DRAG ME TO HELL is a horror film that fooled the studio. Bare with me here. I went into this film thinking that all the advanced positive reviews on the film were just coming from the fans who have a hard-on for Sam Raimi. For myself the trailer did the film no...
Lambert Hillyer, by way of suggestion from David O. Selznick, the man who gave us such masterpieces as The Third Man, Rebecca, Gone with the Wind, and King Kong, creates a strikingly cunning sequel to the original Dracula with the help of co-writer Garrett Fort who...
With The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula (the latter retitled Horror of Dracula in America to avoid confusion with the Browning version, which was still playing in theaters twenty-seven years later) at the helm, director Terence Fisher created a series of films,...
Preface: The following assumes the reader has previously viewed the production’s American companion piece, Tod Browning’s Dracula, as the critique focuses upon which rendition of the narrative is more effective considering the history of the two films are inseparably...
I have always been a fan of Alfred Hitchcock films since my parents first showed me PSYCHO when I was kid. Back then I didn’t appreciate it much, because mother’s voice always scared the crap out of me. When I was in High School my cinema teacher...
To begin with, it seems that the only thing that anyone’s sure of in relation to this mysterious little film is that its script was penned by Ed Wood. Aside from that, the work itself goes by many titles, such as The Double Garden, Revenge of Doctor X, and Mad Doctor...
