An actress with real style and presence. Her voice was simply sexy as hell and who could forget her opposite Bogart in some of his very best films, including my personal favorite, THE BIG SLEEP. Her debut in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT was one of the all-time greats.

The greatest clowns know the greatest sorrow.

Those makeups were the way to update the classic monsters the "right" way.

That title is awful.

I watched this film because of the massive hype it received. A few critics warned that it was pretty bad. Roger Ebert even placed it on his worst films list.

While I think the film gets a tad convoluted in it's last act and does not quite rise to the personal levels of the original, the film still contains several very spooky and atmospheric bits that kept it above others from the period. As with the superior, THE CHANGELING, the strongest aspect of this film is the lead…

SON OF FRANKENSTEIN is the only one that could actually be called "great" or at least, "very good."

Wes Craven fared better with the THE HILLS HAVE EYES five years later. That one had a better script and characters, even if a bit of it seems a tad dopey, it is still pretty tense.

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE has an atmosphere that cannot be equalled. There's a very palpable sense of dread and danger lurking behind every frame and while the film lacks the depth of earlier horror classics, it makes up for it in visceral appeal and shock. It was widely superior to many of it's contemporary…

This is even worse than yesterday's choice!

I had gak as a kid.

See THE INNOCENTS.

Even Ebert said that he enjoyed the horror genre!

It made the second film look like NOSFERATU.

I'd say BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. That transcended the genre and proves that a good horror film does not need to be all built on scares.

Yes, but that subtext is so blatantly over the top that it turns it to parody. If one must see a horror film about closeted homosexuality, NAKED LUNCH would probably be the better alternative.

Whoops! I meant TALES FROM THE CRYPT.

I think the first one had a better sense of humor that this sequel sorely needed.

I think THE BLOB remake ripped off that scene the following year!

That was a good time. It has several memorable bits("Welcome to primetime, bitch!") and was leagues ahead of the atrocious part 2 and the next three that followed.