THE HAUNTED PALACE *** USA 1963 Dir: Roger Corman. 87 mins Roger Corman has reportedly never made a film that didn’t make money. Not really so as a young William Shatner starred in The Intruder (1962) for Corman which turned out to be one of his failures to make money. I mention this since most legends even if they are “legends in their own minds” tend to have weak spots. This Corman produced and Directed film The Haunted Palace (1963) comes from that time period from the masterfully funny The Raven (1963) and the necrophiliac ballet The Masque Of The…
Author: Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood Born in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; Terry is a "Monster kid ', film fan and popular culture person. Once worked in television as a commercial writer/ Director. Writer of the SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET site covering aspects of the Horror Genre from Books, Comics, to Film old and new. He has previously written for WE BELONG DEAD and MONSTERMANIA magazines, The Spooky Isle UK website, Horror hound and Turner Classic Movies. Published Book of own writings titled SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM on amazon world wide plus contributed to other genre books. Chaired numerous convention panel discussions on Horror and Comics Terry is member of The Horror Writers Association and Dracula Society in U.K.
EVERYONE WILL BURN **** Spain 2021 Dir: David Hebrero. 125 mins Spain, the country that gave us those heady, twisted days of Jess Franco beginning with The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) and Amando de Ossorio’s The Tombs Of The Blind Dead (1972) brings us an Art house film of devilry, destruction and dubious morals. Everyone Will Burn (2021) or to give it its Spanish title Y Todos Arderán is such a picture that it often wears many heads as to what it is supposed to be. Written by its director David Hebrero and Javier Kiran have fashioned a story similar…
JANE ** USA 2022 Dir: Sabrina Jaglom. 83 mins The thriller film today has changed and so it should evolve. You have horror thrillers, action thrillers, erotic thrillers, crime thrillers, tech thrillers, spy thrillers and the all-encompassing psychological thriller. I was thrilled to a point with Sabrina Jaglom’s Jane (2022). I am quite removed from the story as I lack the mind and other things of a teenage college-seeking girl you can be. This film had a certain charm and action to it that may appeal to the viewer. Tackling the present topics of bullying, identity theft, and major college…
HOUSE OF WHIPCORD **** UK 1974 Dir: Pete Walker. 102 mins The picture begins with an onscreen menacing warning over a thunderstorm. “This film is dedicated to those who are disturbed by today’s lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital punishment”. While one can take the opening title with tongue firmly clamped in cheek there are those today that takes its meaning to heart. However, Pete Walker’s House Of Whipcord (1974) is simply a film made in those sleazy heady says of the ‘Video Nasties’. Pete Walker who wrote the original story, directed and…
FROST ** USA 2022 Dir: Brandon Slagle. 82 mins It is odd or providential that I view this film while it was minus 20 with the wind chill and snowing outside. Winter has arrived in my region of Canada at least for a while. I wish that Frost (2022) warmed my heart only to find it so ludicrous that it should be burned for warmth if it was on old nitrate film stock. Frost (2022) sells itself as a thriller/adventure film which it is neither. The picture is one long treatise on the horrors of parental reunion and solitary childbirth…