Does Throne of Blood—pantheon director Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth—qualify as a genuine horror movie? Set in a perpetually fogbound and windswept landscape on the slopes of Japan’s Mount Fuji, Throne of Blood is the nearest thing ...

Stage legend John Barrymore’s performance in the 1920 feature film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1:19:06) is an astonishing great leap forward when compared to earlier one-reel portrayals of the kindly doctor seeking to rid humanity of Evil, but falling ...

Naked City was like no other TV series before or since – Michael Moriarty, star of Law and Order, once told this reviewer. Inspired by Jules Dassin’s 1948 film of the same name, Naked City centers on the detectives of ...

The Secret Village (2013), according to the press release from Vertical Entertainment, is “inspired by real-life events.” The release goes on to proudly proclaim: “Chilling suspense-thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat!” To which I say: “Hogwash!” ...

Tenebrae (1982) is considered Dario Argento’s last indisputably great film, despite its implausible plot and emphasis on style over substance. The title is Latin for “shadows” or “darkness” and yet Tenebrae is Argento’s brightest film, set almost entirely in daylight ...

Film Chest Media Group’s new DVD of The Bat boasts a high-definition transfer of the 1959 film starring acting icons Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead, and this old chestnut has never looked better. Based on a successful stage play by ...

Sanitarium, a superb horror anthology film “hosted by” Malcolm McDowell, presents the curious facts preceding the committal of three individuals to a mental hospital. The three patients are under the care of Dr. Henry Stenson (McDowell). I hope Sanitarium signals ...

Film writer Calum Waddell calls Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs “one of the great horror movies of the 1990s.” And yet this 1991 comedy/horror/mystery is about as frightening as  a Chuck Jones cartoon, and its subtext and social commentary (dealing with the class warfare of that era) are a trifle obvious—perhaps even out of place ...

Director Philip Kaufman’s 1978 re-imagining of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (first filmed by Don Siegel in 1956) is completely different from the original, using only the title and basic premise to propel the viewer into an urban setting of ...

The immortal thespian and makeup genius Lon Chaney never looked better (or more frightening) than in this newly restored 1929 version of The Phantom of the Opera, brought to you by the British Film Institute (BFI). Digitally remastered in HD ...