Before I Hang is a rather enjoyable Boris Karloff film, with a fine supporting cast, and a strong theme: the allure of eternal life. And a strong question: is murder in the blood?
Before I Hang
Island of Lost Souls. After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. But when he gets into a fight with the captain of the ship that rescued him, the captain maroons him while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Moreau is very secretive, and Parker discovers why. The doctor is a whip-cracking cruel task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. Only the beautiful Lota appears truly human … But she shows signs of her panther ancestry. Parker’s fortunes for escape look up after his fiancee Ruth finds him with the help of Captain Donohue. But Dr. Moreau has violated one of his own laws, and his bestial creations will hold him to account!
Island of Lost Souls
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf has divorced father Robert Bridgestone (Kerwin Mathews) is on a weekend outing with his son Richie (Scott Sealey) to their cabin. But late at night they are attacked by a werewolf. The creature is killed, but not before biting the father. And no one is willing to listen when Richie tries to warn people that his own father has become a werewolf.
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Burnt Offerings is a very different, and very effective, haunted house movie. At no time does the audience see any sort of ghost or malevolent entity. Only the effects on the people in the house, making it more frightening.
At the end of the original The Howling, Karen White dies … And Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf begins at her funeral, with her bereaved brother Ben (Reb Brown) meets Stefan Crosscoe (Christopher Lee). He tries to convince him that his sister died as a werewolf. Along with reporter Jenny Templeton (Annie McEnroe) the trio head to Czechoslovakia. Their goal is to defeat Stirba (Sybil Danning), the Queen of all werewolves. Before it’s too late.
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf
When promising athlete Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is involved in an accident his world changes forever. He goes from top athlete to quadriplegic in an instant, and he’s not taking it well. His over-dramatic, overbearing mother Dorothy Mann (Joyce Van Patten) tries her best to make him comfortable by hiring a patronizing, lazy nurse Maryanne Hodges (Christine Forrest) to take care of him. Time passes, and Allan’s a shadow of himself, until his friend Geoffrey Fisher (John Pankow) brings Allan a trained monkey named Ella (Boo) to help him.
Monkey Shines
It should be mentioned at the outset that Eegah! is one of the worst movies of all time. It earns that title with bad acting, bad sets, and a bad script.
But Eegah! is one of those movies that’s so bad, it’s fun to watch and make fun of while you do. It’s not surprising that it’s been mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000, among (many) others.
EegahIn Wolfen, a real estate tycoon, his coke-binging wife and a slum wino have something grisly in common. They’re the latest victims in a series of random murders. A veteran NYPD detective soon suspects the killings may be supernatural and deliberate: ages-old beings of cunning intelligence and incredible power, defending their turf from the encroachments of humankind.
Attack of the Puppet People is a surprisingly enjoyable film by Bert I. Gordon, who lived up to his initials of B.I.G. A lonely doll maker, who can’t bear to have his friends leave him, has a very unusual way of making sure that they don’t …
Attack of the Puppet People
