Review: Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Jess Franco is one of those filmmakers that you either love or you hate, and to me this largely depends upon what film(s) you've seen. Franco is one of the most prolific filmmakers out there with at...
View ArticleReview: Vampyr (1932)
Carl Theodor Dreyer's experimental Vampyr is an exercise in audacity. Watching certain scenes in the film reminds one of shorts produced in university film classes that are full of daring, cunning, and...
View ArticleReview: Vampires (1998)
Horror master John Carpenter’s 1998 monster mash Vampires is the director’s only commercially successful film of the last decade, and one of his best creature features. Owing a lot to Kathryn Bigelow’s...
View ArticleReview: Vampire in Brooklyn (1995)
I would be a genius if I could start off by telling you about the hidden bits of brilliance that lie within Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn. Unfortunately, I don't believe in blatantly lying to the...
View ArticleReview: Videodrome (1983)
In 1983, David Cronenberg did something few directors ever really accomplish: he released a masterpiece. Videodrome, which is both written and directed by Cronenberg, is one of his best horror films, a...
View ArticleReview: Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
I would not call Vengeance of the Zombies a zombie film any more than I would call Dawn of the Dead a screwball comedy. Just as a couple pies-in-the-face do not define the latter, five or six zombies...
View ArticleReview: El Vampiro (1957)
At the time of its release in 1957, Fernando Méndez’s El Vampiro was the first film about vampires that dared to show the creatures’ now-famous fanged incisors. This seemingly minor inclusion helped...
View ArticleReview: Vampire Circus (1972)
As the fortunes of Hammer Films began to dwindle in the early 1970s, they struggled to maintain relevance in the face of the shifting interests of their audiences. Their vampire movies were at the...
View ArticleReview: The Virgin Spring (1960)
"You are not alone Mareta, and God alone knows where the guilt lies."So speaks Töre, a pious farmer questioning his faith in The Virgin Spring, the masterpiece morality tale by director Ingmar Bergman,...
View ArticleReview: The Vampire Bat (1933)
Genre is cumulative. Successful elements of one film are picked up, refined, and tweaked by the next. Sometimes the result is an improvement or even an advancement, other times it is imitation or...
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