by K Hogaboom | Apr 26, 2016 | blog
In 1872, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his bedraggled archenemy Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) do deadly battle on a stagecoach – in Hyde Park (I know… I don’t get it, either). After a brief struggle they both showily perish from their wounds. At...
by K Hogaboom | Apr 21, 2016 | blog
Aristocratic Londoner (David Niven) is called back to his ancestral home in France, as the estate’s vineyards are failing. He asks his wife (Deborah Kerr) and young children to stay behind; but the wife loves him dearly and the trio soon follows him to the...
by K Hogaboom | Apr 1, 2016 | blog
1961’s The Mask opens as older horror films sometimes do: with a authoritarian-looking white man in a study, telling us what we’re about to see is REALLY scary, and totes based in fact. We’re also treated to a bit of William Castle-esque carnival...
by K Hogaboom | Mar 15, 2016 | blog
In the opening moments of sci-fi horror/drama Solaris, psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) spends a last day on earth with a retired and shattered colleague, as well as his own aunt and father. Kelvin is about to embark to a hobbled space station...
by K Hogaboom | Mar 15, 2016 | blog
Pray for Death is an above-average martial arts film. If you like martial arts films, you should watch this one. Keep in mind when I say it is “above average” – there are a lot of really, really terrible ones out there! Released in the prime of Shô...
