It was in 1960 that producer and director Roger Corman began his long cinematic affair with Edgar Allan Poe; there had been ups and downs, and there had
On February 27th our community lost one of its vanguard. His work and its influence needs no further elaboration on these pages; indeed, these pages would likely never
When an actor is associated with a single specific character which has transcended genre to become iconic, it is sometimes difficult to disassociate those memories when they are
There are few writers whose work has passed so unconsciously into common parlance that those who reference it do not know the origin. The phrase “the lunatics have
It’s interesting to think that one of the most influential and contentious cinematic spy thrillers of all time only came about due to the personal intervention of one
It was supposed to be a simple dinner party, four couples, a few bottles of wine, catching up with old friends, but the awkward conversation of bad career
Recently released on DVD and Blu-ray courtesy of 101 Films’ “Cult Movie Collection,” Toy Soldiers from 1991 takes us back to a time when teen characters had the
When is a Poe not a Poe? Released in 1963, The Haunted Palace was positioned by American International Pictures as the fifth in the series of successful adaptations
In a garish hotel room, Nicholas Eastman (Maleficent‘s Brenton Thwaites) receives a message from the individual who identifies himself as Nomad. Having already hacked into the systems of
It may have been John Carpenter’s Hallowe’en in 1978 which is generally regarded as the film which brought the slasher horror subgenre to prominence but it was far