Plot: sleepy rice-farming village is haunted by a carnivorous ghost. บ้านผีปอบ (or Ghost House, Haunted House, or The House Of Pop in some international translations, all of which roughly convey the same) is the first part in Thailand’s longest running horror franchise and truly humble in its
Plot: forty-something umbrella salesman has a midlife crisis. Hilarity ensues! It speaks to the infinite wisdom and incredible foresight of Joël Séria as a filmmaker that he never so much as attempted to top his subversive Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (1971). Such a thing was simply not possible.
Plot: novice nun has a brush with supernatural horrors… and lives! Hermana Muerte (or Sister Death) is the long-awaited (but something we honestly quietly forgotten about) prequel to Spanish surprise horror hit Verónica (2017) and apparently an attempt to turn it into a universe of sorts. To its credit Sister
Plot: what horrible fate befell the late Dr. Jeronimus Hauff? 5 tombe per un medium (or Five Graves For A Medium, released in North American grindhouses and drive-ins as the pulptastic Terror-Creatures From the Grave) is not so much a minor entry as a more routinely uninspired one in Barbara
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Plot: demi-gods quarrel over dominion, until a semi-devil appears… Dragon Chronicles – The Maidens Of Heavenly Mountains (or 新天龍八部之天山童姥 back at home, for brevity’s sake Dragon Chronicles – The Maidens hereafter) is a fantasy wuxia from that fertile decade-long period from the early eighties to, give or take, the mid nineties
Plot: you are what you eat… or what he puts into his sausages. Lo strangolatore di Vienna (or The Strangler Of Vienna, released internationally as the more sensational sounding The Mad Butcher Of Vienna - or simply The Mad Butcher - and in North America as Meat Is Meat) is
Plot: nobleman is having a mental breakdown, or is he possessed by a demon? Byleth (Il demone dell'incesto) (or Byleth – The Demon Of Incest, simply Byleth hereafter) is a curio in the pantheon of Italian gothic horror that has remained remarkably minor and elusive despite having all the
Plot: vampire recounts her life, losses and regrets over the centuries. Have you ever wondered what and how a Jean Rollin vampire film would have looked like on a modest budget (at least in Hollywood terms) of $8 million? Byzantium offers a glimpse into what such possiblity might look like.
Plot: disabled morgue worker will stop at nothing to resurrect his lost love. The Spanish Lon Chaney, Paul Naschy, is rightly associated with horror and the macabre as that was his genre of choice. Through out his long career he played most, if not all, of the Universal Classic Monsters.
Plot: journalist investigates mysterious going-ons in a remote village. Viy (1967) is the quintessential Russian folkloric horror that every serious fan of the genre at least should have a passing familiarity with. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s novel Viy served as an inspiration to Mario Bava for his classic gothic horror
Plot: not all is well behind the white picket fences in suburban Reykjavík. Art is bound to and reflective of the time it was produced in. As such certain things can only be made under specific circumstances or only in certain time periods. Cinema of the 1970s is particularly wicked