Final Farewells • Roger Hill, comics historian, editor, artist
Comics fandom lost one of its most illustrious pioneers, Roger Hill, to cancer on Dec. 6 at age 75. He was a major EC fan, involved with the celebrated fanzines Squa Tront & EC Fan-Addict. He was...
View ArticleHorror Fiction • Solomon Kane vs a City of Vampires
"Hills of the Dead"I like the way Robert E Howard presented vampires. As in his story, "The Horror From the Mound", they were NOT sexy, seductive Goth idols that negative-minded teenagers could admire...
View ArticleFantastic Spies • LICENSE TO KILL (1989)
[You'd think each of the James Bond films would have their own threads here...] LICENCE TO KILL (1989)Dir: John Glen (not the astronaut)The second and last film with Timothy Dalton as James Bond. It...
View ArticleJapanese Giants • Godzilla's breath question
Cannot remember where but I once read a treatment that depicted Godzilla's atomic breath not, as usually seen, as a voluntarily employed weapon, rather an uncontrollable, randomly occurring, and very...
View ArticleCurrent Films • Egun (2023)
One of the best movies of 2023, Egun begins in a busy Lagos office. The CEO receives a package of juju objects and a message - if anyone tries to leave the office, they will die.Of course, the CEO is...
View ArticleFinal Farewells • Jack Hogan, Combat's "Kirby"
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View ArticleCurrent Films • LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND (2023)
Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke take their two kids on an impromptu vacation to a fairly remote rented home outside the city. Once there, strange things start to happen. While enjoying a day at the...
View ArticleCurrent Films • Pindam (2023)
What's the biggest film industry in the world in terms of admissions and numbers employed? It might surprise some to know it's Tollywood, the Telugu-language based cinema of Hyderabad.Fresh out of the...
View ArticleClassic Horror on Blu-Ray and DVD • Bela Lugosi Silent Films On DVD Question?
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View ArticleBirthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays • Happy 92nd Birthday to Rita Moreno
The Oscar-winning actress was born December 11, 1931. statistics: Posted by Kosmo13 — 4:19 PM - 1 day ago — Replies 2 — Views 258
View ArticleThe world of comics and Horror/ Fantasy Art • Why didn't Starman win the war?
Why didn't Starman win the war?[The comments about Marvel geniuses not using their inventions to, you know, cure cancer or end world hunger reminded me of this topic.]Now, the original Starman (the...
View ArticleOld Time Radio & Audio Horror • Try to keep a straight face, just try
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View ArticleHorror Fiction • Have you seen...THE YELLOW SIGN (*ack!*)
Not THE KING IN YELLOW? Can't we go see CATS instead?SPOILERS AHEADBut the worst is left unsaid...I don't know why this story troubles me, but it does. Probably, it's because the most powerful terrors...
View ArticleFinal Farewells • SF writer David Drake
The "Dean of Military Science Fiction" has died aged seventy-eight. He had been in poor health for a while, having announced his retirement from professional writing two years ago, but according to...
View ArticleFinal Farewells • Shirley Anne Field: Horrors of the Black Museum actress...
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View ArticleFinal Farewells • Jeffrey Foskett (musician)
Such sad news, even though I knew he had been ill for some time. Fabulous songwriter, singer, musician, and a really wonderful person. I had the pleasure of knowing him and exchanging CDs with him...
View ArticleShock Talk • Cesar Romero's Haunted Mouth
Romero narrates the world's weirdest dental hygiene movie, in full cackling Joker mode: iframe This triggered a kindertrauma flashback of those awful "plaque disclosing" tablets, fun to have a bloody...
View ArticleComing Soon • Sunrise (2024)
Starring the ever-reliable Guy Pearce (The Innocents, Prometheus, Don't be Afraid of the Dark), vampire flic Sunrise debuts in January 2024.The sheriff of a small town is faced with a vampire problem...
View ArticleThe world of comics and Horror/ Fantasy Art • Bonelli Editore
Luckily, for complex reasons, I speak Italian - thus it was that twenty years ago I discovered Bonelli comics of Milan (fumetti is the word for comics in Italian).By far the biggest Italian producer...
View ArticleClassic Horror on Blu-Ray and DVD • Best Ted Newsom Audio Commentaries
The late Ted Newsom did many DVD Audio Commentaries over the years before he passed away. I only listened to him twice, both in the Lugosi Enterprises DVD's of BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT & THE DEVIL BAT....
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