A love letter to light, shadow, and the psychological horror genre as a whole, "The Innocents" is proof positive of Jack Clayt...

In "The Pit and the Pendulum," Vincent Price finally found his antagonistic footing in "a characteristically rococo perfo...

The "old dark house" movie is a forgotten art. The reading of the dead patriarch's will, the characters' side glances ...

Compared to its origin story, "The Curse of the Cat People" is more of a companion piece than a sequel RKO intended. But some...

"The House of Usher is alive. The evidence can be seen in the condensation of an atmosphere about the waters and walls . The exhal...

Up until the 1940s spiritual apparitions, or rather ghosts, were never taken seriously. A dead Cary Grant and Constance Bennett mockingl...

"[Val] Lewton contributed a great deal to the screenplays of his films, from the original story-lines , which were often his, throu...

Edgar G. Ulmer's "The Black Cat" is nothing like the Poe classic, there is barely a feline in sight for most of the movie!...

"But take a sweet love story, or a story of sexual antagonisms, about people like us, not freaks, and cut in your horror and there...

"An evil old house, the kind some people call haunted, is like an undiscovered country waiting to be explored. Hill House had stoo...