“To escape … she’ll have to kill!” Sleazy oral surgeon “Harry” (Chuck Shamata) invites beautiful, strong-willed fashion model “Diane” (Brenda Vaccaro) to his isolated country retreat for a “weekend party”…

"He was a madman on a orgy of blood curdling terror …" There’s something seriously wrong with “Andy Brooks” (Richard Backus)! Despite being reported killed in action, the Vietnam War…

“Sometimes what you actually see and what you imagine get mixed up in your memory like a cocktail from which you can no longer distinguish one flavor from another.” A…

“I am desperate. I can foresee absolutely nothing. I see no way out.” My favorite Kirk Douglas performance is that of tortured Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in Lust for…

“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…