It is no secret that one of my favorite classic horror films of all time is George Waggner’s The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr. and Claude Rains. It is a film that sits behind the classic horror thrones of Frankenstein and Dracula, but The Wolf Man is one of the...
They don’t make them like they used to. That is all I can ever say when it comes to the classic horror films from the nineteen-twenties though the early nineteen-sixties. I was first introduced to many of the Universal monster films when I was a child. My father would...
In his film The Wolf Man, director George Waggner presents a challenging series of thought-provoking images around a simplistic Jeckyll-and-Hydian tale of a man who becomes a werewolf when a full moon appears while remaining a human during the interim. Yet,...
“Wolf Creek” is another horror film direct from Australia, however what “Wolf Creek” has that other Australian horror films of recent don’t is that it is a very tense film, that breaks all the rules set by a horror film. The first act of...
Naively, some critics cite Wolf as a failure because it fails to evoke fear in its viewer. First, I would remind such reviewers of who the director is: Mr. Mike Nichols. Obviously, given the director’s resume, he will approach a script wanting and demanding more,...
Jeremy Kasten is a promising filmmaker whose genre flicks to date, while not without their own flaws, have stood out amidst the cornucopia of crap that dominates the DVD horror market. THE ATTIC EXPEDITIONS and, in particular, last year’s bloody revisionist vampire...
