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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]
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]
Fellow monster fans, there’s a disturbing fact we must face around the same time each year: Few gift buyers immediately associate the post-Halloween holidays with horror movies! The everyday shopper can therefore be forgiven for not realizing that you’d be especially thrilled to receive one of your favorite chiller classics (past or present) in your… [Continue Reading]
The time has finally arrived. The last decade of dread to be afforded the “Terror-ific Trivia” treatment is a tough one to cover, indeed, and so your usual chiller companion Ghouly Irv has asked one of his sinister siblings to guest host and explore how our recent history has shaped the nature of modern horror… [Continue Reading]
Francis Ford Coppola wasn’t around to give writer W. Somerset Maugham his father’s famous advice about “stealing” from the best to create your own art, but mystic Aleister Crowley accused the British author of doing just that after he read Maugham’s 1908 novel, The Magician. Maybe it was just sour grapes—seeing as how Maugham’s fantasy-terror… [Continue Reading]
Regular viewers of this ghoulcast know that only two terror-ific decades remain as-yet-unexplored on the Weird Wheel. Which 10 years of terror will fate place in the lap of our favorite sinister cinema seer? Let’s waste no more time and find out! [media id=228 width=560 height=340] Spread the joy of this Terror-ific Trivia far and wide, monster kids!… [Continue Reading]
Last time I looked back at Galaxy of Terror and this month I tackle my favorite Corman production: Forbidden World, directed by Allan Holzman and starring Jesse Vint, June Chadwick and the spectacular Dawn Dunlap. Bounty hunter Mike Colby (Vint) is called to Xarbia to check out Subject 20, which was created in hopes of curing… [Continue Reading]
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