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  Trading in the bleakness and pessimism of Michael Reeves’ soul-despairing WITCHFINDER GENERAL (1968) in favor for a more traditional narrative that finds the forces of Good and Evil locking swords’n’horns in the 17th century English countryside, BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW is sure to be a treat to all manner of genre fans, offering delectable…

  The independent film written, produced, and directed by John Parker known as DAUGHTER OF HORROR is actually a slightly altered version of the 57-minute feature known as DEMENTIA, most famously recognized as that flick all the kids were watching at the theater in THE BLOB (1958). This was unknown to me as I watched…

  Stephen King has gone on multiple times to discuss the real-life influences behind the title character of his first novel, Carrie, namely two girls whom he knew of in high school who were spectacularly awkward and unpopular and the brunt of much social injustice. One of these girls he reveals eventually went on to…

  Well. There’s no one to blame for that but myself. I don’t mean to say that I’m responsible for HOWLING III: THE MARSUPIALS (1987). I don’t think I could live with that on my conscience. The third in a series of works “based” on Gary Brandner’s novels–but at this point the horses have loosed…

  Starting out as good clean entertainment and then transforming into a veritable hoot towards the end, THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE (1959) is one of those films that I can’t imagine anyone regretting having seen unless they’re made of stone or have had their heads cleaved from their bodies by a giant native.…

  Managing to both have too much going on and not enough at all, THE AWAKENING (2011) is sadly a middling period piece that at the end of the day is inconsequential regardless of how pretty it looks. Its promising conceit of hoax debunker and staunch disbeliever in all manners spectral Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall)…

  Films of a certain vintage sometimes carry with them homilies that modern eyes and ears are generally prone to view at best quaint and at worst corny. American-International’s metafictional affair HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER (1958) is at times a bit too on the nose when it comes to relaying its narrative of the…

  It’s rather appropriate that this PRC chiller from German émigré Frank Wisbar should be the subject of our first Sunday post for the challenge. It’s a film that is deeply entrenched in faith and sacrifice, the act of giving up one’s soul and sticking to your convictions even in the face of ultimate terror.…