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- Shiverin' 6: Great Episodes of Horror Television
Doing a list-style feature can be an easy way to generate content. I like the idea in principle, but I try to avoid presumptuous "best of" lists when I can (and sometimes, I'll admit, I can't). With this in mind, I've concocted ...
Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-06-08 21:32 - 9 comments
- "Sweeney Todd" Nominated for Three Oscars, Including Best Actor
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominees for the 80th Academy Awards (aka the Oscars). Although the Academy rarely honors the horror genre outside of Best Makeup, this year they've recognized Johnny Depp's turn as ...
Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-01-22 09:28 - 1 comment
- Remake Planned for "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
Bloody-Disgusting posted the news that Darkstone Entertainment is putting together a remake of famed bad director Edward D. Wood, Jr's magnum opus Plan 9 from Outer Space in celebration of that film's 50th Anniversary. The new movie will ...
Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-05-27 11:06 - 2 comments
- Tartan USA Closes Doors
Variety Asia Online reports that Tartan Films USA, the American branch of UK-based Tartan Films, appears to have shut down. All of its assets, including office furniture and the company's 101-title film library, were auctioned off on May 19th ...
Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-05-27 11:35 - 2 comments
- Ben Chapman 1925 - 2008
Over at the Classic Horror Film Boards (no relation to Classic-Horror.com), Tom Weaver reported that Ben Chapman, the actor who performed as the Creature in the on-land sequences of Creature from the Black Lagoon , died this morning (Febru ...
Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-02-21 11:46 - 5 comments
- Dreyer's "Vampyr" Coming to Criterion DVD in July
Criterion Collection has announced the upcoming release of a two-disc special edition of Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 undead opus Vampyr . The film itself will be presented in its original 1.19:1 aspect ratio (pillarboxed) from a new, restor ...
Blog entry - Nate Yapp - 2008-04-18 10:19 - 2 comments
- The Ape (1940)
Some films are worth 1000+ words of analysis. Some films are worth 750+ words of snark. Some films are not The Ape or any number of other cheapie horror films made by Monogram Pictures in the 1940s. While there may be room for detailed a ...
Movie - Nate Yapp - 2006-10-30 01:00 - 0 comments
- Blood Freak (1972)
Ed Wood would have been mighty proud of this absolutely insane little film. H. G. Lewis , its other obvious inspiration(?), might have been just a touch disappointed. Fans of cult cinema sho ...
Movie - Nate Yapp - 2002-09-26 01:03 - 0 comments
- The Beyond (1981)
My casual dislike for Italian director Lucio Fulci has been well documented. I thought that City of the Living Dead was atrocious, that Zombie was fun if slightly derivative, an ...
Movie - Nate Yapp - 2001-09-25 22:08 - 0 comments
- The Black Room (1935)
It is difficult to find many horror films made within a few years of Frankenstein (1931) where Boris Karloff is not wearing some kind of monstrous makeup. Even in The Black Cat (1934), his character wears a faux widow's peak to sugges ...
Movie - Nate Yapp - 2007-04-03 00:00 - 0 comments