Classic Scene: House Falling Gag
House Falling Gag Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) Directed by Charles Reisner (Buster Keaton uncredited) The Scene: As a storm blows through town William Canfield Jr. AKA Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)...
View ArticleGreatest Legal Movies
The courtroom is an incredible epicenter for drama. You have two opposing sides locked in argument sometimes with the fate of another human being at stake. This is why so many great films have taken...
View ArticleRetro Review: House on Sorority Row
There have been several slasher movies made over the years which sees sorority girls hacked up at the hands of a mad man. Yet there are only a few which are still remembered by horror fans. One is of...
View ArticleSpotlight On: Tod Browning
Throughout the history of film there have been no shortage of colorful and fascinating characters behind the camera sitting in the director’s chair. But few have been as colorful or fascinating as Tod...
View ArticleRetro Review: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
The 1980’s saw a whole slew of charming films intended for younger viewers. Movies like; the Goonies, Flight of the Navigator, Gremlins and the Monster Squad still hold a place in the hearts of now...
View ArticleCreepy Mysteries: Time Traveler in New York
On an average June day in 1950, the Big Apple may have gotten a strange surprise which could change the way we think of time. In the middle of Time Square a man in clothes which looked several decades...
View ArticleClassic Scene: ‘Dinner Party’
The Dinner Party The Thing Man (1934) Directed by WS Van Dyke The Scene: Former detective and current member of the alcohol-guzzling idle rich, Nick Charles has finally discovered what has happened to...
View Article20th Century Fox: Greatest Films
Earlier this year one of the powerhouse studios in Hollywood, a former member of what was dubbed the “Big 6” (along with Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal, Columbia, and their current owner Disney)...
View ArticleRetro Review: Blood From the Mummy’s Tomb
After several movies in their Mummy series, famed horror-based production company Hammer Studios, was seeing diminishing returns from a worn out audience. The decision was made to conclude the Mummy...
View ArticleMovie Review: Downton Abbey (Second Opinion)
Earlier our Head of the House took a look at this movie from the perspective of a newcomer to the saga. But now I feel it is time for the opinion of a reviewer who was there in front of the TV every...
View ArticleUnited Artists: 100 Years of Film
In 1919, four major players in the film industry; DW Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbansdk, foresaw the increasing commercialization of the business as a detriment. Together...
View ArticleBest Haunted Attraction in America
As the air becomes chillier and the ghosts and monsters emerge from their hiding spots. With a spooky atmosphere lingering, people go in search of the best haunted attractions to give them the scares....
View ArticleGreat Cryptozoology Hoaxes
When it comes to the field of cryptozoology the fact the researchers are looking at animals who may or may not exist it opens the field for those not that interested in the actual science to sneak in....
View ArticleCreepy Mysteries: Aurora Space Man
The flying saucer which crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947 has become a story ingrained in our culture. But what if there was another alien craft which years earlier had crashed down...
View ArticleDolls The Will Creep You Out
With their unmoving features and and blank expressions dolls give people the heebie-jeebies. There are even some dolls who have given people a right to be scared, these are the dolls who will creep you...
View ArticleThe Most Haunted Bars & Pubs
Everyone knows a good bar has to have a good selection of spirits, but sometimes those spirits do not come in bottles. Do to their traditional importance in communities bars and pubs tend to be...
View ArticleClassic Scene: “Stella!”
“Stella!!!” A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Dir. Elia Kazan The Scene: The arrival has Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) to the Kowalski household has brought with it no shortage of conflict in this...
View ArticleClassic Scene: Dracula’s Castle
Dracula’s Castle Dracula (1931) Directed by Tod Browning The Scene: After a journey through the Eastern Europe countryside encountering particularly superstitious locals, Renfield (Dwight Fry) has...
View ArticleRetro Review: ‘Twins of Evil’
With this Retro Review I will be looking at one of the more obscure productions from the famed Hammer Films. While the 70’s is regarded as a dip in their quality and the end of their heyday, the studio...
View ArticleNoirvember Review: Border Incident
Every November fans of cinema celebrate one of the most influential genres of moviedom, the film noir. This cinematic movement from the 1940’s through the 1950’s, presented audiences with edgy pulp...
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