Yep, the guy I came to know and love from NOBODY. (I hear he’s also in some TV series called BETTER CALL SAUL but I’ve not seen it.) They needed a photo of the character Bob, the nerdy horndog dude killed by Michael Myers immediately after having, um, relations with PJ Soles’ Linda in the…
A Tribute to HALLOWEEN
There are three Horror movies that, more than any others, more even than the classic Universal Monsters films or old Godzilla movies, shaped me into the man I am today. The first I’ve written about extensively: SALEM’S LOT. It warped me in all sorts of ways in 1979. Less than one year later, I would…
Frights of the Night
The Whole Backstage Theatre in the picturesque town of Guntersville, Alabama is located in a defunct and refurbished elementary school, a building both lovely and allegedly haunted, the perfect setting for a show like FRIGHTS OF THE NIGHT, a collection of dramatic readings performed by some really talented locals. Among the selections were excerpts from…
The Mask is Bluish!
For those who might not be all that interested in HALLOWEEN—the movie, not the holiday—I’m sorry that this week is so HALLOWEEN heavy. But with the new movie out, and so much material to explore (we discuss the parallels between Michael Myers and Count Dracula in a separate post), the bulk of this week’s postings…
Cushing and Lee and Carpenter
Did you know that Peter Cushing was offered the role of Dr. Sam Loomis in HALLOWEEN? He rejected the offer, rather his agent did, because they couldn’t afford to pay him all that much. Then they offered the role to Christopher Lee, who also turned it down. Lee later regretted this decision, as is alleged…
Remembering HALLOWEEN’s Debra Hill
With the new movie out in theaters and all the buzz it’s generating, it’s got me to thinking. I’ve been guilty of it myself, assigning all the credit for the original film and the creation of the franchise, to John Carpenter. How often do we see the original film referred to as “John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN”?…
On the Violence of HALLOWEEN KILLS
The purpose, as much as Normie would like to believe otherwise, is not just to get Normie’s knickers in a twist. Yeah, that for sure has happened; Normie is complaining aplenty, and loudly, about just how atwist those knickers currently are. But director David Gordon Green didn’t set out specifically to get Normie upset. Rather…
Revisiting the Classics: David Lynch’s DUNE
Being honest about it, I’d never seen this one all the way through. It used to come on Saturday afternoons all the time on our local independent TV station when I was growing up, and I caught it in snippets. I figured, with the new film coming up, I should give it an actual sit-down,…
Bela’s Mirror
I was glad to find out that Zak Bagans pronounces his last name as “bay-gens”. If it were “bag-ins” it would always make me think of Frodo and Bilbo and I wouldn’t want to associate the Hobbits with Bagans in my mind. I don’t like doing it even now, to make this point. No, I…
The Trailer for the Movie That Does Not Exist
I went and saw VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE for the second time this past weekend. Enjoyed it just as much the second go-round. Spotted a couple of little things that I missed during my first viewing. Stan Lee’s cameo, for instance. (Did you catch it? He’s on the front page of the newspaper in…