RHS: Let’s pretend the HorrorDads have the run of a disused movie theater and permission to run a Halloween dusk to dawn horrorthon. We will all contribute a movie to the line-up but before we begin, let’s talk about the kinds of horror movies each of us think is right for this time of year. [...]

Paul Gaita returns for the second and final part of his pre-Halloween Must-See Round-Up with the Kings of Cult! – RHS

Horror Dad Paul Gaita has control of my page today with some Top 10 and Top 5 lists of Must-See horror films he has culled from the ranks of the kings of cult especially for the Hallowtide. Here is part one; part two follows later today – RHS

I am, of course, paraphrasing Gloria Swanson from Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BLVD. (1950), which is not a horror movie and, at the same time, is. It is on the one hand a deliriously catty attack on Hollywood’s cult of personality and, on the other hand (which is just a bloody hook!) a rewriting of Bram [...]

Every October 1st I turn into a big weirdo. Well… more so. 

For years, I was unsure as to whether SH! THE OCTOPUS (1937) was a real movie. Long before the IMDb, when all I had to go by was the odd reference book and the occasional muttered remark, I convinced myself that this Warner Brothers-First National release was bogus, the celluloid equivalent of urban myth. Maybe [...]

Often shortlisted as one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time, Larry Buchanan’s THE EYE CREATURES (1965)… nah, I’m just messing with you. Nobody says it’s one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. Some would argue that it isn’t really science fiction; others might suggest it doesn’t deserve to be [...]

The nifty indie outfit Synapse Films has released the grindhouse classic THE EXTERMINATOR (1980) in an extended (gorier) director’s cut as a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. Though the care and professionalism that the Michigan-based outfit has brought to bear since it was founded in 1996 have always been conspicuous in their obscure and cult film acquisitions, [...]

In honor of James Coburn’s birthday yesterday, and my own birthday tomorrow, I’m going to talk a bit about one of his more obscure projects – the Allied Artists thriller THE INTERNECINE PROJECT. I first heard about the film when it was included in John Willis’ Screen World 1975, as a foreign feature picked up [...]