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Grand Guignol is a byword for shockingly grisly horror. Blood, guts, vomit, and other secretions—these were the trademarks of the dirty, little theatre in the Pigalle section of Paris. From 1897 until 1962, Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol ran millions of plays, most of which were […]
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Meet Igor, a hunchback stuck in a circus who also happens to be the caravan’s chief medical expert. Daniel Radcliffe gushed about this role for quite some time leading up to the film’s release and you can see why—he clearly had a blast playing one […]
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When one talks about British science fiction on TV and in the movies, the conversation must start with the name of Nigel Kneale. This extremely influential writer created the continuing character of Prof. Bernard Quatermass, who inspired later horror/SF icons like Kolchak the Night Stalker […]
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One of the East Coast’s best horror film fests—the Hudson Horror Show—returns to Poughkeepsie, NY in May with an all-35mm line up of genre classics. Read the full press release below, Horror Fans…. 03-15-2016—Now in its sixth year, Hudson Horror Show continues to be the […]
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Cary Elwes deserves a better fate in A Haunting in Cawdor. Distinguished veteran of The Princess Bride, Glory, and Saw, to name a few, here Elwes elevates a script long on potential but short on results. It’s a shame, too, given such a promising start. […]
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In high school, when The X-Files was in its original run, I had a friend who was a huge conspiracy buff. He was a devout Christian conservative; I was a more-or-less moderate atheist fascinated by Aztec religion. Between his conviction that the Book of Revelation […]
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Fern Patterson, meet Robert Klingher. Robert Klingher, meet the business end of a guillotine. Robert Klingher (Vincent Martella) is the overly possessive and downright annoying high school boyfriend we all knew in our formative teenage years. Perhaps one or two of us even was that […]
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Imagine if you will the Massachusetts wilderness. Although today pockmarked by small towns and industrial cities, Massachusetts was once a vast forest. In the 1630s, the Puritans, those somber-faced people in felt hats and white coifs, mostly kept to the coast, for outside of the […]
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The Rondo Awards honor the year’s best in classic horror research, creativity, and film preservation and for those of us who are involved in those pursuits, the Rondos are a big deal. It’s our Pulitzer. Our Oscars. So it goes without saying that we at […]
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Early success in Hollywood, whether for child actors or one-hit wonders, leads more often to ostracism than Oscars. Take the case of Alan Miller. Here’s a self-professed Shakespearian actor whose career has been stuck in reverse for 20 years. Is he waiting tables? No, he’s […]
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