Caged Heat, 1974. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Juanita Brown, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Cheryl Smith, Barbara Steele, Warren Smith. SYNOPSIS: Inmates in a women’s prison rebel when the prison doctor begins experimenting with electric shock therapy to control their behaviour. It is often interesting to go back through the career of a big-name director […]
Shivers (1975) – October Horrors 2022
Shivers, 1975. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Alan Migicowsky, Susan Petrie and Barbara Steele. SYNOPSIS: After a botched science experiment, an apartment complex becomes infested with a dangerous parasite that turns all those it infects into depraved sex obsessed maniacs. Crafting a varied filmography of terrifying films in which […]
Blu-ray Review – Six Gothic Tales
Robert W Monk reviews Six Gothic Tales, a Blu-ray collection of the Roger Corman directed and produced adaptations of the Edgar Allen Poe stories The Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The Tomb of Ligeia, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, Peter Lorre, […]
