Happy Halloween 2011 From the Catalogue of Curiosities!

It’s hard to believe that Halloween day is here already. Although I wasn’t able to post as much as I would have liked this year, I had fun nonetheless, and as always with the Countdown to Halloween, half the fun is reading what other writers are posting. Stay tuned in November, as I will have some scary [...]

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Frankenstein-O-Rama

What is it about Mary Shelley’s creation that continues to endure, to transform, to inspire an entire cottage industry of creativity since its publication in 1818? In many ways Frankenstein is a universal story, a story about the pitfalls of being human. Sufficed to say, whatever its allure, Shelley’s Modern Prometheus continues to amble on; the story updated, revised, expanded upon. With all of that [...]

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Vincent Price, Master of the Macabre

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Halftone Horrors Part Four

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The Living Dead Are Ready to Party: The Return of the Living Dead Poster

Perhaps it’s the great, mid-eighties, semi-punk soundtrack, or the broad, slapstick nature of many of the best moments in the film, or that weirdly comical scene in which the punk girl dances nude in the graveyard, but The Return of the Living Dead (1985)—Dan O’Bannon’s offshoot of the original Night of the Living Dead (1968)— is a high water mark [...]

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Music For a Giallo Evening

Over at the film blog groove-machine that is Cinebeats, Kimberly Lindbergs has been making horror-themed music compilations all month long (part of The Countdown to Halloween) and her latest, Giallo Note, might just be the most inspired installment. Gathering music from a wide spectrum of Giallo films, you’ll hear pieces from Morricone to Goblin and dive [...]

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Muppets and Misfits: Muppet Rawk 3, Part 2

Continued From Part One: One of my earliest love affairs with a music genre was with punk, and The Misfits were among my favorites. Songs about horror B-movies, backed with fast, driving music enveloped by the melodic, Roy Orbison-tinged vocals of Glenn Danzig, the Misfits held sway over my listening choices for many years. So when [...]

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Muppets and Misfits: Muppet Rawk 3, Part 1

To say that the Muppets, especially the Muppet Show, had a giant impact on my life—particulary early on—would easily be an understatement, and the fact that everyone I know (and I mean, everyone I know) that is my age, have the same affection, the same utter reverence for Jim Henson’s amazing, hilarious, unmistakable , everlastingly wonderful creations, goes without saying. [...]

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Posters of the Damned Part 2: The Boris Karloff Edition

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Birth of the Cool: Barbara Steele

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