Gods & Monsters

The body count horror film is an age-old institution, but it has to be understood that way before films such as Halloween (1978) established this prototype as a “go-to” and provided a sturdy blueprint for films to follow, pre-code outings ...

Long, lazy, hot summer days in a small Australian coastal town didn’t offer a young girl much more than the lifestyle depicted in the coming-of-age classic Puberty Blues (1981). I escaped head first into movies at a very early age, back when ...

In 1931, in a sea of mist and eerie silence Dracula, the first of Universal Studio’s classic monster series haunted the silver screen. It was at the end of cinema’s transitional period from the silent era into the age of ...

Back when I was a kid first discovering my intense love for all manner of celluloid horror and fantasy, one of the best Christmas presents that I received from one of my older brothers was a thin but large-format paperback ...

Editor’s Note: Diabolique would like to extend our condolences to the family and fans of John Gavin, who passed away last week. He played the character of Brian Younger in Midnight Lace, alas the only man to offer Doris Day’s ...

If middle-America had a healthy turnover of weekend double-features at the local flea-pit, here in Australia a kid was more likely introduced to Alan Rafkin’s 1966 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken as a matinee or early-evening feature on black-and-white weekend ...

In 1964, Universal Television produced a new CBS sitcom from producers Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, the creators of the wildly-popular Leave It to Beaver. The show, titled The Munsters, would depict the home life of a family of monsters. ...

Distributed by Universal-International, the Hammer film Brides of Dracula featured Molly Arbuthnot (1908 – 2001), as the head of costume design. A prolific artist, she was credited as a designer for nearly sixty films. Her main speciality was lavish Hammer ...

Curse of the Werewolf begins with credits rolling over the silent, anguished eyes of Oliver Reed’s grey haired werewolf, closing with a single tear running down his cheek. It is a poignant and telling introduction to the bleakest film in ...

The politics and belief systems dictated by the controversial but incredibly fashionable Church of Satan – and the teachings of its leader Anton LaVey – would become one of the most talked about topics of “in-vogue” conversation during the late ...