Woman On The Run (1950)

Woman On The Run (1950) is an effective and underrated film noir that’s under 80 minutes and has made me a fan of main star Ann Sheridan (who was also a silent co-producer on it). When her husband (Ross Elliott) witnesses a murder while walking their dog, he reports it to the police but gets […]

The Dark Corner (1946)

Looking for an old-school film noir to watch, I took a recommendation that writer Angelica Jade Bastien wrote about, The Dark Corner (1946) released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Henry Hathaway. What caught my attention was that it starred Lucille Ball, and this was Lucille before The Lucy Show, from what I understand […]

Dracula (1931)

Sometimes you’ve gotta go back to the original spooky source. Seeing Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat made me realise I’d never seen his portrayal of Dracula (1931), the very role that made him a star and a horror icon. The performance, and Lugosi’s Hungarian accent, looms so large over pop culture, everything from Sesame […]

The Black Cat (1934)

“It is better to be frightened… than to be crushed.” So says Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat (1934) after saving a woman from falling luggage – he plays the role of Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a Hungarian psychatrist returning to his homeland after spending more than a decade in a Siberian prison camp during WWI. […]

The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)

When I was a kid, I loved watching The World Of Hammer on SBS, the doco series that was basically a greatest hits package of Hammer Horror narrated by Oliver Reed. Seeing that Hammer Studios made their own version of Frankenstein, my kid brain had a weird brand loyalty to the Boris Karloff Frankenstein, like, […]