Richard Widmark In The Movies : From A to Z
From the moment he stepped on to movie screens in 1947, Richard Widmark, was branded a villain thanks to his Oscar nominated performance as a cold blooded killer in Kiss […]
Directed by Mario Bava : The Film Posters
Italian born director Mario Bava represents one of those film makers that it took years to finally see the majority of his movies growing up here in Canada. I’m referring […]
The Passage (1979)
Just prior to becoming a house director for Cannon Films, J. Lee Thompson, reunited with his Guns of Navarone leading man of 1961, Anthony Quinn, for another WW2 thriller. It’s […]
Doomwatch (1972)
For years I’d seen images of this Peter Sasdy directed production for Tigon Productions in Famous Monsters magazine or old hard cover books on the history of horror films I’d […]
John Carradine In the Movies : From A to Z
Selecting John Carradine for this month’s A to Z feature should pose plenty of problems narrowing each letter of the alphabet to just one topic. According to the IMDB this […]
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
When Vincent Price scored a bullseye along with director Robert Fuest in 1971’s The Abominable Dr. Phibes for AIP, one thing was a given. If you said a sequel, then […]
Port Afrique (1956)
With what I assume to be some second unit work in Morocco and plenty of stage work at Shepperton Studios in England, this technicolor murder mystery makes for a diverting […]
Curling Up With a Good Movie
Book! I meant book! As is my custom when out scouring the shops and antique malls for movie memorabilia I snap a ton of pictures and often focus on movie/book […]
The Psychopath (1966)
Here’s an Amicus thriller by way of writer Robert Bloch that I wish I had seen as a youngster. It would have scared the hell out of me leaving me […]
Dracula In The Movies : From A to Z
Looking to share some simple trivia on the Count and the many movies he’s appeared in I wanted to have some fun by coming up with 26 simple points to […]
Looking Back at the Highlights of 2019 and Ahead to 2020
If only I could secure a flux capacitor for my Prius I’d travel back in time and relive some great movie moments like seeing Jaws at the theater for the […]
At the Earth’s Core (1976)
This fantasy film clearly aimed at youngsters hit a bullseye when I was indeed a youngster seeing this on TV in the late 1970’s. Even then I knew exactly who […]
5 Hammer Recommendations Minus Lee and Cushing
Here’s a collection that was part of the Halloween celebration last month I guested on over at Lance Writes ….. Time to turn my thoughts once again to the films […]
Island of Terror (1966)
Genre favorite Terence Fischer directed this sci-fi thriller at Pinewood Studios that features a silly plot and laughably cheesy creatures BUT along comes Peter Cushing to give the entire running […]
Dark Places (1974)
Here’s one I believe to be a forgotten thriller among the many titles in the Christopher Lee catalogue. As a matter of fact to the best of my knowledge it’s […]
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Following the revival of Universal Studios’ Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and the Wolfman, Hammer Studios, turned to Gaston Leroux’s Phantom Of the Opera, originally published in serial form between 1909 […]
