Several months ago, when Arise, My Love was announced and researched it, I became immediately interested in seeing this film. How can a classic film fan resist viewing a movie with two screen legends in Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland? This film is directed by Mitchell Leisen, who many may know was responsible for several…
Objective, Burma! Blu-ray review
Objective, Burma! is an American war film from 1945 that is based on, to some extent, the six-month raid by Merrill’s Marauders in the Burma Campaign during World War II. The film is directed by legendary director Raoul Walsh and stars screen legend Errol Flynn who discards swashbuckling tights for military clothing. The main crux…
Four Frightened People Blu-ray review
Four Frightened People is a pre-code film from 1934 directed by the legendary Cecile B. DeMille. This is another one of his exotic adventure films taking place in the jungle where dangers await his characters. The movie stars the great Claudette Colbert, who I have never seen before with her hair going down to her…
Step by Step Blu-ray review
The 1940s were filled with World War II propaganda films with the villains being Nazis. The 1946 film Step by Step from RKO Pictures is one such film, bet it a lesser known one where Nazis are still trying to take over the world, this time with a base in sunny California! This is a…
Blu-ray Review – House of Wax – Scream Factory
A bunch of twentysomething teen funsters are waylaid on their way to the big sporting teams event when they have vehicular malfunction. They discover a rather strange small town and its only attraction, a wax museum. Pretty soon, they’re almost all dead! Would you like to know more about these characters? Very well. Carly (Elisha…
Blu-ray Review – The Dead Zone – Scream Factory
Christopher Walken plays Johnny Smith, a high school English teacher who gains psychic abilities after a horrific (or hilarious) car accident puts him in a coma. All Johnny has to do is touch a person and he can see that something horrible is going to happen to them, like hosting a Tupperware party. After this…
Masters of Horror Presents: Paul Naschy
Paul Naschy is almost certainly Spain’s most well-known horror actor, portraying in many films variations of many of the classic Universal monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman. In particular, he was perhaps most known for his portrayal of Waldemar Daninsky, a tortured lycanthrope who garnered as much pity as he cultivated scares, that he would…