In this sixth Hammer Films Dracula movie (the fifth with Christopher Lee as the Count), Dracula is resurrected again. Through a serious of near-random events, a pair of brothers and a girl they both like end up in Dracula’s castle. Are you a fan of rubber bats on strings? Ones that bounce up and down
Kindly, weak-willed Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is cheated and abused by used car salesmen (Dennis Price, Peter Jones), a head waiter (John Le Mesurier), an upper class cad (Terry-Thomas), and his employees. When charming April Smith (Janette Scott) is stolen away from him, Henry takes drastic action, and enrolls in The College of Lifesmanship, run by
Annoying waste-of-flesh Roger (Jon Heder) is abused by his betters (who really are better) till he breaks down weeping. A friend gives him information about a secret class taught by the mysterious Dr. P (Billy Bob Thornton) that should make him less of a loser. Once there, he is abused by Dr. P and his
A year after a high school girl’s mother is killed, a psycho killer in a Scream mask begins killing. The students attempt to remain safe by relying on horror film clichés. Quick Review: It isn’t as if there have been many original slasher films since Psycho, but by the mid-90s, the well was completely dry. How many
Another killer in a mask is after Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and the other survivors (David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy) from the first Scream film, but this time, it is the rules of a sequel that are being followed. Quick Review: The strength of Scream was that it did something different; outside of that,
A mad killer is sucking the blood out of young girls. Simultaneously, an officer in a fascist country is killing everyone in his way, even his superiors, and a jogger is having his limbs amputated in a strange hospital. Somehow, all of these events are connected to prestigious Dr. Browning (Vincent Price). Playing like an
When people are savagely killed by an unidentifiable wolf-like animal, Sheriff Bell (Philip Carey) asks John Wetherby (Peter Graves) for help. Unable to catch the beast, Wetherby tries to get his old friend and hunting companion, Byron Douglas (Clint Walker), involved, but Walker is only interested in Wetherby, not in helping on the case. Producer/director
The first feature-length, talkie, version of Dickens’ story in which Ebenezer Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks) learns the meaning of Christmas from three spirits. Quick Review: Yes, 1935 was a long time ago and many film techniques were not yet invented, but that is no excuse for dull acting and non-existent camera work. Nor does saying
In this comedy take on A Christmas Carol, the three spirits of Christmas (David Johansen, Carol Kane, Chaz Conner) visit TV network president Francis Cross (Bill Murray) who is producing a live version of the Dickens’s tale. I can imagine Murray and director Richard Donner talking about how wild, how edgy their new film was
In 1815, Captain Adam Corbett (Rory Calhoun) joins with Colonel Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter, Pauline (Patricia Bredin), in a quest for the treasure of Monte Cristo. They have one quarter of a map, and meet with three others, an honorable English sea captain, a greedy French gentleman, and a wealthy and treacherous Italian
Alison Parker (Cristina Raines), a model with a suicidal past, moves into an apartment building secretly owned by the Catholic Church. She begins having visions and fainting spells, and her strange new neighbors, including a reclusive, blind priest (John Carradine), a cheerful old man who loves his cat (Burgess Meredith), and two overly-forward lesbians (Sylvia
Continuing the story of the spaceship Serenity, previously told in the short lived TV show Firefly, roguish Captain Mal Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), first mate Zoe (Gina Torres), her husband-pilot Wash (Alan Tudyk), insane psychic River (Summer Glau), her doctor-brother Simon (Sean Maher), plucky engineer Kaylee (Jewel Staite), and violent Jayne (Adam Baldwin), all return as