I do not speak Spanish, so… not sure if the title of this post actually means anything. My apologies. Octoberween is a time for monsters, and where there are monsters, there really ought to be monster-fighters. Though I have repeatedly said—and maintain—that Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing is the greater monster-fighter ever put to screen, I’d…
When we last saw our dear Count Dracula, he’d just died the illest death. So sick. Scars of Dracula (1970) gave Count Dracula plenty to do: savage murders, commanding animals, drinking blood, and—most importantly—he overcame that most horrid of existential obstacles: teenagers named Paul. Capping that all off with pretty rad demise, the Count was…
Last week, we began by watching one really good Dracula movie and one pretty good Dracula movie, and we learned that with the absence of Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing, Christopher Lee’s Dracula is unable to die in a particularly dignified fashion. But, he has five more appearance in this franchise, so plenty of opportunity to…
By 1958, American movie studios had largely gravitated away from the classic monsters that ruled the horror genre in the ’30s and ’40s. Until slashers became dominant in the late 1970s, American horror merged in elements of sci-fi, and plucky young heroes battled aliens and nuclear mutants instead of the supernatural, for the most part.…
The Halloween season brings with it many rituals and traditions, but there is one above all others that I steadfastly keep. At least once during this spookiest of months, I sit down either by myself or with a friend and try my best to beat the original Castlevania video game in one sitting. Originally released in Japan in…
A few weeks ago an indie horror movie called The Witch (for a full review click here) hit theaters in the US, which means that it only just came out in the UK a few days ago. I saw it, I liked it, and—truly the mark of any good film—it made me think. What did…
Few movie concepts appeal to me quite as immediately as the one behind the 1987 cult classic The Monster Squad does: a club of misfit kids obsessed with horror movies band together to fight classic movie monsters. Throw in a Shane Black script and –much to my delight– a charmingly bad rap theme, and you have the raw ingredients…
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