You come across a woman tending to her rose garden. Asking her questions, something seems off. The tension builds as the questions become more pointed. Finally, you ask the big one. “What do you know about Alice Wild?” You feel...
We don’t know exactly how old Joan Crawford would theoretically be on March 23, 2021 had she still been alive. Her actual birthdate has been something of a question for years. But on what we think would have been her 115th...
By Mercedes Cayetano, Cara Pedersen, Trisha Vasquez and Mark Ward Thanks to a pandemic, it’s a lot easier to stay home right now and watch Hitchcock movies all day on National Alfred Hitchcock Day, March 12. There is a cinema...
Wear your best costume. Put on your most creative makeup. Gather the family, and bring the dog. You’re going to need a magnifying glass to find the hardest-to-find clues in order to solve the mystery and catch the Ripper. The...
If you seen the original King Kong, you’ve seen the pioneering work of Willis O’Brien, whose 135th birthday is March 2. Hollywood’s original master of stop-motion animation lived a colorful life of amazing highs and terrible lows, and left a...
Since the genre-defining work of Mary Shelley, women have contributed more than their fair share to the horror industry. Two centuries later, women are doing amazing things within the local horror community. Mary Rangel — a.k.a. Mary Imagination — a...
Mario Bava built his reputation as a maker of Europe’s better horror films partly on his 1961 thriller Black Sunday, which turns 60 in February. Halloween Every Night offers up this collection of quick facts about the movie. 3...
In 1991, Jodie Foster gave one of her best performances in The Silence of the Lambs. The Oscar-winning role as Clarice Starling, a well-written and well-interpreted feminine hero, continues to affect audiences today. 30 years later, I watched the acclaimed film...
Bela Lugosi radiates a piercing stare as the camera slowly moves toward him. His black-clad figure is hard to define. Not exactly human. Strangely bat like. The camera continues to track forward. You are being pushed closer and closer to...
You’ve probably heard Bela Lugosi say the iconic line, “I am Dracula,” but Carlos Villarías left a mark too when he said “Soy Drácula.” Two months after Tod Browning’s 1931 Dracula was released, Drácula, directed by George Melford, dropped for...