A Taste of Fear (1961)

A Taste of Fear (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 19, 2013Hammer Psycho-Thriller
The first of Hammer's psycho-thrillers – a departure for the studio with them abandoning their Victorian era setting for a contemporary one – in an attempt to copy the success of Hitchcock's Psycho. Quite a reasonable effort that comes without the improbably contrived plots of some of their later psycho-thrillers

The Manitou (1978)

The Manitou (1978)
Rating: ★★★½
Feb 17, 2003Reincarnated Indian Medicine Man
The one moment of triumph from director William Girdler who takes a work that sits just on the threshold of schlock and transforms into something incredibly eerie with an injection of H.P. Lovecraft and American Indian mysticism