Dracula Pere Et Fils (1976)
This French movie — whose title means Dracula and Son — brings Christopher Lee back to the role he may be most famous for in his tenth* and final screen appearance as Dracula. It was directed and written by Édouard Molinaro, who made the original La Cage aux Folles. That arch nemesis of all Universal and Hammer […]
Day Dream (1964)
Hakujitsumu is based on a 1926 short story by Junichiro Tanizaki that plays with the nature of reality. An artist and a young woman are in a dentist’s waiting room and the man is too shy to even connect with her. In the same examining room, they’re both giving anesthetic as he imagines that she […]
Ismail Yzassin Meets Frankenstein (1954)
The world of strange film is, well, strange. Just as Mexican director Benito Alazraki remade Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein for his own country as Frankenstein el Vampiro y Compañía, Isa Karamah made it for Egyptian audiences as Haram alek, which was also released as Pitié! (Pity!) in France, Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein in the UK, Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein and Have […]
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Three Brian Aldis novels have been made into movies. Brothers of the Head, AI (yes, the Kubrick started and Spielberg ended movie) and this one, which was the first movie that Roger Corman had directed for two decades. This is probably the best cast that Corman ever had, with John Hurt as the future scientist, Raul Julia as […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror(2021)
If you have even a passing interest in the world of folk horror, Kier-La Janisse’s exhaustive exploration — which clocks in at 3 hours and 14 minutes and could have been a thousand more if I had my way — is the film of a lifetime. The ‘unholy trinity’ that launched this trend on to […]
Kyoufu Densetsu Kaiki! Frankenstein (1981)
Along with Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, Toei made two animated movies for Marvel and of all the properties they could have used, they made Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monsters movies. Released here as Monster of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Legend of Terror in 1984, this was based on the Marvel Comic Monster of Frankenstein, which ran 18 issues. In […]
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
Charles B. Griffith — the Quentin Tarantino-named “Father of Redneck Cinema” — is credited with 29 movies but he probably wrote plenty more. From 1955 to 1961, he was Roger Corman’s main screenwriter, starting with two unfilmed Westerns (Three Bright Banners and Hangtown) and moving on to an uncredited rewrite on It Conquered the World and his first credit Gunslinger. […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.