Tag: Scream Factory

Bigfoot, only uglier In 1956, mercury discharged from a chemical factory was the cause of disease throughout Minamata, Japan. It wasn’t until 2010 the guilty company settled – and …

2019’s Worst Thriller? The year’s most bland and devastatingly banal “thriller” comes courtesy of Robert Shaye, producer of the horror classic A Nightmare On Elm Street. Going behind the …

Not a Fan The Fan wants what it can’t have – the allure and glamour of iconic Hollywood romance. That explains the casting of Lauren Bacall and James Garner …

Spidey Sense Activate There is a spider in Itsy Bitsy. It does indeed eat people, and the stray cat doesn’t stand a chance either. However, Itsy Bitsy aims for …

James Woods Hunts Vampires “My father kept a secret once. He got bit by a vampire. He kept it a secret from me and my mother. By the fifth …

Snake Bites Zoo budget cuts. Lay-offs. People taking jobs they hate. Murders in the Zoo doesn’t hide from the depression era, rather embracing the story possibilities. After a snake …

Failed Doctor of Unknown Island Universal’s pervasive anti-science stories reached a new crescendo in The Mad Doctor of Market Street. Lionel Atwill sits at his makeshift lab tinkering with …

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 …

Nazi Science Invades America Part of Universal’s World War II output, The Mad Ghoul deals in creaky – if relevant – science. George Zucco stars as the mad scientist …

College Protest While the majority of ‘50s sci-fi offerings slanted themselves toward heroism, Monster on the Campus is the rare pessimist. That’s the sole reason this radioactive Wolf Man …

Avalanche on an Anthill Both the Cold War and space race surrounded the release of 1957’s The Monolith Monsters. Consider this clever sci-fi an amalgam from those fears, with …

More Like Alligator Person A dying breed by 1959, The Alligator People calls on classic cinematic horror for the final gasp of glowing laboratories, the isolated house, wild science, …