Aben Kandel Archives

I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)

Rating: ★★★

Apr 19, 2001Teenage Frankenstein Monster

Producer Herman Cohen had a huge hit with I Was a Teenage Werewolf and quick on its tail released this companion piece, an enjoyably tongue-in-cheek film concerning a Frankenstein descendant turning a teen into a monster

Director: Herbert L. Strock

Actors: Whit Bissell, Gary Conway, Phyllis Coates, Robert Burton

Category: Horror

19 April 200110 April 2026 by Roog

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 19, 2000Teenage Werewolf

This was a hit in its dayo by tapping the burgeoning teenage market who had just realised they were misunderstood thanks to James Dean. Not a particularly great film but it is one that carries a great deal of primal ferocity

Director: Gene Fowler Jr

Actors: Michael Landon, Whit Bissell, Robert E. Griffin

Category: Horror

19 January 200010 April 2026 by Roog

Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 18, 2000Psycho Crime Writer

A highly entertaining Herman Cohen production where Michael Gough plays a mad crime writer who employs a series of cruel sensationalistic deaths for his victims

Director: Arthur Crabtree

Actors: Michael Gough, Shirley Ann Field, Geoffrey Keen

Category: Horror

18 July 20008 April 2026 by Roog

Konga (1961)

Rating: ★

Nov 9, 2000Mad Scientist/Giant Killer Ape

Herman Cohen production with Michael Gough as a mad scientist who creates a giant ape. Aside from Gough's entertainingly mad performance, this is killed by incredibly tatty effects

Director: John Lemont

Actors: Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jack Watson, George Pastell

Category: Horror

9 November 200025 February 2026 by Roog

Berserk (1967)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 4, 2013Circus Murders

Film about a series of sensationalistic murders at a circus. Producer Herman Cohen is clearly trying to replicate the success of his Horrors of the Black Museum. Joan Crawford chews the scenery in grand style as the circus owner

Director: James O'Connolly

Actors: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Diana Dors, Ty Hardin, …

Category: Horror

4 April 201327 November 2025 by Roog

Trog (1970)

Rating: ★

Jan 18, 2005Revived Caveman

A revived caveman effort that is fairly terrible on all accounts. This has gained bad movie status because it features Joan Crawford as a scientist in her last theatrical role

Director: Freddie Francis

Actors: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Joe Cornelius, David Griffin, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 January 20057 June 2026 by Roog