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Welcome to this year’s Countdown to Halloween! As we celebrate 10 years of this website, you may have noticed that the scope of “classic” horror has grown. Movies that weren’t considered classics in 2016 have become classics now. There’s always a line in the middle, though, that separates the old from the new. Looking into…
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An early version of one of those “how do all these pieces fit together” stories, Strange Voyage (1964) sustains the mystery for such a long time that you believe maybe they won’t ever fit together. The film also does it so masterfully that by the end, you forget that you didn’t know how they fit…
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In simplest terms, on one of Paul Carver’s (William Sylvester) shoulders sits an angel, Chantal (Diane Clare), and on the other sits a devil, Marisa (Aliza Gur.) Chantal encourages him to look on the bright side of life after his wife and child are killed in a car accident. Marisa encourages him to come to…
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What is folk horror? Richard and Jeff try to explain; however, this month’s movie does a good job all its own: The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) from Tigon British Film Productions. Yeah, Tigon, about which co-founder Tony Tenser once said, “Tigon wasn’t trying to compete, it just wanted to make movies on the cheap…
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For me, Lucio Fulci reached the summit of his career in the 1980s. From 1979 (Zombie) through 1981 (The House by the Cemetery), his creative juices were flowing like the blood in many of his films. This is excepting, of course, Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972.) He had a brief excursion into action/adventure/fantasy in the mid-80s, then his…
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You can’t help but wonder if Stephen King had seen The Bubble (1966) when he wrote his 2009 novel, Under the Dome. If so, he undoubtedly improved upon the material by giving us multiple characters and story arcs when a giant invisible barrier covers Chester’s Mill, Maine. In The Bubble, it’s just three people who are transported to an…
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Today we celebrate the long-awaited return of my “parent” blog, The Reaction Shot. While it’s a place for publishing non-horror movie discussions, like today’s Crime Wave (1953), and miscellaneous opinions, it’s also a launch pad for accessing all my… “stuff.” From The Reaction Shot, you can jump directly to Classic Horrors Club, Codex Omniversa, and……
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Believe it or not, summer nears its end and it’s our final trip to the drive-in for 2026. Our headliner is The Devil’s Bride (1968) aka The Devil Rides Out. But we didn’t pair it with the logical choice from the three movies playing at the Sheridan Drive-In (Brides of Dracula.) Instead, we took the…
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It’s been a while since we’ve discussed a Poverty Row film, and this is a good one to discuss. Although it falls into the “when you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all” formula of many early film talkies, with a fast-talking female news reporter investigating a murder and getting further with it than the police,…
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When Kathryn Leigh Scott, the “first lady of Dark Shadows,” took the stage an hour and a half into the Friday panels at the Dark Shadows 60th Anniversary Celebration last Friday (July 31), she challenged the audience to ask her a question she’d never heard before. Someone shouted what seemed like an easy enough query, but she…