Month: January 2018

I knew there was a reason I was never a Troma fan. Even as a little kid obsessed with Horror, reading FANGORIA religiously and waiting with bated breath for the airing of some old B-movie on the local network stations (an event for which my mother would always let me stay up late), visiting the…

Last week I reported on the fighting going on between family members, purported family members, friends, and pen pals of the late and not generally lamented Charles Manson over who gets to claim his body, which is being kept on ice pending a legal decision that could take months or even years. Some of Manson’s…

Actually, if you were going to make a movie out of the latter, you might want to change the name. “Dog-Boy” just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it? One thing the Dog-Boy has going for it is that it’s real. Purportedly real, that is. As in, there are some people who believe…

We all know what dinosaurs look like, down to the specific species. We know what sabertooths looked like, and direwolves, and all the other extinct animals. All the prominent ones, at any rate. Except it’s possible some of them, or all of them didn’t really look like what we think. The problem is that with…

I love the Critters, despite the fact that their movies have all been lousy. And not fun-lousy. Lousy-lousy. I have long yearned for a Critters revamp, handled responsibly. I’ve waited and waited to see the Critters done right, to see a GOOD bad movie. Now it appears my wish may have been granted. It won’t…

Last night at the Golden Globes, Guillermo Del Toro won the award for Best Director for his new flick THE SHAPE OF WATER. (Too bad the movie didn’t win for Best Picture. It did win Best Score, though, so that’s something.) It’s long overdue for Guillermo to get such recognition. The guy’s a genius. One…

This one is not to be confused with GREMLINS, or the godawful GREMLINS 2. Such associations are likely inevitable, though, given the unfortunate choice the creators made with titling this film. It has had several, among them the far more appropriate THE BOX, but they ended up going with GREMLIN. I hope the title doesn’t…

Any of you remember the TV series MARRIED…WITH CHILDREN? I’m sure you do. Any of you remember actually watching it when it first aired on the Fox network, from the inaugural season in 1987 to the series end a decade later? There was this one particular episode, when Al Bundy was having recurring nightmares about…

After my original play, BLUEBEARD: THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS, debuted in 2016, I “met” Margot Juby, a fellow De Rais scholar, via the trusty old Internet. (I credit us both with being scholars of the De Rais case, as I had to do quite a bit of research for the writing of the…

Charles Manson is all up in the news as of late. First he died. That was newsworthy. And then there were the rumors that Quentin Tarantino wanted to do a Charlie Manson movie. Rumors? Pshaw! The film, tentatively titled 1969, is happening. It’s slated to debut on the 50th anniversary of the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders.…