
A remake of “The Man in Half Moon Street” (1945) (qv.). Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human victims. Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Jack the Ripper (1976) Jesús Franco, Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Andreas Mannkopff, Horror, Exploitation, Drama, Thriller

The inimitable Klaus Kinski (NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, CRAWLSPACE, FITZCARRALDO) assumes the role of the most heinous criminal of modern history – JACK THE RIPPER – in this explicitly savage Read More »
Red Sundown (1956) Jack Arnold, Rory Calhoun, Martha Hyer, Dean Jagger, Western

When his life is saved in a shootout by a fellow gunman whose life he in turn had saved, Alex Longmire promises to give up his way of life. Read More »
Testing the Limits (1998) Brigitte Berman, Scott Carson, Brandy Davis, Lorissa McComas, Drama, Erotic

Mike and Toni are on their way to the mountains for a romantic weekend, when their car breaks down. Read More »
Enter Laughing (1967) Carl Reiner, José Ferrer, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Comedy, Romance

David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. Read More »
O. Henry’s Full House (1952) Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Fred Allen, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Drama

“O. Henry’s Full House” is a film divided in five segments telling five tales in the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Read More »
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) Anthony Pelissier, Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, Drama, Fantasy

In London, the young Paul Grahame lives with his upper class but financially broken family. Read More »
Panna a netvor / Beauty and the Beast (1978) Juraj Herz, Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance

A more horrific and gloomy version of The Beauty and the Beast. Read More »
The Devil’s Mask (1946) Henry Levin, Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane, Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Based on the “I Love a Mystery” radio program (where most of the stories were told in serial fashion over several episodes): Searching through the wreckage of a crashed airline Read More »
Romanze in Moll / Romance in a Minor Key (1943) Helmut Käutner, Marianne Hoppe, Paul Dahlke, Ferdinand Marian, Drama, Romance

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife’s suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption. Read More »