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Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party
Betty Boop’s Hallowe’en Party is a 1933 American animated short film directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer. It stars Betty Boop, obviously. Plot: It’s Halloween, and Jack Frost (in...
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Mad Love aka The Hands of Orlac
Mad Love – aka The Hands of Orlac – is a 1935 American horror film, an adaptation of Maurice Renard’s story The Hands of Orlac. The film was directed by German-émigré film maker Karl Freund...
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H. P. Lovecraft – author
H. P. Lovecraft by Sean Phillips Howard Phillips Lovecraft aka H. P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of...
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Angus Scrimm – actor
Angus Scrimm (born Lawrence Rory Guy; August 19, 1926 – January 9, 2016) was an American actor and author, best known for playing the Tall Man in the 1979 horror film Phantasm and its sequels. Scrimm...
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One Frightened Night (1935)
‘Mascot’s mirthful mystery’ One Frightened Night is a 1935 American comedy mystery thriller film directed by Christy Cabanne (The Mummy’s Hand; Scared to Death) from a screenplay by Wellyn Totman,...
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Hunting Humans: The Influence of The Most Dangerous Game – article by Daz...
“A terrible thought crept like a snake into my mind – hunting was beginning to bore me.” Like calamitous oceanic buses, two shipwrecks have left Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrae) and a handful of other...
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Return to Sender: Human Sacrifice in History and Horror Films – article by...
The act of slaying one or more of your fellow human beings in a ritual, usually as a token to a God or spiritual ancestors, extends back to the first glimmers of the dawn of Man – the stranger fact is...
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Horror movie tag lines: The good, the bad and the indifferent
The art of selling a movie, particularly a horror movie, is often based on a distinctive and memorable poster campaign. An intriguing, horrific or even repellent image – aligned with a few keywords...
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Robert Bloch – writer
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee,Wisconsin. Bloch is best known as the...
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Christopher Lee – actor
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly seventy years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became best...
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Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
‘Sex and horror in one gigantic thrill show!’ Revolt of the Zombies is a 1936 American horror film directed and produced by the Halperin Brothers which stars Dean Jagger and Dorothy Stone. It is one...
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Human Sacrifice in History and Horror Films – article by Daz Lawrence
The act of slaying one or more of your fellow human beings in a ritual, usually as a token to a God or spiritual ancestors, extends back to the first glimmers of the dawn of Man – the stranger fact is...
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Dwarfs in Horror Cinema – article by Daz Lawrence
For some, all the world’s a stage, for others, a battlefield. Circumstances sometimes mean that these two options are thrust upon a person, both socially and as a career. It’s one thing to possess...
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William Peter Blatty – writer and filmmaker
William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an American writer and filmmaker. The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his most well-known novel; he also wrote the screenplay for the 1973...
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The Vampire Bat (1933)
The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American horror film directed by Frank R. Strayer (Condemned to Live; The Monster Walks) from a screenplay by Edward T. Lowe (House of Dracula; House of Frankenstein). The...
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The Hearse Song aka The Worms Crawl In – song
“The Hearse Song” is a song about burial and human decomposition, of unknown origin. It was popular as a World War I song, and was popular in the 20th century as an American and British children’s...
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The Brutal Practice of Head Shrinking – article
The practice of shrinking a human head is extremely dark. While numerous cultures have participated in the practice of headhunting, the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Peruvian Amazon Jivaro Indian Tribe did...
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Tower of London (USA, 1939)
Tower of London is a 1939 American historical and quasi-horror film produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee (Son of Frankenstein) from a screenplay by his brother Robert N. Lee for Universal Pictures....
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The Black Cat – USA, 1934
‘Things you never saw before or ever dreamed of!’ The Black Cat – aka The Vanishing Body (reissue) and House of Doom (UK title) – is a 1934 American horror film directed by Austrian-born Edgar G....
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The Phantom – USA, 1931
The Phantom is a 1931 American thriller film written and directed by Alan James (as Alvin Neitz). It stars Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams, Allene Ray, and Niles Welch. Review: An ‘Old Dark House’ thriller...
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