******103-YEAR OLD BLOODSUCKING SPOILERS!****** I’m hoping readers aren’t too tired of my Halloween content (my favorite holiday), because this one should be the last one for this season…I think (?). This past weekend, I went to see my first-ever public screening of a silent movie with a live organist supplying the soundtrack! I own a…
Month: October 2025
Retro-Musings for Halloween: “Tombs of the Blind Dead” (1972)…
******UNDEAD SPOILERS!****** The Spanish-Portuguese horror coproduction “Tombs of the Blind Dead,” originally titled “La noche del terror ciego” (“Night of the Blind Terror”) is one of those cult horror franchises that I came to late. I missed its laserdisc renaissance in the 1990s, but would later discover the Blue Underground DVD in the mid-2000s. I…
Retro-Musings for Halloween: “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” (1966)…
******SPECTRAL SPOILERS!****** And now for something completely different… As a kid, options for ‘family-safe’ Halloween entertainment in our primitive, pre-streaming era were a bit limited, with some exceptions, such as CBS’ annual broadcast of “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” (1966), Halloween variety specials, and Halloween-themed episodes of TV shows. “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken”…
Musings for Halloween: The San Francisco Ballet’s interpretation of “Frankenstein”…
******207-YEAR OLD SPOILERS!****** Young 19th century author Mary Shelley’s groundbreaking 1818 novel “Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus,” famously fused gothic horror with elements of science fiction. It’s since been adapted into various mediums, including stage plays and films. The most popular of these adaptations were the loosely-adapted Universal Monster movies of the 1930s-1940s, three of…
“Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” is the latest Star Trek movie to get the coffee table book treatment…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** One of my favorite activities in my free time is book shopping. Back in the day, when we had many used bookstores in my area, I would love to spend an afternoon leisurely perusing through titles, looking for my next read. Rarely did I go into a bookstore knowing exactly what I was…
The Enterprise is haunted by the spirit of Jack the Ripper in Star Trek’s “Wolf in the Fold” (1967)…
******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** This month marks the season for my favorite holiday; Halloween. Even now, some decades since I’ve last trick or treated, I still look forward to the costumes, handing out candy to the kids, and of course, enjoying all the scary movies/TV shows that are trotted out this time of year. Even the Original…