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 RoboCop sculpture looks like it will finally be erected in Detroit. “After more than a decade of waiting, Detroit’s crowdfunded RoboCop statue has finally secured a permanent location and is expected to be unveiled by the end of 2025.” Watch here. (Thanks, Mike!)
Friends of the Gutter Mike White, Beth Accomando and Walter Chaw gather on The Projection Booth Podcast to discuss Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978). “Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill’s sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves […]
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 […]
On American Hysteria Podcast. Chelsey Weber-Smith considers the history of “Bloody Mary.” “Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…For our Halloween special, we are going to trace the history of the slumber party ritual known as Bloody Mary in which a young summoner stands in the dark in front of a […]
thought that I was done writing about terrible people for the year. But I need to ponder just one more, Dr. Louis Judd. Judd is a supporting character played by Tom Conway in two RKO horror movies: Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People (USA, 1942) and Mark Robson’s The Seventh Victim (USA, 1943). Dr. Judd while suave, sophisticated, sardonic and lightly mustachioed is a remarkably bad psychiatrist. He drifts into and out of Manhattan’s occult and supernatural demimonde. Like many a tourist, he is not careful and he leaves more than memories.
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