Director and writer: D.W. Griffith Country: United States Language: Silent, English A year before director D.W. Griffith gained infamy with his notorious epic The Birth of a Nation, he wrote and directed The Avenging Conscience. The film, based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” and poem “Annabel Lee,” tells the story of […]
Category Archives: Episodes
The Student of Prague Review by Chris Lyons
The Student of Prague (1913) Director: Stellan Rye Writer: Hanns Heinz Ewers Country: Germany Language: Silent, German In 1913, German writer Hanns Heinz Ewers and Danish director Stellan Rye produced The Student of Prague, an early silent German film loosely based on both Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “William Wilson,” Alfred de Musset’s poem “The […]
Spoopy Movie: A Bucket of Blood
A Bucket of Blood is a 1959 Horror Comedy directed by the king of the low budget flick Roger Corman. The film was produced for $50,000 and shot in five days. It’s a dark satire of bohemian life, set in a coffee shop in which the modern hipster could easily find a home. On one […]
Spoopy Horror Movies!
It’s October! You know what that means? It’s time to get spoopy. It’s time to get so spoopy that your non-spoopy friends will start to think that you’ve lost your mind. It’s time to get so spoopy that no one can even recognize the word spooky as a word anymore. “You want to get […]
The Little Shop of Horrors
In 1960 Roger Corman released his Little Shop of Horrors. It was a (fairly spoopy) horror comedy, filmed on a recycled set, in 3 days, for less than $50,000. The original was filmed in black and white, on cheap cameras. It features about 2.5 minutes of footage with Jack Nicholson (which is enough to get […]
Black Mass Review by Darryl Roach
One film critic, after recently reviewing Johnny Depp’s Black Mass, called it his second best film of 2015 – I suppose making the acclaimed Mortdecia his best. I’ll defer to his judgment on that, I missed the latter. Johnny Depp is James “Whitey” Bulger and as soon as you melt into your seat – […]