ALERT ALERT: if you love monster movies and have never seen Boris Karloff in The Mummy (1931), get ye to the Brattle Theatre today at 4:00.  It's not only the ur-source for mummy movies and sinister ancient Egyptian sorcery movies, it's one of the earliest uses I've ever seen of the genre where an immortal-sexy-evil-magic dude seeks his ( Read more... )

Coming up in September: Burke and Hare with Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the title characters.  (And directed by John "that werewolf-movie guy" Landis.)   I am going to see this the day it hits the theaters.  You should join me.  The link goes to an article with four excerpts from the film.  It looks dopey but enjoyable.  Even if it's entirely ( Read more... )

You know what is currently running through my head?  The voice of Boris Karloff, singing "I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts".*   I would say, "WTF, my brain?" except that he actually sings it very well.

Thank you for your input on the last post, everybody.  Now that it's a few days later, I'm not nearly as overexcited about the whole bone(s) of ( Read more... )

     Uberwald... is based on all the classic horror movies you can remember, most particularly those made by Hammer Films, when no coach could go faster than five miles an hour along a suspiciously familiar road without shedding a wheel, half the population were nubile 18-year-old girls and I swear there was one very large, ornate, floor-standing ( Read more... )