Year: 2015

This really should have been yesterday's, as this foreign version was made in 1953, five years before Return of Dracula. Like Mexican vampire films made 15 years later, this movie was *cough* heavily influenced by the Universal Dracula films. However, it might be the first film to show a vampire with fangs; indeed, the…

Stupid bad Internet connection. Anyway, here's today's entry, about 12 hours late. This fairly obscure film is sort of interesting because it does what the Night Stalker TV movie did with far greater success; updating gothic vampires and bringing them to modern day America. While Universal brought it's monsters to the modern day, it…

I think I've made it pretty obvious that I thought John Carradine was a nearly perfect actor to play Dracula. No, he never would have been as sheerly iconic as Messrs. Lugosi and Lee. Still, it's hard to think of another role that Mr. Carradine was better suited for. The genuine shame for me…

  This week was in the works anyway, due to my recent Billy the Kid vs Dracula review. Then Christopher passed away, and it seemed even more appropriate. If I remember correctly, I started Monster of the Day with Karloff's Frankenstein Monster. The second day was Lugosi's Dracula. Everyone's Dracula is a separate monster…

  Seriously, I again call for a Tales of the Crypt-type anthology series adapting crazy comic book stories, of which there are a ton in the public domain. Dammit, SyFy, do something cool for a change. (In this case, Warners, get on it. Oh, wait, then they'd be all grim 'n gritty.)

Now we know what Betty Boop would have looked like as a dinosaur lady.

Sweet!

The central illustration is so utterly gorgeous that I actually find myself resenting the oversized frame.

Jurassic World comes out this week (I think). I'm an old fart who hates anything new, and the whole genetically engineered dinos makes me tired, like something from a SyFy original movie. At least its only two hours and change, which is fairly short these days. For the record, I do like Chris Pratt,…