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10.01.11 by Widge @ 7:13 pm  For tonight's second feature film in the parade of 32 Days of Halloween, we've grabbed a giallo film from Dario Argento: Deep Red. Its original Italian title was Profondo Rosso and it's also known as The Hatchet Murders. A music teacher witnesses a murder and decides to investigate. As the saying goes, hijinks ensue. One of the things I love about this film is the cinematography by Luigi Kuveiller. The use of POV shots, the jump cuts between things, lingering mad tracking shots. It's also filled with the 70s soundtrack goodness of Goblin, which cannot be denied. We showed the trailer before but now we can share the full burrito. Enjoy. P.S. David Hemmings, the lead actor, played the role of Airwolf's creator. There's your trivia for today. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.01.11 by Widge @ 7:42 am  Rox, Halloween archivist that she is, found this in order to kick off Day 2 of 32 Days of Halloween. It's a bit where Vincent Price does a short but fun interview with John Carradine, where they talk classic horror. And it's not exactly accurate to say they meet, but we mean that in the monster movie sense. You catch where we're coming from. As a bonus bit, after that we have a bit where John Carradine sings. No, we're not kidding. You'll see/hear. It honestly reminds me of somebody else with a budding music career... Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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09.30.11 by Widge @ 10:36 pm  So we open 32 Days of Halloween V: A New Beginning's audio portion with some Poe, as we are wont to do. First year it was "The Raven," and then "Spirits of the Dead." This year, another Poe classic: "Annabel Lee." Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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09.30.11 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  As has been tradition, the first movie night of 32 Days of Halloween is pretty much a random pick. So we're going to go with the film known as Daughter of Horror. The weird bit about this is that the original is called Dementia, and that's not a part of any franchise with, say, Dementia 13 (which we've shown you a bit of before). The original had no dialogue and was just odd. This new cut version, that goes by this name, gets even odder. Why? Because they felt compelled to add narration. By...Ed McMahon. By Ed McMahon...trying to sound spooky. Which is freaky, yes, but not entirely in the way they intended. The other reason this is a winner...you'll notice the opening titles are "Exploitation Productions Incorporated Presents." Subtle, I know. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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09.30.11 by Widge @ 4:39 am  Did you honestly believe us last year when we called the fourth year of 32 Days of Halloween "The Final Chapter"? Have you learned nothing from movie sequels? Of course you have. You were expecting this because you are knowledgeable about such things. You are not surprised in the least when I tell you it is Time Once More. October, driven by the engine that is Halloween, cannot be satisfied with a mere thirty-one days of awesomeness. It bursts forth from its casements and snags the last day of September for its own. Thus we embark upon 32 Days of Halloween V: A New Beginning. This makes the fifth year we've done this. We obviously need to fire our therapist. But regardless, we're back...and because we tend to alternate between Disney and Warner Brothers to kick things off, we're going to give you first the classic Disney bit "The Skeleton Dance," which we posted before back in the halcyon pre-32 Days days. Then a film that might look a little similar: Ub Iwerks went on to remake/revamp/redo the film (a bit) at Columbia to create "Skeleton Frolic." You can find them both below. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.31.10 by Widge @ 11:32 pm  And 32 Days of Halloween IV: The Final Chapter ends with H.P. Lovecraft and "Pickman's Model." Thanks again, everybody. See you next year. Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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10.31.10 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  So here we are again...at the end of another 32 Days of Halloween marathon. It's been a hellacious ride. And I've had a blast. I hope you've enjoyed yourselves as well. Tonight, the final movie night, belongs always to a single film: Night of the Living Dead. Not a remake. Accept no substitutes. Nobody's been able to recreate or match the sheer power of the film. And as I've said before: this took zombies and made them true flesh-eating ghouls. As you watch The Walking Dead on AMC, understand that it, all your zombie video games, the other zombie movies you know and love...they all owe a debt to Mr. Romero. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.31.10 by Widge @ 6:04 am  Yes, we're at the end of our 32 Days of Halloween marathon. I'd like to take a second to everybody who sent in ideas and requests. And a reminder: if you've enjoyed this mayhem, there's two ways you can support us. One: use the social media bits on the post--StumbleUpon, Facebook and Twitter--to share the posts you've enjoyed with others. And two: if you plan to buy anything we've featured--or buy anything at all from Amazon--order it through the site. That helps us pay for stuff like the server that we're stuffing with spooky audio. Thanks in advance for your help, friends. Day 32 has generally been a place to divest ourselves of all the bits we've been hanging onto and didn't have a chance to place--but we didn't want to wait until the inevitable (?) fifth installment of 32 Days to share them. Today we've got two fantastic things. First up, we go to Disneyland Paris for that park's version of the Haunted Mansion: Phantom Manor. This is a highlight reel of the a trip through the Manor--but of interest is the inclusion of the original Vincent Price Ghost Host narration, which was eventually discarded in favor of a French actor. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.30.10 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  Well, previously this has been a night for versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In fact, over the three years we've gone this prior to now, we've hit you with three different adaptations of the story: 1923, 1939 and 1956. And that's all she wrote for right now, anyway. So we've had to change tactics. Let's go back to the first film adaptation of another classic: H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau. Here it's from 1932 and stars Charles Laughton, who played Quasimodo in the 1939 version of Hunchback we posted previously (see--we tied it in!). Also on board is Bela Lugosi as the Sayer of the Law. Enjoy! Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.30.10 by Rox @ 10:25 am  Rox returns with the finale of her Russian folk tale trilogy. This time it's a version of the "Vasilissa the Fair" story, starring everyone's favorite witch: Baba Yaga. Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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