Tag Archive: horror

It’s Christmas Eve…

Have you been nice?

Buried in a Piano Case

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For kids who grew up in a certain era, this photo is probably more familiar than anything Diane Arbus or Ansel Adams may have shot.

Comics Will Rot Your Brain!

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Despite my love of comic books, there used to be a breed of comic magazines with lurid covers that Dr. Frederic Wertham was probably right about. They probably would rot your brain.

The Chicken Heart

No video today. We are going to do something a little different and return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Follow me as we enter the theater of the mind with a vintage radio drama! I first heard about this episode of the classic radio program Lights Out like a lot of people did – …

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Goblin’ Up Cake

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It certainly wouldn’t be Halloween without a cake to celebrate the occasion! This spider topped beauty is giving me a case of Halloween-orexia! It has all of the necessary components of horror – a jack-o-lantern face, a dismembered arachnid, and lots of fang rotting, wax lip licking sweet orange icing. Just one question – what …

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Dawn of the Regional Do-It-Yourselfers

I wasn’t going to include George A Romero’s 1968 classic because it is too much of an obvious choice. Because of the spate of zombie movies, comedies, remakes and particularly due to the success of The Walking Dead television series, George Romero and his zombie movies are more popular than ever. Reanimated corpses are lurching …

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Vampire Blood!

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This was sort of a forbidden fruit for kids growing up in the early 1970s.

The Original Re-Animator

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I wish I could summon the late, great John Williams to do my intros like the one below which was a staple of UHF television and has stuck in my head for years. …but I digress. Imagine John Williams saying this: I’m sure you’re all familiar with Stuart Gordon’s over-the-top horror masterpiece The Re-Animator, but …

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The Disney Pixar Edition

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Welcome, dear readers, to another edition of Step Away From The Pastry Bag: The Disney Pixar Edition!

Zombacalypse NOW

Last week I looked at the legendarily bad Plan 9 From Outer Space and the sadly forgotten Invisible Invaders both of which  are forerunners to the modern zombie genre that George Romero kicked off with his classic Night of the Living Dead in the late 1960s. This week, we’ll look at The Last Man on …

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