Retro Film Review: Black Cat Mansion
An atmospheric and well-executed genre piece from Nobuo Nakagawa, Japan's equivalent to Terence Fisher. If Japanese director Nobuo Nakagawa is
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Scaredy Cats
Reviews of horror films feature felines
Retro Review: Cat People (1942)
The original 1942 version of CAT PEOPLE - producer Val Lewton’s gem of atmospheric ambiguity - is about a Serbian
Read moreFriday Cat Blogging: The Black Cat
Stuart Gordon's MASTERS OF HORROR episode "The Black Cat" came out on DVD this week (I reviewed the film here),
Read moreScaredy Cats: The First Power (1990)
If ever there were a kitty co-star wasted in a stereotypical role, it is Jack, the scaredy cat character in
Read moreScaredy Cats: The Man and the Monster (1958)
This Mexican horror film, from prolific producer-actor Abel Salazar, features a leaping kitty co-star, whose role is somewhat confusing: on
Read moreScaredy Cats: Catwoman (2004)
This sequel of sorts to Batman Returns spins Catwoman off into her own film - the would-be beginning of a
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Scaredy Cats: Cat Girl (1957)
The low-budget opus belatedly attempts to cash in on Cat People, but it has little of the subtlety or style
Read moreScaredy Cats: The Black Cat (1934)
I cag-blogged this classic horror film quite a while back, but at that time I did not have any good
Read moreScaredy Cats: Cat in the Brain (1990)
That Lucio Fulci sure loved kitty cats, so much so that he made a film of Edgar Alan Poe's THE
Read moreScaredy Cats: The Fly (1958)
Sorry, Caturday blogging arrives one day late this week. Sometimes there just are not enough hours in the day. Anyway,
Read moreScaredy Cats: The Cat ("Lao Mao," 1992)
One of the joys of Hong Kong Cinema is the sheer uninhibited exuberance of their fantasy films. The results can
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