The Pit And The Pendulum (1991) – Review

After numerous instances of wrestling the eldritch imagination of H.P. Lovecraft, director Stuart Gordon chose to turn his attentions to another, timeless author of the

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The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961) – Review

Can you believe that in all the years that Hammer paraded out all manner of bloodsucking beasties and reanimated rampages, they only made one werewolf

Gladiator (2000) – Review

At one point in Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s epic exhuming and re-animating of the entire sword and sandal genre, Russell Crowe’s stoic general, Maximus Decimus Meridius,

The Brood (1979) – Review

Divorce does odd things to the creators of genre entertainment and I’m not talking about the stressful heartbreak of such films as Marriage Story or