Murder, She Wrote S5 E4: Snow White, Blood Red (1988)
Put on your finest 80s ski gear and grab a cup of cocoa, because this isn’t your grandmother’s cozy mystery. Well, it is, but someone accidentally swapped the script with a slasher. Season 5, Episode 4: Snow White, Blood Red (November 13, 1988) Jessica Fletcher heads out to the luxurious Sable Mountain Lodge to hit […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: Panic (1982)
Also known as Bakterion, Nightmare Killing, and even Zombie 4 in Greece, this film was directed by Tonino Ricci under the pseudonym Anthony Richmond—the same guy who served as Lucio Fulci’s assistant director on White Fang and Challenge to White Fang before giving us A Man Called Rage, Raiders of the Magic Ivory, Encounters In […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: Don’t Look In the Basement (1973)
We often refer to movies as “Brownriggian” when we watch films all night on Saturday nights with the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature on Facebook Live. There’s no better example of what this word means than S. F. Brownrigg’s 1973 shocker Don’t Look in the Basement AKA The Forgotten AKA Death Ward #13. Dr. Stephens, the […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: Man in the Attic (1953)
Directed by Argentine filmmaker Hugo Fregonese, this adapts Marie Belloc Lowndes’s famous 1913 Jack the Ripper novel, The Lodger. While it treads ground previously walked by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927 and John Brahm in 1944, Fregonese injects enough shadowy noir aesthetic and eerie Victorian tension to make it good. And he wastes no time setting […]
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