You Can Pay Me Back Later
Thanksgiving horror films/turkeys to rise or fall face first to the occasion of your holiday.
Them!
You’d be challenged to find a more gripping, immersive first 15 minutes from a horror movie than what we get with Them! (1954).
The Tell-Tale Heart
Quality, mid-century animated horror can be a bit like a top-grade Sun Ra album or an Abstract Expressionist sculpture. That is, you don’t know when it might be from, and find it both surprising and sensical when you’re apprised of the date. Edgar Allan Poe was an artist who believed in the short form.
The Return of the Vampire
Had you watched Bela Lugosi in Universal’s 1931 Dracula and then been apprised by a clued-in demon-cum-publicist of the underworld that the actor lived for the chance to reprise his most famous role, you wouldn’t exactly be surprised.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
If you want to have some fun with your fellow horror film aficionados, ask them what they’d rate as the single most effective scene for mood and atmosphere in any of the Universal monster movies.
The Black Cat
Despite what’s tantamount to a subgenre of macabre offerings suggesting otherwise, Edgar Allan Poe isn’t an author whose work readily lends itself to the cinematic medium.
Lonesome Ghosts
Meet the right ghosts in your formative years—or help someone else to do the same in theirs—and a lifelong love of the stories and films in which they feature may be the result. Many children first came to know what fun a ghost can have after watching Disney’s 1937 short, Lonesome Ghosts.
The Invisible Man
The early monstrous mass of Universal bogeys put down roots in the pop-culture zeitgeist as deep as any to be found in the most ancient burial grounds.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have never lacked for adaptations, with The Hound of the Baskervilles—novel number three out of four featuring the famed detective and his Boswell—being among the most tempting to tackle.
White Zombie
Many horror fans most associate Bela Lugosi with his distinctive voice. We need only to think of myriad memorable lines from Dracula alone, delivered with an intonation that no one else could supply, and the relevant scene plays before our mind’s eye.