There are some films you just need to see if you are to call yourself a cinephile.   Films like Citizen Kane. Seven Samurai.  The 400 Blows. Movies so iconic that you almost feel guilty if you haven’t seen them.  We all have our lists of must-sees, and for some time, near the top of mine [...]

It’s TOERIFC time, again. This time up, Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me, Stupid over at Tom Sutpen’s place, Ilusions Travel By Streetcar.  The rules are simple: if you’ve seen the flick recently, or remember it enough to comment, join us in a discussion on Tom’s blog.  I’ll be heading over their shortly.

So it’s midnight and  I’m sitting here, working on a piece about Last Year at Marienbad (no … really!) and getting nowhere, and so I’m flipping through the satellite box, looking for something to distract me, when I’m attracted by the name “John Carpenter” flashing by on the edge of my attention.  So I do [...]

I’m still around, really. I just have two grant proposals due in the next day or so (who would have thought I’d be writing grants in my present gig?) and all my waking minutes are taken up by that. But I will, indeed, return with more posts later this week.

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Although it’s clearly un-American, I hear there are people out there who just don’t like zombie movies. I know, I know: it’s hard to believe.  But it’s true: they  don’t like the over-the-top gore, the chain-sawed legs, or the split abdomens, spilling guts.  And then, of course, the money shot — a zombie crouched over [...]

Fellow movie blogger (and Olson) Kevin J. is planning an Italian horror blogathon October 19 through the end of the month. I am ashamed to admit I’ve only seen Dario Argento’s Suspiria, but I am looking forward to seeing at least one more and writing about it for the blogathon.  I’m also excited about [...]

It’s the beginning of October. Horror month.  The month when all the little ghoulies and ghosties wobble about, when all the movie blogs get clogged with terror, like the bulging, diseased arteries of a dying heart-attack victim, with a rictus grin on his face and a look of terrible knowledge in his eyes.

Last year, I [...]