In the early 1990s I was watching the syndicated Friday the 13th, The Series when I had a “Eureka” moment. The premise of that series had nothing to do with the film series save for the title… But what if…
Tag: Halloween
Movies, Reimaging the Reels
Re-Imaging the Reels: Fixing Halloween Ends
This is the first in a new series of articles revisiting films that could have been so much better. The movie opens with a tense flashback to the immediate aftermath of “Halloween Kills.” Michael Myers, severely wounded, stumbles as an…
Geek, Movies
The Evolution of Fear: The Halloween Movie Series and its five (!) Reboots
The Halloween movie series, with its chilling theme music and the relentless killer Michael Myers, has been a cornerstone of the horror genre since John Carpenter introduced it in 1978. Over the years, the series has taken several twists and…
Movies
Love and Hate in John Carpenter’s Horror: Dissecting “Christine” and “Halloween”
In horror cinema, two films stand out as examples of the intertwined themes of love and hate: John Carpenter’s “Christine” and “Halloween”. At first glance, both films may appear to be straightforward tales of horror, but beneath the blood and…
Geek, Movies
The Halloween movies, ranked
It’s that time of year, again. The night HE came home. I’ve been a fan of the Halloween movies for a long time, ever since I first saw the original on broadcast TV the weekend that Halloween 2 debuted in…
Geek, Movies
Why the “Halloween trilogy” is one of my guilty pleasures
I’m not ready for Halloween to be over. It’s not that I dislike Thanksgiving or Christmas… I just love the feel of the Halloween season. It’s not the candy, the costumes, or the foliage… It’s all of the above, and…
Geek, Movies, TV
Some Halloween videos for you…
First, Elvira and Vincent Price guesting on The Tonight Show… Vincent in a dramatic reading of Poe’s The Raven… A documentary on the making of the movie Halloween… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGeGU2tbdck And here’s a full Vincent Price movie, Madhouse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Aoh_W6EdI
Geek Ephemera
You asked for it! Monster Stationery!
From Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, an ad for Monster stationery. $2.75!
Geek Ephemera
You can have Zacherley… IN YOUR OWN HOME!
Zacherley was a television horror movie host in New York and Philadelphia in the 1950s and 60s, and he was one of the pioneers that helped make Elvira, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and many other shows/hosts possible. Zacherley developed quite a…
Geek Ephemera
Famous Monster Convention program from 1974!
In the spirit of Halloween, here’s the scanned program from the 1974 Famous Monsters Convention! I would have loved to have attended, unfortunately I was only four years old at the time…
Geek, Geek Ephemera, Movies
Famous Monsters of Filmland, Issue 1
Since Halloween is coming up, I thought it was appropriate to post this for everyone’s enjoyment – a downloadable PDF of Famous Monsters of Filmland’s first issue. Famous Monsters magazine influenced hundreds of filmmakers, from Joe Dante to Steven Spielberg,…
Geek, Movies, Neglected Cinema
Son of Dracula has great Nilsson songs, bad Nilsson acting
Some obscure films need to remain obscure. I’m a huge Harry Nilsson fan. HUGE. And when I found out many years ago that he starred in a movie called Son of Dracula, with Ringo Starr… well, I had to see…