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Here's a treat for you all. I've had more than my share of tricks today. (Seriously, if you can send any good thoughts or hopes my way, I'd appreciate them).

And for Halloween, a movie that has appeared on both MST3K and in the Criterion Collection. I give you... Fiend Without A Face!

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More sad news to all lovers of classic horror and fantasy -- Richard Matheson, author of 'I Am Legend' has just died. I can't even begin to list a fraction of the work this man did. He was one of the last of the original pulp-era Weird Tales alumni, and he also wrote what someone described as some of the most brilliantly nasty and original SF, dark ( Read more... )

Got this by way of a fellow I watch on DA. It's an hour-long film from 1911, restored and with a new music track, of Dante's trip through the Inferno.

So they can still show a movie made before WW1? Maybe there's still hope for a viewable copy of London After Midnight!

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Special Effects Pioneer and Master of Monsters Ray Harryhausen dead at 92.

If you were a kid of a certain age who liked monsters, you couldn't have lived in the 60's-80's in the US without seeing a Harryhausen flick at least once. And you probably loved them. It didn't matter if it was the Giant Octopus from It Came From Beneath the Sea, the poor ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm watching Abbott and Costello meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the love interest in it is Jekyll's ward - so upper middle class - in Victorian London, a suffragette ( Read more... )

Finally! One of the great unsung made-for-TV horror movies of the 70's is back on DVD and available at something less than astronomical prices.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you: GargoylesReally, the special effects alone were amazing for the time and budget it was made in and with. Given that they're from Stan Winston, that should be no ( Read more... )

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Chop-sockey Kung Fu meets Dracula! Surely I can't be the only person who remembers this movie, the stake in Hammer's coffin? Come on, isn't anyone going to admit that the saw it back when, on afternoon TV if not in thre theaters?

And with all the remakes right now, how long before we see a new "Seven Golden Vampires" rolling out from Hollywood?

Because, you know, I've gotten so very tired of seeing them and of seeing products and services that cater to this drivel. I mean, Zombie Fitness? Seriously? I know no one is serious about the "zombie" part but even so!

Basically, I just want to know: what the heck makes zombies popular as monsters? They have no personalities, no intelligence, no ( Read more... )

Tonight at 6 on TCM they will be showing one of the very greatest horror films of all time, Jacques Tourneur's Curse of the Demon. A very skeptical American anthropologist gets called over to England for a conference on supernatural beliefs which will feature an expose on a devil cult run by one Julian Karswell, as done by a friend of his. The ( Read more... )