The Raven (1935)
May 15, 2001Demented Edgar Allan Poe Fan
An entertainingly madcap screen pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi with the latter as a Poe-obsessed surgeon who has built a house of Poe-inspired torture devices
Ian Wolfe
Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Jun 12, 2024Zombie Comedy
A Bela Lugosi comedy in which two inept press agents are ordered to obtain a zombie for the opening of a club
Bedlam (1946)
Apr 11, 200018th Century Asylum Horrors
The last of the classic Val Lewton produced horror films, a work set around the true-life 18th Century asylum lorded over by Boris Karloff where an innocent Anna Lee is committed
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Dec 19, 2002Brothers Grimm Anthology/Biopic
Anthology of Brothers Grimm stories from George Pal where the brothers are wound in as characters. The film’s effectiveness is killed by Pal pitching everything down at a mawkish and simple-minded level
Diary of a Madman (1963)
Sep 15, 2001Possession
Vincent Price is an upstanding 19th Century magistrate who is possessed by a spirit known as The Horla. An interesting treatment of possession themes made prior to The Exorcist
Games (1967)
May 25, 2016Psycho-Thriller
One of the psycho-thrillers made by he great and underrated Curtis Harrington during the 60s/70s. The film draws much from Les Diaboliques, right down to casting its leading lady. Harrington delivers suspense with an expert hand
THX 1138 (1971)
Nov 12, 2002Dystopian Future
George Lucas's first film and always a puzzle to those who come to it after the Star Wars series where its antiseptic, dehumanised aesthetic and dystopian future seems almost the polar opposite of the Star Wars universe
The Devil’s Daughter (1973)
Nov 18, 2007Satanist Conspiracy
TV movie that copies Rosemary's Baby as closely as copyright will allow with Belinda J. Montgomery encountering Satanists and the realisation she is the devil's daughter
Homebodies (1974)
Feb 19, 2025Seniors vs Real Estate Developers
A wonderful little largely unknown film where the seniors in an apartment building due to be demolished group together to take revenge on the real estate developers