Well, it's no classic, but there's a certain amount of rubbishy fun to be had.

Years ago, I was friends with an American couple from Louisiana. They moved to England for a few years for work reasons, and I was invited to dinner on a few occasions. I especially remember Gumbo and Jambalaya, which until then had only been obscure lyrics in a song by The Carpenters😃

It's the last of the Rathbone & Bruce movies. Decent enough, but you can tell both actors are tiring of the roles.

Never, ever, try to explain anything to normal people! They rarely understand it, and it just ends up with them thinking that you're stranger than they perhaps already did. Keep the mystery!

As an Englishman, that sounds like a very exotic place to dine😃

Imagine if they'd spent just a little more cash and care on the creature suit, and this movie would have been so much better appreciated. As it is, it's a moody, effectively directed little cracker of a B movie. It's sad to see the continuing professional and personal decline of Chaney.

Of those, I've only ever seen the first two Halloween movies. The first was too gory for me, but I appreciated the air of menace that John Carpenter built up, and performance of the always reliable Donald Pleasance.

Such things are downright sadism. I'm happy to say those things don't appeal to me.

Our imaginations have been dumbed-down as filmmakers pursue the easy and the obvious way to frighten us. It doesn't take much to pile on the 'Yuk!' factor, but to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, to feel that icy chill in your body, now that takes imagination and talent.

Now that is a creepy and chilling movie. Modern horror, with its over reliance on visceral body horror, which tends to disgust rather than frighten, should learn from it.

It was, but I'd advise you to see the original.

I found it rather unsettling on my first watch many years ago. I think I was expecting a typical jump-scare horror. What I got instead, was a movie quite unlike anything else I've ever seen. It stays in your mind long, long after typical horror fare is forgotten.

Look forward to it.👍😃

Lugosi's first movie after declaring himself bankrupt just a few weeks before. The movie wasn't quite ready to start filming when Laughton arrived in Hollywood, which gave him time to appear in Whale's 'The Old Dark House', for which I will always be grateful 😃

I believe Ralph Bates was offered the role of Dracula in this movie after Lee initially turned it down. Much darker in tone than others in the series, it was the first Hammer movie I ever saw on new-fangled VHS tape, so it has a nostalgic place in my heart.

I can tell your out of sorts, Emm. You didn't pick up on the feed line. I was expecting a healthy shout back of - "Oh no it isn't!" 😃

I'll bet Panto flu is funnier than other strains?

I've never seen this. Reading up about it and it's definitely one I need to cheçk out.