There is nothing as grand and wondrous as an active opera house! The intimate box seats overlooking the expansive audience sections. The talented performers spinning a scene of alternate reality on stage, framed by the elaborate proscenium, as if they were a work of art come to life. The electricity…
Take, for instance, the movie Alien Predator. Two awesome things we already love, combined to make something new and sad. We have a few other suggestions for this very technique: How about “Friday the Halloweenth”? Or “The Texas Jaws Massacre”?
At a running time of only 68 minutes, this low-budget film from 1940 wasted no time with plot setup, so we’ll waste none of yours. A text card after the opening credits of The Devil Bat revealed the backstory for the film. The town’s personable scent scientist and (apparently) medical…
After all, “They” were coming to get her. And just her, according to her brother. Little old quiet and catatonic Barbara. Plain and frail Barbara. That’s a lot of trouble to go through for one girl. “They” could have gone after any other gal in the cemetery. But no, “They”…
The iconically diabolical Count Orlock may soon be rising from the grave yet again if director David Lee Fisher gets his way. Fisher is the creator of the 2005 “film remix” The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and is currently coordinating a Kickstarter campaign to create a companion remix of the…
What is the law? Are we not men? No. No, we’re not men. We’re man-sized animals with the strength of five men and three-inch long claws. We could stalk the average man for miles through heavy jungle and take him down before he even saw us coming. Remind me why…
Unless you’re a fan of 50s-era film auteur Edward D. Wood, Jr., you have probably not come across (1955). Wood is best known as the master of schlocky genre films, posthumous recipient of the Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time, and cult following that developed into an…
On most days, the function of a truck’s emergency brake is to prevent an emergency from happening. But then there are those days when you’re out replacing window panes in an unfamiliar part of town, and the brake of the truck that you’ve parked in a tight alleyway just happens…
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Featuring movie essays from the Head Monsters of SML and others that explore our love for horror cinema! Published by the Collinsport Historical Society.
