Foster on Film

Somewhat effeminate Eduardo (Carlos Villatoro), his wife Cristina (Marta Roel), and Eduardo’s more manly friend Alfonso (Enrique del Campo) get lost while walking in the woods at night. A strange man with his dog, Shadow, appears and offers to take them to the nearby monastery of the cloistered Order of Silence. There they are taken

Judith (Ana Raquel Satre) has abandoned her family and fiancé to run off with the powerful and disreputable Bluebeard (Norman Foster) to his imposing castle. Rumors abound of his foul deeds, and he gruffly tries to warn her off, but she insists that she wants him and will stay. As he softens a bit, she

Occultist Kay Caldwell (Louise Allbritton) brings Count Dracula (Lon Chaney Jr.)—not his son no matter what the film’s title might be—using the name Alucard, to her Louisiana plantation. This vexes her conventional sister (Evelyn Ankers), her unstable boyfriend Frank (Robert Paige), and the pushy Dr. Brewster (Frank Craven). Her plan is to marry Dracula, gain

Mad-scientist Mr. Stendahl (Otto Kruger), with the help of two excessively dim, young assistants, and the film’s love interests, Don (Phil Brown) & Anne (Amelita Ward), has brought a rabbit back to life, and now wants to try and something more complex: Paula/The Ape Woman (Vicky Lane). His hulking henchman Moloch (Rondo Hatton) steals the

A man (Casey Affleck) dies and rises as a ghost, returning to his home. He watches over his widow (Rooney Mara) for a time, but she leaves the house and he stays on. He watches, occasionally acting  but mostly watching as people come and go. If you haven’t heard about A Ghost Story, it’s the

Optimus Prime (voice: Peter Cullen) has left Earth to return to Cybertron where he meets an evil mother robot who turns him evil and sends him back to Earth to swipe Merlin’s staff so the planet of Cybertron can suck the life out of the Earth. Really. But forget about that as we won’t hear

He-man Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Dwayne Jonson)—for some reason using the name Davis Okoye, but he’s just The Rock—pretends to be a special forces trained killing machine, who loves animals. He’s also a primatologist, which in this film does not require any scholarly training; it just means you hang out with apes and joke around,

Two upright and exceptionally boring white guys (Dick Purcell, John Archer) and their cowardly black servant (Mantan Moreland), searching for a missing admiral, crash on a Caribbean island and become guests of a spooky doctor (Henry Victor) with a German accent. He offers them his hospitality while they wait the two weeks until the next

It’s 1962 in America, and mute—though not def—Elisa (Sally Hawkins) works on the cleaning crew of a secret government laboratory with Zelda (Octavia Spencer). Outside of work, her only friend is Giles (Richard Jenkins), an aging gay artist. One day a new team arrives at the base, including scientist Dr. Hoffstetler (Michael Stuhlbarg) and zealous

Twenty years ago, obnoxious treasure-hunter John Prendergast (Clay Clement) insults and attacks a Hindu temple, and is cursed. He makes away with two million dollars in temple gold. In “current” day, his investors and their heirs find him, and want their cut. He agrees, but only if they stay the week in his house to

Fast-talking reporter ‘Scoop’ Hanlon (Paul Kelly) is stuck doing an advice column, so is willing to accept any story to get him back in the big leagues, and the one his editor offers is on the haunted Blue Room of a nearby estate, where people have died in the past. There is a party at

At his mountain top castle, Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) works to perfect his discovery, the ability to capture a ray from Andromeda, and use it to view the past. Laughed at by other scientists, he lives in seclusion with his young wife Diana (Frances Drake) and his mother (Violet Kemble Cooper), but for validation