Zah-om-om-bays! Zah-om-bays! Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! “Japanese Scientists Claim Vaccine Removes ‘Zombie’ Cells Behind ‘Aging-Related Diseases’”. So proclaims the headline of this linked article. We all know where this is going, don’t we? We’ve all seen that movie. The only thing remaining in question is whether this new vaccine will transform recipients into vampires, as…

I’ve been saying it for years. Literally, for years. Norman Reedus is the perfect choice to play Ghost Rider. The real Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze. (Look, I understand the need for diversity, and Robbie Reyes is an interesting enough character in his own right, but he isn’t Ghost Rider. He’s *a* Ghost Rider, maybe, but…

It’s not news to any self-respecting Horror fan that BLACK CHRISTMAS, the classic 1974 Slasher flick that helped birth the entire cinematic phenomenon, was inspired by an urban legend. A killer calling a babysitter, and when she in turn calls the police, they call back upon tracing the call to warn her that THE CALLS…

That’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe, if you didn’t know. The self-contained universe of Marvel-owned—which really means Disney-owned, since the House of Mouse made the genius move of buying Marvel Comics back some several years ago (talk about a wise investment!)—superheroes and villains. Before the days of Marvel/Disney, though, Marvel, the comicbook company, had licensed out…

There you go, Hollywood screenwriters. I just penned the title of a fantastic movie for you. You’re welcome. Mummies with golden tongue coverings in their mouths were recently discovered at the Oxyrhynchus archaeological site in El Bahnasa, Egypt. The golden tongues were to allow the deceased to speak to Osiris, the Egyptian lord of the…

Well, I’ve always said, if you’re going to do a remake, make the remake different from the original, or else why bother. Nobody wants a retread, unless there’s a valid reason for it. Like, if special effects have progressed to a large degree, for example, or if…y’know, I can’t actually think of any other valid…

Back during the glory days of DARK SHADOWS, when the show was ruling the daytime airwaves, show creator Dan Curtis, who really had no idea just what kind of lightning he’d captured in a bottle with that program, had the idea of doing a version of Charles Dickens’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL with his cast of…

It’s a given that Sony will be using Spider-Man in their upcoming movies. That the wall-crawler will eventually encounter Venom and Morbius is certain; it’s only a matter of time. But the recent ending—SPOILER ALERT!!!—of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME, makes it look less likely that the Spider-Man they will be encountering will be the Spider-Man…

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (which is freakin’ fantastic, by the way, if you’re one of the few people who hasn’t seen it yet) just broke all the rules. Second biggest opening in cinematic history, biggest ever December opening, biggest ever opening for a Sony film. And the pandemic? Fuggeddabowdit! The most optimistic prognosticators had suggested…

The renaissance of the classic Universal Monsters continues! Now it’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, the original (second only to the Hunchback of Notre Dame) Universal Monster, getting set for a reboot! Here’s the official skinny: “This is set it in the sultry nightlife scene of modern day New Orleans, the world of jazz, R&B,…