A Look into a Cluttered Mind

    This summer has been rough for everyone on Earth. It was definitely rough for me. I unfortunately didn't plan out this series very w...

    The story of this film begins with, of all things, Citizen Kane. William Alland, a good friend of Orson Welles, played the role of the r...

    (So,  my anxiety got particularly bad since writing the last one, I was unable to write the planned entries I had intended, or see the f...

    Werewolves were a major part of European folklore dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Myths around lycanthropy vary across re...

    The 1931 Frankenstein  film was very different from Mary Shelley's novel, removing, among other changes, a subplot where the monster...

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

           Mummification in ancient Egyptian culture is believed to started in the years prior to the rule of the pharaoahs, and became an i...

     Mary Shelley's 1818 novel  Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus  needs no introduction. Not its origins in the electric experimen...

     Not too much history on this one. In the early days of sound, many were skeptical of audience expectations and the limitations of the ...

     Bram Stoker's 1897 vampire novel, based on folklore of Eastern European vampires and the infamy of Vlad Tepes (aka Vlad the Impale...

      From 1921 to 1960, the Universal Monsters terrified and enthralled audiences across America with their grotesque, but sympathetic cre...

      I talked about Platinum Dunes, and their horror remakes a bit last year. With the success of the Texas Chainsaw and  Friday the 13th ...

    As I discussed a few entries back, Wes Craven wrote the concept of Freddy haunting the real life cast and crew of a new Nightmare on El...

     The initial script for this had a grown up Jacob David Johnson (the child of Alice from the last film) fighting Freddy and the "D...

    So, the idea of this, (originating from Leslie Bonham) was pitched for the second film, but rejected because of the pregnancy of one of...

        The initial idea for this film from Wes Craven and partner Bruce Wagner involved dreams as a vehicle for time travel. This was reje...

   (Apologies for the lateness of this. I had an unexpected engagement and I couldn't finish the movie. This, however, might allow me t...

     Despite the success of the first film, Wes Craven refused to return to direct a sequel, not wanting to have a franchise. So, the dutie...

    Alright, with the relative success of last year's Summer of Terror, I figure I might as well continue with the most logical success...

    In 2003, the same year Freddy vs. Jason came out, the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre  was released. The original 1974 feature, a...