Peter Straub: 1943-2022
If you’re a reader of horror fiction the chances are better-than-average that you’re at least partially familiar with the writings of Peter Straub
THE STORY OF REBECCA
This featurette from 1964 can lay claim to being the first-ever cinematic transposition of Jan Potocki’s THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA
THE SHADOW AND OTHER STRANGE TALES
A short single author anthology that appears to have been aimed at children
ASH WEDNESDAY
A strange and eerie tale set in a sleepy town besieged by the spirits of everyone who ever died there
THE SURVIVOR
A novel that directly foreshadows both the FINAL DESTINATION franchise and THE SIXTH SENSE
THE TANGO OF THE WIDOWER
A most eccentric ghost story from the late Raoul Ruiz (1941-2011)
A CHINESE GHOST STORY
The one and only animated version of the Hong Kong fantasy-romance classic A CHINESE GHOST STORY, scripted, produced and voiced (in part) by the original film’s producer Tsui Hark
MIDNIGHT MOVIE (1994)
A BBC telefilm from 1994, and one of the final such efforts by England’s late Dennis Potter
HEX
One of the most unexpected surprises of 2016 was this altogether odd and unpredictable horror thriller from the Netherlands
CRUEL GHOST LEGEND
A 1968 film that until recently was thought “lost,” CRUEL GHOST LEGEND is a most engaging combination of the ghost and samurai Japanese movie tropes