No Hay Luz En Oscuro: Romina Garber’s Castle of the Cursed

When Estela lost her parents in a freak, unexplained accident aboard a New York subway, she was thrown into a system that pretended to care, but was ultimately powerless to do anything to help her. She was an undocumented immigrant, after all, because her father apparently never filed the proper paperwork to change their status. […]

For the Price We Paid, He Could Have Told Us to Go to Hell: The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)

Five showgirls, their manager Lucas (Alfredo Rizzo), and driver Ferrenc (Leonardo Botta) are caught between a rock and a hard place—in this case, between a storm and a desire not to shell out cash for lodgings. At their last lodgings, they ditched the bill (though Lucas left a tip for the maid). So it seems […]

Not-So-Invisible Fiends: Mary Downing Hahn’s Wait Till Helen Comes

Molly and Michael’s Mom, their stepdad Dave and his daughter Heather are moving out of Baltimore. The parents are artists—she a painted, he a sculptor—and the idea of living in the country is appealing for many reasons. They found a lovely house complete with nice visual appeal, large grounds, an outbuilding for supplies and workspace, […]

Mystery and Supernatural Danger in the Roaring ‘20s: Catherine Cavendish’s Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall

When she meets Viscount Simon Mordenhyrst, Grace Sutcliffe finds herself smitten. When he proposes marriage, she is surprised and pleased. Her own family has earned their money and place through hard work not because they are landed nobility as the Mordenhyrst family is. Instead of having a village to control and a vast number of […]

Gothic Perversions: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)

Professor Bernard Hichcock (Robert Flemyng) is a renowned doctor who uses a special sedative formula on his patients to see them through difficult surgeries. That formula is also useful in his bedroom, rendering his wife Margaretha (Maria Teresa Cianello) corpselike so the wicked doctor can indulge his perverse fascinations with necrophilia. When he administers too […]

Here Comes the Bride: Donyae Coles’ Midnight Rooms

Orabella Mumthrope has been sold into marriage by an uncle who needs to pay off his debts. Her new husband, Elias Blakersby, has an estate in the country, far from the hustle and bustle of Bristol. Off to that estate Orabella goes, and there she will discover a house filled with servants and secrets, a […]

A Modern Prometheus: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

Vicaria (Laya DeLeon Hayes) has a lot to deal with. Her teacher Mrs. Kempe (Beth Felice) can’t get her name right and refuses to listen to her ideas about death, her father Donald (Chad L. Coleman) is fighting both grief and a controlled substance addiction, her brother Chris (Edem Atsu-Swanzy) has been killed due to […]

Of Death, Of Love: Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)

Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the caretaker of the surprisingly well-named Resurrecturis Cemetery. His assistant Gnaghi (Francois Hadji-Lazaro) might only speak in one word phrases (“Nyah”), but he’s helpful with a shovel and a generally good bloke to have around and watching your back. This is especially useful because, unfortunately, seven nights after the bodies […]

Marry in Haste, Repent in Leisure: Dragonwyck (1946)

Young Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) dreams of a life outside her family’s Connecticut farm. Her mother Abigail (Anne Revere) understands, but she always defers to the patriarch. Sadly, every decision her father, Ephraim (Walter Huston), makes is based on the Bible and for the spiritual betterment and survival of the family. So, when a letter […]

The Cold Kiss of the Dead: The Third Eye (1966)

Mino Alberti (Franco Nero) is in love, and the object of his affection, Laura (Erika Blanc), is thrilled to be his bride … well, except for two things. One of them is Mino’s mother (Olga Solbelli), who exerts an unusually strong influence on her son, and the second is the Alberti family maid Marta (Gioia […]

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