Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

- Andrew Tudor

Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', …

- Andrew Tudor

In 'Play Misty For Me', its inexplicably assertive knife-woman nearly manages the impossible task of slaughtering Clint Eastwood.

- Andrew Tudor

Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul who opens the door to the …

- Andrew Tudor

Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. U…

- Andrew Tudor

Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human gro…

- Andrew Tudor

In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose other possibili…

- Andrew Tudor