There comes a time when you watch an older film only to find, much to an incredibly surreal realisation, that you are undoubtedly watching something
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Double Indemnity (1944) – Review
For as long as humans have been able to tell stories, we’ve regaled each other with tale of duplicitous acts and crimes of passion, where
Tarzan’s Magic Fountain (1949) – Review
After ditifully wearing Tarzan’s all purpose loin cloth for an impressive twelve movies, it eventually became time for Johnny Weissmuller to catch the next vine
Tarzan And The Mermaids (1948) – Review
There’s a prevalent saying that states that nothing can last forever, but when it comes to the lengthy nature of Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan tenure, he
Tarzan And The Huntress (1947) – Review
Playing the same character twelve times on the bounce is nothing to be sneezed at, but it has to be said, by the time we
Tarzan And The Leopard Woman (1946) – Review
After nine outings for Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan in as many years, you had to believe that the writers at RKO Studios were running a little
Tarzan And The Amazons (1945) – Review
Anyone who has ever watched the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies in chronological order can’t have helped but notice that from his seventh entry onward, the
Tarzan’s Desert Mystery (1943) – Review
By the time we reached the eleventh year of Johnny Weissmuller’s tenure of Tarzan it seemed that Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Lord of the Apes was
Tarzan Triumphs (1942) – Review
1942 brought a sizable change to life in the Great Encarpment as Sol Lesser (who had previous produced rival Tarzan movies for Twentieth Century Fox)
The Ghost Of Frankenstein (1942) – Review
Compared to some of his Universal Monsters stablemates, the Frankenstein’s Monster has had quite the smooth franchise. While Dracula’s follow ups concerned all sorts of
Phantom Of The Opera (1943) – Review
Considering how fertile Gaston Leroux’s classic tale of obsession, murder and opera is, I’m not surprised that Universal took another crack at it after their
She-Wolf Of London (1946) – Review
If you scroll through the various titles that make up the collection of movies known as the Universal Monsters collection, you can’t help but notice
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944) – Review
According to Invisible Man lore, once you go vanish, your sanity will banish – meaning of course that after undergoing the injection, a common side
Invisible Agent (1942) – Review
Much like the various invisible men and women of the H.G. Wells inspired series of films, once 1940’s The Invisible Woman took the franchise into
The Invisible Woman (1940) – Review
It’s not particularly unusual for a franchise to pop the clutch and yank the handbrake in order to pull a complete change of tone –
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) – Review
When 1940 rolled around, Universal had already started in unleashing a fusilade of sequels to the inpressive string of horror hits that they had accumulated
The Mummy’s Curse (1944) – Review
Fifth time round on the raggedy, dusty carousel that is the classic Universal Monsters Mummy series and we find a movie that’s very appropriately titled
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944) – Review
While you could accuse the majority of the sequel outings of the Universal Monsters gang of being noticably deficient in the originality gene, the continuing
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) – Review
When Universal Studios decided to up-shift the amount of movies that featured their stock horror characters, you get the genuine impression that the Mummy might
House Of Dracula (1945) – Review
After a relentless release schedule that saw Universal hock its horror characters onto audiences at a punishing rate, it was getting pretty clear that some
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