Here we go... We all know tropes can be really tiresome and that every genre has them. There are times, however, when tropes don't feel like tropes, even in B-movies, and 1963's The Haunted Palace is one of those times. Directed by Roger Corman, it's at once a typical American International Pictures low-budget horror movie and … Continue reading When Tropes Feel New-ish
Unfinished Business
Hello, Miss Grace... Grace Kelly may have had a short-ish filmography, but she's got quality over quantity, and that's not too shabby. One of them, of course, was 1952's HIgh Noon, a classic of the Western genre that doesn't hit a single false note. Well, at least the movie doesn't. High Noon opens in the tiny town … Continue reading Unfinished Business
Country Crooners Among the Cobwebs
We've kind of had a dearth of horror movies this year, haven't we? Well, at least here on the blog, but Substack has a few, including a review of the new Five Nights At Freddy's movie, although that's not much of a horror movie. Other than that, things have been really skimpy in that regard. Unfortunately, … Continue reading Country Crooners Among the Cobwebs
Monster Mashup
We've seen the good, and now we get to see the mad. The very, very mad. Universal got a lot of mileage out of their monster movie franchises. The granddaddy of the talkie era was, of course, Dracula, originally played to great effect in 1930 by Bela Lugosi and Carlos Villareas (in the Spanish language version). … Continue reading Monster Mashup
Taking Up Room 