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Continue reading →: Countdown: Dracula has Risen from the Grave
Basically just a big movie of Dracula being petty and vindictive. “You put up a ‘No Vampires Allowed’ sign on my house while I was sleeping, so now I’m going to kill you and turn your niece into a monster.” That sort of thing. There’s lots of inexplicable stuff (Why…
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Continue reading →: Countdown: Fifteen Authors
Another thing that was suggested for my countdown was that I should produce a list of my favorite horror stories and novels. Somehow this task was too dauntingly open-ended for me at the moment, but I came up with an alternative. I made a list of fifteen authors of the…
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Continue reading →: Countdown: The Raven & Comedy of Terrors
I’ve been waiting to see these two for a long, long time. I picked up pretty much all the other Price/Corman collaborations on double-sided DVDs some time ago, but these two escaped my clutches until just now, when they finally appeared on Netflix watch instantly. Both The Raven and Comedy…
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Continue reading →: Countdown: Masters of Horror: The Black Cat
I was discussing the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death recently, and it was suggested that I should check out this Masters of Horror episode, which I had thus far missed, a failing that I can only attribute to my somehow being ignorant that it starred Jeffrey Combs as Poe…
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Continue reading →: Countdown: Annabel Lee & Others
The folks at Lurker Films have long done a series of DVDs featuring H.P. Lovecraft-inspired short and independent films which I, shamefully, have never watched even one of. But when they rolled out their series doing the same thing with Edgar Allan Poe films, and the first volume included a…
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Continue reading →: Countdown: Vampire Circus
Over the weekend I managed to watch one of the aforementioned hard-to-find seasonally appropriate movies from Netflix watch instantly, and I figured I’d make my first official Countdown to Halloween post talking a bit about Vampire Circus. Vampire Circus is a movie that I’ve been wanting desperately to clap eyes…








