The 101 Horror Movies strikes again with Carnival of Souls, a cult favorite from 1962. I don’t wish to sound mean, but it feels very much like it was made in the 60s. And while the ending may have been a bit of a shocker at the time, having seen so many similar films over…
Category: Did You See That?!? (Tv & Film)
Being Elmo (2011)
I love my muppets. I’ve never made a secret of it. I own The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, I have the Muppet Show on DVD (still waiting on series 4 & 5!). I read the book Street Gang, The Complete History of Sesame Street. They always have a very special…
The Innocents (1961)
Is she crazy? Or are the children possessed? The Innocents tends towards the ambiguous, and I like that. Yes we see through the eyes of Miss Giddens, as played by Deborah Kerr, but is she seeing real spirits or is her mind playing tricks on her. Giddens is hired by a man to look over…
The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning..
Star Trek: The Motion Picture gets a lot of flak, which is regrettable, as I quite enjoy it. People complained about it being slow and ponderous, and untrue to the original series. I have to disagree. Is the films slow moving? It could be construed as such, but I like to see it as getting…
Serial Killer Double Feature – Peeping Tom (1960) & Psycho (1960)
Last night I watched two serial killer films that both seem to have voyeuristic fetishes. Both come from 1960, but are two completely differing films, dealing with murderers. I’ll be honest, until I read the title in that wonderful little book, 101 Horror Movies, I had never even heard of Peeping Tom. I’ll be honest…
Eyes Without A Face (1959)
The last film of the 50s in my 101 Horror Movies. This little film comes from France, and perhaps I just can’t get myself into the mind set of the French of that period, I’m not sure, but this wasn’t one of the most engaging horror films I’ve seen on the list. It’s by no…
The Tingler (1959)
William Castle has long been known for his gimmicky horror movies, but only one of them apparently made it into the 101 Horror Movies and that is The Tingler. I won’t lie, I laughed out of sheer joy a number of places in this film. It very much wanted to encourage the idea of screaming…
Horror of Dracula (1958)
The 101 Horror Movies book strikes again. A while ago, I had picked up one of those awesome little Warner DVD sets of 4 movies for like $7.99! It featured four Hammer films, one of which was Horror of Dracula, which I re-watched the other night. Based, loosely, on Bram Stoker’s novel, this Hammer film,…
Downton Abbey – Now What?
So there it is. I’m all caught upon Downton Abbey, I finished the feature-length Christmas special last night, which seemed to effectively tie up a lot of plot lines from the first two series in one 90 minute go. It also, however, set up a lot of things I expect to follow-up on in…
