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Notes From Underground

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Tonight (Friday 10/15) begins the fifth season of our late night cult movie franchise, “TCM Underground.” This feat is pretty near and dear to my heart, as I was put in charge of programming the show when it first started five years ago. As a fan of cult movies, it’s obviously a big dream come [...]

The HorrorDads ask WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?

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HorrorDads Jeff Allard, Dennis Cozzalio, Greg Ferrara, Paul Gaita, Nicholas McCarthy and yours truly return to discuss the Narciso Ibanez Serrador’s seldom-discussed but oh-so-disturbing Iberian killer kid shocker QUIEN PUEDE MATAR A UN NINO, aka WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976).   NICHOLAS MCCARTHY: A while back when I was anticipating the birth of my [...]

Marlene Dietrich in the Buff

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Made during the early period of Marlene Dietrich’s career at Paramount, THE SONG OF SONGS (1933) is usually overlooked amid the Josef von Sternberg collaborations that made her famous such as The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930) and Shanghai Express (1932). Yet, it provides a fascinating look at Dietrich under a different director (Rouben Mamoulian) [...]

8 Crawlers to Creep You Out.

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I have a suggestion for Stephen Colbert and his March to Keep Fear Alive this October 30th, and I can sum it up in one word: “spiders.” Yes, I know he’s mainly afraid of bears and that he doesn’t seem to be particularly alarmed by eight-legged arthropods (he even had a California trapdoor spider after [...]

Confessions of a Screenwriter, Part 2

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After interviewing my screenwriting friends for this two-part series, I have a newfound respect for those who construct narratives and pen dialogue. All movies begin with an idea—a story—that should be familiar enough to have universal  meaning but original enough to spike interest and provoke thought. It’s a fine line to balance, and Hollywood movies [...]

Dimensional Musings

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Jackass 3D had a gigantic opening weekend, bringing in $50 million, almost twice as much as its predecessor. Two weeks previously I watched Joe Dante’s The Hole 3D at the New York Film Festival, which is still without a distributor. The bump in the Jackass money is not only attributable to the 3D premium pricing, [...]

The Art of Murder

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There seems to be a growing nostalgia for the VHS age that I can appreciate. I grew up watching videos and I treasure the hours I spent scouring the shelves of my local video rental stores looking for unusual old films to watch. I spent most of my time in the horror aisles since horror [...]

Treat yourself to… Mummy Movies!

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Once again I find myself in the lonely position of defending a personal pleasure which causes me no guilt at all, for all the contumely and horse laughs it may inspire in the rest of the world.  I speak, you should have deduced by now, of the Mummy.   Arguably the least loved member of [...]

The Holy Bray

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What if Jesus Christ was a donkey?         Films about animals or movies with them as the main protagonists are usually the province of Walt Disney and other family friendly productions such as The Sad Horse (1959) and March of the Penguins (2005). Other than the horror genre, though, there have been [...]

Peeping Toms Everywhere

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A nice 35mm print of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) is making the theatrical rounds thanks to Rialto Pictures. (Its next three screening engagements are in Boulder, San Diego, and Charlottesville.) Peeping Tom has interesting similarities to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Both were released the same year and feature seemingly shy and timid protagonists with murderous [...]

The Horror of Kansas: Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls

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Boo!  Happy Halloween. This week, cinephiles, horror buffs, and movie-lovers of all ages are descending on video stores, cranking up those Netflix queues, and scouring the Internet for suggestions for thrillers and chillers to watch in celebration of a holiday that is all about scares and dares—but in a fun way. The Movie Morlocks are [...]

Not A Superstitious Sucker: Night of the Demon (1957)

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“I detest the expression ‘horror film.’ I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it.”  - Jacques Tourneur, Positif The lead character in Tourneur’s Night of the Demon, psychiatrist Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews), declares that he is “not a superstitious sucker.” He is a sardonic skeptic of mystical powers and things [...]

Looking into the Eye of the Devil

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EYE OF THE DEVIL (1966) opens with a minute long montage that reduces the entire film down to a series of disorientating images. It’s an impressive and beautifully edited beginning that you might expect to see at the start of an Ingmar Bergman film or in the middle of an Eisenstein picture and it sets [...]

V is for… Viy!

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When you’re talking obscure horror movies you’ve got to know your audience.  Mention a movie that the general public might consider obscure – say John Hancock’s eerie LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971) or Dario Argento’s immortal SUSPIRIA (1977) – and you’re likely to elicit a groan from a true horror aficionado.  This isn’t snobbery [...]

EYES OF FIRE: Nightmares of Our Ancestors

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For the early settlers of this country, the New World offered freedom as well as the unknown…..     This was certainly true of the first colonists who had no idea what awaited them on these strange, new shores. And the story of “The Lost Colony,” a settlement on Roanoke Island that was sponsored by Sir Walter [...]

Do You Dig “The Mole People”?

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There’s nothing like a monster movie from your childhood to keep hold of your imagination LONG after you’ve grown up — waaay up!  Though it isn’t a horror movie per se – not a mummy or a ghost in sight — Universal’s 1956 feature The Mole People has some creepy scaly reptilian underground monsters that give the Morlocks [...]

HEAD-TO-HEAD

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Halloween has always been my favorite holiday and I usually glut myself on horror films during the whole month of October. This long procession of cinematic and horror-related indulgences will be topped off tonight with a Blu-Ray screening of Hitchcock’s Psycho (advance word on the transfer is very positive), but my Morlock contribution today will [...]

Mogul Mania

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Tonight begins TCM’s original documentary series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood, a seven-part series that will air every Monday till December 13, with each episode repeating on the following Wednesday. An ambitious, meticulously crafted interpretation of the history of American film, Moguls & Movie Stars focuses on the famous (movie stars) and [...]

Chaplin At Keystone

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  Flicker Alley has just released a monstrously funny box set of all extant shorts that Charles Chaplin made at the Keystone Film Studios. It is poetically titled CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE, and is now available for your perusal. The sketches housed therein are mean-spirited little scenarios of controlled chaos. Chaplin swats down the elderly and [...]

The Ice-Cold Angel Turns 75

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It’s hard to believe that Alain Delon has aged at all but on November 8th my favorite French actor will be celebrating his 75th birthday. His impossible beauty, quiet intensity and powerful magnetism have been immortalized on screen so he remains ageless in my mind. Like a modern day Dorian Gray, Alain Delon retains his [...]
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