“If you can’t smoke it, drink it, spend it or love it … forget it.” Rip Torn excels as booze-swilling, pill-popping, foul-mouthed, slut-mongering “Maury Dann,” a self-destructive country music legend on…

“A Harrowing Excursion into Terror …” One of the best of the slew of Psycho-inspired flicks, Paranoiac was released by Hammer Films, directed by Freddie Francis and features a mesmerizing performance by Oliver Reed…

“Do you know how many men could've been sitting on top of the world, but they let a dame tell them what to do and the only thing they ended…

“Wherever the people speak a civilized tongue, the name of Whipsnade is a household word!” W. C. Fields stars as “Larsen E. Whipsnade,” owner of the sleazy, near-bankrupt “Circus Giganticus” in…

“Go ahead! Put me in a cell. Lock me up! I’m sick of being hungry and cold. Sick of freight trains. Jail can’t be any worse than the street.” A gritty,…

“I’m a vampire! I’m a vampire! I’m a vampire!” Although I highly recommend this dark, dark comedy (a notorious box office flop), I realize that it may not be for…

“The Greatest Blood-Show on Earth!” A nice little atmospheric horror flick from Hammer Film Productions, Vampire Circus opens with villagers from a tiny Austrian town swarming the castle of an…

“Crush that fly!” One of the best of the plethora of teen comedies from the early eighties and a true artifact of the era, this “totally tubular” flick loosely based…

“Suddenly he could see thru clothes … flesh … and walls!” In his 1981 nonfiction book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre, Stephen King refers to X: The Man with…

“Tighten your seat belt. You never had a trip like this before.” An existential road movie directed by Richard C. Sarafian, Vanishing Point is basically an extended car chase accompanied…