Now I’ve already introduced William Castle, the greatest showman of schlock cinema, to the FanboyNation faithful, it’s time to bring up Castle’s greatest gimmick ever – Percepto! His prior film, The House on Haunted …
We’re currently in the midst of an unprecedented superhero boom at the cinema. While there have been other successful superhero films prior the boom unleashed by Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, we’re currently in an era of …
From the late-‘50s through the mid-‘60s, Roger Corman directed a number of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price. Always working on a budget, Corman adapted Poe’s work for one main reason – it …
The film that launched 1,000 vegetarian diets, Motel Hell is a bloody horror-comedy that, had they actually offered it, bears the seal of approval of PETA. Part Psycho, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, all demented …
It’s really remarkable that Keanu Reeves has had as long and successful career as he has. He’s not an actor with an incredible range. He may have given one of the worst performances of the …
Though there have always been gimmicks attached to movies, none have ever topped the madcap master showman William Castle. Films by Castle like House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, and The Tingler featured gimmicks …
Sometimes a movie lets you know up front what kind of film it’s going to be. Some good movies take a little while to get going, while some bad ones start out alright before crumbling …
Over the course of his career Brian De Palma has often been compared to Hitchcock. His 1973 movie for American International Pictures (AIP), Sisters, was the first of De Palma’s Hitchcockian films, complete with …
As a critic, there’s no greater nightmare than what happens to the critics in Theater of Blood. Vincent Price stars as Edward Lionheart, a classically trained Shakespearian actor who is thought to have committed …