Lucifera: Demon Lover (1972)
With a title like that, you might be forgiven if you expect The Devil Within Her or The Devil In Ms. Jones style antics here. Instead, this is a slightly erotic gothic romance. In his book Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979, Roger Curti spoke to the cast and they really can’t get any of their facts straight. Rosalba […]
Bloodhound (2020)
Private investigator Abel Walker along with his cameraman, Jim, are on the hunt for a missing woman. As they unravel the mystery of her disappearance, they become caught in a sick and violent game that will end in murder. Bloodhound comes from writer/director Jason R.Miller, who produced 2010’s Frozen — not the cartoon, the one on a […]
Episode 4 of Ghouls Across America!
Episode 4 of Ghouls Across North America has arrived! In this episode, Joe and Alex travel to Cleveland, Ohio to visit A Christmas Story House and bask in all of its awesomeness before heading to Pennsylvania to hang out with their long time pal Bill Van Ryn, creator of Drive-In Asylum and Groovy Doom. Bill […]
Exploring: So what’s up with all the Demons sequels?
TL:DR This post in video form. The original Demons is an all-star film of Italian horror, combining talents of director Lamberto Bava, writer Dardano Sacchetti and producer Dario Argento to create an anarchic blast of heavy metal, cocaine inside Coca-Cola cans, samurai swords, motorcycles, falling helicopters, steel masked killers and demons popping out of peoples’ backs. […]
Viy (1967)
The first horror movie produced in the Soviet Union, Viy is based on a novella by Nikolai Gogol. You may recognize the story, as Mario Bava previously adapted it as one of the yarns in Black Sunday. Some of the witch scenes and end appearance of Viy were toned down due to worries of censorship, but […]
Appiness (2018)
Eric Newman, a shy corporate professional who is nearing thirty, gets laid off out of the blue. He meets up with a long-lost friend named Raj who is dreaming of creating a start-up. However, nothing is ever that simple in life and they soon discover that they may be giving up way too much of […]
The Witchmaker (1969)
I first encountered this movie halfway through a showing in the middle of the night and had no idea what it was. That’s something that people that stream movies miss out on — the total confusion and need to know that arises when you discover a completely deranged movie in the middle of its running […]
The Devil’s Partner (1961)
Directed by Charles R. Rondeau and produced by Hugh Hooker, an actor and stuntman. The two teamed up before in 1958 to make The Littlest Hobo. Hooker would do stunts for years while Rondeau would work mainly in TV after this. Writer Stanley Clements played one of the East Side Kids, Stash, and when Leo Gorcey […]
Starry Eyes (2014)
Sarah Walker (Alexandra Essoe, who played Wendy Torrance in Dr. Sleep) is an aspiring actress who just can’t seem to break through. Perhaps Satan can help. That’s the central story in this 2014 film that I’ve always believed is way more true than fiction. It’s directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, who went on to […]
El Latigo Contra Satanas (1979)
Alfredo B. Crevenna made two movies about El Latigo (The Whip) — The Whip and The Whip vs. Satan, which is the movie we’re about to discuss. He also made 1973’s Santo vs. Black Magic Woman and 1979’s Fury of the Karate Killers, where Santo and El Tieneblas battles karate men. There’s also another Whip movie called The Whip vs. […]
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