by wcadmin | Nov 2, 2011 | Alan Arkin, Audrey Hepburn, Studies in Scary, Wait Until Dark
Scott and I recently ventured to the Gene Siskel Film Center to catch a screening of Terence Young’s 1967 thriller Wait Until Dark, starring Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, and Richard Crenna. The film, based on Frederick Knott’s play of the same name, tells the story of...
by wcadmin | Nov 1, 2011 | corpse odor, Halloween, lingering smells
Some know November 1st as All Saint’s Day, All Hallow’s Day, or Hallow-mass; some know it as the rather more festive Dia de los Muertos. For many of us, however, it signals that the Halloween season is over, and we have only 364 days to prepare for the next one. Some...
by wcadmin | Oct 31, 2011 | Jason Zinoman, Modern Horror, Monsters, Night of the Living Dead, NPR, Rosemary's Baby, Shock Value
“I never feel more in the present than when I’m scared in a horror film.”Two interesting interviews and articles with author and critic Jason Zinoman, whose book Shock Value hit the shelves earlier this year. Modern horror is examined and the very...
by wcadmin | Oct 31, 2011 | Creepy Gadgets, Demonbells, nerdapproved.com
Celebrate this Halloween AND get your geek on with one of the World’s 10 Creepiest Gadgets, compiled by Sean Fallon of nerdapproved.com, like the Demonbells seen above! Just in time for the holidays!
by wcadmin | Oct 31, 2011 | Cthulhu, Haute Couture, tentacles
High fashion meets Cthulhu.