A sunny spring afternoon may not seem like the best time to visit the set of a vampire show, but Moonlight vampires don’t burst into flames at the first hint of UV light.  They just have to wear sunglasses and they suffer from ...

Blog entry - Emily Langton - 2008-05-09 00:04 - 19 comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

personal data Lon Chaney Jr. February 10, 1906 July 12, 1973 Most of the classic Universal Studios unforgettable fiends from the 1930s and ‘40s were played, at different times, by mult ...

Person - Eric Miller - 2008-07-01 14:10 - 0 comments

When you get right down to it, most mummy movies are more or less the same. Guy becomes mummy, mummy is awakened, mummy discovers reincarnated princess that he loved back in good 'ol Egypt and mummy deals with unrequited love and undead emo. ...

Movie - Julia Merriam - 2008-07-02 01:01 - 0 comments

Many attempts have been made to dramatize the tale of Jack the Ripper, but Jesus Franco's 1976 effort into the subject proves to be one of the best. Our killer is given a sense of duality and warped motivations that surpass those provided to ...

Movie - Shaughn Ander - 2008-05-14 10:07 - 0 comments