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1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5 FTV
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5 FTV
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5 FTV
4. Priest (2011) 2/5 FTV
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2. FTV
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5 FTV
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5 FTB
9. Saw (2004) 3/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5 FTV
11. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (2008) 4,5/5
12. Saw III (2006) 1,5/5 FTV
13. Alligator (1980) 2,5/5 FTV
14. Night of The Reaper (2025) 3/5 FTV
15. Malnazidos (aka Valley of The Dead) (2020) 4/5 FTV
16. Primitive War (2025) 2,5/5 FTV
17. Evolution (2001) 2,5/5 FTV
18. The Purge (2014) 3,5/5
19. Beast (2022) 3/5 FTV
20. The Guardian (1990) 2/5 FTV
21. Halloween (1978) 5/5
22. House on Haunted Hill (1959) 3,5/5 FTV
23. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep. 1-3 (2019) FTV
24. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep 4-6 (2019) FTV
25. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep 7-8 3/5 (2019)
26. Night of The Living Dead (Romeros classic (1968) 4,5/5
27. Slasher: The Executioner season 1 ep. 1-3 FTV
28. Slasher The Executioner season 1 ep. 4-6 FTV
29. Slasher: The Executioner season 1 ep 7-8 3/5 (2017) FTV
30. Alien (1979) 5/5
31. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep. 1-3 (2018) FTV
32. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep 4-6 (2018) FTV
33. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep 7-8 3,5/5 (2018) FTV
34. The Elixir (2025) 4/5 FTV
35. Outside (2024) 2,5/5 FTV Philippino postapocalyptic movie of the zombie kind. Unlike The Elixir we dont get a reason for the outbreak and the movie focus more on the father in the family and his more and more desperate attempts to pretend that everything is normal and that they can go on living a normal life than the zombies. His wife and two sons starts to look more and more scared of him as he starts shut out the world and shut them in. Not bad but has is long phases that should have been shorter. The movie is 145 minutes long. Shave that off with about 30 minutes and it might have worked better.
All but one child in a third-grade class wake up in their homes at 2:17 AM and walk out into the night, never to be seen again.
Directed by Zach Cregger who also directed the intriguing Barbarian horror film in 2022, Weapons came with a lot of buzz this past summer and actually lived up to it. I was curious to see how this would hold up to a second viewing and I must say I enjoyed it just as much, if not more, the second time around. The story is told non-sequentially with overlapping characters and storylines, inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, but that aside, at its core is a pretty straightforward story that reworks horror tropes such as witchcraft and voodoo, combined with suburban paranoia.
Some might dismiss the story structure as a gimmicky stunt, but what’s nice about this approach is that it allows each character to be more fully fleshed out and sympathized with. I like that they didn’t make the female lead a saint—she makes plenty of bad decisions and is a bad influence without being villainous. And speaking of villains, Amy Madigan (the redhead in Field of Dreams) gives a performance for the ages in her Gladys character. The film is always intriguing, moving forward, and outrageous—not to mention effectively scary while making us laugh nervously.
Best horror film of 2025.
4.5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
12. Brothers Grimm 3.5 (FTV)
13. Tales of Halloween 3.5/5 (FTV)
14. The Enchanted 2.5/5 (FTV)
15. Lake Michigan Monster 3.5 (FTV)
16. The Bride From Hades 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 3/5 (FTV)
18. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf 3/5 (FTV)
19. Hellbender 4/5 (FTV)
20. Fascination 3/5 (FTV)
21. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5 (FTV)
22. Witch Story 2/5 (FTV)
23. Late Night with the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
24. Wake Wood 3/5 (FTV)
25. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 4/5 (FTV)
26. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) 3/5 (FTV)
27. Black Phone 2 3/5 (FTV)
28. Spookies 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. Megan 2.0 2/5 (FTV)
30. Mill of the Stone Women 3/5 (FTV)
31. Nosferatu in Venice 3.5/5 (FTV)
32. Weapons 4.5/5 (2ndV)
Lover Come Hack to Me — Amanda Plummer
Dead Right— Demi Moore, Jeffrey Tambor
Dig that Cat, He’s Real Gone— Joe Pantoliano
Judy, You’re Not Yourself Today — carol Kane
Only Sin Deep — Lea Thompson
Again, fun series. I read a review someone posted about this show complaining about the overacting and I thought, you totally missed the point of the fun of these, the comic book style.
More and more episodes on youtube. They can be a tad imperfect in the upload, but the episodes are intact.
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
5. Peeping Tom* — Tubi
6. Dr. Jekyll, Sister Hyde — Tubi
7. Cobweb* — Netflix
8. Phantasm — Peacock
12. Men* - Tubi
16. The Wrath of Becky*— Netflix
18. Calendar Girl Murders* — Youtube
Exact retelling of the classic 1968 George Romero film, but animated.
Wow, this was really bad, don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise. Even if you put aside the misguided concept of re-doing NOTLD for a few bucks because it’s a public domain work—at least animation is going to bring something new to justify the existence of the new work, right? No. In this case, the animation is the film’s biggest liability, it’s very much un-animated; there are no performances here, everything the original actors and director brought to NOTLD is gone. The whole thing feels as lifeless and depressing as a hospital bathroom.
Seriously, the animation is so bad that I initially thought the film had to have been opening with a flashback or dream sequence and the “real” animation would come later. Nope, what you see in the first few seconds is what you’re getting for the rest of the film. Hard to believe this film was made in 2021, this animation looks like it’s decades older and done by a myopic chimp on a laptop computer. If this was an artistic choice, it was a bad one—this reminds me of the kind of stuff I saw in high school art class where I thought “sure they can draw slightly better than me, but that’s still pretty bad.” It’s not just ugly, it’s obviously lacking in any skill or knowledge of the craft, and the characters faces look asymmetrical and weird. The people who made this have some guts attaching their names to this, I would have been ashamed.
Not worth the effort it took to watch let alone write this review, an extra half-star for at least having the good sense to be brief.
1.5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
12. Brothers Grimm 3.5 (FTV)
13. Tales of Halloween 3.5/5 (FTV)
14. The Enchanted 2.5/5 (FTV)
15. Lake Michigan Monster 3.5 (FTV)
16. The Bride From Hades 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 3/5 (FTV)
18. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf 3/5 (FTV)
19. Hellbender 4/5 (FTV)
20. Fascination 3/5 (FTV)
21. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5 (FTV)
22. Witch Story 2/5 (FTV)
23. Late Night with the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
24. Wake Wood 3/5 (FTV)
25. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 4/5 (FTV)
26. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) 3/5 (FTV)
27. Black Phone 2 3/5 (FTV)
28. Spookies 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. Megan 2.0 2/5 (FTV)
30. Mill of the Stone Women 3/5 (FTV)
31. Nosferatu in Venice 3.5/5 (FTV)
32. Weapons 4.5/5 (2ndV)
33. Night of the Animated Dead 1.5/5(FTV)
Why didn't they hire the poster artist to be an animator??? Nothing in the film looks as good as this poster.
Couple go to spooky house of aunt who is attempting to resurrect La Llorona, the crying woman.
This 1961 Mexican film starts with a quick jolt as bandits hold up a stagecoach and then murder everyone on it, but then settles into the familiar gothic trope of “couple visits a strange relative with a dark secret.” Although purported to be about La Llorona, this film strays from the original legend quite a bit—we never see anything about the woman’s children nor drownings. This is more about a witch getting revenge on behalf of another witch while increasing her own power and reducing men to savages at the same time.
There’s blacked-out eyes, a haunted mirror, a rotting witch corpse in the basement, a deformed henchman with a facial scar (looked like dried peanut butter), and a feral captive who looks like Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes. Lead villainess Aunt Selma chews up the scenery and rapid zoom cuts leap out like a cheesy telenovella, especially when there’s a scary reveal. My favorite part was when three Great Danes attack an unlucky policeman—the dogs are presumably ripping out the man’s throat, but it’s obvious that they are merely licking up butcher scraps and getting a nice treat. While there’s much to enjoy here, the film is way too leisurely in its approach and several scenes meant to be intense and suspenseful (including the finale) are almost laughably drawn-out. Get on with it!
Moderate Mexican macabre.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
12. Brothers Grimm 3.5 (FTV)
13. Tales of Halloween 3.5/5 (FTV)
14. The Enchanted 2.5/5 (FTV)
15. Lake Michigan Monster 3.5 (FTV)
16. The Bride From Hades 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 3/5 (FTV)
18. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf 3/5 (FTV)
19. Hellbender 4/5 (FTV)
20. Fascination 3/5 (FTV)
21. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5 (FTV)
22. Witch Story 2/5 (FTV)
23. Late Night with the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
24. Wake Wood 3/5 (FTV)
25. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 4/5 (FTV)
26. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) 3/5 (FTV)
27. Black Phone 2 3/5 (FTV)
28. Spookies 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. Megan 2.0 2/5 (FTV)
30. Mill of the Stone Women 3/5 (FTV)
31. Nosferatu in Venice 3.5/5 (FTV)
32. Weapons 4.5/5 (2ndV)
33. Night of the Animated Dead 1.5/5(FTV)
34. The Curse of the Crying Woman 3/5 (FTV)
Alien crash lands in small town America and wreaks havoc.
Low budget 80’s fun! Nightbeast is from Don Dohler, famed for doing a lot with a little—the film cost only $14,000 to make, and a young J.J. Abrams did the synth-heavy score. The opening 23 minutes play more like the finale of an action movie, with Dohler wisely putting the best stuff up front rather than making us wait. I was instantly charmed by the cheesy effects and stiff acting because things kept moving forward—we get to see a spaceship crash and explode into flames and then the titular duckfaced alien beast going on a rampage within moments of the film starting. There's a cop that looks like Dennis Weaver wearing an afro wig, and a scientist who wears a lab coat everywhere, and a biker bad guy who looks like a well-fed D-Day from Animal House.
I can’t do better justice to this film than Robin Bailes did in his Dark Corners Reviews series on YouTube, so check it out below for some laughs.
Rubber mask horror shlock at its "finest".
3.5 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
12. Brothers Grimm 3.5 (FTV)
13. Tales of Halloween 3.5/5 (FTV)
14. The Enchanted 2.5/5 (FTV)
15. Lake Michigan Monster 3.5 (FTV)
16. The Bride From Hades 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 3/5 (FTV)
18. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf 3/5 (FTV)
19. Hellbender 4/5 (FTV)
20. Fascination 3/5 (FTV)
21. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5 (FTV)
22. Witch Story 2/5 (FTV)
23. Late Night with the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
24. Wake Wood 3/5 (FTV)
25. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 4/5 (FTV)
26. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) 3/5 (FTV)
27. Black Phone 2 3/5 (FTV)
28. Spookies 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. Megan 2.0 2/5 (FTV)
30. Mill of the Stone Women 3/5 (FTV)
31. Nosferatu in Venice 3.5/5 (FTV)
32. Weapons 4.5/5 (2ndV)
33. Night of the Animated Dead 1.5/5(FTV)
34. The Curse of the Crying Woman 3/5 (FTV)
35. Nightbeast 3.5/5 (FTV)
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5 FTV
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5 FTV
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5 FTV
4. Priest (2011) 2/5 FTV
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2. FTV
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5 FTV
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5 FTB
9. Saw (2004) 3/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5 FTV
11. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (2008) 4,5/5
12. Saw III (2006) 1,5/5 FTV
13. Alligator (1980) 2,5/5 FTV
14. Night of The Reaper (2025) 3/5 FTV
15. Malnazidos (aka Valley of The Dead) (2020) 4/5 FTV
16. Primitive War (2025) 2,5/5 FTV
17. Evolution (2001) 2,5/5 FTV
18. The Purge (2014) 3,5/5
19. Beast (2022) 3/5 FTV
20. The Guardian (1990) 2/5 FTV
21. Halloween (1978) 5/5
22. House on Haunted Hill (1959) 3,5/5 FTV
23. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep. 1-3 (2019) FTV
24. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep 4-6 (2019) FTV
25. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep 7-8 3/5 (2019)
26. Night of The Living Dead (Romeros classic (1968) 4,5/5
27. Slasher: The Executioner season 1 ep. 1-3 FTV
28. Slasher The Executioner season 1 ep. 4-6 FTV
29. Slasher: The Executioner season 1 ep 7-8 3/5 (2017) FTV
30. Alien (1979) 5/5
31. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep. 1-3 (2018) FTV
32. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep 4-6 (2018) FTV
33. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep 7-8 3,5/5 (2018) FTV
34. The Elixir (2025) 4/5 FTV
35. Outside (2024) 2,5/5 FTV
36. Doomsday (2008) 3,5/5 Directed by Neil Marshall with Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins and Malcolm MacDowell in the leads. Deadly virus breaks out in Scotland. No cure. People quarantined and basically left to die. Then , 20 years later victims turn up in London and proof of survivors in Scotland. So a team is sent in to find a possible cure. This is mostly a mix of Mad Max and Escape To New York with a virus outbreak thrown in for good measure. But there is some Cannibalism and some frying a man alive so i'm gonna count it. Mitra is real good as the team leader.
“Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) is incensed that his last season of performances in Shakespearean plays did not win him a prestigious acting award from critics. After an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, Lionheart is rescued by a group of drug-addicted bums. He then sets out to murder all of his critics, each with a different style of death taken from a Shakespeare play. When Lionheart faces head critic Peregrine Devlin (Ian Hendry), he offers Devlin a second chance to bestow the award.”
Now I’m getting into more rewatches. These old Vincent Price things are just my bag.
28. Vault of Horror — youtube
“Locked in a vault, five men swap stories of recurring nightmares in this anthology horror film based on the EC Comics series. In "Midnight Mess," Harold Rodgers (Daniel Massey) murders his sister to collect inheritance money, only to find her resurrected as a bloodthirsty vampire. A friend of Maitland (Michael Craig) buries him alive and leaves him to die in "Bargain in Death." The three remaining stories feature a magic trick turned deadly, voodoo mysticism and a twisted domestic dispute.”
My very favorite horror anthology, an Amicus production.
The Adrienne Babadook one.
“A compendium of five short but terrifying tales contained within a single full-length feature, this film conjures scares from traditional bogeymen and portents of doom. In one story, a monster escapes from its holding cell. Another focuses on a husband (Leslie Nielsen) with a creative way of getting back at his cheating wife. Other stories concern a rural man (Stephen King) and a visitor from outer space, and a homeowner (E.G. Marshall) with huge bug problems and a boozing corpse.”
I adore this little gem.
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
5. Peeping Tom* — Tubi
6. Dr. Jekyll, Sister Hyde — Tubi
7. Cobweb* — Netflix
8. Phantasm — Peacock
12. Men* - Tubi
16. The Wrath of Becky*— Netflix
18. Calendar Girl Murders* — Youtube
27. Theater of Blood
28. Vault of Horror
29. The Fog
30. Creepshow
“Confined to a secluded retirement home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former arrogant Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.”
This was by far the scariest shit I watched this year. Flake, this is a New Zealand movie. One nursing home man does the Haka to John Lithgow. It is powerful. But this movie is all sorts of scary.
I have things that take me to a whole other level of feelings. Magnified, intense feelings. From sad to scared, heightened anxiety to rage.
1. Animal abuse
2. Child abuse
3. Special needs abuse (that can range from physically handicapped, mentally impaired, poor people, homeless)
4. Elderly abuse
John Lithgow is absolutely terrifying and these vulnerable residents are at his mercy. I pray I am never ever in this position .
If you are looking for a seriously haunted scare — this is it.
That’s it for me this year. I got my 31 days of Halloween movies in a few days early.
Thank you Bob for hosting, always interested in your choices and nice to hear from you.
1. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon*— Bev’s Board
2. The Hand — Tubi
5. Peeping Tom* — Tubi
6. Dr. Jekyll, Sister Hyde — Tubi
7. Cobweb* — Netflix
8. Phantasm — Peacock
12. Men* - Tubi
16. The Wrath of Becky*— Netflix
18. Calendar Girl Murders* — Youtube
27. Theater of Blood
28. Vault of Horror
29. The Fog
30. Creepshow
Ailing judge bullied by a psycho elder in a nursing home.
Geoffrey Rush stars as the judge forced into early retirement by a stroke, John Lithgow as the mysterious senior citizen bully who totes an eyeless baby doll puppet around, getting away with literal murder under the clueless eyes of the unsuspecting staff. Both give excellent performances, it’s a harrowing situation, a welcome respite from the usual snarky 20-something slasher victims, so what’s not to like?
For starters, credulity is overly strained—after all, this is not a supernatural film where you are being asked to believe in magical things, this is meant to be a dark psychological thriller. So why are we being asked to believe that in the modern age this nursing home where people routinely wander off has no surveillance cameras, no alarms, no door sensors? It feels like the writer was lazy and didn’t want to deal with these realities, so they are ignored.
Also, this just wasn’t made as scary or as tense as it could have been. The same shot of Lithgow holding his puppet and lurking in the background is used over and over and over (and over) again. The poorly doctored vintage photos of him were laughable. Ironically, the movie only really came to life for me when Lithgow is nearly busted by his own mistake in leaving a key piece of evidence with one of his victims, but he’s allowed to get away with it no questions asked despite being covered in mud because, apparently, the movie must go on.
Male hagsploitation that just doesn’t quite deliver the goods.
3 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
12. Brothers Grimm 3.5 (FTV)
13. Tales of Halloween 3.5/5 (FTV)
14. The Enchanted 2.5/5 (FTV)
15. Lake Michigan Monster 3.5 (FTV)
16. The Bride From Hades 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 3/5 (FTV)
18. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf 3/5 (FTV)
19. Hellbender 4/5 (FTV)
20. Fascination 3/5 (FTV)
21. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5 (FTV)
22. Witch Story 2/5 (FTV)
23. Late Night with the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
24. Wake Wood 3/5 (FTV)
25. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 4/5 (FTV)
26. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) 3/5 (FTV)
27. Black Phone 2 3/5 (FTV)
28. Spookies 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. Megan 2.0 2/5 (FTV)
30. Mill of the Stone Women 3/5 (FTV)
31. Nosferatu in Venice 3.5/5 (FTV)
32. Weapons 4.5/5 (2ndV)
33. Night of the Animated Dead 1.5/5(FTV)
34. The Curse of the Crying Woman 3/5 (FTV)
35. Nightbeast 3.5/5 (FTV)
36. The Rule of Jenny Pen 3/5 (FTV)
Graverobbers accidentally resurrect a wolfman who bites a local count, leading to more lycanthropy and visits from vampires.
In smeary, bleary, headache-inducing 3D, this film nonetheless looked better than it could have, the original elements nearly destroyed by celluloid rot. The film is notable for being the very first one where Paul Naschy plays his long-running werewolf character. Despite what the title might have you think, there is no Frankenstein in this film at all—just werewolves and vampires. It was released with the word Frankenstein in the title to fulfill a contractual obligation to create a Frankenstein film, so in a hasty voiced-over montage it is “explained” to us that this “Wolfstein” family is basically the same as Frankenstein. Uh, sure.
Honestly, I just couldn’t get into this one. The poor film quality and 3D effects were off-putting, but mostly it was a case of a meandering story—scenes not so much connected by logic and plot but by sequence. It felt like when you get trapped by a person at a social event who just rambles on and you’re just waiting for them to get to the point. Sure, there’s a little werewolf on werewolf action, even a little werewolf on vampire action, and a vampiress who looks like Jackie Onassis, but every scene where Naschy isn’t present (as a werewolf or otherwise) just dies a slow death. The prissy prancing vampire waving his cape around flamboyantly made me giggle though.
For Naschy and 3D completionists only.
2 out of 5 stars.
Bob's October 2025 Horror Movie List
*FTV denotes first-time viewings
1. The Woman in the Yard 2/5 (FTV)
2. The Addiction 3/5 (FTV)
3. Blood Tea and Red String 4/5 (FTV)
4. Litan 3.5/5 (FTV)
5. Flesh for Frankenstein 3.5/5 (FTV)
6. Presence 2/5 (FTV)
7. To Fire You Come At Last 3.5 (FTV)
8. Clown in a Cornfield 3/5 (FTV)
9. Deadly Friend 1.5/5 (FTV)
10. Xtro 3.5/5 (FTV)
11. Uncle Sam 3/5 (FTV)
12. Brothers Grimm 3.5 (FTV)
13. Tales of Halloween 3.5/5 (FTV)
14. The Enchanted 2.5/5 (FTV)
15. Lake Michigan Monster 3.5 (FTV)
16. The Bride From Hades 3.5/5 (FTV)
17. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 3/5 (FTV)
18. Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf 3/5 (FTV)
19. Hellbender 4/5 (FTV)
20. Fascination 3/5 (FTV)
21. Slumber Party Massacre 3/5 (FTV)
22. Witch Story 2/5 (FTV)
23. Late Night with the Devil 4/5 (FTV)
24. Wake Wood 3/5 (FTV)
25. Beauty and the Beast (1978) 4/5 (FTV)
26. Raw Meat (aka Death Line) 3/5 (FTV)
27. Black Phone 2 3/5 (FTV)
28. Spookies 3.5/5 (FTV)
29. Megan 2.0 2/5 (FTV)
30. Mill of the Stone Women 3/5 (FTV)
31. Nosferatu in Venice 3.5/5 (FTV)
32. Weapons 4.5/5 (2ndV)
33. Night of the Animated Dead 1.5/5(FTV)
34. The Curse of the Crying Woman 3/5 (FTV)
35. Nightbeast 3.5/5 (FTV)
36. The Rule of Jenny Pen 3/5 (FTV)
37. Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror 2/5 (FTV)
1. Nosferatu (2024) 4/5 FTV
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) 2,5/5 FTV
3. The Long Walk (2025) 4,5/5 FTV
4. Priest (2011) 2/5 FTV
5. Alien Earth Season 1, episode 1&2. FTV
6. The Wicker Man (1973) 4,5/5
7. The Invisible Man (2020) 3,5/5 FTV
8. The Watchers (2024) 3/5 FTB
9. Saw (2004) 3/5
10. Saw II (2005) 2/5 FTV
11. Låt Den Rätte Komma In (2008) 4,5/5
12. Saw III (2006) 1,5/5 FTV
13. Alligator (1980) 2,5/5 FTV
14. Night of The Reaper (2025) 3/5 FTV
15. Malnazidos (aka Valley of The Dead) (2020) 4/5 FTV
16. Primitive War (2025) 2,5/5 FTV
17. Evolution (2001) 2,5/5 FTV
18. The Purge (2014) 3,5/5
19. Beast (2022) 3/5 FTV
20. The Guardian (1990) 2/5 FTV
21. Halloween (1978) 5/5
22. House on Haunted Hill (1959) 3,5/5 FTV
23. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep. 1-3 (2019) FTV
24. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep 4-6 (2019) FTV
25. Slasher: Solstice season 3 ep 7-8 3/5 (2019)
26. Night of The Living Dead (Romeros classic (1968) 4,5/5
27. Slasher: The Executioner season 1 ep. 1-3 FTV
28. Slasher The Executioner season 1 ep. 4-6 FTV
29. Slasher: The Executioner season 1 ep 7-8 3/5 (2017) FTV
30. Alien (1979) 5/5
31. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep. 1-3 (2018) FTV
32. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep 4-6 (2018) FTV
33. Slasher: Guilty Party season 2 ep 7-8 3,5/5 (2018) FTV
34. The Elixir (2025) 4/5 FTV
35. Outside (2024) 2,5/5 FTV
36. Doomsday (2008) 3,5/5 FTV
37. Gaia (2021) 3,5/5 FTV A south african ecological horror thriller movie. Two south african forest service people loses a drone in the forest. Starts looking after it and gets caught in a trap and chased by a mystical creature. As it turns out the creatures are really humans infected by fungus spores that eventually turn them into walking evil plants. Extra point for being different than the usual cabin in the woods movies or strange creature movies. Also not a particularly happy ending. You get a feeling that the makers of the movie really feel that we have done so much against nature that if it decides to strike back it is our fault, not Natures.