Category: Horror Movies

It is 1956!  World War II is passing into memory, the Korean War armistice is shaky, but Ike occupies the White House and Patton is dead (but Elvis lives, & John Lennon hasn’t met Paul McCartney yet),

How did you feel about Alien Resurrection? Did you like it, hate it, accept it as good enough to scratch your Alien itch? Did you refuse to watch it altogether? Were you even alive in 1997?

Funny thing about bunny rabbits, they don’t scare in quite the same way as, say, roaches, rats, sharks, or frogs. Even giant rabbits

The inspiration for this It! The Terror from Beyond Space many be found in A. E. van Vogt’s story the Black Destroyer.  IT in-turn inspired Alien.

Sweet little old Mrs. Skinner (Ida Lupino), soft-spoken and dressed like a park ranger, has gone and done a terrible thing. Feeding toxic sludge to chickens. Chaos ensues.

Jason Crockett is a dick. Played by Ray Milland, only 27 years removed from the Oscar-winning The Lost Weekend, Crockett wastes away in his wheelchair,

The opening crawl – ominous, spare, and all-too-revealing of a film lacking the budget to show rather than tell – speaks to a developing horror about to befall a small Southern town

This movie was made on a shoestring budget and the old-fashioned way, with imagination and talent. The end result is the absolute epitome of a horror movie that only gets better with age.