APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: Island of Lost Souls (1932)
For all the infamous takes on The Island of Dr. Moreau, the third try — after the silent films Ile d’Epouvante and Die Insel der Verschollenen — got it right. Written by Waldemar Young (The Unholy Three, The Mystic) and Philip Wylie (whose Gladiator inspired Superman, The Savage Gentleman led to Doc Savage and When Worlds Collide was homaged by Flash Gordon), this […]
Children of Sin (2022)
After being sent to Abraham House, a sinister religious retreat, Emma (Meredith Mohler) — who is pregnant — and Jackson (Lewis Hines) — who is gay — must escape and save their mother Tammy (Keni Bounds) from their stepfather Robbie (Jeff Buchwald). Jackson wants desperately to make his mother happy, even trying in the past […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: Murder by Television (1935)
You know how bad people wanted television in 1935? When an inventor comes up with a way of sending signals from anywhere, he’s murdered — for television more than by it — and we’re into this detective caper directed by Clifford Sanforth and written by Joseph O’Donnell who mainly worked on cowboy films. This movie […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: Final Curtain (1957)
Narrated by Dudley Manlove (Eros from Plan 9 from Outer Space) and intended for TV, Final Curtain would have been an episode of Portraits of Terror. If it seems familiar, well, that’s because some of the footage would be in Night of the Ghouls. That said, a complete version of the episode was long thought lost until a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: The Return of the Vampire (1943)
This isn’t an official sequel to the 1931 Universal Studios film Dracula but it really feels like it, except that Lugosi’s name is Armand Tesla and this is made by Columbia. This would be the actor’s last major studio movie. Lady Jane Ainsley (Frieda Inescort) is stalked by Tesla twice, once during the first World […]
CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: Sundown (2021)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: The Black Sleep (1956)
Reginald Le Borg was a banker in Austria and a director in America, making low budget horror at Universal like The Mummy’s Ghost and Weird Woman. Released along with The Creeping Unknown, it was ahead of the Shock Theater package that would ignite a new interest in Universal’s horror movies. It’s also Bela Lugosi’s last movie, although footage of […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: Glen or Glenda (1953)
I despise the notion that Ed Wood was a horrible filmmaker. Sure, his movies aren’t technically proficient and are often pretty maudlin in moments, but he’s an actual auteur. For this movie, he didn’t just direct and write, he also starred as Daniel Davies. Who else could? After all, Wood convinced producer George Weiss that […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21
For the twenty-first day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, let’s celebrate Bela Lugosi. April 21: Lugosi Love — What’s your favorite Bela Lugosi movie? All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to be part of it, you can just send us an article for that day to […]
Diabolik (2021)
This was a movie that I wasn’t certain I was ready to watch. I’ve been outspoken about my adoration for Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik and I knew there was no way that any movie could live up to the artistry of that film. But what if a film did something so few comic book movies do? […]
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