Häxan – Sweden, Denmark, 1922 – reviews
Häxan aka Witchcraft Through the Ages is being released by The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray on October 14, 2019. The classic 1922 Swedish-Danish silent film is docu-drama that contains nightmarish...
View ArticleDwarfs in Horror Cinema – article
For some, all the world’s a stage, for others, a battlefield. Circumstances sometimes mean that these two options are thrust upon a person, both socially and as a career. It’s one thing to possess what...
View ArticleThe Banana Splits Movie – USA, 2019
The Banana Splits Movie is a 2019 American horror feature film directed by Danishka Esterhazy (Level 16) from a screenplay written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas (My Super Psycho Sweet 16). The Blue...
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The Hearse Song aka The Worms Crawl In – song
“The Hearse Song” is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was initially popular as a World War I song, and was widely sung in the 20th century as an American and British...
View ArticleMy Name is Bruce – USA, 2007 – reviews
‘Fearless! Unstoppable! Ready for his close-up!’ My Name Is Bruce is a 2007 American comedy supernatural horror feature film, directed, co-produced by and starring cult actor Bruce Campbell. The film …...
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Hunting Humans: The Influence of The Most Dangerous Game – article
“A terrible thought crept like a snake into my mind – hunting was beginning to bore me.” Like calamitous oceanic buses, two shipwrecks have left Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrae) and a handful of other...
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Angus Scrimm – actor
Angus Scrimm (born Lawrence Rory Guy; August 19, 1926 – January 9, 2016) was an American actor and author, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror film Phantasm and its sequels....
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The Golem: How He Came into the World – Germany, 1920 – overview and reviews
The Golem: How He Came into the World – original title: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam – is a 1920 German silent horror feature film co-directed by Paul Wegener with Carl Boese from a screenplay...
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THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG (1926)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1926 British silent thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. Based on a...
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H.P. Lovecraft – author
Howard Phillips Lovecraft aka H.P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown...
View ArticleTHE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) Eureka 4K restoration Blu-ray release
The Cat and The Canary, Paul Leni’s ground-breaking masterpiece of early cinematic horror, will be released by Eureka Entertainment on April 23, 2024. The film is presented for the first … The post THE...
View ArticleH.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos – article
Cthulhu is a fictional deity created by writer H.P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. … The post H.P....
View ArticleDwight Frye – actor
Dwight Iliff Frye (February 22, 1899 – November 7, 1943) was an American stage and screen actor, noted for his appearances in the classic horror films Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible...
View ArticleThe Synth of Fear: Horror and Sci-Fi Films with Synthesizer Scores – Article
Electronically produced sound has been available to adventurous film composers since the silent era. Among the earliest electronic instruments were the Ondes-Martenot (invented in 1928), which produced...
View ArticleNOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922) Reviews and free online
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is a 1922 German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The movie, shot in 1921 … The post NOSFERATU: A...
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