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A Marred Cord (Clunky Fellini pun...ignore it and keep moving...) 4 Jan 2012 | 06:01 pm
If you’re wondering why today’s film is called The Fifth Cord, the least likely way to go about getting an answer is by actually watching it. Still, it has an appeal of its own that makes you forget t...
Happy Holidays, Motherfuckers! 26 Dec 2011 | 10:18 am
In the words of my plush talking Taco Bell chihuahua, Feliz Navidad amigos! To celebrate the Yuletide cheer I thought I'd post a quick little scribbling that I employed as a morbid Christmas card a fe...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Trick 'R Treat 1 Nov 2011 | 01:47 pm
31 days. 31 chills. Frankly I’m surprised I made it. October turned out to be one of my busier months of late, and while I wouldn’t really be comfortable calling any of my posts from the “AAAAH!”ctobe...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Alice 31 Oct 2011 | 04:28 pm
Reportedly, children hated Lewis Carroll. Rather than thrilling them with his inventive imagination, he would drive them to tedium by speaking for hours on end about logical puzzles and mathematical p...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Island of Lost Souls 30 Oct 2011 | 04:59 pm
It’s been almost 80 years and half a dozen adaptations, but the 1932 original version of H.G. Wells’ Island of Dr. Moreau is still the most well-regarded. Charles Laughton is excellent and surprisingl...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Phantasm 29 Oct 2011 | 03:46 pm
When I started this whole damn thing it did not occur to me that I had scheduled two movies by director Don Coscarelli. In fact I only really included Incident On and Off a Mountain Road because it ha...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: The Abominable Snowman 28 Oct 2011 | 02:37 pm
A few years ago I saw a Canadian television program which put forth the theory that Sasquatches are in fact alien scouts dropped off by UFOs to take stock of our planet, either for research or to prep...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Ebola Syndrome 28 Oct 2011 | 11:40 am
After twenty seven straight days of watching horror movies you begin to think you can’t really be surprised anymore. That is only because you have not yet watched Hong Kong’s Ebola Syndrome. Wow. To ...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Haxan 27 Oct 2011 | 04:52 pm
One of the great things about silent films is the ability to choose your own soundtrack. For Haxan you’ll probably want to listen to “Hellfire” from Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame at least once. Not...
"AAAAH!"ctober Chills: Premature Burial 26 Oct 2011 | 04:18 pm
Ray Milland has a powerful and irrational fear of being buried alive. But you know, I have a feeling everything’s going to work out just fine for him… From the early to mid 1960s Roger Corman embarke...
