Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve …
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Film Review: The Last Man On Earth (1964)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Doctor Robert Morgan is the only survivor of a devastating world-wide plague due to a mysterious immunity he acquired to the bacterium while working in Central America years ago. He is all alone now – or so it seems. As night falls, plague victims become part of a hellish undead army that’s thirsting for blood – his!” …
Read More »Film Review: Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A vindictive and seductive teacher, a spinster and her sexy sister, and a lonely woman unable to cut the umbilical cord from her mother all appear in three separate stories from one of America’s preeminent writers, Richard Matheson, one of the greatest writers of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone.
Read More »Film Review: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “Robert Scott Carey and his beloved wife Louise Carey are spending vacation on the motor boat of his brother Charlie. When Louise goes to the galley to bring a beer to Robert, he is engulfed by a weird mist. Six months later, Robert is sprayed by insecticide and when he goes to the doctor for the …
Read More »Film Review: The Omega Man (1971) Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “Two years after much of humankind was destroyed in a global war with biological weapons, Doctor Robert Neville leads a solitary existence in Los Angeles. Those humans that do remain are pigment-less albino creatures that roam the night destroying what remnants that may exist of the previous civilization. Neville, who had worked on an antidote to the virus, is …
Read More »Suntup Editions To Publish Fine Press Limited Edition of I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson
Suntup Editions, publisher of fine limited edition books and art prints, is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend, featuring illustrations by Award Winning artist Allen Williams. “This may be the most terrifying novel you will ever read.” This quote from mystery writer William Campbell Gault graced the first edition cover of what would …
Read More »Film Review: The Raven (1963)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “The magician Doctor Erasmus Craven, who chooses not belong to the Brotherhood Of Magicians, grieves the loss of his beloved wife Lenore and lives in a castle with his daughter Estelle. One day, a raven knocks on his window and Craven learns that the bird is actually the magician Doctor Adolphus Bedlo who was turned into …
Read More »TV Review: The Twilight Zone (TV Series ) (Season 1) (1959)
Rate This Movie “There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension …
Read More »TV Review: Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
Rate This Movie Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) was the best investigative reporter you’ve never heard of. The reason for his anonymity? His exclusive accounts of mass murders and serial killings always wound up being suppressed by the authorities or shelved by his disbelieving editor, Tony Vincenzo (Simon Oakland). He had the scoops, they just never made it to print. Kolchak …
Read More »Film Review: Master Of The World (1961)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “In Morgantown Pennsylvania in 1868, the local residents hear a booming voice coming from the local mountain, the Great Eyrie. John Strock from the Department of the Interior is tasked with finding out just what is happening there and approaches Philip Evans for the use of his balloon which would allow him to view the mountain …
Read More »Anthology Horror Films (L-Z)
Anthology films (also known as portmanteau films, omnibuses, compilations or collages) consist of multiple short films usually with a common theme or framing device. This is not to be considered a complete list, but rather a rundown of the best and most interesting collections of short horror tales. Thanks to Wikipedia and the IMDB for assisting research.
Read More »Anthology Horror Films (A-K)
Anthology films (also known as portmanteau films, omnibuses, compilations or collages) consist of multiple short films usually with a common theme or framing device. This is not to be considered a complete list, but rather a rundown of the best and most interesting collections of short horror tales. Thanks to Wikipedia and the IMDB for assisting research.
Read More »Film Review: Somewhere In Time (1980)
SYNOPSIS: “College student Richard Collier gathers rave reviews for his new play. At a party, he comes face-to-face with an old woman who presses something in his hand and whispers ‘Come back to me’. He opens his hand to find an old pocket watch. Cut to several years later. Playwright Collier is in the midst of a break-up and writer’s …
Read More »TV Review: The Twilight Zone (TV Series ) (Season 4) (1959)
Rate This Movie “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound; a dimension of sight; a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into…The Twilight Zone.” #103 IN HIS IMAGE – A young man named Alan …
Read More »Film Review: The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1960)
SYNOPSIS: “After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick’s senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time …
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