Category: Thriller

Burn it Down She Played with Fire makes the life of an insurance investigator seem invigorating. There’s a scene within where Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) enters a client’s estate …

Not That Kind of Pickup Pickup Alley’s poster art slices dynamic text through center. “This picture is about dope!” emphatic about drugs as a selling point. Then, in the …

And Jerry Mathers as… Petie An American family break down spawns the events of Shadow on the Window. At the core, a separated couple. They argued over whether the …

Gary Oldman’s Worst Movie? Not so long ago, a movie with Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba would have meant something. Then Oldman started getting older and Alba went into …

A Young Lori Loughlin Versus James Spader Only in the 1980s could a movie like The New Kids get made with its stark cruelty to animals and excessively violent …

Running From Honesty The Running Man performs a dance to the tune of morality’s ever changing center. As it begins, there’s a smug insurance agent who denies a claim …

Pastoral Swedish Murder Artsploitation Films has explored a wide range of underground horror from across the world, often highlighting clever filmmaking like the amazing Snowflake for North American audiences. …

Fog of Sexism Turn-of-the-century London becomes Gothic and vicious in this murder tale. Footsteps in the Fog brings Stewart Granger into a role as a murdering misogynist, rich and …

Home Invaders in an Era of Invaders from Space The Night Holds Terror breaks the bubble of safety that hung over post-war America. In a sacrosanct housing development, the …

Needs More Strange The best bits of Doctor Rx involve Shemp Howard and Mantan Moreland. Although Moreland is stuck in the degrading role of a forgetful, uneducated butler, paired …

Plotting Against Self Nazi gold is a fine draw in this crime thriller, that rare immediate post-WWII offering not to paint American soldiers in a perfect light. In this …

On the Hook It’s not that Bait applies ‘50s era morals to its story. Rather, it’s the ‘50s era judgment that causes a cringe. Poor Cleo Moore. She plays …