas – according to online…
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Hell’s Kitchen: Soul stew image likely from the 1922 Benjamin Christensen horror classic ‘Häxan / Witchcraft Through the Ages.’ Day of the Dead post: Cinema’s Top Five Scariest Living Dead We should all be eternally grateful to the pagans, who had the foresight to come…
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Top Ten Scream Queens: Barbara Steele, who both emitted screams and elicited same, is in a category of her own. Top Ten Scream Queens Halloween is over until next year, but the equally bewitching Day of the Dead is just around the corner. So, dead…
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Coleen Gray: Actress and film noir good girl went from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Killing’ to ‘The Leech Woman.’ Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror ‘classic’ Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley…
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‘The Lazarus Effect’ with Olivia Wilde. ‘The Lazarus Effect’ box office: Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass horror movie arrives comatose (See previous post: “‘Focus’: Will Smith Has One of Worst Opening Weekends of His Career.”) Despite recent news that human head transplants are a mere…
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Scariest Horror Movies: Sigourney Weaver and Alien creature demonstrate that life is less horrific if you don’t hold grudges. Top 100 horror movies of all time: Chicago Film Critics’ choices (See previous post: A look at the Chicago Film Critics Association’s Scariest Movies Ever Made.)…
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Scariest Movies: Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’ with Janet Leigh, John Gavin and Vera Miles. Scariest movies ever made: The top 100 horror films according to the Chicago Film Critics I tend to ignore lists featuring the Top 100 Movies (or Top 10 Movies or Top 20…
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Marilyn Burns. ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ actress Marilyn Burns dead at 64 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre actress Marilyn Burns, the one cast member who manages to survive Leatherface in Tobe Hooper’s low-budget 1974 horror cult classic, was found dead on Aug. 4 at…
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Godzilla 1954 competitors included the giant black ants seen in Them!. ‘Godzilla’ 1954 & giant black ants + Fascists & Mickey Rooney: Eclectic Packard movies Godzilla 1954, Mickey Rooney, military fascists, deadly giant black ants, racing car drivers, and The Mishaps of Musty Suffer, a super-rare…
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Andy Kaufman death hoax: Contagious Internet disease continues to spread. Andy Kaufman alive? Or Andy Kaufman death hoax? New York City-born comedian Andy Kaufman, little known outside the United States but well-remembered in the U.S. by those who watched the late 1970s/early 1980s television series…
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Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 with Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski. ‘Nosferatu the Vampyre’ 1979: Werner Herzog German-language version screening Werner Herzog’s stylish 1979 horror drama Nosferatu the Vampyre will have a two-week run at New York City’s Film Forum from Friday, Oct. 25, through Thursday,…