Category Archives: Dracula

Midnight, one more night without sleepingWatching 'til that morning comes creepingGreen Door, what's that secret your keeping? Jim Lowe's Green Door might not be a Christmas song, but it sure can feel like oneespecially inside the festive action of Dracula Cha Cha Continue reading →

While people all over the world were celebrating Christmas, the developer behind Apollo for Reddit released a big update for the app, adding lots of new features. Head below for the full details on whats new. Continue reading →

Shudder is starting off 2022 with a fresh batch of original and exclusive offerings, along with plenty of great classics. After the excitement of Halloween and the chilling holiday horror the streaming platform gave us over the past few months, Shudder is staying strong with its January schedule. Lets take a look at whats coming up. Continue reading →

Louisiana is Anne Rices Transylvania, but she knew it far more intimately. Stoker researched his titular characters origin in broad strokes Continue reading →

According to Fat Man Beyond, producer Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) has revealed that the feature film Renfield, which will focus on Draculas servant, will be fun and extremely violent. Were making a really cool movie for Universal [Pictures] which will focus on Renfield. Itll be a story about him as Draculas servant, and well show you how bad the job is. Continue reading →

December 13, 2021 Dracula, Frankenstein, the invisible man Two sets celebrate the studios classics of fantastic cinema. Forget the sluggish reboot of the Mummy with Tom Cruise, the grueling remakes of remakes, and the failure of the Dark Universe franchise which intended to exhume the icons of fantasy cinema (Dracula, Frankensteins monster, the invisible man, the werewolf, the mummy, the creature du lac noir), having made the rich hours of the Universal studio from the 30s to the 60s. Project dead and buried, it seems, unless the success ofInvisible Man (2020), a thrilling re-reading of the myth of HG Wells at the time of #MeToo, has not changed the situation In the meantime, the best way to resuscitate princes of darkness, hairy lycanthropes, bastard offspring of science without conscience and other stars of the thrill is still to return to the source, thanks to two boxes bringing together the best of the Classic Monsters catalog Continue reading →

A wolf and a star. What does that mean? Larry Talbot December 12th, 1941 Continue reading →

Last week I binge watched theGrioTVsmarathon of blaxploitation Pam Grier moviesand realized that I know nothing about blaxploitation films and that Pam Grier was pretty amazing. This week, the trek down memory lane continues as theGrio TV had me review Blacula(1972),Scream Blacula Scream(1972),Sugar Hill(1974) and the truly disturbingJDs Revenge(1976). Full disclosure, I know as much about Black horror films as I do about blaxploitation films in general, which is little to nothing, and most of what Ive seen I didnt like Continue reading →

Is a movie about Nic Cage being Nic Cage genre? The obvious answer is no, but Id argue that Nic Cage is a genre unto himself, and what could be more in the genre of Nic Cage than the actor playing a fictional version of himself in an action-comedy called The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Continue reading →

"Trying to explain to young students who already feel like they have failed, why Jane Eyre is so important to them, is borderline abuse," says lecturer Stephen Tuffin Image: Publicity Picture) This week, in a classroom near you, a baffled teacher will attempt to convince a disillusioned group of GCSE English students that learning why Jane Eyre doesnt think Mr Rochester loves her, is going to make the world of difference to their futures. Why? No one knows. Continue reading →