******BLOODY GOOD SPOILERS!****** As a little kid, my favorite magazine (made of paper, for younger readers) was editor-publisher Forry Ackerman’s legendary “Famous Monsters of Filmland,” the behind-the-scenes horror magazine that launched more than a few careers, and inspired many of its young readers (my then eight-year old self among them). One image from that magazine…
Tag: Robert Bloch
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…
Retro-Musings: 1975’s “The Dead Don’t Die” is an obscure, horror-noir TV-movie from the author of “Psycho”…
******UNDEAD SPOILERS!****** In January of 1975, an entertaining little thriller called “The Dead Don’t Die” aired on the ABC network, which was written by Robert Bloch (author of the 1959 novel “Psycho,” from which Hitchcock’s 1960 film was based) and directed by Curtis Harrington (“Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?”). Not to be confused with a more…