Horror Archive

  • I know it’s difficult to imagine ants growing suddenly huge and quite unfriendly. After all, we spent our childhoods alternately raising them in those cool little ant farms and setting...

    Them! (1954)

    I know it’s difficult to imagine ants growing suddenly huge and quite unfriendly. After all, we spent our childhoods alternately raising them in those cool little ant farms and setting…

  • So horrible on every level, it’s the sort of movie that leaves you sputtering in a laughable attempt to describe precisely what was so awful about it all.

    Tentacles (1977)

    So horrible on every level, it’s the sort of movie that leaves you sputtering in a laughable attempt to describe precisely what was so awful about it all.

  • This was a great movie. When it was The Conqueror Worm.

    Cry of the Banshee (1970)

    This was a great movie. When it was The Conqueror Worm.

  • This is the very best of all the giant tarantula movies. Where the pretenders rely on cheap gimmicks, overexposed spiders, and dippy teens, Tarantula treats its subject matter with a...

    Tarantula (1955)

    This is the very best of all the giant tarantula movies. Where the pretenders rely on cheap gimmicks, overexposed spiders, and dippy teens, Tarantula treats its subject matter with a…

  • A singularly scuzzy experience, Strip Nude For Your Killer contains many a moment that will leave the viewer feeling in need of a thorough post-movie scrubbing. There’s the ample shots...

    Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975)

    A singularly scuzzy experience, Strip Nude For Your Killer contains many a moment that will leave the viewer feeling in need of a thorough post-movie scrubbing. There’s the ample shots…

  • So little transpired in The Stone Tape that it attempted to ratchet up the suspense by introducing a subplot about a guy trying to invent a really nifty washing machine!

    The Stone Tape (1972)

    So little transpired in The Stone Tape that it attempted to ratchet up the suspense by introducing a subplot about a guy trying to invent a really nifty washing machine!

  • Michele Soavi, who so adequately essayed the role of the crossdressing killer in Lamberto Bava’s A Blade In The Dark, decides that if you want things done wrong, you should...

    Stage Fright (1987)

    Michele Soavi, who so adequately essayed the role of the crossdressing killer in Lamberto Bava’s A Blade In The Dark, decides that if you want things done wrong, you should…

  • Every day we humans take for granted our little slimy friends that aerate the soil and provide good fishing bait. Truly, next to dogs and a good beer, man’s best...

    Squirm (1976)

    Every day we humans take for granted our little slimy friends that aerate the soil and provide good fishing bait. Truly, next to dogs and a good beer, man’s best…

  • The only Rutger Hauer movie to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, Split Second serves as a wake up call to a sleepy and apparently really dirty Earth that we...

    Split Second (1992)

    The only Rutger Hauer movie to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize, Split Second serves as a wake up call to a sleepy and apparently really dirty Earth that we…

  • Do you remember when Snoopy used to sit on top of his dog house and type a story that started “it was a dark and stormy night?” If that dog...

    The Spiral Staircase (1945)

    Do you remember when Snoopy used to sit on top of his dog house and type a story that started “it was a dark and stormy night?” If that dog…