Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) – And how, you may ask, does Larry Talbot, the ill-fated Wolf Man, return for his first sequel after dying at the end of the original? Simple: He can’t die! No, really — even after a silver bullet dispatched him, all it takes is for the full moon to…

Graveyard Shift (1990) – There are so many unimpressive movie adaptations of Stephen King short stories that they can form a grading continuum.  This one isn’t as bad as The Mangler (1995), but not as good as Children of the Corn (1984).  The problem here is that the adapters obviously had to add things to…

Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) – Burt Lancaster plays a former general, now a prison escapee, who takes over a nuclear missile silo in order to force the President (Charles Durning) to reveal dirty information from the beginning of the Vietnam War. It’s a tense (though overlong) bit of realpolitik; the current President has to deal with…

Resurrection (2015) – A freshly ordained priest in the 1870s travels to Buenos Aires to help with a yellow fever outbreak and makes a slight detour to drop by the family manor… to find his older brother on death’s door from the plague, his sister-in-law and niece barricaded in the family chapel, and only one…