Films, like music, are of a certain time and place, and those that are immediately successful, as opposed to finding success gradually in aging like fine wine, tend to come out at the perfect time, when audiences are ready for ...

By 1962, Hammer star Peter Cushing, for fear of being typecast as a horror actor, was ready to tackle a non-horror role, and ironically it was Hammer that provided him with the perfect opportunity. Having been a big fan of ...

Back in the early 80s, when I was in Junior High, there was a Boston institution called The Creature Double Feature—a Saturday afternoon double feature of classic horror films, on a local TV channel, through which many a young person ...

Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1973) has already seen two superlative blu-ray releases—one in Australia and one in England from Icon Home Entertainment, (with the UK release being the more comprehensive of the two, in terms of extra features). Now, ...

Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon, aka. Curse of the Demon (1957) is a film that inhabits both the haunted twilight world of Val Lewton and the very visceral giant monster picture with equal aplomb. Tourneur was Lewton’s protegee. When ...

Prior to making a bundle of money and receiving the Queen’s Award to Industry with their now-classic Gothic horror films, full of breasts and gory color, Hammer Films made several successful black & white science fiction pictures which initially helped to ...

Britain’s Amicus Film Productions may not have invented the omnibus film format, but they did more to popularize it during the 1960’s, than any other company producing Gothic horror films. Their first effort in the genre, Dr. Terror’s House of ...

I still remember watching Edward L. Cahn’s Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) as a kid, in the early 80’s, and how much the experience had creeped me out at the time. In particular, the scenes where the faceless mummy ...

Hammer aficionados hardly need a long-winded introduction from me on Brides of Dracula (1960), one of the British company’s greatest Gothic horrors. After the popular, if not critical, success of Hammer’s seminal Dracula (1958), the stakes were high, and director Terence Fisher had risen ...

Increasingly, German company Anolis Entertainment is making their Hammer blu-ray releases English-friendly. This is good news, as their releases tend to be among the most comprehensive in the industry in terms of extra features and technical presentation. After some superlative ...