The World's First Monster Fan Magazine
As any Whoaholic worth his or her salt knows, Doctor Who began its 32nd season (or sixth season, depending on how you view the canon of the good Doctor’s exploits) on April 23, broadcast day-and-date for the first time on both the BBC and BBC America. Complete with a touching tribute to the recently passed Elisabeth Sladen, the… [Continue Reading]
What’s better than one monster? How about two? Come to think of it, aren’t three monsters even better? Four? More??? Whether we are talking about Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man, Jason Voorhees, or even Mega Shark, Monster Mashups have long been popular in chiller film history, so it’s high time that Ghouly Irv… [Continue Reading]
Wow. Is it that time again already? Seems like it was just yesterday. Oh well, let’s check and see what’s in the bag for us this month. Ooh, I like this one. A good low budget zombie film that is certainly not getting the credit it deserves. When it comes to zombie films, I’m all about… [Continue Reading]
An expert at scary clown trivia? Great! Jump in and help out the first contestants on Ghouly–that is, “Grouchy”–Irv’s quiz program! They appear to be having some trouble, and because Grouchy Irv has bet his life that they can answer correctly, their loss may be the Grim Reaper’s gain. We’ll be testing your knowledge about Laugh,… [Continue Reading]
An ooky childhood story: One day while hanging out with my best friend looking for something interesting to film with my Super-8 camera, I’d decided it would be fun to take my Evel Knievel doll (excuse me, action figure) and record the results of setting him ablaze. Certain that just taking a match to him wouldn’t… [Continue Reading]
How many fellow fright fans out there gave out with a howl of pride when Rick Baker was nominated for the Academy Award? (What? You’ve not watched The Wolfman??? Please rectify that immediately!) We inside the MovieFrightFare crypt had high hopes for the old-fashioned shocker starring Benicio del Toro as Lon Chaney, Jr. (ahem–as Lawrence… [Continue Reading]
By Fred Burdsall Fiend Without a Face first started out as a story that appeared in Weird Tales (possibly the best fantasy/horror fiction magazine ever) back in 1930 as “The Thought Monster” by Amelia Reynolds Long. The film’s director, Arthur Crabtree, also gave us Horrors of the Black Museum in 1959. A lone sentry on patrol… [Continue Reading]
No doubt this comes as four-year-old news to many Ray Harryhausen fans, but in the whirl and rush of so many DVD and Blu-ray releases of interest, I’d completely missed out on (or perhaps simply forgotten about) the fact that special effects genius Harryhausen had very recently given us the results of his ambitious efforts to colorize—yes,… [Continue Reading]
Welcome back, ghouly groupies! Your humble horror host has returned to re-open his little (and very devil-dog-eared) black book. Which gals of the scream screen will he pay proper tribute to in this follow-up to the original Boo-tiful Screamers program? Want some hints? You’ll hear mention of King Kong, Scream, Blacula, Scream, Bad Girls from Mars, and Cannibal… [Continue Reading]
By Fred Burdsall Back before the dinosaurs died off (sometime around 1968), a little film called Mad Monster Party made its way to my local theater, and like any kid…I had to see it. So, armed with some cash courtesy of my parents, I marched in and was handed a clip-on button that simply read “The… [Continue Reading]
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