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.
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.
Blue Beard
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 early 1901 French-film dazzler by Georges Méliès.