Of course it would be a Terrance Dicks script that ends up the best of Season 18.  Christopher H. Bidmead’s addition of hard science actually helps ground State of Decay and does some to elevate it, h...

Were it not for Dario Argento’s direction, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage would likely be classified as simply an Italian film noir, an odd example of noir in color, and not a horror film.  This is...

Finally, a mummy movie that I actually like.  There’s no nostalgia in me for The Mummy, this is a film I know my generation adores and honestly it is a good time.  At its core it owes a lot of itself ...

Maybe I just don’t like mummy movies? I’ve watched quite a few of them at this point and none of them have resonated particularly deeply with me.  The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb is basically a remake o...

Full Circle works because it’s a simple meal well made.  It’s a breath of fresh air after The Leisure Hive and Meglos, boasting quite a sharp script that’s made up of ideas from other Doctor Who stori...

Insane that Day of the Dead is the least well liked of George A. Romero's initial trilogy of films. For me this is probably the strongest (though Night of the Living Dead does come very close). Day of...

I do find it fascinating that with the rise of streaming and the gutting of physical releases, there is a rise in retrospective film documentaries that would normally be DVD extras.  Strange Journey i...

I don’t want to reduce Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm to a Doctor Who serial with the serial number filed off, it isn’t that.  But the vibes also match the McCoy era of Doctor Who with some ...

Kind of wild that this is a story that’s been adapted since the dawn of cinema (there’s apparently an earlier version from 1908).  This one makes Hyde look kind of like a vampire and a bit of a carica...

Likely this is the adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that is most engrained in the public consciousness.  The makeup work on Fredric March is fantastic, making the character of...

Apparently the book this is based on is more explicitly a fable against the Second Red Scsrw but John Frankenheimer’s adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate clearly hates McCarthy and the Hollywood bl...