As I’ve said previously, I think the stately pace of Caligari and Nosferatu add a genuine nightmare quality to them. If I were to pick one horror silent that comes closet to… Read Article →

And with Phantom of the Opera the world gets its first bonafide horror star in Lon Chaney. Although that reputation basically rests on two films, this and Hunchback of Notre Dame (back… Read Article →

Still one of the best vampire films. Vampyr is pretty great too.

It’s nearly October, and time to start planning your Halloween viewing. I like to start old school. And you don’t get much better than this. If you haven’t seen it, or seen… Read Article →

Or when making movies, apparently. Well, the first watch party went pretty well. I had stumbled across a movie, last minute, a Korean kaiju film I’d never heard of. So I switched… Read Article →

Marvel, even pre-Internet, wisely headed off getting a ton of letters from pedants like me yelling, “He’s not Frankenstein!!” We recently learned, though, that all the ‘Monster’s’ [named by a patriarchal cisnorm… Read Article →

I know we’ve talked about these before, but….  So Dell, during that period when the Adam West Batman show was super-hot, decided (I can see the guy pitching this: “You know who… Read Article →

So Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein went from this… to this….. Both versions are good, actually. The former is pulpy and often surprisingly gruesome. The latter is very much a gentle kid’s comic, closer… Read Article →