October Countdown Review: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)

The fear will fully energize the molecular structure of your blood! –Count Dracula You would have expected that Universal would have released a movie called Dracula vs Frankenstein, since they paired the famous monsters on more than one occasion. They didn’t. As though to establish some cosmic balance for the oversight, the early 1970s saw […]

October Review: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1971)

In this Spanish/German/Italian film, a detective’s investigation turns up a plot by aliens to revive and duplicate earth’s most famous monsters in order to conquer the planet. Originally released as Los Monstruos del Terror and under various titles in translation, it eventually came to be another Dracula vs Frankenstein, perhaps in order to cash in […]

October Discussion: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1969)

The third (as of this writing) Dracula vs Frankenstein fell to Spain, and cult/exploitation director Jesús Franco. Shot around the same time as Adamson’s film, this one is also a loose sequel to Franco’s Dracula, Christopher Lee’s non-Hammer excursion as the vampire lord. Although released before the others, it didn’t receive the title until later […]

October Review: Shin Godzilla (2016)

It’s a new era for the Big G in Japan. There’s a new Emperor, and with that usually comes a changing of the continuity and a changing the tone of the series. This week the latest Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla, has gotten a limited release in the US. I saw today, and it’s time to […]

October Review: The Blair Witch (2016)

October falls again! Expect polychromatic corn, terrifying masks, and (this year) a spike in the sale of cornhusk-colored wigs and pumpkin-colored foundation. And expect the Bureau to run reviews of horror movies old and new, counting down to the haunted thirty-first. We’re beginning with a release from this autumn, a sequel to the film that […]