“It isn’t easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.” – Dr. Frank N. Furter (a scientist). Originally released in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had about as strange of a trajectory as any film…
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Share your Meat Loaf Memories Here!
We were saddened to learn of the passing of singer and actor Meat Loaf, who died yesterday at the age of 74. Best known for his Bat Out of Hell recordings written by the late, great Jim Steinman and for…
Read more →Open Thread: Tell Us About Your Favorite Horror Comedy!
For this latest Halloween post, we are going to mix things up a bit by throwing some laughs in with the shocks to ask you what your favorite horror-comedy is. Perhaps the greatest example of the genre is Mel Brooks‘…
Read more →When “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” Made The News
What you are about to see is pure video gold. As you are probably already aware, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in August of 1975 by 20th Century Fox, it was a box office failure. Then…
Read more →Sound Off on Movie Musicals Here!
For this latest Open Thread, we want to you to sound off on all things related to movie musicals. The genre has seen its ups and downs over the years — the latter being the most recent example, in the…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Tim Curry Performance?
The magnificent Tim Curry turns 73 today. Since bursting onto the scene in the early 1970s, Curry has enjoyed a successful career on stage, as a would-be pop star, in films and TV shows, as an in-demand voiceover actor. Although…
Read more →Happy Halloween from MovieFanFare!
Happy Halloween to all you ghouls and goblins out there! We’ve had so much fun celebrating this spooky season with you over the past month with our 31 Days of Halloween posts, and we hope you all have a happy…
Read more →Listen to the Sounds of Horror with These Spooky LPs
For this week’s Sunday Funday post we wanted to take a break from the sort of collectibles we usually focus on in this spot and instead take a look at spooky LPs. In case you haven’t noticed, vinyl is back…
Read more →The Schlocky Horror Picture Show: Shock Treatment
You can’t manufacture a cult film, it has to happen organically. Some movies are so weird, bad or generally psychotronic that they struggle to find an audience upon their initial release…and only do so years after the fact. The greatest…
Read more →We Want You to Sound Off on Cult Movies!
Let’s do the time warp again! Or maybe not… As strange as it may seem, there are cult movie fans out there who don’t love The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and they much rather spend their time watching an under-appreciated…
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