Poor Catherine Deneuve. Well, I guess not really Catherine but her character Carol Ledoux in Roman Polanski’s macabre psychological thriller. I’m not sure what happened to her character when she was young, but it was obviously very, very bad, and without the companionship of her sister, she descends quickly into madness. Carol and her sister…
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Roger Corman makes the list! 101 Horror Movies continues to serve me well in showing me some horror films I have never seen (as well as a lot I am really enjoying revisiting). The Masque of the Red Death, based on an Edgar Allan Poe story seems to walk a fine line between B-movie horror…
Onibaba (1964)
Tall, head-high stalks of grass waving in the wind, slowly, almost menacingly. There’s a sense of danger here. That’s because it’s lurking in the tall grasses, waiting for you. Onibaba, translated as Demon Woman, is the first Japanese horror film to make the list of 101 Horror Movies. Based on a Buddhist parable, the story…
Television Through The Ages – Or, MY Ages, At Least!
NOTE: The much longer version of this post can be found here. But to get you started, here is the introduction! I guess I’ve always been a bit of an outsider. Not in a deliberate, cool, rebellious kind of way, but in a sort of sad, distant, my-passions-lie-elsewhere sort of sense. I spent a…
Tanya Lemke
This week for our podcast we have the awesome Mistress of Props, Tanya Lemke! Tanya joined Sue and I for dinner one evening, and let me say I had this awesome meal, called the Stuffed Yorkie… YUM! Anyway, Tanya shared some great stories about working in props, making her own short film Happy Pills…
The Mind Reels’ New Logo!
Earlier this week Sue and I got some great news! She and I have a table at this year’s Wizard World Comic Con here in Toronto, so come find us in April! But this necessitated the creation of a logo to associate with out site, something we had not as yet created. So, I put…
Sue’s Many Works…
So Sue is a very busy lady, and is trying to balance work, work, some more work, blog, blog, more blog, interviews, interviews, crafts, crafts and all things that come along with the life she lives. I’m very lucky that she finds time to do all the things we do for The Mind Reels. We’ve…
The Haunting (1963)
The Haunting (the original and not the heavy cgi, special effects laden version of the late 90s) is classic horror. It walks the line between psychological thriller, focusing mainly on poor Eleanor (Julie Harris), a sheltered woman who had no life of her own, but was confined to help her bed-ridden mother up until her…
Upcoming Podcasts!
Hey folks! Our run of good fortune in terms of podcast guests continue! This week, yoiu’ll be able to join myself, Sue Maynard, and the very awesome Tanya Lemke (who’s done prop work on everything from Queer As Folk to Lost Girl!) who has some great and hilarious storiess! Then next week, we start trying…
The Birds (1963)
As I continue through the 101 Horror Movies, and get closer to present day, there tend to be more and more films that I have already seen, but am happy to revisit. The Birds falls into that category. The man was a master storyteller, and while some of the contemporary horror films can barely hit…
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