“Dead hands that live … and love … and kill!” In one of his best roles, Peter Lorre (in his American film debut) portrays creepy, demented French surgeon “Dr. Gogol,”…

“We weren’t old enough to be beatniks and we were a little too old to be hippies.” In 1964, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey (1935-2001) and…

“Sweetheart, I take an oath on your poor mother’s grave. I never saw the wrestling matches this afternoon. Things happened!” A classic W. C. Fields comedy where he stars as…

“We must all die. There’s nothing terrible about death, but to live on after death, a soul earth-bound, a vampire. You don’t wish any such fate for your beloved.” Essentially…

"I don't think you fully understand, Bigelow. You've been murdered." Three things interest me about the film noir thriller D.O.A. (1950), which was directed by Rudolph Mate and stars Edmond…

“Copperfield, you perceive before you, the shattered fragments of a temple once called Man. The blossom is blighted. The leaf is withered. The God of Day goes down upon the…

“You remember how it really was? You and me and booze—a threesome. You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze, and the boat sank. I…

“You see, everybody in this room is part of my dream. Everybody.” A highly influential British horror anthology film from Ealing Studios, Dead of Night involves a group of disparate…

“Pray you’re not blessed.” Okay, so the ending is really lame – a total letdown – Deadly Blessing, which was directed by Wes Craven (The Last House on the Left)…

“I happen to know my friends, fuckin’ know them. We’re like a fuckin’ team … we’re like Starsky and Hutch.” A bunch of brain-dead, drug-addled teens attempt to protect one…