Review: The Blob (1988)
I usually don’t like remakes, but there was a string of them in the late 1970s and 80s, specifically of science fiction horror, that hit just the right mark – retellings of classic stories with their...
View ArticleReview: Soultaker (1990)
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, hey, Rob, why would you choose, under your own free will, to watch a movie like Soultaker? Well, I’ll tell you. I watched it because I was curious. I was...
View ArticleReview: The Invisible Man (1933)
Alongside The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man is one of my favorite books. I’ve always had a fascination with tales of experiments gone wrong, that mixture of...
View ArticleReview: Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
2001’s Earth vs. the Spider was part of Stan Winston’s Creature Features, a series of films that appeared on Cinemax as tribute to the old AIP monster movies. But the actual reason I know about this...
View ArticleReview: The Nightmare (2015)
I thought I’d take a short break from reviewing old movies and instead turn my attention toward a much more recent release: The Nightmare, a documentary about sleep paralysis and all the strange things...
View ArticleReview: Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
1958’s Attack of the Puppet People may be one of the most poorly-named movies ever made. It’s also probably one of the more harshly-rated of the 50s B movies, despite not being that bad at all. “He’s...
View ArticleReview: Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Julie Adams and Richard Carlson star in this 1954 science fiction horror film about a disenfranchised aquatic animal that finds itself repeatedly abused at the hands of so-called ichthyologists. “Don’t...
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