Sunday, October 25, 2020

Masterpiece of Horror Theatre- Manhunter

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     Thomas Harris' first novel Black Sunday  (a thriller partially inspired by the Munich Massacre in 1972) was a moderate success in 1...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Masterpiece of Horror Theatre- Body Bags

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      Lucky me, not much history around for this. This was originally going to be a horror anthology TV series on Showtime, their attempt at...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Masterpiece of Horror Theatre- Last House on the Left

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    A billion years ago, back in 2018, I did a summer retrospective on Friday the 13th  films, and I briefly discussed Sean S. Cunningham, w...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Masterpiece of Horror Theatre- God Told Me To.

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    I've talked a bit before about Larry Cohen. A TV writer in the 60's, he would rise to feature film prominence through Blaxploita...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Masterpiece of Horror Theatre- The Mummy (2017)

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 On to the first proper review for this year.... and oh, God, I have to actually go into the history of this, aren't I? I'll make it...
Monday, October 5, 2020

(Corona-) Summer of Terror/Masterpiece of Horror: Psycho

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    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...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

(Corona-) Summer of Terror: Creature from the Black Lagoon

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    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...