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In July 1992, R.L. Stine’s first three Goosebumps books (Welcome to Dead House, Stay Out of the Basement and Monster Blood) appeared. “It was the point in my career where I would say yes to anything,” Stine recalled, and he … Continue reading Bad Monster Blood: R.L. Stine, Scholastic and the Battle over Goosebumps
Halloween: early 2000s -Modern era Almost more than any other slasher franchise, Halloween has been willing to go through a lot of redefinitions of what kind of killer Michael Myers is. Is he our worst fears, that anyone could do … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Day 31 – The Halloween Franchise Part 3/3
I didn’t watch the full 31 horror movies like I wanted to, but I did watch a lot of Halloween specials of sitcoms, so overall, I’m pretty pleased with what I did end up seeing. And here’s what I drew … Continue reading My (Illustrated) Month of Horror
Celebrate the spookiest day of the year with a campy creature feature toplined by “America’s FAVORITE Super Hero”, the Swamp Thing! Continue reading The Discount Spinner Rack Halloween Special: THE RETURN OF SWAMP THING (1989)
Welcome, all you ghouls and goblins and monster-fluid individuals, to a special Halloween edition of Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and … Continue reading Public Domain Theater (Halloween Special): A Bucket of Blood
The Middle Years: Halloween 4-7 Some horror franchises refuse to die. Halloween being over 40 years old and with more sequels planned is definitely among the oldest of the well known franchises out there. While the first movie captured lightning … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Day 30 – The Halloween Series Part 2/3
At the dawn of the 20th Century, modern understanding of death, medicine, and infectious diseases effectively ended the Vampire Panic, but also vampires themselves changed. In 1897, five years after Mercy Brown was exhumed, Bram Stoker publish his seminal novel; … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: I Am Waiting And Watching For You. Nellie Vaughn, 19, West Greenwich 1889
While Nightmare on Elm Street came to be the series that would make me a horror geek, Halloween was my first true horror franchise, early stepping stones that I will always remember and thus shall be paying tribute to the … Continue reading Month of Horror Day 29: The Halloween Series Part 1/3
If you read a list of horror films with LGBT characters you’ll find a lot of murder victims, serial killers and vampires. Occasionally a gay side character gets lucky (Cursed (2005), ParaNorman (2012) ) but often they’re first on the … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Horror Protagonists
In the Late 19th century Rhode Island was a state of contradictions. In the north, the factories and mills of Providence stood at the vanguard of the American Industrial Revolution. To the south, at the height of the Gilded Age, … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: The Last Vampire. Mercy Brown, 19, Exeter 1892
What are we to make of a movie like The Lighthouse? The longer you gaze into its depths, the murkier it appears. If it’s sense you want, look elsewhere. This is early period David Lynch territory, a smoky, rusty machine … Continue reading Movie Review: The Lighthouse
So I have no clue if anyone on this site has seen this movie. If you have , here’s a spoiler space to talk about One Cut of the Dead. It’s one of the best reviewed movies of the year … Continue reading Month of Horror Day 25: One Cut of the Dead Spoiler Space
In 1874 fifteen year old Ruth Ellen Rose, her body wracked by consumption, was laid to rest. Ruth Ellen was the daughter of William Rose, a local civic leader, and his first wife the late Mary Rose née Taylor. Ruth … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: Not Unfamiliar With This Plague. Ruth Ellen Rose, 15, Exeter 1874
Inner city youth, mutated bugs, and Clint Howard – what could go wrong? Oh the 90s were a weird transitionary time in horror. Scream made a certain type of dialogue heavy slashers popular later in the decade, but before … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 24 Ticks
In Which There are Ghosts in the Modems The paradox of modernity is thus: we live a world with more people than ever, closer together, and with more forms of communication than ever, and yet we feel incredibly isolated and … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 39: Pulse
Some movies are works of art and some movies are best at being escapist fun. The rare film can find a balance of both and produce something somewhere in between that’s not only entertaining but an inspiring template for movies … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019 Day 23 Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires
Professor Elemental and his world of eccentricity has been mentioned on The Avocado before , he’s an MC, host, raconteur, orangutan enthusiast…. and now author. Tales Of Wrong is a collection of nine short stories that range from horror to humour in … Continue reading Book Review:’Professor Elemental’s Tales Of Wrong’ by Paul Alborough
Levi Young and his wife Anna’s farm was bountiful. The native corn, potatoes, and onions provided steady income for the family. Anna Young’s preserves , made from wild blackberries, was renowned locally, and were even fetching a good price in … Continue reading The Vampires of Rhode Island: Bright, Like An Angel. Nancy Young, 19, Foster. 1827
Remakes of any genre often have to answer one tough question: why? Is this an update for a new era, is it remaking something that’s still popular but no longer has an active franchise, or is this just a shameless … Continue reading Month of Horror 2019: Suspiria (2018)
Is Dario Argento a good director or a bad director? Elements of his films can be downright baffling. The stories often make zero sense, and plots take tangents That go nowhere. The villain is almost always a late twist that … Continue reading Review: Opera (1987)
Over the last hundred years, more than five hundred books and essays in English alone have attempted to pinpoint and identify the nature of the evil in the work. ~ Playwright Tim Luscombe. Henry James’ 1898 novella, The Turn of … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Turn of the Screw (1985)
