Take me down to the Poverty Row Where the sets are cardboard and the actors blow Oh won’t you please take me down… Yes, let’s take a trip to Poverty Row, a magical place filled with incomprehensible scripts, grade Z acting, and acres of stock footage. In the 1940’s, studios like Monogram, PRC and Republic churned out no-budget horror films by the dozens. Monogram’s The Corpse Vanishes is in many ways one of the worst, but in the topsy-turvy world of Poverty Row, the worse the movie the... Read Full Story
March is a magical month of leprechauns, shamrocks, four-leaf clovers and Irish ale. But I hate all that crap, so let’s celebrate March with some tasty Italian and Mexican horrors, starting with the rarely seen Barbara Steele feature An Angel for Satan (1966). Midnight Choir recently released this – Steele’s last Italian gothic -- as a double feature with The Long Hair of Death , another Steele vehicle from 1964. Rumors are circulating that the Midnight Choir DVD might not be an authorized... Read Full Story
5 - Near Dark
4 -
Nosferatu
3 - Nightwatch
2 - Nosferatu the Vampire
1 - Dracula
The freaks come out at night
We could have put any number of mainstream vampire
movies up here - T he Lost Boys, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's
Dracula, Blade , etc. - but really, these are better movies. Plus, they're
creepier, and since we're not talking about the Top Five Movies About Florists,
I think creepy is a good component... Read Full Story
When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, when after graduation a mysterious killer goes after the five of them and anyone who knows their secret…
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I must confess that I have not seen anywhere near as many Italian movies from the 70s and 80s as I think I have, since I keep stumbling across previously-unviewed giallos -- so-called from the yellow dustjackets of thriller novels. I had vaguely heard of this film from director Pupi Avati (a minor horror director of that time) and probably remembered it because of its unusual title, but I had certainly not viewed it previously. Unfortunately, despite its fairly respectable cult reputation... Read Full Story
If Phantasm (1979) closed a great decade for cinematic horror on a shockingly surreal high note, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) opened the not-as-successful subsequent decade in much the same manner. The Shining scared the living hell out of me when I first saw it at age 13, but I disliked the movie because it wavered so dramatically from Stephen King’s source material. Well, The Shining still has the ability to send chills down my spine, but I now recognize that virtually every change... Read Full Story
With Marcus Nispel’s Friday the 13th reboot due out on February 13th 2009, a trailer has now been released for all horror fans of the world to start drooling over. In 2003 Nispel directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, a film that I personally thoroughly enjoyed; I’m expecting more of the same with his take on Friday the 13th , and having now watched the trailer am left feeling that this could well be the best film in the series yet.
Last time we met up with Jason Voorhees he was... Read Full Story
Horror has proven a fertile genre for independent directors to jumpstart their careers. Francis Ford Coppolla’s Dementia 13 , George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead , Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left , Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead are all low-budget features that served as industry calling cards for their respective directors. Although Don Coscarelli never attained the legendary status of those five, his dazzlingly imaginative 1979 debut... Read Full Story
Night of the Devils Aleksey Tolstoy’s vampire tale The Wurdulak has been translated to the big screen several times, the most notable being Mario Bava’s sublime version – featuring one of Boris Karloff’s finest performances -- in the classic omnibus film Black Sabbath . Night of the Devils (1972) is a seldom-seen telling of The Wurdulak that, while never reaching the hallucinatory heights of Bava’s version, is still a riveting piece of Euro-horror that benefits from solid performances, an... Read Full Story
I just put up a Zane Black Interview on Youtube -- it's the one where he's talking about Chelsea Richards, Health Care Reform, Feast Trilogy, and Weight Loss. I embedded the 1st of five parts below. You can check out our DailySkew Youtube Page for the rest. Enjoy! Read Full Story
