Ten of the Best Spooky Looney Tunes Shorts

I’ve talked about horror-adjacent animated films on here before (Rock & Rule, When the Wind Blows, the Japanese Jack & the Beanstalk), but it was my recent post on Chuck Jones’s Rudyard Kipling adaptations that got my mind going back to childhood, and back to Saturday mornings and after-school sessions watching blocks of those classic … More Ten of the Best Spooky Looney Tunes Shorts

Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 1, Episodes 19 & 20

It’s time once again to dive back into the Boris Karloff-hosted Thriller series, though I regret that I’m going to have to truncate this installment a bit. Although I’d previously been doing these posts as six-episode chunks, once I got to episode 19, I discovered that the Roku Channel, where I’d been watching the series, … More Revisiting Thriller with Boris Karloff: Season 1, Episodes 19 & 20

Silent Movie Watchalong: Häxan

The 1922 Swedish-Danish co-production Häxan, known in English as The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages, is structured in four parts, and was actually conceived as a documentary. Writer/director Benjamin Christensen had done a two-year study of the infamous Malleus Maleficarum, and sought to bring his knowledge to new audiences. For that reason, the first part of the film (comprising … More Silent Movie Watchalong: Häxan

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)

I know I’ve tended toward talking about older media on this site so far, but obviously, I like to keep the format broad enough to cover something new when I think it’s worth discussing. And I can’t think of much of anything more worthy of being discussed than a brand new horror anthology series that’s … More Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)

Movies: Fido (2006)

I remember back in 2006 when the zombie comedy Fido first came out, I was really interested to see it. It looked like a hilarious concept, it starred the delightful Scottish comedian Billy Connolly as one of the lumbering undead, and I was still feeling residual goodwill toward the zombie comedy genre, as the classic … More Movies: Fido (2006)

Movies: Death Walks on High Heels (1971)

Italian director Luciano Ercoli certainly isn’t a household name within the giallo genre in the way that, say, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, or Sergio Martino are, but he did helm at least three fairly well-regarded gialli, including The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Death Walks at Midnight, and the film we’re talking about … More Movies: Death Walks on High Heels (1971)