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Tag Archives: Hammer Horror

The Marvel House Style Comes for “Werewolf By Night”

Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is where the wheels have started to come off the cart for me. With new series and movies seemingly every few weeks and too many of them playing out like advertisements for other series and movies (looking at you, Loki), the projects that grab hold of me these…

October 12, 2022 in A Bomb in the Lasagna, Movie Review.

Second Breakfast Octoberween: The Lives and Deaths of Count Dracula, Part 3

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…

October 31, 2021 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

Second Breakfast Octoberween: The Lives and Deaths of Count Dracula, Part 2

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…

October 24, 2021 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

Second Breakfast Octoberween: The Lives and Deaths of Count Dracula, Part 1

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.…

October 17, 2021 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

A Bomb in the Lasagna: The Original Castlevania is The Perfect Halloween Game

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…

October 17, 2019 in A Bomb in the Lasagna, Movie Review.

Second Breakfast: It’s Always Time for a Peter Cushing Double Feature

Yeah, I know it’s the middle of May, but guess what. Peter Cushing is always seasonally appropriate. Anyway, it’s been kind of gloomy here lately. More than that, and more importantly, how is a person expected to go a year between Halloweens? I mean, just what the hell do you expect me to do with…

May 22, 2016 in Movie Review, Second Breakfast.

Second Breakfast/Octoberween: A Bit of Cushing and Lee

And the Octoberween celebration continues. I’ve been pretty busy lately, juggling school and work like so many juggling balls… two, I suppose. Day in and day out it’s just one thing after another and seldom, so seldom, do those things have anything at all to do with Halloween. Every now and then, perhaps, I can…

October 11, 2015 in Movie Review, Octoberween, Second Breakfast.

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