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by Nige Burton When Night of the Demon hit British cinema screens in 1957, it was part of a double-bill with Nathan Juran’s 20 […]
The Black Room, released by Columbia in 1935, sees Boris Karloff wonderfully cast in a dual role as evil twin Gregor de Berghman, and […]
More Victoria Wood than victorious vampire flick, The Return of the Vampire was also the return of Bela Lugosi. The ageing star had long […]
Although ostensibly billed as a horror film, Columbia’s 1951 The Son of Dr Jekyll was, in reality, more of a gothic thriller. It was […]
The Man They Could Not Hang, the science fiction horror-drama which starred Boris Karloff in a role which looks at once backwards and forwards, […]
Cult classic shocker The Tingler was released by Columbia Pictures on the 29th of July, 1959, allowing Vincent Price to further cement his reputation […]
