Monster Mash

From the team that brought us The Lodger comes another taught, beautifully filmed and expertly acted thriller: Hangover Square!

We are back this week to talk about a great movie, though perhaps not the best one to watch with a pregnant wife (surprise, Sarah and Joe are having a baby!). It's Village of the Damned starring George Sanders and Hammer alums Barbara Shelley and Michael Gwynn!) 

The yearly monster movie march toward Halloween begins! We start with an absolute classic science fiction film: The Day the Earth Stood Still. 

Back to Hammer for a strange but fun Mummy flick with an interesting premise that doesn't quite stick the landing. 

This week, we talk the final serious entry in the Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-Man saga, warts and all. 

This week, we return to Universal for their Mummy reboot which launched a series of sequels, none as effective as this surprisingly funny flick. It's The Mummy's Hand!

Back to Hammer for the third in their Dracula series, a stylish vampire flick with some very poor decision making. 

This week we talk about yet another film in the Criterion Collection, featuring a young Steve McQueen, and a very unusual opening song: 1958's The Blob!

This week we talk about the wonderfully disturbing Island of Lost Souls; our third episode featuring a movie in the Criterion Collection.

This week, instead of diving into a particular movie, we discuss our top ten most frightening moments of the films we have discussed so far. There is some overlap on our lists but not as much as I had thought. 

This week we dive into a sci-fi classic. The cheaply made, but highly effective Cold War paranoid thriller: Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

We return to Hammer Studios this week to talk about a lesser-known but fantastic journey of a movie: 1968's The Devil Rides Out. Notable as Christopher Lee's favorite role he had at Hammer.

Not a perfect movie, but a real favorite that we like more every time we watch it. House of Frankenstein!

We are back with another entry in Universal's Frankenstein series. A bit silly, a few plot holes, but a whole lot of fun: The Ghost of Frankenstein!

An all-time great, and one that I always associate with the holidays for reasons explored in the episode. Claude Raines, great special effects and the immortal James Whale all get their fair share of adoration in this week's episode. 

This week we talk Bela Lugosi's follow-up to Dracula (on some of the same sets), the creepy and stylish White Zombie!

This week, we shift away from Hammer and enter the black and white phase of our yearly Monster watch with an incredible movie and my favorite adaptation of this story: 1931's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Our last Hammer flick for a while, as we finally move into the Black and White phase of our Halloween movie marathon. But we leave Hammer with a good one: their original adaptation of Dracula! 

We go a little extra campy with this week's episode: Taste the Blood of Dracula! A much better movie than the title suggests.