Undying Monster, The

Adapted from Jessie Douglas Kerruish's novel, The Undying Monster (1942) is another early picture about the myth that a man can become a werewolf and turn into a wolf late at night and stalk victims. The Hammond family lives in a gated English ...

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Uninvited, The

Gail Russell & Ray Milland For as long as studios have been making horror movies, they've tried selling them to the skittish. Despite a rise in popularity, chillers are still viewed as cinematic black sheep, their themes of...

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Vanishing Point 1971

For some, a road is just a road. Asphalt or gravel, it leads you from A to B, nothing more. But check out any crummy car flick of the last few decades, and it will seem to say roads are metaphors for life, a series of endless paths you alone are re...

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Vicki DVD

Vicki (1953), definitely a film noir, includes murder and off-screen violence; beautiful women; doggedly persistent policemen, it's photographed with dark shadows and stark camera angles and you have a typical film noir. The lead character (Jea...

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Werewolf of London, 1935

Before mad doctors and perversions of science ruled the roost, Universal Studios stocked its monster roster with the finest creatures folklore had to offer. Those beasts that thrived in campfire tales now got to stalk the silver screen, not the lea...

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West Side Story

West Side Story (1961) is considered by many fans as the most cinematic of all movie musicals. The melodramatic musical, based on the Broadway play of 1957, takes its story from the pages of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet's tragedy of feudi...

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West Side Story DVD

West Side Story (1961) is considered by many fans as the most cinematic of all movie musicals. The melodramatic musical, based on the Broadway play of 1957, takes its story from the pages of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet's tragedy of feudi...

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When Harry Met Sally Collectors Editon DVD

You can tell a movie is a success when either a dialogue line or a scene is repeated, copied or morphed for years following its release. No simulated scene of sexual satisfaction by a fully clothed female will ever stand up to Meg Ryan's (Sally...

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Where Eagles Dare

No other type of film defines the action genre quite like the "guys on a mission" movie. With a minimum of plot development and characterizations, these flicks dive right into the adventure from the get-go. Yet 1968's Where Eagles Dar...

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) is film noir at its best. How can a brutal cop murder a suspect yet remain the hero throughout? Leave it to the one-two punch of Otto Preminger and Ben Hecht to get it right and work their magic. Director Preminger ma...

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