When John Carpenter and Debra Hill unleashed their classic prototype of the slasher movie, Halloween, on an unsuspecting audience in 1978, cinemagoers didn’t quite […]
Of all Universal’s classic monsters, the Mummy was surely the one treated with the least respect, being mercilessly put out to graft in its […]
With 1971’s I, Monster, Amicus opted for a full-length single narrative feature rather than their usual horror vignette approach. Milton Subotsky’s screenplay is probably […]
The Horror of Frankenstein was released on the 8th of October 1970 as a double-bill with Scars of Dracula. With previous Baron Peter Cushing […]
There is a belief, even among the most devout fans of Hammer horror, that as their Dracula franchise progressed, the films became steadily worse. […]
Hammer’s 1959 retelling of The Mummy took inspiration from the Universal movies which had gone before, but added a visceral new horror to its […]
20th Century Fox’s 1951 science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still explored Cold War and Atomic Age paranoia from an extraterrestrial angle. […]



