OK, I don’t even know what’s happening here, but….skellington! Last day of 2024!

The 1979 Salem’s Lot telemovie also featured a Nosferatu-like vampire, entirely different from the novel’s urbane master vampire. I think they’ve adapted Salem’s Lot a couple of times since, but they disappeared… Read Article →

Hey, so, Shadow of the Vampire. I’m not featuring it because a) I saw it at it’s premiere showing at the Music Box Theatre, where, b) a young lady in the audience… Read Article →

Hello! I hope everyone had a great Christmas. No Watch Party next week, I’ll be catsitting at my sister’s. So…Jan 10th, I think? That will be the next one. I didn’t run… Read Article →

The monster to revisit this week is Count Orlok, the barely (and legally indistinguishable) stand-in for Dracula in 1922 seminal Nosferatu. I’ve said that roughly 90% of horror movie tropes originated from… Read Article →

I mentioned Leviathan yesterday, but again, I really get much out of it. It was a turgid remake of The Thing, I thought. Still, this was the last great era for practical… Read Article →

I was very excited at the time. I’ve always loved sea movies, and obviously particularly loved sea monster movies. Godzilla is great, always, but when he comes up out of the water…c’mon…. Read Article →

If seek revenge you should dig two graves. Or, in this case, a lot more than that. The central idea stands, though, as the seeking of revenge, no matter how justified, leads… Read Article →

Remember fun kid’s horror movies? The ’80s was chockablock with them. I saw The Gate in the theater, and I remember it being pretty fun, mixing a bunch of campy tropes like… Read Article →