Book Review: Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between The latest book from Gary A. Smith and McFarland is “Vampire Films of the 1970s: Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between”. (affiliate link) For the casual horror fan, this might force the question: isn’t that oddly specific? Couldn’t we just have
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Review: Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era Gavin’s Review: Vampira and her Daughters Having written on all things horror for well over a decade now, and being a lifelong horror fan another decade or so before that, there comes a time every so often where you
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Vito Trabucco If you want to chat about the independent movie business, especially horror, the man to see is Vito Trabucco. Growing up in Pittsburgh, he was exposed to a variety of horror films from a young age thanks to terrible parenting (or wonderful parenting, depending on your point of view). Over
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Review: Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others Gavin’s Review of Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic “Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic: Fifty-Four Neglected Authors, Actors, Artists and Others”, (affiliate link)is the perfect primer for those who are interested in horror (whether it be movies,
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Director John McNaughton In honor of the 30th anniversary of “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”, I had the pleasure of chatting with director John McNaughton on October 17, 2016. Beyond “Henry”, McNaughton is known for “The Borrower”, “Wild Things” and the Masters of Horror episode “Haeckel’s Tale”. Although “Henry” has been
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Rory Culkin As the youngest member of the Culkin family (at least five of whom are actors), Rory Culkin was on screen about as soon as he could walk. Today is perhaps best remembered for his role in “Signs” as Mel Gibson’s asthmatic son. But that was really just the beginning. Rory
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Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots: A Critical Study of 10 Films, 1962-1987 Book Review In ‘Giallo Cinema and Its Folktale Roots’ (affiliate link), Michael Sevastakis takes ten films from 1962 through 1987 and compares their plots with Vladimir Propp’s study of the narrative structure of folk tales. In each one, he picks ten sample
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Emma Fitzpatrick In the world of young Hollywood, you never know who’s going to break in and who’s not. Each year (or even each day) millions of new actors try to get noticed. Some fall flat, some get a walk-on part in a background shot of something no one will ever see.
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The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema’s Biggest Monsters Book Review In , author Jason Barr takes on an incredible task. He has decided to cover the breadth of the kaiju genre from 1933-2014, and attempts to present a “critical study” that is more serious than the typical review of what detractors call “cheese”.
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Corey Asraf and John Swab Corey Asraf and John Swab are a writing-directing team who previously collaborated on “Judas’ Chariot”, a short film starring Sam Quartin as June Glass. For “Let Me Make You a Martyr”, they took their short film and expanded it from 31 minutes to feature-length. Quartin stayed on
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