Category Archives: Reviews
Previously on The Horror!?: Outpost: El Santo
The Nesting: It’s an age old tradition for porn directors to try their appendages at making at least one horror movie. This is one of them. It finds director Armand Weston telling an increasingly peculiar ghost story in an Italian … Continue reading
Hairy Beasts! Santo Vs. Las Lobas
Assignment Hairy Beasts continues when I take a look at that most hairless of heroes known as El Santo and his encounter with a gang of lycanthropes, many of them female. It’s the best weird 70s horror movie Santo ever … Continue reading
Previously on The Horror!?: Darna & Bigfoot Meet Paul Naschy
The Innkeepers: I was always hoping Ti West would make a movie like this; now I finally have the opportunity to gush about it. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows/The Life of the World to Come/Finalmente…Le Mille E Una Notte: … Continue reading
How many hairy beasts do you need to eat John Carradine?: Bigfoot (1969)
My first foray into the world of hairy beasts for our newest M.O.S.S. assignment turns into catastrophe when I ask myself the following question: “Would-be interspecies rapist bigfoot, two Mitchums, bikers, and the living corpse of John Carradine, whatever could … Continue reading
Hairy Beasts
It’s time for another group assignment, and the month of May, as we begin to peel off the layers of winter (provided you actually had a winter), is dedicated to “Hairy Beasts” in all their forms and interpretations. Werewolves, Bigfoots, … Continue reading
Previously on The Horror!?: The Pirates of Cassadaga
Another: Hello, increasingly crazy anime show about mysterious occurrences in a country school, dead teenagers and a very peculiar curse! Be ready to be liked. Nazis at the Center of the Earth: Just say no. Der Zinker: Yes, it’s another … Continue reading
Murder Obsession
Co-produced by Italy and France as a means of cashing in on the popularity of the burgeoning American slasher, esteemed director Riccardo Freda’s last stand (he would be fired from his only subsequent directing job) is ultimately far, far stranger … Continue reading
The Hellstrom Chronicle
“The Earth was created – not with the gentle caress of love, but with the brutal violence of rape…” So begins The Hellstrom Chronicle, a strange variation on the nature-on-the-loose side of horror that unbelievably won the Academy Award (yes, that Academy … Continue reading
Previously on The Horror!?: The Mystic Archives of Castle Blackmoor
Sweet Sugar: The world’s finest WISP (Women In Sugar Plantations) movie! At least if you like scenes where cats are thrown at bikini-clad women. Blind Corner: A thriller melodrama about the vagaries of marriage, featuring Barbara Shelley as a femme … Continue reading
Previously on The Horror!?: With Devil Dog On Your Back
The Devil’s Daughter/Phobia 2/Las Vegas Bloodbath: Three for the price of one! Horrors of the white middle class! A good Thai anthology horror movie! An indescribable thing pretending to be a slasher movie! Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes: No … Continue reading