Interesting bit of trivia for those of you who enjoy freaky British scary sci-fi of the 1950s: Nigel Kneale, the screenwriter for Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, was also the author of the Quatermass series, upon which the titular[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It cannot be overstated how wonderfully trashy these films are and what a genius team Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell are. And how much I love Ted Raimi and all the Fake Shemps of the world. This is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I didn’t do nine cats (for the nine lives reference) but I’m already into November with two more comics to finish for #drawlloween. Sue me. I will say that this was a bit of a “purrsonal” comic for me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Poltergeist pretty much warped the childhoods of every one of my contemporaries who were children in the 1980s. Many parents blithely assumed, since Steven Spielberg was the producer and co-writer of the script, that it would be a film in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously, if you love film and if you love Lovecraft, do not sleep, do not eat, do not rest until you’ve seen this gorgeous cinema retelling of The Call of Cthulhu. Mixing Mythos with German Expressionist film is a thing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My god is this film an overstuffed turducken of terrible ideas that then come together to make a true camp classic of cinema. This is one film that truly deserves being the punchline of the joke about a film being so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I truly do love cemeteries and I adore my cats, so this one gives me the major heebie jeebies, especially drawing it late at night after taking a ghost tour of the Pike Place Market, my former workplace. Believe me,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh man, this red metal horror gave me the serious heebie jeebies as a kid. And Maximillian still freaks me out today. The design work on this inanimate villain is really genius from the devilish color to the blank helmet-like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have to admit never being a huge fan of the slasher film genre. I genuinely enjoyed Halloween, the film that really set off the wave of co-ed hacking popularity in the 1980s, but most of them just leave me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I cheated a little on the #Drawlloween prompt and changed it to RAT-urday from Bat-urday. I do love bats – chiroptera is a fabulous order of animal and deserves all the love we can bestow upon it – but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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