Hello, my name is Gary, and I am a horror movie aficionado. No, scratch that…I am a Monster Kid. In the spectrum of fright film fandom, Monster Kids are Baby Boomers who grew up in the late 1960s and early…
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The Cabin in the Woods ended up being a test for me on several levels. I was unable to catch the theatrical release of the film. This normally would not have been an issue if it were not for the…
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Why is Jack Torrance reading Playgirl magazine? What’s with all the Native American décor in the Overlook? Why does Jack’s typewriter change color? Which of the Seven Dwarves is the most prominent sticker seen on Danny Torrance’s bedroom door? And,…
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Lionel Barrymore is best remembered for his latter-day screen gallery of irascible oldsters good-natured and bad. This multi-talented exponent of a legendary American stage dynasty began carving his legacy as one of Hollywood’s greatest character stars from the earliest days of…
Read more →October 30, 1948: A major shift in the shape of the film industry begins as RKO becomes the first major to split off its theater ownership from its production wing. November 3, 1956: The Wizard of Oz makes its network…
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As we bid farewell to October, here’s a list of what DVD and Blu-ray new releases you’ll be ushering in November with. Take a look! Perry Mason: The Original Warner Bros. Movies Collection Warren William was the first to bring…
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The intended audience for MGM’s House of Dark Shadows (1970) was undoubtedly fans of the popular 1966-71 ABC gothic daytime drama. If you watched the TV series dutifully (like me), you will enjoy this faithful big screen adaptation. For other viewers,…
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Well, it’s that time of year again: the Halloween season, when every movie blog site worth its salt busts out the orange and black and starts cranking out lists of the creepiest, spookiest and most downright frightening films of all time. And…
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This is Chris. He’s the Frankenstein Monster to my Count Dracula (or if you prefer your references more obscure, Hjalmar Poelzig to my Vitus Werdegast), Godzilla to my King Kong, Jason to my Freddy, and so on. He was, in fact,…
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Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. What’s sharper than a man in a white suit? A woman…
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Guest blogger JBT writes: It’s the film that spawned the oft-quoted lines “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get” and “Stupid is as stupid does.” At the time of the film’s release,…
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