Of course, I’ve always admired Rosemary’s Baby (1969), but I was a latecomer to Repulsion (1965). Now I’m even more of a latecomer to The Tenant (1976), the third movie in Roman Polanski’s loose trilogy of movies about the horrors of apartment living in the big city. The most personal thing they have in common is that I’ve given them all…

Welcome to Mario May, where we’ll be discussing the films of Mario Bava. Now, we’ve already discussed several of them over the years, so be sure to review our thoughts on those by searching “mario bava” from the Home page (or by clicking the links in the filmography below.) This month, we’ll discuss some Bava…

Welcome to Mario May, where we’ll be discussing the films of Mario Bava. Now, we’ve already discussed several of them over the years, so be sure to review our thoughts on those by searching “mario bava” from the Home page (or by clicking the links in the filmography below.) This month, we’ll discuss some Bava…

If you’re of a certain age, and perhaps from a particular area of the United States, you may be familiar with the “nature documentaries” that were prevalent in the 1970s. I grew up with them as they were frequently shown at the Esquire Theater in downtown Enid, Oklahoma. Boy, they could sure pack a crowd!…

Regardless of color, once Hollywood discovers a hit, they milk it for all it’s worth. In 1972, Blacula opened the coffin for a sub-genre of the already popular “blaxplitation” film. Within a span of five years, other creatures joined the African American version of Dracula on the big screen, Blackenstein (1973), Abby (1974), Sugar Hill…

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,…