The Last Drive In

We don’t go back, because if we go back, we enter a realm of superstition and madness!

Fangs for the Memories: Apparently, the ’70s weren’t content to give us shag carpeting, disco, fondue sets, airbrushed vans, and bell bottoms—they also gave us creature features in which nature had apparently had enough of us, and ecology has gone berserk!

The monster may have abandoned humanity, but it hasn’t abandoned trousers.

A Taste of Terror: October Begins with Vincent Price October has arrived, which means the ordinary rules of the kitchen are officially suspended here at The Last Drive In.

Put the Mask On…Now!

LINK TO PART 1 HERE Alfred Hitchcock’s Double Faces: Shadow of a Doubt and Psycho 1960 In both Shadow of a Doubt and Psycho, Hitchcock builds suspense around characters who live double lives, but he stages that duality very differently.

A Shadow Over Santa Rosa and The Devil at the Dinner Table: Hitchcock’s Most Polite Nightmare LINK TO PART 2 HERE Shadow of a Doubt 1943 has always felt to me like the Hitchcock film that smiles the most sweetly, all the while it’s quietly tightening the…

I feel a lot of pride being a long-time member of an organization like the Classic Movie Blog Association!

Ghosts in the Well, Gags in the Ether: Abbott & Costello’s Time of Their Lives 1946 Growing up in New York during the 1960s was like having a front-row seat to a rich lineup of classic films and TV spilling out across our local stations.

I’m honored to share that the wonderful Virginie of The Wonderful World of Cinema has nominated me for a Sunshine Blogger Award.

There’s a particular thrill in stepping into the cinematic corridors of Early Shadows & Pre-Code Horror blogathon, a gathering devoted to the films that haunt the margins of film history, but have shaped its core in ways that linger in our minds.

Gothic cinema breathes in shadows and exhales an intoxicating atmosphere, a sensory thrill born from its architecture, textures, costumes, interiors, and its manipulation of light.

1950s horror sci-fi is where paranoia met pure creativity and gave birth to some of the most enduring legends of genre cinema.

When we think of classic horror, a few iconic images inevitably come to mind: the terrified scream piercing the night, the wide-eyed frenzy of imminent doom, and, perhaps most potently, the actresses who embodied these moments with a blend of vulnerabilit…