Something that has to be said and championed about the magic of late great artist Basil Gogos was his uncanny ability to both pay tribute to the makeup artists who designed and brought to life the cinematic monsters he painted ...

Initial airdate: Australia 20th of March 1980 (re-airing 1986) Network: Channel 7, Australia I was only a youngster when I first saw “prodigal son” and writer Ben Mears (David Soul) swiftly turn two popsicle sticks into a makeshift crucifix to ...

Many horror films featuring serial killers and psychopaths as the central ‘monster’ or perceived threat, solidly remain intensely invested in understanding these maniacal cretins and fixate on the complexities (and sometimes simplicities) of such characters. However, Colin Eggleston’s Innocent Prey ...

I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957) takes the concept of the eternal outsider and injects it with a complex combination of the turbulent time of baby-boomer America, teenage rebellion, angst and alienation and draws blood from the ruthlessness of adolescent ...

By the time House of Frankenstein opened in 1944, horror stars Lon Chaney Jr. and Boris Karloff were massive draw cards at the box office and actors to look out for – therefore it makes sense that by the time ...

  Based on the Stephen King novella “Cycle of the Werewolf”, Silver Bullet (1985) is an enjoyable eighties entry in the post-Howling period, however the film could have been far more interesting and poetic if director Daniel Attias was keenly ...

With a moody opening that sings high with 1990s aesthete sensibility (the Columbia Pictures logo being swamped by oppressive clouds then fading into a pre-title sequence that resembles Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman in a sense – which became a ...

British werewolf films during the sixties came in a trio, two of them being fun anthology outings and one being the sole lycanthropic venture from the world renowned Hammer Studios – the magnificent The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Opening ...

During the forties, three kinds of werewolves would crop up – werewolves born into curses (Princess Celeste from Cry of the Werewolf), werewolves bitten (Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man) and imagined werewolves (She-Wolf of London). By the fifties, the ...

Writers and historians Lee Gambin and Cris Wilson are working on a brand new book entitled TONIGHT, ON A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE: A HISTORY OF TV SITCOMS THAT SOMETIMES GOT SERIOUS – a critical tome that will chronicle the Very ...