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…
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The Big Buzz: Remembering the Original “The Fly” and Its Sequels
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…
Read more →William Castle and the Five Best Movie Gimmicks
The “Golden Era of Movie Gimmicks” was in the late 1950s and 1960s when producer William Castle came up with some very innovative ways to lure audiences to his low-budget thrillers and horror films. Although Castle remains the undisputed King…
Read more →A Marathon History of Cult Horror Films for Halloween
The blog post you are about to read is so terrifying, it might just kill you. If you have a heart condition or a fragile psychological state of being, please do not read any further. I implore you to step…
Read more →Film Noir: A To Z
Guest blogger Rick 29 writes: One of the most popular features at the Classic Film and TV Cafe is the site’s “A to Z” list. Awhile back, the Cafe tackled film noir–a daunting task because there so many good ones….
Read more →Double Dose of Roger Corman, Part 1: Galaxy of Terror
For over 60 years he’s written, directed or produced over more than 400 movies of all types. In this classic review, author Fred Burdsall blasts off with the Corman-produced 1981 sci-fi shocker Galaxy of Terror, starring Edward Albert and Erin Moran.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Vincent Price Horror Film?
For Halloween week, MovieFanFare salutes the master of sophisticated screen scares for nearly 50 years, Vincent Price. Which of Price’s monstrous movies, from House of Wax to The Raven to Theater of Blood, is your favorite?
Read more →The Story Of Mankind (1957) Needs A Sequel!
There are Star Wars people, and Star Trek people. Some people dig Bugs Bunny; others love Mickey Mouse. There’s DC folks, and those who Make Theirs Marvel. There’s the “boxers” crowd…and the “briefs” bunch. Red states. Blue states. You may…
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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…
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