The Woman in White
People who peruse vintage TV programming schedules are used to seeing horror movies billed as something other than “horror,” as if the term was to be avoided whenever possible.
Home Sweet Watchtower
Movies ghoulishly suited for imaginative in-house Halloween viewing.
Punctured Life
A place where no actual blood was spilled—at least to my knowledge—my grandmother’s house proved strangely—even sagely—sanguinary as it pertained to an important development in my life.
Witches of the Fog
Just about everyone loves Halloween—and if someone tells you they don’t, you might wish to keep your distance—but few people are aware of the spring’s variant on All Hallow’s Eve.
Better Than One
Were you to remark that the 1940s represented a peak in American pop-cultural horror, most people would automatically think you were talking about movies.
No Michael Myers Necessary
The way horror film series typically work is that the first entry is notable, for whatever reason—it’s a great movie, it’s popular, it infiltrates the news cycle/culture—and then subsequent entries get worse and worse and worse, until there are no more.