A Look into a Cluttered Mind

     HG Wells' The Invisible Man  was inspired in part by references to invisible men in a WS Gilbert poem and Plato's Republic. It,...

     Guillermo del Toro wrote the screenplay to this film in the mid-80's as a film student at University of Guadalajara. It was influe...

      In 1947, a businessman and pilot named Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mt. Rainier in Washington state when he came across a bunch of ...

     I don't think I've done a David Cronenberg film during the 6 years I've been doing this, and that's a huge blindspot, ...

       It's that time of year again! Yes, boils and ghouls, it's the annual Masterpieces of Horror Theatre, where we look at horror...

    A couple years ago, I did a piece on this very blog lamenting that science fiction anthologies were not as common (relegated to season ...

     (Okay, a bit of explanation. I couldn't find Spirit of the Beehive  online anywhere. I assumed it was on Hulu, but for some reason...

        Before I discuss this, I will briefly discuss its writer and director Larry Cohen. Originally a TV writer and creator of shows like...

      HP Lovecraft "Herbert West-Reanimator" was originally published in Home Brew (a small fanzine run by a friend) in 1922. Cen...

      I talked a bit about Willis O'Brien (best known as the special effects director of the original King Kong) last time, and this fi...

     "The Beast from 20000 Fathoms" was a short story by Ray Bradbury originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1951. ...

          I mentioned last time the original went into the public domain due to a mishap regarding the title card and the copyright notice....

          By 1983, the slasher genre that had been popularized by films like Halloween and the original Friday the 13th  was waning in popu...

       So, this came from a realization, whilst planning out when I would review this and other Friday the 13th  films. After looking, I fo...

         When I was an early adolescent, I picked up a book at an airport called Z-Raptor.   Apparently, a sequel to another book called Z-...

       Romero intended this to be the Gone with the Wind  of zombie films. However, he had to scrap his original script when the budget was...

      Invaders from Mars  was an independent colored (as in, not black and white) science-fiction film released in 1953. It was inspired by...

    Before I talk about this film, I need to discuss the production company behind it, Cannon Films. Founded as a studio for low-budget ind...

            At the beginning of this month, I discussed famed special effects director Ray Harryhausen. I mentioned that Harryhausen got hi...