Review: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum is a fun and curious little film. Released in February 1933, it was one of the earliest experiments with color film as well as one of the earliest treatments...
View ArticleReview: The Maze (1953)
Every so often, you stumble across a film you’ve only read about, but were never able to see previously. After studying tantalizing stills and poster art, the anticipation builds. When at last the...
View ArticleReview: Maniac Cop (1988)
I think it is safe to say that by 1988, the slasher film had become a little tired and stale. It had been ten years since John Carpenter's Halloween had opened the cinematic floodgates; Freddy, Jason...
View ArticleReview: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
In the 21st century, when just about any kind of sex and violence can be downloaded at the click of a mouse, and torture-packed films such as Saw pull in plenty at the box-office, I often have a...
View ArticleReview: Maniac (1934)
The early 1930s were an interesting time for filmmaking. Just as pictures were making the transition from silent films to talkies, some of these movies ran over a few road bumps on the path to glory...
View ArticleReview: Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Following the release of Riccardo Freda's I Vampiri in 1956, the Golden Age of Italian horror cinema exploded onto the international scene. Over the course of the next twelve years, several films,...
View ArticleReview: Monster House (2006)
Everyone has something they were terrified of as a child. Sometimes it was the shadows lurking in the closet, sometimes it was the malevolent clown doll perched on the highest shelf, and sometimes it...
View ArticleReview: Mahakaal (1993)
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, Wes Craven is presumably meant to take the chutzpah of Mahakaal as a compliment. A jaw-droppingly blatant rip-off of one of Craven's most famous...
View ArticleReview: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
The central thread of Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Murders in the Rue Morgue is one of mystery. Two bodies are found, so degraded that investigators can only imagine a killer with a "grotesquerie...
View ArticleReview: Maniac (1980)
In many slasher films that were coming out by the thousands in the 1980s, rarely did we get to follow the killer as our main character, rarely did we invest an emotional attachment to the killer while...
View ArticleReview: Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Michael Curtiz's Mystery of the Wax Museum is a fun and curious little film. Released in February 1933, it was one of the earliest experiments with color film as well as one of the earliest treatments...
View ArticleReview: The Maze (1953)
Every so often, you stumble across a film you’ve only read about, but were never able to see previously. After studying tantalizing stills and poster art, the anticipation builds. When at last the...
View ArticleReview: Maniac Cop (1988)
I think it is safe to say that by 1988, the slasher film had become a little tired and stale. It had been ten years since John Carpenter's Halloween had opened the cinematic floodgates; Freddy, Jason...
View ArticleReview: The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
In the 21st century, when just about any kind of sex and violence can be downloaded at the click of a mouse, and torture-packed films such as Saw pull in plenty at the box-office, I often have a...
View ArticleReview: Maniac (1934)
The early 1930s were an interesting time for filmmaking. Just as pictures were making the transition from silent films to talkies, some of these movies ran over a few road bumps on the path to glory...
View ArticleReview: Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
Following the release of Riccardo Freda's I Vampiri in 1956, the Golden Age of Italian horror cinema exploded onto the international scene. Over the course of the next twelve years, several films,...
View ArticleReview: Monster House (2006)
Everyone has something they were terrified of as a child. Sometimes it was the shadows lurking in the closet, sometimes it was the malevolent clown doll perched on the highest shelf, and sometimes it...
View ArticleReview: Mahakaal (1993)
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, Wes Craven is presumably meant to take the chutzpah of Mahakaal as a compliment. A jaw-droppingly blatant rip-off of one of Craven's most famous...
View ArticleReview: Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
The central thread of Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Murders in the Rue Morgue is one of mystery. Two bodies are found, so degraded that investigators can only imagine a killer with a "grotesquerie...
View ArticleReview: Maniac (1980)
In many slasher films that were coming out by the thousands in the 1980s, rarely did we get to follow the killer as our main character, rarely did we invest an emotional attachment to the killer while...
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