Monster of the Day

My friends and I actually watched this as our Christmas movie a few years ago and...wow. Still, Dan Haggerty's best Christmas-themed horror film, certainly. This still makes the monster look MUCH better than he does in the film, however.

Although released in 1990, this is an '80s action movie deep in its DNA. The villains are evil and monstrous, the kind of guys who after a heist blow up the entire building behind them to remove witnesses. Dolph Lundren is a cop on the edge with died black hair, which amounts to his…

This isn't nearly as well known as Tingler or Haunted Hill (no Vincent Price, duh), but it's my third favorite Castle. I'll have to show this at T-Fest some day.

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…