Guest blogger Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. writes: John Willard’s hardy old stage chestnut The Cat and The Canary—first performed in New York City on February 7, 1922—has been around the block, cinematically so to speak, on at least four different…
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Classic and not so classic horror movie reviews, horror movie polls and movie fun. Features on Golden Age of Hollywood horror actors and the great movies they made, bad B horror movies and Top 10 horror movie lists.
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Fridays with Frightenstein
My love of Vincent Price’s tongue-in-cheek horror films (and horror-comedies) really blossomed in the 1990s, but the seeds were planted much earlier, all the way back to my days as a child watching TV in the 1970s. Vincent could be…
Read more →Suspiria: There Was a Murderer
My first glimpse into the world of European horror was, as usual, my mother’s fault. I came in after playing baseball and she told me “Put on 17.” I did, and was treated to the last 10 minutes of The…
Read more →Scary Times With 10 Fact-Based Films
There are Famous Monsters…and then there are famous monsters. Both Psycho and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre were inspired by the real-life crimes of mass murderer Ed Gein; The Silence of the Lambs, book and film, incorporated character traits of…
Read more →What Makes You a Fan?
What makes you a fan? Whatever your interests, there’s always something specific that gets your attention and won’t let go. For me, it was movies—horror movies—and the scarier the better. I liked that nervous feeling we all get when something…
Read more →Are Vampires and Werewolves Horror’s Tom and Jerry?
Both are victims of supernatural curses. Both stalk their prey by the light of the moon. And, to both, normal humanity is just so much fast food on the hoof. Vampires and werewolves have been among the most “loved” monsters in…
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