Eyes Without a Face
A surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) kidnaps young women in order to perform a face transplant on his disfigured daughter Christiane (Édith Scob), in this 1960 French horror film they should have […]
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Poor Things
Pinocchio meets Frankenhooker in the sci-fi they should have called Pinocchi-ho. Set in Victorian London, Poor Things concerns a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) who puts a child’s brain in an […]
Day of the Dead
The lunatics have taken over the underground research facility in this plague-fuelled military satire they should have called Dr. Strain-Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our […]
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh revives a classic property and then kills it again in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an attempt to elevate itself over previous adaptations by including the talent’s name in the title, […]
Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Mad scientist Victor Frankenstein (Johnny Lee Miller) faces the consequences of the maddest experiment since they made that reality TV host US President, in this production from the National Theatre. […]
ROH: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is one of the most-told works of classic literature. On this blog we’ve reviewed the Boris Karloff version, a Christopher Lee version, the Gene Wilder/Mel Brooks version and even […]
Frankenhooker
The oldest sci-fi novel meets the oldest profession in this 1990 horror/comedy about amateur scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) rebuilding his dead girlfriend (Patty Mullen) after she is killed in […]
Long Strange Trip
Long Strange Trip is a Grateful Dead documentary produced by the band, their families, Martin Scorsese and David Lemieux; the archivist best known for getting distracted by nature. At 4 hours this […]
Christmas Evil
Concluding my confusingly-timed trilogy of Christmas horror movie reviews is Christmas Evil, described by John Waters as “the greatest Christmas movie ever made.” This ho-ho-horror film from 1980 has a couple […]
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy stars the late, great Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson, who insists that it’s pronounced “Fronkensteen” and that he’s not mad like his grandfather – until he goes to Transylvania… Like […]
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