Cover art by Justin Coffee  “ A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity wh...

The sadistic and awesome poster art is certainly deceptive, but the US title House of Psychotic Women isn’t too far off. Perhaps it should ...

There’s no other experience quite like Jess Franco’s Vampyros Lesbos , or even the alternate clothed Spanish version Las Vampiras . I recal...

“ The pleasures I tried to deprive myself of assailed my mind more ardently… ” –Madame de Saint-Ange ( Marquis de Sade ) I feel like A C...

For me, going back to Macumba Sexual is going back to my Jess Franco origins, as it was the second Jess Franco film I ever saw, the fir...

Evil Eye is that kind of movie that gracefully tries to do it all but ends up not really knowing what to do with itself afterwards. When...

House of the Damned is that generically titled, sort of misleading, pleasant delight that reminds me of why I still enjoy exploring near...

Jess Franco had already covered Dracula by directing a movie adaption of Bram Stoker’s seminal Gothic horror vampire novel from 1897 a ...

Paul Naschy had a lot of success in a wide range of film genres, playing an even wider range of characters, but he is mostly remembered f...

Despite there being a finite number of Jess Franco films, it virtually feels like I won’t ever run out of Franco movies to choose from...

I first saw Horror Rises from the Tomb many years ago (around 2003) as part of a four movie bargain set of zombie movies, and my initial...

Austrian actor Marisa Mell (born Marlies Theres Moitzi ) is remembered by most as a sexy ‘60s cult icon , particularly as Diabolik’s gir...

Count Dracula seems to have a habit of always being reborn, both within the stories themselves as well as in different incarnations across...

The Italian-Spanish co-production La mansión de la niebla / Maniac Mansion was the directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Francisco Lara...

"The sun shining in my dreams /  The light is getting hot /  Saved by eternity /  I have seen death so close /  Away, awhile the ang...

When looking over the lengthy cycle of mummy movies, one in particular often goes heavily unmentioned, and that’s Spanish actor, filmmake...

As a kid, my earliest understanding of Count Dracula came from The Monster Squad (1987) , Count Chocula , Sesame Street , and a mythical f...

Spanish filmmaker Paul Naschy , born Jacinto Molina , played the cursed Polish nobleman Waldemar Daninsky in twelve different movies. Thi...

I’ve been hooked on The Blood Spattered Bride for quite some time now, one of those films that always seems to call me back. Every now an...

Born in Guarda, Portugal, May 29th, 1951, the delectable and very statuesque Britt Nichols (born Marìa do Carmo da Resurreição de Deus ) ...