Spooky Movies: Call of Cthulhu
If you’re at all a fan of H. P. Lovecraft, the pulp horror story writer whose work has influenced everyone from Roger Corman to Guillermo del Toro, you know that films made from his works are pretty hit and miss—emphasis on the miss.…
Spooky Movies: Shadow of the Vampire
What if Max Schreck, who played the vampire Count Orlock in the iconic silent 1922 film Nosferatu, had been a real vampire? Shadow of the Vampire is a fictionalized account of the making of Nosferatu. Director F. W. Murnau, played by a scenery-chewing…
Spooky Movies: The Descent
Marshall followed up Dog Soldiers in 2005 with The Descent. Six women go caving and are trapped as a passage collapses behind them. Juno, the competitive leader of the group, admits that the cave they’re in is unmapped, even though she had told…
Spooky Movies: Dog Soldiers
Next up are two under-appreciated, low-budget monster movies produced and written by Neil Marshall. In the first, Dog Soldiers (2002), a squad of British Army soldiers is sent to the Scottish highlands for a training mission against a Special Air Service unit, but…
Spooky Movies: The Uninvited
In this 1944 ghost story/romance, composer Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Millard) and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey) get a great bargain on Windward House, a mansion on the English coast. Soon they discover that the strange noises in the house are not just the…
Spooky Movies: Night of the Demon
I love, love, love scary movies*, whether they’re genuinely creepy or just plain cheesy. So for fun, I’m going to recommend some favorite scary movies between now and Halloween. Did you ever wonder what the heck these lines from the opening of the…
