******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…
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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…
Retro-Musings: Mario Bava’s “Planet of the Vampires” (1965) is a clunky yet stylish precursor to “ALIEN”…
******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** In 1965, famed gothic horror filmmaker Mario Bava (1914-1980)—director of movies such as “Black Sunday,” “Blood and Black Lace,” and “Black Sabbath”—made a rare foray into science fiction. While “Planet of the Vampires” (original Italian title, “Terrore nello Spazio”) isn’t representative of Bava’s best work, it’s among his most visually creative, influencing generations…
HBO’s “The Last of Us” treads upon very familiar terrain…
*****SPOILER INFECTION RISK!***** If you’ve never seen any of the zombie apocalypse scenarios that have arisen since 1968’s “Night of the Living Dead,” or TV’s more recent “The Walking Dead” (based on Robert Kirkman’s graphic novels), then HBO’s new (and well-crafted) “The Last of Us” will be one helluva surprise. However, if you’ve seen as…
“Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things”: 50 years of a zombie cult classic…
Rise and Dine. The late George Romero’s 1968 horror classic “Night of the Living Dead” reimagined zombies from their previous incarnation as mindless victims of voodoo magic into rotting, flesh-eating corpses, reanimated from death itself. Romero’s reinvention of zombies has become commonplace today (“The Walking Dead”, and countless other imitators), but it was still a…