Read the Empire Movie review of Island Of Lost Souls. This may have been made (and banned) in the 1930s, but it remains a neatly disturbing horror with a...

Not a great success at the time, probably because its horror is more intellectual than graphic, this adaptation of HG Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau (repudiated

One of the best-kept secrets in rock criticism is that all of Devo’s original act—from the “de-evolution” rap down to the chant of “Are we not men?”—was a straight cop from this 1933 adaptation of H.G. Wells’s Island of Dr. Moreau. Charles Laughton, with an obscene caterpillar mustache, is the mad doctor working on the […]

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Columbia). A sweet and intelligent young woman whose forbears are New England puritans arrives in Shanghai from the U. S. to marry a handsome and fiery missionary....