In 1972, Hammer Film Productions released a double bill titled Women in Terror. With some influence from the giallo all'italiana film genre popular at the time, both films were psychological horrors including mystery elements. As the title of the double feature implied, the films focused on terrorized women and how a lack of comprehension about... Continue Reading →
The Young and the Satanists: A Review of The Visitor (1979)
When a film has a cast that includes Hollywood legends such as John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford, and Sam Peckinpah you expect you are in for something great. Sadly, such is not the case with The Visitor (also known as Stridulum) which has more in common with a schlocky soap opera than the classic... Continue Reading →
What Evil Drives…
(This article originally appeared, in a slightly different form, in June of 2014 on the site Cheese-Magnet.com. Long live the Cheese-Magnet!) I should probably preface this article by stating that I am a big fan of The Car (1977). I have watched it over a dozen times and I own a 1:18 scale die-cast of... Continue Reading →