Chh-chh-chh! Ahh-ahh-ahh! As our October-long celebration of the horror genre rolls on, we want you to tell us all about which slasher film (the subgenre gets its name from how its dark antagonists often use knives to carve up their…
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Five Vincent Price Favorites Scare Up Thrills In a New Collection
Vincent Price. Even just seeing those words up on screen conjure up spooky memories. A true iconoclast, Price may have died in 1993 but really, he never left. He’s still everywhere in pop culture — taunting Batman and Robin, frightening…
Read more →“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” and Other Swashbuckling New Releases
Shiver me timbers! October is roaring in with some swashbuckling and sensational DVD and Blu-ray releases that you’ll want to walk the plank for. (Not that you’ll have to go to such extreme measures!) Instead, just take a look at…
Read more →Bing Crosby and Fred MacMurray Shine in “Sing You Sinners”
One of the great things about our current era is that more movies than ever are being rescued from obscurity and released on DVD. Such is most definitely the case in with the 1938 Bing Crosby/Fred MacMurray musical comedy Sing…
Read more →Movie Trailer of the Day: The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Having already conquered sky spoofs with Airplane!, the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team set their comedic sights on crime shows with their short-lived series Police Squad!. Although the show was cancelled prematurely, Leslie Nielsen‘s bumbling Frank Drebin wouldn’t be out of commission for…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Carnival of Souls
1962’s Carnival of Souls is a perfect example of a slow burn cult film. Despite a limited budget and a short original theatrical run, the film — about a church organist whose life takes a turn for the bizarre following…
Read more →Sunday Funday: Don’t Feed These “Gremlins” Toys After Midnight!
As we mentioned earlier today, all this month MovieFanFare will be featuring special horror-related content along with our regular posts. This is true also with our Sunday Funday posts, as we want to share with you cool collectibles from your…
Read more →Hackman, Reynolds and Minnelli Find Laughs Aboard the “Lucky Lady”
Written by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz (the team who also wrote the scripts for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and, um, Howard the Duck) 1975’s Lucky Lady is a fascinating blend of comedy, drama and adventure that…
Read more →We’ll Be Bringing You Chills and Thrills All October Long!
October is finally upon us, and you know what that means — it’s time to let the scary viewing commence. We want to help you plan your perfect 31 Days of Halloween viewing, so all month long we will be…
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