Friend of the Gutter Mimi Kramer writes about they mystery of Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho (1960)! “It’s become fashionable among Hitchcock fans and aficionados to dismiss the $40,000 Marion steals as a ‘McGuffin,’ the term Hitchcock invented for whatever sets the plot of a picture in […]
I like my job. Oh, I like it a lot and I’m not depressed by it, and I don’t think the world is full of criminals and full of murderers, because it isn’t. It’s full of nice people, just like you, and if it wasn’t for my job, […]
Horror movies are celebrating their hundredth year in 2010, with the anniversary of the 1910 Edison Lab’s production of Frankenstein. Bloody Disgusting catalogs “some of the biggest…genre snubs in Oscar history, in Part Four of B-D’s ‘100 Years in Horror’ series.”
October has an extensive and exquisite analysis of The Fog (1980) and The Fog (2005), ranging from the implications of the changes to the original, some tangents relating to John Carpenter’s other films and “alienation vs. connection.” (via The Horror?!)
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