Ever wonder who’s pulling all the strings? Alex Evans is a guy who thinks about it a lot. Like, for years. On World Puppetry Day 2023, Evans is talking about it, too. Evans, the executive director and head puppeteer of...
Ricou Browning, the amphibious stuntman and actor who starred as the Gill-man in Universal’s Creature from the Black Lagoon movies, has died. Browning was 93. Browning, as the so-called Gill-man, was the last surviving actor to portray a Universal classic...
Iconic horror director Tobe Hooper’s 80th birthday would have been Jan. 25. But since his passing in 2017, recognition of his contribution to the genre has only grown. His visual style remains influential to a slew of directors and his...
John Carpenter was making films before started high school. Now, on his 75th birthday, he’s an icon of the genre and several of his films have become classics. Halloween kicked the slasher genre into full gear in 1978, but The...
Masked and intensely sinister, the towering Dr. X asks a series of questions before guiding guests into darkness. You are now part of an experiment with some unknown potential outcomes. But they don’t sound good. Dr. X Horror Experience is...
Some people think a lot about death. Actor Michael Nathanson is hosting a new podcast about it. But refreshingly, it’s actually about the art of death in film and TV. The new podcast Playing Dead originated from the ashes of Nathanson’s...
Dark Alley Productions’ Twisted Christmas returned to The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, Calif. on Dec. 17, 2022 for a night of holiday horror movies, shopping and spooky characters adding fun to the movie experience. 1...
Actress and director Jodie Foster is a two-time Oscar winner with a career spanning various genres. But as she turns 60 on Nov. 19, I can’t help but think of how she’s cemented her status as a horror icon. Foster...
An unlikely discovery was made in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings on Nov. 4, 1922. A few years after archeologists had virtually given up hope of finding another pharaoh’s tomb in the area, the first step into King Tutankhamun’s tomb...
Barbra and Johnny just wanted to put a wreath on their father’s grave. Then it all went to hell. That’s the famous set up for the character of Barbra in George A. Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. ...