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No-Nonsense Review: I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)

15 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Byzantius

Well... We've looked at werewolves a few times, notably The Wolf Man and The Curse of the Werewolf, but it needs to be noted up front that this is not a werewolf movie.  It says it is. It's even in the title. But it's not.  Werewolves evoke a specifi...

No-Nonsense Review: The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Byzantius

This movie exists in the Hammer Film universe of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and is distinct from the earlier Universal Wolf Man movies starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Larry Talbot/the Wolf Man. Fifteen minutes into this 1961 film, and it's booooring. It lacks...

Movie review: Spiderman into the spider-verse

10 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Diabeeton

PoorHi all hope you are all having a good day Today I am reviewing spiderman into a spider verse a animated film made in 2018. These were my thoughts: Amazing film visually and enjoyed the story and character. Felt some parts were meant for younger a...

No-Nonsense Review: The Raven (1935)

3 Sep 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Byzantius

Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi brought monsters to life in Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula. In this horror, they're again monsters, but of the human variety.  Lugosi is a doctor who quotes Edgar Allen Poe and brags about building some of Poe's to...

No-Nonsense Review: The Phantom Creeps (1939)

29 Aug 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Byzantius

Often, with old movies, the pacing is so slow that the story can be hard to get into. 1939's The Phantom Creeps suffers from the exact opposite problem--the action and story are in your face from go, and so much happens in the 73 minutes that the fil...

No-Nonsense Review: The Wolf Man (1941)

19 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Byzantius

In 1941, Universal introduced Larry Talbot as the Wolf Man, but he was not Universal's first werewolf. That honor goes to Werewolf of London, released six years earlier. But it was Talbot, played by the legendary Lon Chaney Jr., who was destined to b...

No-Nonsense Review: The Old Dark House (1932)

18 Aug 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Byzantius

Coming off the success of Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931 and The Mummy earlier in 1932, Universal took another stab at horror (albeit without a titular monster) in The Old Dark House. We open on a married couple driving through a rain storm with th...

No-Nonsense Review: The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

15 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Byzantius

Today I watched the 1956 Universal film The Creature Walks Among Us. It features the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and is considered by many to be the last film in the Universal Classic Monster series, which dates way back to the 1920s. And while i...

The Ninth Configuration movie review

28 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChadtheBarbarian

  Rating 4.5/5 Ever feel crazy?  Imagine being so angry you could murder someone in a horrible way? Think of the trauma that soldiers experience in war. Have you ever cursed God for all the drama we are put through? What if you could use psychology...

Story of Yanxi Palace

1 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments Jesyan

Story of Yanxi Palace (Chinese: 延禧攻略) is a Chinese period drama series created by Yu Zheng. It is an original screenplay written by Zhou Mo, and later developed into a novel by Xiao Lian Mao. Starring Wu Jinyan, Charmaine Sheh, Qin Lan, Nie Yuan,...