Director Michael Curtiz, the man responsible for directing some of the arguably best classic films in cinema including Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and Angels with Dirty Faces, dabbled a little into the classic horror film genre in the early thirties. Horror themed movies on his resume which consist of Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum…
Dick Tracy RKO Pictures Collection Blu-ray review
Chester Gould, creator of the Dick Tracy character and comic strip, saw his gritty cop star in several classic Dick Tracy serials and feature films. They are action-packed, hard-hitting thrill rides that I have enjoyed for many years. After the four Dick Tracy serials, the detective would move to RKO Radio Pictures and star in…
The Terror / The Little Shop of Horrors (Film Masters) Blu-ray review
Film Masters has released another Roger Corman classic double-feature on Blu-ray! This time around it’s The Terror and The Little Shop of Horrors. Both films feature the iconic actor Jack Nicholson along with Corman regulars Dick Miller and Jonathan Haze. Taking place in 1906, The Terror has André Duvalier (Jack Nicholson, Batman, The Shining, Chinatown),…
Tonight or Never Blu-ray review
Based on the Hungarian Play of the same name, Tonight or Never is a 1931 American pre-code comedy film that stars screen legends Gloria Swanson and Melvin Douglas. In this picture, Gloria Swanson (Manhandled, Zaza, Sadie Thompson) stars as Nella Vargo, a young opera singer who is having some trouble advancing her career according to…
The Ghost Ship / Bedlam Blu-ray review
The Ghost Ship and Bedlam are two films produced by Val Lewton and directed by Mark Robson. Lewton at the time was producing many great semi-horror themed films without showing much in the way of horror as we see it today. The films have been paired together in a Warner Archive Val Lewton double-feature Blu-ray….
Mondo Balordo (Severin/ Something Weird) Blu-ray review
The Mondo subgenre is one of the more unusual sides of exploitation filmmaking. It became popular after the surprise success of 1962’s Mondo Cane. The films are usually “documentaries” of strange things around the world with the aim of being shocking. Most of these films happen to be fake with less than conviving dramatized footage….
The Ape Blu-ray review
When we think of Boris Karloff, we immediately think of his roles as the Frankenstein monster and other timeless horror classics he starred in over four decades. But not everything Boris Karloff acted in was an instant classic; he was in his fair share of cinematic duds. One such film came from the low-budget B-movie…