We’re deep into October, and you know what that means, beyond pumpkin spice-flavored everything—horror movies wherever you turn. Right now, we’ll turn your attention to a trio of the more buzzed-about fear cinema finds coming our way, which didn’t skimp…
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Omnia Cafeteria Rex: The Tragicomic Duo of Clark and McCullough
The western Ohio town of Springfield has received a good deal of unwanted publicity over the past couple of months. Something a lot of folks are not aware of is that the city was the birthplace/hometown of two notable early…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Horror Franchise of the 2020s?
In the fall of ’22, Smile opened in the U.S.—and as writer-director Parker Finn’s unheralded horror flick proceeded to gross $200 million above its $17 million budget, there was probably no shortage of grins breaking out at Paramount’s front offices….
Read more →Fear As Folk: Check Out These New Folk Horror Finds
The leaves are dropping, you’re stocking up on those bags of fun size bars…It’s Trick or Treat time, and that means connoisseurs of horror movies are going to have to make some shelf space for some worthy new hard media…
Read more →Bats and Bandages: Are Dracula and The Mummy the Same Film?
“A sinister and unholy figure from the distant past, brought into the 20th century with the unwitting help of a poor chap driven insane by the experience, rises from his grave and sets out to draw a beautiful young woman…
Read more →Which SNL Alum Has Given You The Most Big-Screen Laughs?
This weekend will see the wide theatrical release of Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s comic chronicle about what happened at NBC’s New York studios commencing 10 PM EST on October 11, 1975—an hour and a half before America was first introduced…
Read more →Lasers, Lizard Men, and Loups-Garous: Jonny Quest Turns 60!
In 1964, when I was in First Grade, I had a very simple Friday (later Thursday) night routine. Just before 7:30, after finishing any homework and my dinner, I’d walk from our rowhouse to our next-door neighbors, the Mutschlers, and…
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Val Lewton Horror Film?
Halloween season invariably means treats for collectors of horror on hard media, and this year’s proving no different as The Criterion Collection has readied an expectedly extras-laden double feature from the storied 1940s RKO shock output of producer Val Lewton,…
Read more →Edward Everett Horton: Timid, Timorous, and Talented
He portrayed befuddled butlers, henpecked husbands, addled aristocrats, and more in a stage, screen and TV career that spanned more than seven decades, and he was one of Classic Hollywood’s busiest supporting players. Chances are, however, that if you’re familiar…
Read more →Who’s Your Favorite Actor to Have Played the Joker?
With Joker: Folie à Deux opening in theaters, Joaquin Phoenix returns to the role that won him the Oscar as party clown turned vigilante Arthur Fleck, now institutionalized as he awaits trial for his crimes—and finding a soul mate in…
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