The Chiller Theatre Toy, Model and Film Expo will be held in Parsippany, NJ from Friday, October 25 to Sunday, October 27, 2018. The guest list is pretty much firmed up, but there are personalities still slowly being added weekly. The Fall show looks to be a huge affair! Among those scheduled:

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A cop is assigned to track a mysterious killer who is lurking through the canals of Amsterdam and killing people with no obvious rationale.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A family of three takes a summer vacation at an enormous mansion in the hopes of relaxing but instead finds themselves in the grip of a nightmare as several horrific events threatens to destroy them. REVIEW: Burnt Offerings (1976) is Dan Curtis’s film adaptation of the 1973 novel of the same name by the late Robert …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ten short stories revolve around ghosts, ghouls, monsters, the devil, aliens, and ax murderers who terrorize a suburb on Halloween night. REVIEW: Vignette horror films seem to be hit or miss.  Dead of Night (1945) tends to be the film by which most other films are measured with its five tales (not all of them are …

Ewing Miles Brown (nicknamed “Lucky”) Film producer, director, and sometime actor Ewing Miles Brown, who was known affectionately to legions of performers and crew members in the industry as “Lucky” Brown, passed away from respiratory failure on Monday, May 27, 2019 at the age of 97 according to his personal friend of forty years, actor and film historian Douglas Dunning.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland’s fables if they are intimate together.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.

The WestgateGallery.com movie poster site has extended their Christmas sale for another two weeks. The site offers some truly beautiful vintage film posters for sale, most remarkably in the area of giallo and horror films from directors Dario Argento, Sergio Martino, Albert DeMartino, Juan Antonio Bardem, Maurizio Lucidi, and Mario Bava. There are also some phenomenal adult film posters from the …

Sometime in 2017 my brother-in-law, who teaches courses on makeup, asked me about a new book that had just been released on Don Post Studios. I was unaware of it, however when I looked into it I was stunned by the incredible assortment of masks that were featured within its pages. I contacted the books author, Lee Lambert, and asked …

During the past few Chiller Theatre conventions that I have attended in Parsippany, NJ I’ve spoken with Joe De Lorenzo, an amiable gentleman who sells t-shirts at his table in the main vendor room. I was curious as to who he was and how he started producing these cool shirts, so recently we corresponded, and he told me. While Joe …

The Chiller Theatre Toy, Model and Film Expo will be held in Parsippany, NJ from Friday, October 26 to Sunday, October 28, 2018.  The guest list is pretty much firmed up, but there are personalities still slowly being added daily. The Fall show looks to be a huge affair:

Laemmle’s NoHo 7 Theatre in North Hollywood will be presenting a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) screening of the 55th anniversary of Mario Bava’s 1963 vignette film Black Sabbath (known internationally as I Tre Volti Della Paura, or the Three Faces of Fear). The 92-minute film, which stars Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, and Susy Andersen, will be screened on Thursday, October …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two men on the run take up residence in a house as one of them poses as his Aunt Martha to evade detection by the police, going so far as to wear a wig and female clothes. A series of strange events transpire that threatens to expose their identities.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A lunatic seen only in synecdoche takes refuge in a sorority house’s attic during the Christmas season and begins making horrific and truly obscene phone calls to the women on the first floor. A young member of the sorority disappears and a desperate search for her return ensues. As the police and house members look for …

SYNOPSIS: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits …