Angelo Rossitto Archives

Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 18, 2013Old Dark House Thriller

An Old Dark House film from the silent era. Haxan director Benjamin Christensen turns the mansion into a fantastical netherworld and creates a compulsive atmosphere of weird and fascinating happenings that is is only marred only by a contrived mundane ending

Director: Benjamin Christensen

Actors: Creighton Hale, Thelma Todd, Angelo Rossitto, Sheldon Lewis

Category: Horror

18 March 201329 November 2024 by Roog

Freaks (1932)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 12, 2002Human Deformities

Shock film in which director Tod Browning depicts the lives of the deformities at a circus, casting real-life freaks in the roles. This was banned for many years before being discovered as a cult classic

Director: Tod Browning

Actors: Olga Baclanova, Angelo Rossitto

Category: Horror

12 November 20026 September 2023 by Roog

Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Rating: ★★

Aug 8, 2013Old Dark House Comedy

The East Side Kids, a popular comedy group during the 1940s/50s, conduct a variant on the Old Dark House film featuring a sinisterly lurking Bela Lugosi … The East Side Kids' films were made on impoverished budgets – this one of their better but still aimlessly circles around creaky and dated gags

Director: Phil Rosen

Actors: Leo Gorcey, Bela Lugosi, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, Huntz Hall, …

Category: Horror

8 August 201325 November 2024 by Roog

The Corpse Vanishes (1942)

Rating: ★★½

Sep 13, 2000Mad Scientist/Bride Killings

One of a host of low-budget mad scientist films Bela Lugosi made during the 1940s, slightly better than most of the others. Here he uses orchids to place brides in death-like comas

Director: Wallace Fox

Actors: Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell, …

Category: Horror

13 September 200011 February 2026 by Roog

Scared to Death (1947)

Rating: ★★

Jun 19, 2001Old Dark House/Sinister Hypnotist

Bela Lugosi poverty row cheapie where he plays a sinister hypnotist. The only film Lugosi made in colour

Director: Christy Cabanne

Actors: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Douglas Fowley, …

Category: Horror

19 June 20016 March 2023 by Roog

Pufnstuf (1970)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 23, 2004Gonzo Children's Film/Magical Island

Mind-spinning film spinoff of the tv series H.R. Pufnstuf, this plays out like The Wizard of Oz on hallucinogens

Director: Hollingsworth Morse

Actors: Billy Hayes, Jack Wild, Billy Barty, Angelo Rossitto, …

Category: Fantasy

23 February 20043 May 2023 by Roog

Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)

Rating: ½

Jun 30, 1999Mad Scientist/Monster Bash

One of the great title matches of all-time and a surprise that Universal never thought to do it. In the hands of Z-budget director Al Adamson it is a wasted opportunity nd Zandor Vorkov the worst screen Dracula ever

Director: Al Adamson

Actors: J. Carrol Naish, Regina Carrol, Zandor Vorkov, Anthony Eisley, …

Category: Horror

30 June 199916 December 2025 by Roog

Brain of Blood (1971)

Rating: ★★

Jul 14, 2020Brain Transplant Horrors

An unofficial copycat of the Filipino-made Blood Island from exploitation director Al Adamson, a trashy mix involving a dictator's transplanted brain, Frankenstein monsters and a perverted dwarf

Director: Al Adamson

Actors: Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Vicki Volante, Angelo Rossitto, …

Category: Horror

14 July 202010 December 2025 by Roog

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 26, 2007Post-Holocaust Action

The third of the Mad Max films sees the series becoming increasingly more mainstream in focus, along with the conscious resignation that it is impossible to top the previous film

Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie

Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Helen Buday, Angelo Rossitto, …

Category: Science Fiction

26 March 20076 July 2024 by Roog