Peter Cushing’s Toy Collection
British Pathé has a short from 1956 about Peter Cushing and his toy soldier collection here. And there is additional footage of Cushing playing with his collection here. (Thanks, Brian!)
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, thrills and stories Hitchcock built his films on. Hitchcock himself gave credit where it was due. He put writers’ names on screen for everyone to see. But if film history has taught us anything, it’s that credits, dedications and acknowledgments are not enough to keep women both trans and cis, genderqueer and nonbinary people from disappearing from memory and history.
BBC Archive: The Making of The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
BBC Archive has a segment on the making of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). “Film Night catches up with Richard O’Brien, Tim Curry and director Jim Sharman, who are hard at work on the movie adaptation of their cult stage musical, The Rocky Horror Show for 20th […]
“The Top 25 Horror Movies from the First 25 Years of the 21st Century!”
At Decider, Walter Chaw breaks down 25 great films fro the 21st Century! “A quarter century into the new millennium and what better opportunity to chart the 25 best horror films during that span? New classics, updates or sequels to old classics, and a few curveballs to round […]
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Were-Wolves (1865)
The Public Domain Review considers Sabine Baring-Gould’s 1865 Book of Were-Wolves. “Lycanthropes go by many names, writes Sabine Baring-Gould in his ‘account of a terrible superstition,’ and ‘half the world believes, or believed, in were-wolves.’ In France’s Périgord, those born out of wedlock are known to transform into […]
“The Case of the Sanguinary Count!”
It’s a Halloween tradition–or should be–the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula! “I feel it my duty to set the record straight regarding a number of erroneous statements made recently concerning the events I am about to describe. I refer in particular to a spurious […]
The Cultural Gutter 