DOOMED WIZARD DIARIES

The other night, my wife and I were watching "The Unborn" and I found it so bad that it reminded me that it was about time for another review. Don't worry, I won't be reviewing "The Unborn." Instead I present to you the 1971 Italian T&A treat "The Devil's Nightmare." The movie begins at the end of World War II where a Nazi baron has to kill his newborn daughter while, thanks to some grainy stock footage, the Allied Forces pound the shit out of Berlin. The murder scene is brutal and comical at the same time as it appears the baron mistakenly stabs a baby doll. The baron's wife subsequently died in child birth. Flash forward to "the present," at least the 1971 version of it, a bus with seven passengers takes refuge from the night in the baron's castle. When the bus driver asks this weird guy along the road for directions to any nearby inn, he directs them to the castle where the baron has been known to take in guests. L...

One of my New Year resolutions for this year is to do at least one review per month of movies you probably shouldn't waste your time watching. I was doing it for awhile as "Dollar Store Cinema" as most of the movies came from the dollar store down the street. They were supposed to be horror films and some of them such as "Atom Age Vampire" were actually quite good. But writing/drawing comics took center stage and all the dollar stores in town dried up their movie sections, so I just sorta stopped posting reviews. But, recently I've managed to come across a few decent horror movies, so, until that well runs dry, I'm going to attempt to review movies at least once a month. Up first..."The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires!" "The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires" is a Shaw Brothers & Hammer House of Horrors coagulation that is quite good, in spite of a little less than spectacular fight scenes and an "it's suddenly ...