Dracula – Sunny D advert
Dracula meets Sunny D in this 2008 advert: “Unleash the power of the sun”. Sunny Delight, marketed as SunnyD in some regions, is an orange-coloured drink developed by Doric Foods of …
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Dracula meets Sunny D in this 2008 advert: “Unleash the power of the sun”. Sunny Delight, marketed as SunnyD in some regions, is an orange-coloured drink developed by Doric Foods of …
Dracula – Sunny D advert Read More‘Horror guaranteed to shock you dead or your life refunded!’ Fantastic Monsters of the Films was a 1962 – 1963 American horror magazine published by Black Shield Productions. The mag was the brainchild …
Fantastic Monsters of the Films – magazine Read MoreThe films on this ‘Essential’ list are important in terms of their global impact on the horror movie genre, either for their box office draw, artistic merit, cult credibility, or …
Essential Horror Read More‘White-hot terror! Cold, clammy fear!’ Maniac is a 1963 British psychological thriller about an American painter who has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees …
MANIAC (1963) Reviews of Hammer’s psychological thriller Read MoreThere are essentially three things required to contact the dead; a dead person; a living person to whom they are acquainted (or would like to be); a very open mind. …
The Ouija Board: A history and its influence – article Read More“Obey” They Live is a 1988 American satirical science-fiction film written and directed by John Carpenter (Halloween; The Fog; The Thing). The film stars Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg …
THEY LIVE (1988) Reviews and overview Read More“Nightmare” is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 2 December 1963 – delayed from the original schedule due to the funeral service …
Nightmare: The Outer Limits – TV episode Read More‘The most diabolical pages ever written become the most terrifying motion picture ever created!’ Diary of a Madman is a 1963 American horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg (The Mummy’s Ghost; Weird Woman; The …
DIARY OF A MADMAN (1963) Reviews and overview Read More‘A haunting vision of reincarnation.’ Audrey Rose is a 1977 American psychological horror film directed by Robert Wise (Curse of the Cat People; The Haunting, 1963) for United Artists. It was based on the …
AUDREY ROSE (1977) Reviews and overview Read More‘The name written in blood!’ Eegah is a 1962 American sci-fi fantasy horror film written by Bob Wehling. The movie stars Arch Hall, Jr. (The Sadist), Arch Hall, Sr. (who directed …
EEGAH (1962) Reviews of caveman crap with Richard Kiel Read MoreOakley Court is a Victorian Gothic country house overlooking the River Thames at Water Oakley in Bray in the English county of Berkshire. It was built in 1859 and is currently a luxury hotel. In the past, it has been often used as …
Oakley Court – British film location Read More‘She lured them with her beauty and destroyed them with her sex’ Scream of the Butterfly is a 1965 American exploitation film directed by Argentinian Eber Lobato from a screenplay …
SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY (1965) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Loch Ness Monster, also called Nessie, is a cryptid that reputedly inhabits the Loch Ness lake in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in …
The Loch Ness Monster – mythology/folklore Read More‘Was it a dream or reality… for one man on an island of terror?’ Love Goddesses of Blood Island – also known as Kiss Me Bloody and Six She’s and a He – is …
LOVE GODDESSES OF BLOOD ISLAND aka KISS ME BLOODY (1963) Reviews and overview Read More‘The weird jungle of cobra plants that feed on women – and rip women apart!’ Voodoo Island is a 1957 American horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg (Diary of …
VOODOO ISLAND (1957) Reviews and overview Read MoreRoger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death (1964) will be released on Blu-ray in the UK on January 25th 2021 by Studio Canal. Order via Amazon.co.uk Special features: New: …
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) Reviews and Blu-ray news Read More‘Can you face the ultimate in diabolism …..can you stand pure terror?’ Die, Monster, Die! is a 1965 American science fiction horror film directed by Daniel Haller (the art director …
DIE, MONSTER, DIE! (1965) Reviews of H.P. Lovecraft horror Read MoreWitchhammer – original title: Kladivo na čarodějnice – is a 1969 Czechoslovakian dramatical horror film directed by Otakar Vávra. It is considered Vávra’s magnum opus. The original title, Malleus Maleficarum, also translates as Witchhammer. The …
WITCHHAMMER (1969) Review and overview Read MoreLe Théâtre du Grand-Guignol [“The Theatre of the Big Puppet”] – known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal). From …
Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Paris – location Read MoreThe Kiss of the Vampire was released by Scream Factory as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on July 14th 2020. The new sleeve design is by Mark Maddox; the original artwork …
THE KISS OF THE VAMPIRE (1963) Reviews and Scream Factory Blu-ray details Read MoreThough it goes without saying that King Kong continues to hold the crown as the reigning monarch of the great apes in film, spare a thought to consider the long parade …
Going Ape! – A Short History of Who’s Inside the Gorilla Suit – article Read MoreElectronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot (invented in 1928), which produced a characteristic quivering …
The Synth of Fear: Horror and Sci-Fi Films with Synthesizer Scores – Article Read MoreThe Paranormal Diaries: Clophill is a 2013 British horror film directed by Michael Bartlett (Treehouse) and Kevin Gates (The Zombie Diaries; Zombie Diaries 2) from a screenplay by the latter. …
THE PARANORMAL DIARIES: CLOPHILL (2013) Reviews and overview Read MoreBronson Canyon, and more particularly Bronson Caves, is a section of Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California that has become famous as a filming location for a large number of movies and TV shows, especially westerns, horror and science fiction, from the …
Bronson Canyon and Caves, Los Angeles, California – film location Read MoreRiziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he died in Rome, on 23 January 2014. In the early 1950s, Ortolani began his musical career as a founder …
Riz Ortolani – film composer Read More‘For your horrification. Don’t see it alone – bring the children’ The House in Nightmare Park is a 1973 British comedy horror film directed by Peter Sykes (To the Devil a Daughter; Demons of the …
THE HOUSE IN NIGHTMARE PARK (1973) Reviews and overview Read More(Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens (9 July 1906 – 14 April 1983) was an English composer of classical music but is best known for her contribution for scores to horror films throughout the 1960’s. Born …
Elisabeth Lutyens – composer Read MoreHorror films and westerns are two of cinema’s great mainstays, having established their distinct identities and sets of conventions in the earliest days of the medium. So distinct from each …
Death Rides a Horse: Horror Westerns – Overview by Kevin Grant Read MoreThe Mummy can, in many respects, hold claim to being the most unloved of the classic movie monsters – if not, then surely the most inconsistently served. The oft-quoted line …
The Shuffling Saga of The Mummy on Screen – Article Read MoreDonald Pleasence (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an iconic English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable film roles include Michael Myers-obsessed psychiatrist Doctor Sam Loomis in the Halloween series and the …
Donald Pleasence – actor Read MoreUnearthly Stranger is a 1963 British science fiction horror film directed by John Krish and produced by Albert Fennell (The Legend of Hell House; Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde; Night of the Eagle). …
UNEARTHLY STRANGER (1963) Reviews and overview Read MoreRichard Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He may be known best as the author of I Am Legend, …
Richard Matheson – author and screenwriter Read More‘Weird atomic beasts who live off human blood!’ The Horror of Party Beach is a 1963 American horror film co-produced and directed by Del Tenney, which he himself described as “a take-off …
THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH (1963) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Night Visitor is a 1971 Swedish-American psychological horror thriller film directed by Laslo Benedek. The movie stars Max von Sydow (The Exorcist), Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies and Andrew Keir (Quatermass and the …
THE NIGHT VISITOR (1971) Reviews and overview Read MoreHorrors of the Black Museum is a 1959 British horror film directed by Arthur Crabtree for American exploitation producer Herman Cohen (Konga; Trog; Craze), who concocted the lurid screenplay with Aben Kandel. It was the first …
HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM (1959) Reviews and overview Read MoreOur Mother’s House is a 1967 British drama/psychological horror film directed by Jack Clayton (Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Innocents) and starring Dirk Bogarde. The screenplay was by Jeremy Brooks and Haya …
OUR MOTHER’S HOUSE (1967) Reviews and overview Read More‘Blood Mania’, ‘Brain Twisters’, ‘Orgy of the Dead’, ‘Satan’s Slave’… Crown International Pictures is primarily known for low budget flicks, grindhouse cinema, biker films, exploitation films, and B-movie drive-in fare. An independent film studio and distribution company, …
Crown International Pictures – production company and distributor – reviews Read More‘An entire town bathed in pulsing human blood! Madmen crazed for carnage!’ Two Thousand Maniacs! is a 1964 American horror film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and starring Playboy magazine model Connie Mason. The …
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! (1964) Reviews and overview Read More‘Nothing you have ever witnessed before has prepared you for such sheer, stabbing shock!’ The Birds is a 1963 American horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho; Frenzy), very loosely …
THE BIRDS (1963) Reviews and overview Read MoreCarry On Screaming! is a 1966 British comedy film. Of the regular Carry On team, it features Kenneth Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey and Joan Sims. It also features Harry H. Corbett (Cover Girl Killer) in his only Carry …
CARRY ON SCREAMING! (1966) Reviews and overview Read MoreBlack Sabbath is a 1963 Italian horror film anthology directed by Mario Bava (Black Sunday; A Bay of Blood; Lisa and the Devil; Shock). The film comprises three horror stories: “The Wurdulak” (based on the novella The …
BLACK SABBATH (1963) Reviews of Mario Bava’s classic horror anthology Read More‘What was the hideous thing in the PIT that wanted women?’ The Haunted Palace is a 1963 horror American film about Charles Dexter Ward who arrives at a small village to visit the …
THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963) Reviews of Roger Corman’s H.P. Lovecraft horror Read MoreNight of a 1000 Cats – original title: La noche de los mil gatos – is a 1972 Mexican horror film directed by Rene Cardona Jr. and produced by Mario Zacarias. Plot: A playboy serial killer (Hugo …
NIGHT OF A 1000 CATS (1972) Reviews and overview Read MoreThis Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse – original title: Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver – is a 1967 Brazilian horror film made by actor and filmmaker José Mojica Marins. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe (Zé …
THIS NIGHT I’LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (1967) Reviews and overview Read More‘Half man, Half beast. All horror!’ Night of the Bloody Apes is the title of the 1972 English language version of the 1969 Mexican science fiction horror film La Horripilante …
NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES (1969) Reviews of ‘video nasty’ – free to watch online Read More‘When the moon turns red the dead shall rise’ The Nights of Terror is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Andrea Bianchi (Strip Nude for Your Killer; Malabimba; Maniac …
THE NIGHTS OF TERROR aka BURIAL GROUND Reviews – free to watch on Plex and Tubi Read More‘The shrieking of mutilated victims caged in a black pit of horror!!!’ Blood Bath is a 1964 American horror film written and directed by Jack Hill (Spider Baby) and Stephanie Rothman (also see Queen …
BLOOD BATH aka TRACK OF THE VAMPIRE (1966) Reviews and overview Read More‘A fashion house of glamorous models… becomes a terror house of blood!!’ Blood and Black Lace is a 1964 Italian/French/West German Giallo horror thriller film directed by Mario Bava (Lisa and the Devil; A …
BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964) Reviews and free to watch online Read More‘Based on true events’ The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 American supernatural horror film directed by Peter Cornwell (Ward 13; Mercy) based on a screenplay by Adam Simon (Brain Dead; Carnosaur; Bones; …
THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (2009) Reviews and overview Read MoreSatan’s Slave is a 1976 British horror film directed by Norman J. Warren (Prey; Terror; Inseminoid) from a screenplay written by David McGillivray (House of Whipcord; Schizo; House of Mortal Sin). …
SATAN’S SLAVE (1976) Reviews of Norman J. Warren’s Brit horror Read More