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Horror Comics and Fantastic Art • Repurposing the comic book and fantasy art...
Folks, shared enthusiasms are great -- I'm a huge comic book fan, too -- but the Classic Horror Film Board needs to be fundamentally about horror, science fiction and fantasy. In comic book...
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'80s, '90s Horror & Sci-Fi • HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS
With a title like that, you hardly need a movie!HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS, 1980s schlock iframe Ah, VHS tapes. They have vanished like last year's snowmen, as not only don't video stores stock VHS...
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Books and Magazines • FANGORIA #22
FANGORIA #22 looks ready to howl: Writes contributor Michael Gingold:I'm honored to have the cover story on the newsstand edition of FANGORIA #22, especially as it marks Larry Fessenden's long-overdue...
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Books and Magazines • TERROR OF THE LEOPARD MEN
Leopard Men again -- I hate those guys!This was an interesting little book from 1951. There doesn't seem to be much information available about Juba Kennerley, but he seems to a British writer...
View ArticleFinal Farewells • Norma Barzman, "The Locket" writer, Blacklist...
Her (semi) genre (un)credit was the edgy 1947 noir The Locket. She and her husband Ben (who passed in 1989), writer of the 1948 message-fantasy The Boy With Green Hair, moved to Europe after being...
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Horror Film Stars • Karloff in Love?
I found this still in the wonderful Borgo Pass podcast page on Facebook. I had never seen it before. It's a cut scene from THE MUMMY (1932), with Zita Johann during the flashback of Im-Ho-Tep's sinful...
View ArticleOff Topic Discussions From Another World • Francis Goes to the Races (1951)
Francis helps Donald O'Connor pick winning horses and save breeder Cecil Kellaway and daughter Piper Laurie win the big race and thwart gangsters trying to stop them. Decent entry and I liked the...
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'60s Horror and Sci-Fi • Gegege no Kitarou (1968)
Japanese cartoon movie that was basically 2 episodes, 5 & 6, of a TV series strung together. Kitarou is a boy with has super strength, when a giant sea monster is discovered he a scientist are...
View ArticleTV Terrors • LOT. NO. 249 May Be His Final Ghost Story for Christmas, Fears...
YeeshHere’s the story from Radio Times.Every year Gatiss jumps through hoops to get ever-dwindling funding from the BBC. Supposedly the BBC sometimes demands from Gatiss a second project in which they...
View ArticleTV Terrors • A Vampire in the Family (2023)
New comedy series from Brazil starts streaming this week - looks promising “When a fainthearted ex-soccer player learns his brother-in-law is a vampire with world domination plans, he must gather his...
View ArticleComing Soon • Mallari (2023)
Not many people know this, as Michael Caine might say, but Juan Severino Mallari, a priest, was the first recognised Filipino (pinoy) serial killer (1812). Piolo Pascual's eponymous movie shows...
View ArticleCurrent Films • Where the Devil Roams (2023)
In the last ten years, the Adams Family have become the go-to team for independent movies. The emphasis is on how horror in everyday life becomes normalised (unemployment, addiction, mental illness)...
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CHFB Member Reviews • Diabeł (1972) aka The Devil
Diabeł (1972) aka The DevilA surreal trip thru scenes imbued with obscure personal and political symbolism. That the Socialists considered the film dangerous there can be no doubt, as this was the...
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CHFB Member Reviews • Evil Dead Trap (1988) aka Shiryō no wana
Evil Dead Trap (1988) aka Shiryō no wanaWith an opening that would give Lucio Fulci wood showing eye trauma SPX so well done that one must be familiar with real footage of it in order to identify...
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Books and Magazines • Famous Monsters is Back; pre-order new issue
The first issue of the latest incarnation of Famous Monsters is available for pre-order.From their Captain Company social media:https://shop.famousmonsters.com/product ... s-magazineWe're Back!!! Pre-...
View ArticleWelcome to the CHFB • Hello all newbie here
Hi everyone happy I found this forum, huge fan of horror genre bought my 1st Creature Features guide back in '95 Just ordered the 2000 edition can't wait to go through it.Fav horror Halloween...
View ArticleFinal Farewells • Ingrid Steeger
German actress, comedienne and model, almost unknown here but a major celebrity in her home country. Her only genre credit, as far as I can tell, is the krimi The Gorilla of Soho.statistics: Posted by...
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Horror Comics and Fantastic Art • Cap (and others) vs. monsters
Over in the "repurposing" thread, this exchange was raised:countplastica:Allen Champion wrote:So many of the Golden Age Superhero comics have intense horror elements (like the first 25 issues of...
View ArticleComing Soon • James Wan Adapting Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu for the Screen
It will be interesting to see what he comes up with.https://filmstories.co.uk/news/james-wa ... f-cthulhu/statistics: Posted by GaryP11111 — 8:48 PM - 1 day ago — Replies 2 — Views 286
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Films of 2000s & 2010s • Last Christmas (2019)
Last Christmas (2019)While the gimmick might be telegraphed not just by the title but also by its soundtrack, it was instead spoiled to me on The Flophouse Podcast. No, this isn't really the sort of...
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