I’ve been thinking about this genre we love, the horror-comedy, and while always pondering the places it’s been (the whole reason for this project) the notion of where it is going or even where it is now intrigues me as…
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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 →Halloween Movie Thoughts Past and Present
With visions of ghosts, ghouls and goblins dancing in his head, guest writer Bill Dunphy looks back on the Halloween film fare he loved as a child…and as an adult!
Read more →This Week in Film History, 10.27.13
It was exactly 45 years ago that George Romero altered the American horror flick landscape forever with the opening of his shoestring shocker Night of the Living Dead. We’ve come to get even more movie milestones for you.
Read more →Desk Set (1957): Classic Movie Review
What happens when Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn find themselves on opposite sides of the workplace and the “Computer Age”? Melanie Simone explains in her review of the screen duo’s 1957 romantic comedy Desk Set.
Read more →Night Creatures: Parsons, Pirates and Plunder from Hammer
As part of the Hammer Halloween Blogathon, MovieFanFare shouts “Yo ho ho!” and raises a pint of ale to Night Creatures, a 1962 thriller of smugglers and pirates in 18th-century England starring Hammer Films mainstay Peter Cushing.
Read more →Six Pix: Dracula
Six Pix presents a sextet of movie posters representing a particular actor/director/genre. You pick the one you feel is visually the most artistic or best sums up the film. This Six Pix highlights Bram Stoker’s famed vampire in various iterations….
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In today’s guest post, writer Paul Castiglia shares his views on how Dracula has been portrayed on-screen throughout the years; focusing on the brilliant (and peerless) performance of Bela Lugosi as the infamous bloodsucker.
Read more →What’s Your Favorite Non-Dracula Bela Lugosi Horror Film?
After becoming an instant fright icon in 1931’s Dracula, Bela Lugosi went on to terrify filmgoers in a variety of sinister roles. Vote for your choice for Bela’s best non-Drac horror performance in this week’s MovieFanfare poll.
Read more →This Week in Film History, 10.20.13
It’s really been exactly 35 years since Michael Myers started hacking his way into our collective consciousness with the opening of John Carpenter’s Halloween? Now, THAT’S scary. Check out our other frightening factoids.
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