A Look into a Cluttered Mind

       Alright, so not a lot of history behind this, which, again, good news for me. Director Brad Michael Elmore, after directing two horro...

      Director Sam Raimi had a pretty good 1980's. From his smash hit  Evil Dead in 1981 , and its sequel in 1987, he would become somet...

         This was the third film in the trilogy of films with Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, and the final time he would play the chara...

    The Silence of the Lambs, Harris' 1988 sequel to Red Dragon, was originally optioned by actor Gene Hackman and Orion Pictures, with ...

     Thomas Harris' first novel Black Sunday  (a thriller partially inspired by the Munich Massacre in 1972) was a moderate success in 1...

      Lucky me, not much history around for this. This was originally going to be a horror anthology TV series on Showtime, their attempt at...

    A billion years ago, back in 2018, I did a summer retrospective on Friday the 13th  films, and I briefly discussed Sean S. Cunningham, w...

    I've talked a bit before about Larry Cohen. A TV writer in the 60's, he would rise to feature film prominence through Blaxploita...

 On to the first proper review for this year.... and oh, God, I have to actually go into the history of this, aren't I? I'll make it...

    This summer has been rough for everyone on Earth. It was definitely rough for me. I unfortunately didn't plan out this series very w...

    The story of this film begins with, of all things, Citizen Kane. William Alland, a good friend of Orson Welles, played the role of the r...

    (So,  my anxiety got particularly bad since writing the last one, I was unable to write the planned entries I had intended, or see the f...

    Werewolves were a major part of European folklore dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Myths around lycanthropy vary across re...

    The 1931 Frankenstein  film was very different from Mary Shelley's novel, removing, among other changes, a subplot where the monster...

     HG Wells' The Invisible Man  was inspired in part by references to invisible men in a WS Gilbert poem and Plato's Republic. It,...

           Mummification in ancient Egyptian culture is believed to started in the years prior to the rule of the pharaoahs, and became an i...

     Mary Shelley's 1818 novel  Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus  needs no introduction. Not its origins in the electric experimen...

     Not too much history on this one. In the early days of sound, many were skeptical of audience expectations and the limitations of the ...

     Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel, based on folklore of Eastern European vampires and the infamy of Vlad Tepes (aka Vlad the Impale...

      From 1921 to 1960, the Universal Monsters terrified and enthralled audiences across America with their grotesque, but sympathetic cre...