Foster on Film

Mere seconds after Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan)—and yes, it is now “Von Helsing” instead of “Van Helsing”—staked Dracula, the bobbies show up. Van Helsing goes with the “I was killing an immortal undead” defense which gets him arrested for murder, although as an upper class professor, he’s treated ridiculously well. Psychologist Jeffrey Garth (Otto Kruger), another

Timid and distracted Dr. Carl Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish) is accused of murdering a woman, and an inquest is called. Fletcher, animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone), and his wife Dorothy (Martha Vickers) testify that Cheela the gorilla survived the bullet wound and has been kept by Fletcher. After a time Cheela disappeared and Paula

Quentin Collins (David Selby) and his young wife Tracy (Kate Jackson) have just inherited the sprawling gothic estate of Collinwood, complete with weird housekeeper, Carlotta (Grayson Hall). Quentin starts getting strange dreams, seeing things, and begins to stare off into nothing. He just might be the reincarnation of Charles Collins. Years ago Charles’s lover and

A series of mysterious disappearances in the arctic leads the military to call in paleontologist Ned Jackson (William Hopper). His keen use of a magnifying glass allows him to work out that the culprit is a giant praying mantis, recently released from the ice. Ned teams up with Colonel Joe Parkman (Craig Stevens) and hot

The alien Zenon have come to invade Earth in a star destroyer they stole from Star Wars. Luckily the Earth is defended by three female super heroes. Unluckily, they have no weapons or useful strengths and if they transform into their outfits, they will be shot from space. The Zenon’s plan is to set loose

Hammer was always searching for the best way to make a buck, or a pound. The powers that be decided to remake a science-fiction horror BBC series, and mix it with as much showmanship as they could manage, playing off of the new X certificate by naming their film, The Quatermass Xperiment. It was a

Small-town cowboy-wannabe Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) picks up pixie-girl Mae (Jenny Wright) sometime late in the evening (it’s hard to say when as time doesn’t work in this film). That’s a problem as she’s a vampire (the “V” word is never used) who converts him. He’s now stuck with her vampire family: angry man in

In a faraway island, scientists experimenting with radioactive weather control (yes, you heard that correctly, radioactive weather control) accidentally cause huge praying mantises to grow into humongous praying mantises. The big bugs unearth and break open an egg and out pops a toad man… I mean a baby Godzilla. The full size Godzilla shows up, so the

The Tall Man captures Mike, who he wants for his cryptic psychic powers. Reggie follows, finding himself in a ghost town when he is attacked by crazy looters because in the Phantasm universe things just happen. He picks up a gun-toting kid and a martial arts woman who both want revenge and the three, along

Kaneki (Masataka Kubota), a shy bookworm, inadvertently has the organs of a ghoul transplanted into him, making him a hybrid. Like ghouls, he now can eat only human flesh, and drink coffee, and has tentacles that pop out of his back. He knows nothing of surviving as a ghoul, so is taken in by some

A rush of hormones turns high school golden boy Cayden Richards (Lucas Till) into a werewolf. He awakens to find he’d attacked his girlfriend and killed his parents, so goes on the run. A strange werewolf (John Pyper-Ferguson) he meets along the way puts him on the path toward the secluded town of Lupine Ridge,

Svengali (John Barrymore) is a talented musician living in an artists community that include his follower Gecko (Luis Alberni), and painters The Laird (Donald Crisp), Taffy (Lumsden Hare), and Billee (Bramwell Fletcher). He’s also a cad, who uses his charisma and hypnotic powers to gain what he wants, and in one case, to cause a