Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Director: Roy William Neill Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 17 September 1943 (USA)  During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there. This is one of a good number of solid, interesting mysteries in the series of Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone & N

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Crime, Film-Noir, Films, Mystery, Reviews,

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The Pussycat Ranch (1978)

Director: John Christopher Genres: Adult | Comedy | Western Country: USA Language: English Also Known As: Pussycat Ranch The rough life of the western cowboy was dirty in more ways than one. And how better to ease the pains and problems of a round up than at the whoopin'est, hootin'est, whorein'est cathouse in the west - Pussycat Ranch! That's right, an entire layout of voluptuous vixens eager to please their men in every imaginable way. And when the star pussycat of them all, Sweet Polly, gets ahold of Billy The Kid, well, you'll just have to watch it to find out! From haystack

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Adult, Comedy, Films, Reviews, Western,

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Tales of Terror (1962)

Director: Roger Corman Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 17 January 1964 (West Germany) Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences. Tales of Terror is a classi

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Films, Horror, Mystery, Reviews,

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Eating Raoul (1982)

There’s a certain subset of cinephile culture that has deemed Eating Raoul a classic — heck, it even earned a spot in the Criterion Collection. And I don’t disagree with them. But despite the love from movie diehards, the horror comedy has remained a woefully underappreciated genre gem. To be sure, Eating Raoul skews further in the direction of comedy than horror (a fine counterpart to the twisted terrors of Parents, which you’ll find below), and the movie is light on gore, but it’s a pitch-perfect entry in the horror comedy lineage that hinges on the tropes of terror to land the punchline.

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Comedy, Crime, Films, Reviews,

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