R.I.P Joel Schumacher
For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning
VIRGINTOOTH
You have to admire a writer who thinks big. Case in point: Mark Ivanhoe, author of VIRGINTOOTH, about vampires who can fly, shapeshift and alter the fabric of reality at will
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
VAMPIRE (1979)
Another of those terrific ABC TV movies—actually the pilot for a never-made series—that went largely unappreciated in its day
THE INFINITE MAN
This was the first collection by the late William Relling, Jr.—or would have been, at least, had its publisher not gone belly-up before THE INFINITE MAN’S scheduled 1989 publication
GEORGE A. ROMERO: 1940-2017
That George A. Romero, who died on July 16, 2017, was one of the most important horror moviemakers of his generation, and indeed of all time, goes without saying
BANDH DARWAZA
The infamous Ramsay Brothers made this 1990 horror fest, one of the last entries in India’s “Gloom Boom” period of genre cinema
Horror’s Most Sacred Cows…Slaughtered!
Nosferatu and Frankenstein are classics. But there’s an inescapable fact that few are willing to acknowledge: neither movie is very good.
ONE FOR THE ROAD
One of the more memorable entries in King’s collection NIGHT SHIFT.