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Tim Lucas Interview

Nate Yapp — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:46:26 -0400

Scan through the reviews in Classic-Horror's Mario Bava Week and you'll see a certain name pop up over and over again: Tim Lucas, editor of Video Watchdog magazine. You'll also see plenty of references to "Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark", Lucas's self-published biography of the director, which came out in September.

Morbid Configurations: The Beauty of Bava

Nate Yapp — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:01:00 -0400

Using the camera and some tricks of light and perspective, Mario Bava created artistic masterpieces that were beautiful in motion and often more beautiful seen at a halting standstill. It's one thing to create a phenomenal photograph and quite another to present 24 a second for 80-100 minutes. Herein we present some visually striking moments from several of Bava's films from within the horror genre and from without. Each still is taken from a DVD screen capture and most are presented without additional comment.

Shocktober 2007: Mario Bava Week

Nate Yapp — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:01:00 -0400

Each week in October this year, as part of our Shocktober Classics event, we'll be featuring a different director who has significantly contributed to the horror genre, with new reviews for that director's films from Monday to Friday of that week. For our final celebration, we look at the Italian Maestro of the Macabre, Mario Bava.

Shocktober 2007: Lucio Fulci Week

Nate Yapp — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:38:28 -0400

Each week in October this year, as part of our Shocktober Classics event, we'll be featuring a different director who has significantly contributed to the horror genre, with new reviews for that director's films from Monday to Friday of that week. For the third week of October, we turn our gaze to Lucio Fulci, popularly referred to as "The Godfather of Gore."

Shocktober 2007: Wes Craven Week

Nate Yapp — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:08:44 -0400

Each week in October this year, as part of our Shocktober Classics event, we'll be featuring a different director who has significantly contributed to the horror genre, with new reviews for that director's films from Monday to Friday of that week. Our next master, Wes Craven, probably needs no introduction. Instead, we'll be posting a full biography for him in our Masters section on Saturday, October 12th.

Shocktober 2007: Roger Corman Week

Nate Yapp — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:59:11 -0400

The schedule for the month is as follows:

Coming Soon: The Shocktober Classics on Classic-Horror

Nate Yapp — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:54:35 -0400

Let's face it: Halloween isn't just about October 31st anymore. Years of relentless marketing have broken the holiday free of its conventional single-day celebration and now horror reigns for all 31 days of October.