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10.29.09 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  This evening we bring you Universal's 1943 Son of Dracula. It's got Lon Chaney Jr. as "Count Alucard," although it's never certain that he is the Dracula we know and love from the first film. That character would return in the next film in Universal's Drac series, House of Frankenstein, portrayed by John Carradine. Don't be concerned that this is the third film and we've skipped Dracula's Daughter (primarily due to it not being online where we can share it with you). While that one is a sequel, yes, and begins right after the first film ends, it won't affect your enjoyment of this film. So take it away, Lon and company... Categorized as: Movies
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10.29.09 by Widge @ 12:14 pm  So Day 30 has been generally reserved for zombie stuff of some kind or another, so what is 2009 to shy away from such fun? We start off with the trailer for 1971's The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave. And as you'll see, the grave was not--depending on which portion of the trailer you're watching--kind to her. As you might expect. Categorized as: Movies
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10.28.09 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  At long last, someone has posted the worst movie ever made (second only to Plan 9 From Outer Space): Robot-Monster. Why is this horrible? Is it the gorilla/space-man hybrid antagonist? The stock footage? The bubbles? Or could it be a bit of all of it? I would say the latter. And I'm thrilled to be able to share the madness with you. Categorized as: Movies
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10.27.09 by Widge @ 10:13 pm  Looking back at classic horror movies in a circuitous route that I shan't bore you with, I ran across this third film version of The Bat, which was based on the Broadway play. The tagline was "When it flies, someone dies!" So you can pretty much guess where this is going. It stars Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead (who you probably best know as Endora from Bewitched), and Darla Hood (aka Darla from The Little Rascals) in her final film role. Categorized as: Movies
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10.27.09 by Widge @ 3:25 pm  So I've started my own personal Halloween film festival...in which I park myself in front of the television with my laptop and watch horror movies and other such bits up until Halloween. One of the DVDs I grabbed earlier in the year in anticipation of checking it out during this fantastic time of the year is Monsters Crash the Pajama Party. And it is amazing. The "villain" of the piece is The Mad Doctor. We know he's The Mad Doctor because, well, just take a look at his lab coat in the pic there. Yes. I think you might have an inkling of what's in store for you. The "feature" is short as it's just an excuse to get a bunch of young ladies on screen in what passed for skimpy sleepwear in 1965 and have them run around a haunted house chased by people in terrible monster costumes. And that was, in turn, just an excuse to set up the live spookshow part of the evening--because when this was shown in cinemas, at a certain point, the monsters would come off the screen into the theater and snatch up a girl from the audience then drag her back onto the screen for their diabolical experiments. The whole thing was made up of locally acquired actors and an audience plant--but it's like a William Castle film--something fun as hell that I'd like to see continued. Some groups do still put on a spookshow--here in Atlanta there's a group, for example. Categorized as: Movies
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