The right balance of gross and funny. Jonah Ray is terrific, but the real prize here is obviously Alex Winter under 80 pounds of makeup as Vlad the titular neighbor. He nails it. [Viewed for Dave of t...

One of the most ridiculous premises ever put to film: space rocks that will turn you to stone and also they grow to colossal size if they get wet and squish you when they topple over. I mean, what? Bu...

Takes some big swings - it's not every movie that opens with someone screaming "There is no God!!!!!" - and lands quite a few of them. It's got a terrific sense of pitch black humor. Bonus points for ...

Smart analysis of not just the famous scene (although the shot-by-shot examination is the highlight) but of Psycho as a whole. Great commentary from a murderers' row of experts. (Although no, French a...

Theatrical cut. Coppola's breakout feature is all gloom, no doom. Unnecessarily convoluted family drama punctuated by William Castle-level shocks. Great opening scene, the rest is all downhill. [Viewe...

What an utterly strange movie, best summed up by the hero spending most of it in a pajama set that includes a necktie. Despite the title, there's no real Hold That Ghost confusion; the characters only...

Chills shake your body. A quick temperature change suddenly surrounds you. You feel as if someone is watching you. These possibly could be signs that the supernatural are among us. Our own University ...

If it weren't for the title and the use of the word "academy" where "university" would go, I would've sworn this was a college movie, what with the twentysomething actors and the dorms and the electiv...

It's a Universal Picture, but it plays like a Poverty Row cheapie. (The Ford Beebe touch?) The whole thing's a dud and a snoozer. There's a running side bit with Leif Erickson as a lecherous chauffeur...

Oh, for the days of the made for TV movie, where they'd go all in on a (standards and practices-friendly) slasher flick. This one manages to frighten with a bare minimum of blood and a whole lot of cr...

"Don't be scared." "But I am scared. Aren't you?" "Who, me? I've been scared since 8:30." A nifty little spin on old dark house/reading of the will pictures, with Jack Haley showing off his comedy cho...

Farmhouse wraparound: Engaging on its own terms even before it spirals into mad brilliance. It's that mad brilliance that turns the entire picture into something truly special. "The Hearse Driver": A ...

I'm fascinated by Chaney's makeup job, which borders on Trumpian at times, the neckline clearly visible and the color the sort of thing that doesn't exist in nature. Corman's toe-dip into Lovecraft is...

It's a shame the comedy team of Begley and Goldblum didn't get the chance to do something good; they're great comic actors who together have fun chemistry. But the material they're given... I'll cop t...

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Boy, this sure is one hell of a mess, isn't it. The pasted-in-after-the-fact B story is a dud, while the actually-based-on-the-book-well-sort-of A plot offers a few creepy moments, all involving human...

an October mix.

A ripping monster mash that frankly could've been set anywhere; they don't do much with darkness or claustrophobia, and the cavern setting is more a plot device labyrinth than a force of nature to con...

Either Melchior had a thing for gingers or he thought he was being clever by making all the women in the movie redheads. Cute. The "Cinemagic" process is a great way to hide cheap sets and effects wor...