It’s a lovely day, and there you are motoring with your lady on the way back to your laboratory, where you keep hunks of flesh alive...
February 18, 2025
Blue Beard is a glutton. He likes food and female orifices, in that order, which doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a major thing for the latter in this...
February 16, 2025
Love—or what we call love—produces a lot of lip service, which isn’t a reference to kissing. We proclaim our dedication to another...
February 13, 2025
Home-viewing fright films for Valentine’s Day with the loving Cupid seal of approval.
February 10, 2025
For all of Hammer’s reliance on its tried-and-true monsters, the studio did a fair amount of foraying. Hammer horror could take myriad forms beyond...
December 31, 2024
No one who made 1972’s Silent Night, Bloody Night had much of a clue what the story was supposed to be, which sounds like...
December 28, 2024
In theory—well, maybe—one is not supposed to laugh while watching the events of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) unfold, but damn...
December 25, 2024
There are horror movies in which Christmas is present, as if incidentally, and there are horror movies in which Christmas is the crux.
December 23, 2024
Well, here we have quite the farrago: Tod Browning’s penultimate film, Lionel Barrymore in drag, enslavement, telekinesis, paralysis...
December 20, 2024
We speak of unreliable narrators, but what of an unreliable film? That is, a movie that purports to tell one story but may in truth be...
November 10, 2024
There are three prevailing mindsets behind horror-movie sequels. The most typical goes something like...
November 4, 2024
To love Hammer horror films is to love the look of them and probably also have an abiding affection for the fall, given that it always...
October 28, 2024
People who peruse vintage TV programming schedules are used to seeing horror movies billed as something other than “horror,” as if...
October 24, 2024
The rub for makers of American movie horror through the bulk of the 1950s was to make...
October 19, 2024
Movies ghoulishly suited for imaginative in-house Halloween viewing.
October 15, 2024
The person-changing experience of walking in on Tod Browning’s Dracula.
June 19, 2024
Walpurgis Night and the spell cast by 1960’s The City of the Dead.
April 30, 2024
A break from traditional Christmas fare with 1945’s Strange Confession, and the coming together of assorted heads.
December 22, 2023
The holiday-enlivened monster that is Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
October 31, 2023
Walpurgis Night and the spell cast by 1960’s The City of the Dead.
April 30, 2024
A break from traditional Christmas fare with 1945’s Strange Confession, and the coming together of assorted heads.
December 22, 2023
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