This is a list of archived entries published in October 2006.
Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Halloween. It’s funny how anticlimactic Halloween is when it doesn’t fall on a Friday or Saturday night, so you end up going to your big costume party the weekend before.
Well, assuming I get the last part of Vengeance Upon the Dust up today, I’ll have made it. [...]
I thought I’d take a break from Vengeance Upon the Dust (it looks like the story will finish up Halloween Month) and provide something a little lighter before the month was out.
I had intended to do a big retrospective on the history of my Halloween costumes over the years, starting when I was a wee [...]
I’m still working frantically to finish the short story for tomorrow, and as such, I ended up one post short. However, in the interests of fulfilling my promise of a post every single day this month, I’m going to hand the blood-stained rudder over to Kate Racculia of Marquee de Sade. The lovely Kate also [...]
Ah, good. After my brief bout of insanity reviewing a good movie yesterday, I’ll return to reviewing films most people haven’t heard of.
Today’s gem is the 1990 children’s flick Spaced Invaders. I haven’t the foggiest notion when I first saw this—it might have been at the theater, but I think it was probably on HBO [...]
I just wanted to mention, it’s okay to comment on the Halloween posts. I’m not preserving them for posterity or anything.
I’m pushing out close to a thousand words a day; it would be good to have something more than my Web statistics to know people are reading. Even if you just want to say, [...]
The first Hellboy Animated movie, Hellboy: Sword of Storms, is set to debut on the Cartoon Network on Saturday, October 28th at 9:30 PM. Set those DVRs now! If you enjoyed the movie (or the comic), give it a shot. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and John Hurt return to voice their characters from the movie [...]
For the most part, I prefer to review films that aren’t necessarily considered classics (by any stretch of the imagination). Some are “cult” classics, a la Evil Dead II, but few of them would be deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress. There are a few reasons I tend to avoid reviewing [...]
I can’t recall whether I saw The Monster Squad (1987) in the theater, but something makes me think I did. Even as a kid I thought of it then as a sort of store brand Goonies, albeit a very fun, entertaining, and surprisingly violent one. Except for the infamous “Wolf Man’s got nards” line, I [...]
As I’ve discussed before, I became a fan of the Evil Dead films around age fifteen, when the films were so obscure, my parents had to buy used tapes from a Canadian video store to get me the films for Christmas. By the time I got to college, the films had already gone from cult [...]
From the 1930s through the 1950s, Universal Studios had a run of horror film hits featuring what we now think of as the classic Universal Monsters, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy. As immensely popular as these films were (and still are), Universal has yet to really try and [...]