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The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (Book Review)
Bram Stoker (1847 – 1912) Bram Stoker. For horror fans the name immediately conjures up images of Dracula and perhaps “The Lair of the White Worm” and “The Jewel of Seven Stars”. In The Forgotten...
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“Fright Night” Week: Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon In the lexicon of iconic horror performances, there are more than a handful that can be attributed to incredible portrayals of vampires. Max Schreck as the imposing and relentless...
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Talking Terror: Graham Elwood
Comedian and “Comedy Film Nerds” podcast host Graham Elwood Horror. To some, the genre is that of cheap thrills, startles and nightmare fodder to allow entertainment to be entertaining without the need...
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Interview: Bill Moseley on “All American Massacre”, “Smothered”
Bill Moseley It goes without saying that there are a ton of no-name actors that have made their mark in the horror genre but sadly disappeared shortly after. These are people that just didn’t deliver...
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Talking Terror: Jim Breuer
Jim Breuer Horror. To some, the genre is that of cheap thrills, startles and nightmare fodder to allow entertainment to be entertaining without the need to turn on one’s brain. To others, Horror is a...
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The Devil Bat (US Blu-Ray Review)
Specs Specs Details Director: Jean Yarbrough Cast: Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan Year: 1940 Length: 70 min Rating: NR Region: A Disks: 1 Label: Kino Lorber Video...
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RIP Anthony “Tony” Hinds
Anthony Hinds, ‘Hammer’ producer and screenwriter, with his father, William Hinds (1887 – 1957), one of the founders of Hammer Film Productions. Circa 1952. Today was a sad day in the world of horror,...
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Episode No. 22: F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922)
Download MP3 | Download OGG Steve Head and David Kleiler welcome special guest, Bret Wood, Vice President and Executive Producer at Kino Lorber, to discuss Kino’s new blu-ray release of F. W. Murnau’s...
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Dan Curtis’s Dracula (US Blu-ray Review)
Specs Specs Details Director: Dan Curtis Cast: Jack Palance, Simon Ward, and Nigel Davenport Year: 1974 Length: 100 min Rating: NR Region: A Disks: 1 Label: MPI Release Date: March 18, 2014 Video...
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Episode No. 27: Thirty-Five Years of Nosferatu the Vampyre
Download MP3 | Download OGG Thirty-five years after it’s initial release, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Werner Herzog’s haunting tone poem of death and loneliness is as potent today as it was in 1979. To...
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Horrors from Istanbul: A Look at Three Turkish Cult Horrors
When it comes to viewing classic or cult Turkish cinema, it’s a little bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, there are quite a few classic Turk films out there (the majority of which lean towards...
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Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror (Book Review)
Showtime’s television series Penny Dreadful is a feast for the eyes with its brilliant art direction, costumes, and eye candy cast. Among its characters are Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray. It...
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Bruce Hallenbeck remembers Sir Christopher Lee
Veronica Carlson and Christopher Lee celebrate his May 27 birthday on the Pinewood set of Dracula Has Risen From the Grave. I first encountered Christopher Lee shortly before my sixth birthday, in a...
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Hammer Horror Classics on Blu-Ray
Last year, Diabolique Magazine, in conjunction with dvddrive-in.com coordinated an online petition to ask Warner Bros to release their classic Hammer Horror titles on blu-ray. Yesterday, the official...
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Sony Announces Long Awaited “Loaded” Blu-ray Of ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
It’s been a long time coming but Sony has announced their plans to release a definitive Blu-ray of the visually stunning Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The first release in their...
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TCM Bringing ‘Dracula’ And ‘Psycho’ Back To The Big Screen
Tuner Classic Movies and Fathom are teaming up to bring classic horror fans one hell of a treat this Halloween season. While both of these classic films have been mainstays of the haunt season there...
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Frightmare aka The Horror Star (US Blu-ray review)
Specs Specs Details Director/Writer: Norman Thadeus Vane Cast: Ferdy Mayne, Jeffrey Combs, Luca Bercovici and Leon Askin, Length: 86 min Year: 1983 Rating: R Region: A/1 Disks: 2 Label: Vinegar...
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Count Dracula’s Great Love
Jacinto Molina Álvarez aka Paul Naschy is one of those horror genre figures who is passionately beloved by fans — deservedly so, in my opinion — and remains, alongside Jess Franco, perhaps the most...
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Dracula vs. Hitler (Book Review)
Given its title, Dracula vs. Hitler would seem to be a mash-up not terribly worthy of a serious review. Surprise, surprise! The novel, written in the epistolary style of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is...
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Dracula vs Frankenstein (US Blu-Ray Review)
Back in the early 80s, when I was in Junior High, there was a Boston institution called The Creature Double Feature—a Saturday afternoon double feature of classic horror films, on a local TV channel,...
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