For over five decades, Samantha Eggar has forged an impressive career across every performing medium. Whether it's her Oscar-nominated portrayal of a terrified student held hostage in William Wyl...
Bela strikes back as another of the blood-drinking undead in The Return of the Vampire (1944), an atmospheric and entertaining chiller from Columbia Pictures. Directed by Lew Landers, Return is n...
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What are Linda Thorson's memories regarding the filming of the troubled Canadian slasher Curtains (1983)? How does she remember the real-life conflict between art and horror on the set? Which of ...
The talents of French director Jean Rollin are on full display in Fascination (1979). A moody and erotic horror tale buoyed by sumptuous photography and a wonderful soundtrack, this superb outing...
Screamtime (1986) may be a scrappy little mid '80s horror omnibus lacking in polish and finesse, but it has enough heart and commitment to the material to provide the viewer with a fun enough rid...
How to summarize director Gunnar Hellström's bizarre cult horror The Name of the Game Is Kill (1968)? Well, for starters, imagine Tennessee Williams' The Fugitive Kind (1959) meets Carlos Aured'...
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The perversion of joyful expectations into something frightening was a popular theme in 70’s horror movies, with such diverse examples as Larry Cohen's IT'S ALIVE (1974), Richard Donner's THE O...
Canadian director Jim Makichuk has been working in the film business for over four decades. But he's best known to genre fans for helming the snowbound horror Ghostkeeper (1981). In our special i...
Michael MacLaverty is a Genie Award-nominated film editor who worked on a variety of cult favorites including Tanya's Island (1980), Prom Night (1980), The Kidnapping of the President (1980), as ...
Since James Whale’s classic adaptation of Frankenstein (1931), Mary Shelley’s novel of the scientist who creates life -- and pays dearly for it -- has been brought to the big screen countless...
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For Remembering Jessica we sat down with veteran actress Mariclare Costello and asked her to reminisce about working on the underrated early '70s cult classic Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)....
We wanted to know about the filming of Larry Stouffer's criminally underrated creature feature-cum-slasher hybrid Horror High (1974). So we interviewed actor Pat Cardi and asked him to recall his...
Director Stanley Kubrick was so impressed by Johnson's 1974 novel THE SHADOW KNOWS -- particularly its depiction of a person dealing with irrational occurrences -- that he chose her to write the ...
We wanted to know more about the ominous music used in Roger Spottiswoode's slasher-on-the-rails Terror Train (1980). So we sat down with Toronto film composer John Mills-Cockell and asked him to...
Grab your Groucho mask, fire up the boiler, and stoke the coals! In a rare interview, we spoke with Roger Spottiswoode, the director of Terror Train (1980). What were Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Joh...