For this week’s Throwback Thursday offering we present this guest post from Rick29 that remembers the scary and sensational feature House of Dark Shadows. The intended audience for MGM’s House of Dark Shadows (1970) was undoubtedly fans of the popular 1966-71…
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As we quietly hope that the proposed remake goes away, our thoughts turn to the excellent 1986 version of Little Shop of Horrors. Proving just how multi-talented he truly is, director Frank Oz transformed the Off-Broadway musical (itself based on…
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“B” movie fans remember Hugo Haas? A writer, director, actor, Hass’ movies were know for the Blond Bombshell in distress. His ultimate claim to fame could be a nomination from the Writers Guild of America for “Best Low-Budget Screenplay” for his 1951 film Pickup. Rick29 takes a look at his career.
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The past few weeks have been a bit light on the new release front, but that’s about to change in a huge way! You see, this week has a jaw-dropping array of recent theatrical hits, cult favorites and true film…
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The Delambre family suffers from a curse, the curse that affects all practitioners of strange science in the Hollywood film world. Of course, usually that’s only limited to one generation, but since Hollywood has an affinity for milking a topic…
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“I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.” And so we have one of the most iconic scenes from This Is…
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Following the success of the first two Halloween movies Jamie Lee Curtis had established herself as America’s premiere scream queen. She became the go-to actress for low-budget horror films, and soon found herself starring in the 1980 low-budget affair Terror…
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Yesterday, the motion picture industry lost a giant with the passing of Herschell Gordon Lewis at the age of 87. Nicknamed the “Godfather of Gore,” Lewis is widely credited with creating the horror subgenre of the splatter film through his…
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One of the most notorious — and overly maligned — films ever made, Howard the Duck was released on this day back in 1986. Although the film was universally panned upon its initial release (and became a go-to punchline throughout…
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