******207 YEAR-OLD SPOILERS!****** After impressing critics and audiences with his first independent feature film “Cronos” (1993), future Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo Del Toro quickly rose through the ranks, making his Hollywood debut with “Mimic” (1997) before going on to more mainstream projects such as “Hellboy” (2004). He would return to less commercial films, such as…
Tag: Frankenstein
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…
Halloween in Septober: “CreepIE Aftermath 2025” haunts the Inland Empire…
Septober is here! Anyone else feeling Halloween vibes earlier than usual this year? Maybe it’s due to the onslaught of Halloween product flooding retailers as early as late July this year (!). Personally, I think we should just rename September Septober and be done with it. At any rate, my corner of SoCal has just…