Category: Reviews

Dracula’s Daughter (USA, 1936) I first saw the 1931 Todd Browning/Bela Lugosi Dracula when I was in my late teens. As a young horror fan, I had read much about it before ever seeing more than…

Kidnapped (Spain, 2010) For several minutes after Kidnapped finished, I found myself wandering around the house, doing a few domestic things and swearing to myself softly. The swearing didn’t come from anger or frustration, but a…

The Black Room (USA, 1935) While many of Boris Karloff’s early films are considered classics of the horror genre, or at least remembered fondly, The Black Room rarely seems to come up in discussion. I’ve stumbled across…

The Mansion of Madness (Mexico, 1973) As we enter the second week of the challenge, we reach the first real disappointment. The Mansion of Madness, AKA Dr Tarr’s Torture Dungeon, turned out to be a poor fit…

Kolobos (USA, 1999) If The Seventh Victim, which I discussed last week, is an example of a film undermined by cuts, Kolobos is a film that went in the opposite direction. It might have been little more than an average if…