Twins Of Evil (1971) – Review

After lesbian tinged The Vampire Lovers and Lust For A Vampire, Hammer Films closed out their lusty Karnstein Trilogy with Twins Of Evil, an apparent

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The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) – Review

When studios pool their resources the results sometimes tend to be a little erratic. Now, when I say pooling, I don’t mean two Hollywood powerhouses

The Invitation (2022) – Review

A pertinent question that always arises when a movie trailer comes along that spills more beans than a nervous barista is: does a spoilerish ad

The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973) – Review

By the time Hammer’s Dracula series made it to its eighth and final installment, you could that the lifeblood of the continuing misadventures of Christopher

Underworld: Awakening (2012) – Review

At this point, I feel I should ask a couple of pertinent questions, like who out there is actually demanding for more Underworld sequels and

Vampires (1998) – Review

During his heyday, genre overlord John Carpenter had an impressive talent of churning out films that were decades ahead of their time. While this often

Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans (2009) – Review

When a franchise resorts to going down a prequel route, it’s usually a sign that the series has finally bled out and run dry of

Underworld (2003) – Review

Ever since Dracula and the Wolf Man briefly butted their heads in the closing moments of Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hollywood has sporadically tried

Dracula (1958) – Review

Whenever a filmmaker puts a sexy new spin on a classic character, there’s always a certain amount of pushback from purists crying heresy, but if

The Lost Boys (1987) – Review

It’s easy to look at The Lost Boys from the (relatively) safe confines of the 2020’s and merely proclaim it as a defining, rollicking, 80’s

Howling VI: The Freaks (1991) – Review

While the Howling series could be accused of many things, resting on its laurels certainly isn’t one of them. The long running werewolf saga that

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

House Of Frankenstein (1944) – Review

After dropping Frankenstein’s Monster and the Wolf Man into a predictably brutal double date with 1942’s aptly named Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, it obviously

Dracula’s Daughter (1936) – Review

You can’t really say that Universal were particularly swift on capitalising on the first Dracula movie, especially when you consider that A) the first movie

Van Helsing (2004) – Review

Back in 1999, Stephen Sommers updated a genuine horror classic and raised The Mummy from it’s metaphorical sarcophagus thanks to Brendan Frasier’s innate likeability, a

Waxwork (1988) – Review

Finding itself in a fairly well viewed rotation of 80’s horror crap that would find itself regularly getting played on the old VHS, Anthony Hickox’s

The Monster Squad (1987) – Review

Acting like a brain damaging collision between The Goonies and Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Monster Squad is one of those films seemingly destined

Fright Night 2: New Blood (2013) – Review

The direct to DVD sequel conundrum is something that’s stuck in my craw for some time now and I guess now is as good as

Fright Night (2011) – Review

By my calculations, on a long enough timeline, pretty much every movie you hold dear will be remade in some form or another. Take 1985’s

Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) – Review

By the mid-40’s, Universal Studios were still looking for any way they could to keep their legendary stable of marauding monsters profitable. Their bright idea?

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