This delicious Kiwi horror comedy has a lot of fun with an inherently absurd premise that, at first glance, seems as daft as killer bunny opus NIGHT OF THE LEPUS until you stop to consider the fact that sheep are, in fact, fairly ugly and intimidating creatures up...
Mario Bava’s anthology of short horror tales, Black Sabbath, though all entertaining in their own right and exhibiting varying degrees of effectiveness, ultimately serve as a trio of amusing exercises in terror but little else. The works’ inability to posit anything...
Considering Edward Ludwig attempts to do nothing outside of mimic Gordon Douglas’s Them!, The Black Scorpion redeems itself on two counts, one intentional, the other not. First, the saving Grace: It is one of the final works by famed stop-motion genius Willis O’Brien...
I’ll admit I am no expert on Italian Horror films but as I read through the fantastic Italian Horror by Jim Harper, I was surprised at just how many of these films I had seen. I chalk that up to two things: First having a girlfriend in the 1980’s (who is...
There have been a lot of wonderful books released over the past decade on the subject of classic horror films of the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, with many coming from Mcfarland & Co., who are also the publishers of this book. While most of these books focus on the films...
