Dracula: Hammer Edition 🦇
The Brides of Dracula – 1960, UK, 86m. Director: Terence Fisher. Streaming: Prime Dracula A.D. 1972 – 1972, UK, 96m. Director: Alan Gibson. Streaming: Max Dracula: Prince of Darkness – 1966, UK, 90m. Director: Terence Fisher. Streaming: N/A Dracula Has…
🎃 Some Vampire Movies for Halloween 🎃
Bram Stoker’s Dracula – 1992, US, 127m. Director: Francis Ford Coppela. Streaming: N/A Count Yorga, Vampire – 1970, US, 92m. Director: Bob Kelljan. Streaming: N/A Dracula – 1979, UK, 110m. Director: John Badham. Streaming: Peacock House of Dark Shadows –…
The Curious Case of the Howling Sequels
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf – 1985, UK/US, 90m. Director: Philippe Mora The Howling III – 1987, Australia, 94m. Director: Philippe Mora Howling IV: The Original Nightmare – 1988, UK, 91m. Director: John Hough Howling V: The Rebirth…
32 Years Later and Tremors is Still the Best Monster Movie Ever
There isn’t a more perfect monster movie than 1990’s TREMORS. In the small, geographically isolated town of Perfection Valley, just outside of the Sierra Nevada mountains, people and animals start turning up dead – not just dead, but torn to…
Made-for-TV Monster Movies
by Frank Pittarese The ‘70s were the golden age of made-for-TV horror. It was a decade that gave us The Night Stalker, Trilogy of Terror, and Steven Spielberg’s adrenaline-filled Duel. It was also prime-time for monsters, as seen in these…
Why “Bog” is the Best Worst Movie You’ve Never Seen
1979’s BOG is the type of movie Ed Wood would have made in the ’50s: a cheerfully inept little monster flick that’s so bad it’s heartwarmingly charming. While on a fishing excursion in the woods of rural Wisconsin, friends Chuck…
MONSTER MONTH: Here Wolf, There Wolf, Werewolf
The short but prolific werewolf cycle of the early ’80s gave us classics The Howling and An American Werewolf in London. Coming in under the radar is the underappreciated 1985 gem, SILVER BULLET, a fast-paced and immensely enjoyable monster thriller…
MONSTER MONTH: Canadian Parasites and Virgins for Dracula
You’ll never see a more slender and fragile Dracula than you will in the 1974 cult classic, BLOOD FOR DRACULA. With an absence of the fresh blood of virgins he needs in order to survive, a sickly Count Dracula (a…
MONSTER MONTH: Is Frankenhooker a ’90s Masterpiece?
After getting good notices for directing several Andy Warhol productions, including ’70s underground classic, Heat, filmmaker Paul Morrissey transitioned into horror by taking on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But 1973’s FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN is not your high school teacher’s idea of…