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Nobody wants to eat a film: The hermetic universe of Ted V. Mikels 10 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
Okay, before you do anything else, certainly before you read any more of this, pop over to here and, if you have a quid or two to spare, contribute to the budget of Ted V Mikels’s latest film. This is...
Dropping in on The Ghoul 30 Jan 2013 | 01:33 pm
If you're anything like me, when you watch Veronica Carlson in a 1920s wig take a bath and then get slaughtered and eaten by a green-skinned maniac in a toga and sandals, you're thinking only one thin...
Steckler for detail 28 Jan 2013 | 09:51 pm
That Ray Dennis Steckler appraisal I've been promising here for donks' yonks has landed over at Acidemic: www.acidemic.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/i-hope-its-originality-parallell.html
Did a vampire really haunt Highgate Cemetery? No. Of course it didn't. 18 Apr 2012 | 03:11 am
If you have the sort of memory that retains the details of two year old blog posts, then you may recall that back here I wrote of how my attempts to get on a Highgate Cemetery walking tour, in order t...
Rediscovering Mike Raven 8 Mar 2012 | 10:29 pm
If by any chance you're wondering where Carfax has been of late, we've been moonlighting over at Hammer and Beyond, where I've been examining the short and much-maligned (not least by me: apologia her...
A world that dust and scratches try to hide: an interview with Bjørn Egil Eide 3 Feb 2012 | 07:56 am
I was intrigued to receive an email a few weeks ago from Bjørn Egil Eide, to tell me about a film he has made called Volkodlak. It was, as he explained it: ... a short film that mimics an old silent ...
Vincent Price poll results 3 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm
Thanks to the 105 readers who voted in the Vincentennial poll. I asked you to choose your favourite of the great man's horror films, and proposed fourteen of the most likely options. Even so, the 'ot...
Socko Zucco Back To Backo 11 Dec 2011 | 05:11 am
George Zucco and Lionel Atwill to me are a bit like Karloff and Lugosi, or rather I should say Lugosi and Karloff: crazy George is plainly the Bela of the outfit. Boris is the technician, and like Atw...
Bath - City of Cheese, Monsters and John Landis 30 Oct 2011 | 08:08 pm
A gala day in Bath on Saturday (and as Groucho will tell you a gal a day's enough for any man). Not only was it the Bath Cheese Festival, with over twenty award winning cheesemakers keen for us to sam...
Devil Bats In His Belfry: An interview with Peter H. Brothers 23 Jun 2011 | 07:14 am
When you're obsessed with something to a degree that qualifies as 'medical', it's always a relief to encounter someone else who shares the same problem. Even better when they've got it even worse than...
