Victor Buono Archives

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Rating: ★★★★

Feb 22, 2005Batty Old Dames Psycho-Thriller

Psycho-thriller featuring a mad Bette Davis torturing her sister Joan Crawford. This held considerable shock at the time for seeing two former glamorous Hollywood stars beyond their glory days and going nuts. The film's success inspired a whole fad of imitators

Director: Robert Aldrich

Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Anna Lee, …

Category: Horror

22 February 200524 July 2021 by Roog

Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Rating: ★★★★

Apr 12, 2003Southern Gothic Psycho-Thriller

Robert Aldrich's successor to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Bette Davis on the receiving end this time. This is arguably a superior film with a tightly contorted psycho-thriller plot and a decaying Southern setting

Director: Robert Aldrich

Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten, …

Category: Horror

12 April 20031 April 2026 by Roog

The Silencers (1966)

Rating: ★

Mar 10, 2003Spy Film

The first and probably the least worst in a series of James Bond copycat films starring Dean Martin as agent Matt Helm. Martin plays the part as a tipsy lounge lizard and the film comes stuffed with excruciating double entendres

Director: Phil Karlson

Actors: Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, Victor Buono, Daliah Lavi, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 March 200326 November 2019 by Roog

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Rating: ★★★½

Jun 12, 2000Planet of the Apes Sequel/Telepathic Mutants

The second and most underrated of the Planet of the Apes films. For a time it repeats the original but gains considerable imagination and a striking satiric bite with the introduction of the mutants

Director: Ted Post

Actors: James Franciscus, Charlton Heston, Linda Harrison, Maurice Evans, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 June 200013 January 2020 by Roog

Moonchild (1972)

Rating: ★

Oct 10, 2024Strange Happenings

A film about strange happenings at a mission where all the characters may be reincarnations. A film of the hippie era that gets lost in mysticism and trippiness

Director: Alan Gadney

Actors: Mark Travis, Victor Buono, John Carradine

Category: Fantasy

10 October 202413 November 2025 by Roog

Arnold (1973)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2020Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

Comedy-thriller in the Old Dark House tradition with greedy relatives being bumped off in the fight for the will. A film that begins with a corpse getting married can't be all bad.

Director: Georg Fenady

Actors: Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Farley Granger, …

Category: Horror

21 October 202019 November 2025 by Roog

The Evil (1978)

Rating: ★★

Apr 1, 2014Haunted House

Classic 1970s haunted film - at least the ending reveals otherwise. While most haunted house films focus on creating spooky atmosphere, this has been designed as a copy of The Omen driven by a series of bizarre novelty deaths

Director: Gus Trikonis

Actors: Richard Crenna, Victor Buono, Joanna Pettet, Andrew Prine, …

Category: Horror

1 April 201431 January 2026 by Roog

The Flight of Dragons (1982)

Rating: ★★½

May 29, 2012Animation/Epic Fantasy

One of Rankin-Bass's animated films, this has an ambitious epic fantasy plot with original themes about the line between science and magic, although this is undone by Rankin-Bass's limited animation

Director: Arthur Rankin Jr, Jules Bass

Actors: John Ritter, Harry Morgan, James Earl Jones, Don Messick, …

Category: Fantasy

29 May 201214 February 2026 by Roog