Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt
Release Year: 1968

Karloff’s thrilling swan song

In the decade of the 60′s, Peter Bogdanovich made himself a name as film critic and historian, quickly becoming a respected film writer for “Esquire” magazine thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge about the history of cinema and his great skill at writing fun, insightful and witty texts. Bogdanovich love for films made him to decide to move to Los Angeles and to seriously attempt to become a filmmaker himself.

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Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Release Year: 2007

Vulva Dentata

Teengirl Dawn feels a bit uncomfortable about her sexuality coming into bloom. She feels kind of edgy down there. Sharp as a knife kind of edgy.

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Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Peter Nelson, Doris Silverton & Guerdon Trueblood
Release Year: 1978

Be my hairy he-goat of love.

Doctor David Martin (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Jeannie Devereux (Tovah Feldshuh) are bee researchers, trying to breed a better species of honeybee that will resist being taken over by Africanized bees. Something goes wrong and it’s up to Jeannie’s boyfriend Nick Willis (Dan Haggerty) to help the scientists – who would, had this film been made in the 50s, have created the bees using grisly atoms – stop the stingee plague.

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Director: Sage Bannick
Writer: Damon Abdallah, Ari Bernstein and Sage Bannick
Release year: 2011

The curse of prediction

In the quiet mountain town of Liberty, the youngsters of the local high school seem to have made it onto someone’s death list. Science teacher Vincent Burton (Bryan Kirkwood) finds himself wrapped up in the murder mystery soon enough and together with Sheriff John Jackson (Samuel Ball) he’ll have to put a stop to the murders.

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Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Writer: Muriel Roy Bolton and Ian McLellan Hunter based on a story by Crane Wilbur
Release Year: 1948

When Horror and Film Noir collide!

Historically, it’s always thought that after living a time of great splendor in America during the first decade of sound, the horror genre disappeared in the 40s, the years of World War II, to cede its place to the propaganda of war films, the paranoia of spy films, and the cynicism of Film Noir. Horror is supposed to be dormant, only to be resurrected in the 50s with Atom era horrors and the films of Hammer Studio.

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