Posts by Ken Begg

Booo! (or, the Essence of William Castle)

The old "Rig up a fake skeleton on lines and chase your murderous wife around with it until she falls in the acid bath" trick. What an easy to use rig! And those lines are all but invisible!

Nautical ghosts? Sign me up!

A ghost *and* a skeleton! Why choose? This one also has a little holiday flair.

Man, I really hope he's insured for that.

Well, at least she's not a backseat driver.

  DC was known for always pumping up sales of their superhero comics by putting a gorilla on the cover (hence Grodd, Titano, etc.). For their supernatural (very light) horror books, it was skeletons, skeletons, skeletons. You're getting no complaints from me. Just from Ghosts--this is the very first cover of that book--I could…

Then he ties her to some railroads...himself! That's one handy killer robot. What I'll almost remember about this movie (which isn't saying much), is that if you ever wanted to see Walter Keonig in cinema's least motivated sex scene, here's your change.

Not a lot more Ash vs Evil Dead monsters yet, unless I just keep doing Deadites. Luckily, Campbell was in plenty of movies with monsters.