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October 18, 2013 by abbyo
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Last week’s first foray into Bava was, I think you’ll agree, …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Barbara Steele, Black Sunday, Halloween, Mario Bava, Owen Glieberman, Ron Swanson
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October 11, 2013 by abbyo
Readers, welcome to Bavafest, a 3-week exploration of the films of Italian horror great Mario Bava. Don your cheesiest, funkiest …
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Category: movies
| Tags: Baron Blood, Elke Sommer, Halloween, Joseph Cotten, Mario Bava
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October 1, 2013 by abbyo
It’s been a long time, readers. I’ve missed you. Did you miss me? You’ve cut your hair! It looks great. …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Baron Blood, Halloween, Mario Bava, Prague, Terry Posters
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October 26, 2012 by abbyo
Now we’re getting to the good stuff. After two weeks of writing about later-period Hammer Films releases that push …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: 1958, Christopher Lee, Dracula, Halloween, Hammer films, horror movies, Peter Cushing, vampires, Van Helsing
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October 14, 2012 by abbyo
About a year ago, the actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss did a three-part documentary for the BBC titled “A …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: A History of Horror, camp, Countess Dracula, Halloween, Hammer films, Home Counties Horror, Ingrid Pitt, Mark Gatiss, vampires
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October 4, 2012 by abbyo
It’s fall! Hooray! We’ve reached the season where everything’s pumpkin-flavored and candy corn-colored, my favorite time of year. And because …
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Category: Uncategorized
| Tags: Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, Don't, Egypt, Grindhouse, Halloween, Hammer films
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October 27, 2011 by abbyo
Well, horror fans, we’ve reached the last week of our Halloween-themed month on No More Popcorn. It’s been fun. I …
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Category: Nostalgiaville
| Tags: children, Disney, family films, Halloween, horror, Jack Clayton, Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Pam Grier, Ray Bradbury, scary, Something Wicked This Way Comes
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October 19, 2011 by abbyo
A few years ago, I was working at a college radio station and was searching around for some good instrumental …
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Category: Plan 9 Cinema
| Tags: Blacula, Blaxploitation, Halloween, Pam Grier, pimps, Scream Blacula Scream, vampires, voodoo, William Marshall
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October 13, 2011 by abbyo
Every town has a boogeyman or a haunted house, some kind of cautionary urban legend that keeps curious kids from …
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Category: The Non-Fiction Section
| Tags: Amityville Horror, Andre Rand, Barbara Brancaccio, Cropsey, Halloween, Joshua Zeman, Missing Children, Session 9, Staten Island, The Burning, urban legends
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October 5, 2011 by abbyo
It’s October, which means it’s the month of that greatest of holidays: Halloween! For me, the events surrounding October 31st …
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Category: Minding the Gap
| Tags: failure, Funny Games, Halloween, horror movies, Michael Haneke, Michael Powell, Moira Shearer, murder, Peeping Tom, The Archers, The Red Shoes