I’ve always been a lover of old classic horror flicks. I’ve never thought of monsters as being beautiful, but after reading this blogger’s article at Cinema Styles, I’ve had a change of heart. What else can a monster be but beautiful when played by Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester? Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein are movies you can see over and over again. And yes, all three are beautiful monsters...

“Plan 9 From Outer Space,” (1959) is a typical, cheesy, campy sci-fi movie from the 50’s, but very entertaining if only to crack up at Criswell’s opening monologue. Ah! grave robbers from outer space!” I just had to share this funny review from The Independent. I think you will get the picture. “The phenomenally popular cult classic, immortalised in celluloid by the celebrated writer, producer and director...

Independent Film Channel and Turner Classic Movies has a great line-up of Horror Films for Halloween. It all begins very early on IFC with psychological thriller, “Afraid of The Dark,”(1992) at 8:20 AM EST. At 9:00 PM EST watch “Haxan” (1922) movie about witchcraft in the Middle Ages. So powerful are some images that even some modern viewers will turn away from the TV screen. At 10:50 PM EST watch Peter Lorre in...

TCM starts its Halloween movie fest Monday, 10/30 at 2:00 AM (EST) with George Franju’s, “Eyes Without a Face (1959).” This movie has been hailed as the most “elegant of gore movies.” The movie based on a novel written by Jean Redon is both a beautiful, but disturbing story. A doctor (Pierre Brasseur) has a beautiful daughter (Edith Scob) that has had a horrible auto accident. Her face is monstrously...

I am having a little get-together tonight with friends and family and we are going to watch “The Screaming Skull” I figured we could use a laugh or two. Just reading the title looks like the Screaming Skull is going to give us all a headache!!! Filmed in 1958 the era of B-movies, what else can we expect? But it’s that time of year when you just want to sit around your TV set with friends and not so much get scared, but...

This Friday night 10/27 Turner Classic Movies has a great line-up of classic horror films. So get the popcorn, curl up on your favorite couch and watch these gems if you dare. The frightful night begins at 8:00 PM EST with White Zombie (1932) with Bela Lugosi–movie inspired by the American interest in voodoo back in the 30′s. Lugosi plays an evil man who owns a sugar mill in the Island of Haiti. Gee I wonder why Haiti? Just...