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Notes From Underground
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...
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The HorrorDads ask WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?
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...
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Marlene Dietrich in the Buff
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...
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8 Crawlers to Creep You Out.
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...
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Confessions of a Screenwriter, Part 2
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...
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Dimensional Musings
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...
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The Art of Murder
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...
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Treat yourself to… Mummy Movies!
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...
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The Holy Bray
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...
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Peeping Toms Everywhere
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...
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The Horror of Kansas: Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls
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...
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Not A Superstitious Sucker: Night of the Demon (1957)
“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,...
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Looking into the Eye of the Devil
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...
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V is for… Viy!
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...
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EYES OF FIRE: Nightmares of Our Ancestors
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,...
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Do You Dig “The Mole People”?
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...
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HEAD-TO-HEAD
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...
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Mogul Mania
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...
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Chaplin At Keystone
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...
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The Ice-Cold Angel Turns 75
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...
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