Out Now. Universal. Certificate: 18. Though made for DVD, this shot-in-Romania werewolf epic has quite a decent budget and some grandly gory special effects of eviscerated corpses, and heads being spectacularly blown off, Savini-style. The setting is a 19th Century…
Blu-ray Out Now. Lionsgate. Certificate: 15. The Hammer Blu-rays are coming thick and fast now, and here’s one of the most eagerly awaited, the movie that really started it all. I have to admit that I am not so much…
I always thought that Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were the poor man’s Laurel and Hardy, but this classic horror comedy was most definitely their finest hour.
Denis Meikle's in depth look at the history of ‘The Studio That Dripped Blood’ continues.
Denis Meikle uncovers the full history of ‘The Studio That Dripped Blood.’
An Amicus speciality, the ‘Omnibus’ horror movie harks back to the silent days and continues to appeal to genre film producers even now. Denis Meikle takes us through the history of these celluloid tales of terror.
Some people are one in a million, but Rick Melton was won in a raffle. This time round our resident artistic genius ties himself up with piano wire and watches Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.
Welcome to the very first digital issue of Dark Side, our monthly online supplement to the full magazine.
Kevin Connor crafted some of the most fondly remembered Amicus romps, including The Land That Time Forgot and At The Earth’s Core. Calum Waddell talks to him about his days directing Edgar Rice Burroughs on a budget!
The prodigious pen of Robert Bloch was responsible for many horror movie favourites, from Psycho to William Castle’s Strait-Jacket... to Amicus movies like The Skull and The House That Dripped Blood. Denis Meikle investigates Bloch’s lengthy writing career
A Look at what's inside this issue
Some film makers vehemently dislike film critics, often regarding them as little more than failed and consequently frustrated film makers themselves. So it’s rare that the critic gets to put his head above the parapet and make the film they…