Molly (Millie Perkins) and her sister, Cathy (Vanessa Brown), have conflicting memories of their father. Molly believes he’s a brave captain lost at sea because he was too good a man to live on land. That’s what she tells her nephews, Tadd (Jean Pierre Camps) and Tripoli (Mark Livingston), and that’s what we believe until…

Depending on whether you believe there was ever a Paul Naschy werewolf film called, Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (Nights of the Wolf Man), El Retorno de Walpurgis (Curse of the Devil) from 1973 is either the sixth or seventh time Naschy played tortured soul Waldemar Daninski. If you believe there was any continuity in…

Drama? Thriller? Horror? Let’s try fantasy… This movie takes place in the land of adult actors playing high school students while at the same time the story is totally absent of any adult characters. There are no teachers at the high school and there are no adults in town. That is, until the very end…

Not nearly as sordid as the synopsis reads, School of Death aka El colegio de la muerte (1975) is nevertheless unsettling at times. It reminds me a bit of The House That Screamed aka La residencia (1969); however, while I enjoyed the former more than I expected, I didn’t adore it like I do the…

When you have as perfect a movie as Jaws (1975), it’d be misguided, to say the least, to think a sequel could match it, much less exceed it. Well, I guess The Empire Strikes Back (1980) exceeded Star Wars (1977), but that was another chapter in a larger story. Once you explode a killer shark,…

Last week, I claimed that Jaws (1975) is a nearly perfect movie. Now, since it’s shark week and seems like a good time to do it, I’m going to go ahead and put my money where my full-of-razor-sharp-teeth mouth is and share some of the reasons why. Interestingly, few of them feature the shark. If…

It was a hot summer afternoon in Enid, Oklahoma as I stood in line outside the Chief Theater to see Jaws (1975.) This would not have been my first time, although I don’t remember my first time. I saw it repeatedly, but there’s something about this particular day that sticks with me. I don’t remember…

La mansion de la locura (1973) was a Mexican production; however, it was filmed in English, then dubbed into Spanish. This tells me that I picked the wrong version of the film to watch. Recently released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome, The Mansion of Madness is called Edgar Allan Poe’s The System of Doctor Tarr…

Friday night I reclined in my chair and pushed “Play” to start streaming Tales That Witness Madness (1973) on Amazon Prime. Although the temperature has warmed in Minneapolis and I’ve stopped wearing additional clothing when I watch TV, the movie (a first time watch) fell over me like a warm blanket… like a was experiencing…