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Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl
I grew up with parents who loved music and many of their favorite records were film soundtracks. On any given evening you could hear popular songs from movie musicals like West Side Story (1961), My...
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Treat yourself… to THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK
Now that it’s officially Fall, the Halloween Countdown can begin in earnest. Mind you, we weirdos begin our Halloween Countdown beginning on October 32nd but we keep that clock watching to ourselves...
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John Frankenheimer’s The Extraordinary Seaman – How Bad Could It Be?
I’m a big admirer of John Frankenheimer’s early work from such live TV dramas as The Comedian (1956) and Days of Wine and Roses (1957) to All Fall Down (1962), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The...
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Northwest Cinemas
I’m visiting Portland for the weekend and was originally planning on interviewing the TCM V.P. of New Media about his erotic fantasies involving Joe Eszterhas, but he decided to stay in Atlanta...
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My Little Piece on Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces, a seminal work of the Film School Generation, was originally released 40 years ago this month. In recognition of its anniversary, a restored 35mm print is making the rounds of art...
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The 48th New York Film Festival, Part 2
The Social Network, the opening night selection at the 2010 New York Film Festival (and opening nationwide October 1st), consists of men (and one girl) talking in rooms and around tables. Facebook...
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Tony Curtis (1925-2010)
“I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.” – Tony Curtis Tony Curtis, who died on September 29th at age 85, never seemed to be at rest. Even in repose and in old age, he...
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It’s Lovecraft Season
Like many horror aficionados I enjoy reading horror fiction as well as watching horror movies. And as summer makes way for autumn I’ve been indulging in a bit of both. Much like my fellow Morlock,...
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Brides, Brides, everywhere a Bride, breakin’ up the scenery, changin’ my mind!
Tonight at 9:30 pm EST (6:30 Pacific time), Turner Classic Movies will show THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960), Terence Fisher’s follow-up to Hammer Studios’ HORROR OF DRACULA (UK: DRACULA, 1958), as part of...
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Bette Davis is THE NANNY
Hammer Studios were always experts at following cinema fads and providing their own particular spin on a popular genre quickly to satify fans and take advantage of moviegoing trends. Besides the steady...
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Buggin’ Out
TCM’s spotlight on Hammer Horror this month gives me the opportunity to give a special shout-out to one of my personal favorites: Five Million Years to Earth (aka: Quatermass and the Pit, 1967). It...
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Dark Romance: Hammer’s The Curse of the Werewolf
‘Tis the season for fright nights, fright fests, and fright fans. Chicago is a horror kind of town, and between Facets’ own Fright School, the 24-hour horror marathon at the Music Box Theater next...
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The Age of Senseless Violence: The Damned (1963)
Every Friday night this month, TCM is showing a slate of Hammer Horror films, so we at Movie Morlocks have been saluting the venerable production company’s work. Hammer Films, launched in 1934, has an...
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“Nothing can eat your soul!”
I must begin this with a confession. I’m obsessed with Hammer films. I love the “Studio That Dripped Blood” unconditionally so I was thrilled to learn that TCM was planning on showing Hammer films...
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Treat yourself to… MARK OF THE VAMPIRE!
I’m not supposed to like Tod Browning’s MARK OF THE VAMPIRE (1935), much less love it, but I do. Love it, I mean… and what’s not to love? For the price of admission you get Bela DRACULA Lugosi,...
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William Klein’s The Little Richard Story – Not on DVD
Those who follow the current art scene and are well versed in art history know William Klein as one of the most influential American photographers to emerge in the fifties along with his contemporary...
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Argento’s Witches and Jungian Sighs
“Witches always fascinated me; I don’t believe in the devil, in the movies he always makes me laugh… What’s more, Suspiria is heavily influenced by Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; in an early draft I...
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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Part I
It occurred to me recently that I know a lot of talented people, which is one of the blessings in my life. I know or work with artists, filmmakers, musicians, and writers of all types, including my...
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Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker Collection
The Tarnished Angels (1957) is one of Douglas Sirk’s greatest accomplishments, and it was not available on DVD in the United States until last month (one had to nab Region 2 DVD editions in France and...
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Dancing The Mephisto Waltz
The legend of Faust is one of the oldest occult tales in the Western world. This German fable has been the basis of countless plays, poems, novels, musical compositions, works of art and films....
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