Casey Chong profiles seven mad doctors who deserve more recognition for their contributions to crazy cinema science… Movies about mad doctors have been around for the longest time, stretching way back to the black-and-white film era such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein. They have continued to dominate […]
Incredible Character Actors Who Elevate Every Film
Simon Thompson with ten incredible character actors who are guaranteed to elevate any film… If movies and football have one thing in common it’s the fact that whilst having star names to get people in the building is all well and good, it’s what you have to bring off the bench that can make or […]
4K Ultra HD Review – The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon, 1941. Directed by John Huston. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, and Sydney Greenstreet. SYNOPSIS: Warner Bros. is celebrating its centennial with a series of classic movies released on 4K Ultra HD, and the first one I’m looking at is 1941’s The Maltese Falcon, starring […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca, 1942. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. SYNOPSIS: Casablanca celebrates its 80th anniversary with a sublime 4K UltraHD presentation of the classic film. The accompanying Blu-ray disc is the same one previously issued, and it contains nearly all the bonus […]
October Horrors 2021 – M (1931)
M, 1931. Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut and Theodor Loos. SYNOPSIS: In Berlin, several children fall victim to a serial killer. With pressure mounting from a terrified city, both the police and the criminal underworld launch their own hunts for the killer before he can […]
Book Review – M by Samm Deighan
Rachel Bellwoar reviews M by Samm Deighan… Fritz Lang’s M is a horror film. There are other genres that would happily claim M as one of their own, but they’re not the reason the film has a Devil’s Advocates monograph. Devil’s Advocates is a series that focuses on horror movies from Auteur Publishing. Other films […]
Blu-ray Review – The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
The Comedy of Terrors, 1963. Directed by Jacques Tourneur. Starring Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Joyce Jameson, Beverly Hills and Alan DeWitt. SYNOPSIS: A scheming undertaker resorts to extreme measures to bring in some new business in order to pay his rent. Both comedy and terror are two of the hardest genres […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – M (1931)
M, 1931. Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke and Gustaf Gründgens. SYNOPSIS: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. Within Fritz Lang’s first film made in sound, 1931’s M, there’s fascinating evidence of the period’s – and, of course, the […]
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, […]
