Month: December 2017

In Chicago, independent powerhouse WGN had Creature Features, the late night class monster movie slot showcasing the classic Universals. The far cheaper UHF station, WFLD, had the Saturday afternoon Screaming Yellow Theater. This is where the young Ken was introduced to schlock, like Attack of the Giant Leeches or The Screaming Skull. In 1971--when…

One of the few horror hosts to really break out, partly due to sheer longevity, was Philadelphia's Cool Ghoul Zacherle. (His station was bought out and he soon moved to New York.) His initial show hit the airwaves in 1957, but I remember him hosting horror movie trailer VHS tapes in the '80s. He…

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira, kind of kicked off the entire bad movie thing with her seminal '50s horror hostess show in Los Angeles. Along the way she co-starred in Plan 9 from Outer Space and had a reportedly torrid affair with James Dean (!). The line…

This is the true mark of how much Fox disdained horror. They finally made a fairly big, opulent horror flick and it made them a TON of money and they *still* didn't start producing more horror movies. Until the '70s, anyway, with The Omen. They did bow enough to as least ink distribution deals…

Man, this film is far more fun than it should be. I mean, it's a piffle, but a rather fun little piffle. It's a borderline horror movie, though, which seems right for Fox.

Man, Fox really didn't want to be in the horror business. They finally made this cheapie horror film a few years after Undying Monster, and I mean, look at that poster. What the hell? I get the ad department didn't do a lot of horror films, but yeesh. It looks like a kid made…

Well, now it that it looks like the Disney/Fox merger is likely to happen (barring it being blocked), let's look at some of the horror properties Disney could turn into franchises now. It says something about how sniffy Hollywood moguls were about horror that while they felt compelled to trot one out now and…

So I guess we can now officially call the '60s the "Decade for Horror Movies with 'Island' in the Title." And wow, is that poster writing a check that film can't cash. Amazing how less goofy the cartoon poster spider is than the one in the movie.

An odd little poster for an odd little film. A rip-off of a Frazatta poster? Surely the prostrate native guy in the foreground was a woman in Frazatta's version. That Stamp's 'character' is in a hood for 90% of his scenes, meaning the actual name actor probably only had to be on set one…