As any lover of horror will tell you, picking a short list of favorite monsters is no easy feat. The most classic of movie monsters are those with an element of tragedy; the ones who evoke empathy as well as… Read More ›
Poster for Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day, 1980 Related Posts: – I Gave My Heart to Mother: Murderous Movie Matriarchs – Silent Sundays: I Married a Witch (1942) – Silent Sundays: Night of the Lepus (1972)
This year we’ve watched 16 short films for Friday Night Features, ranging for dark comedy and horror parodies to straight up peek-through-your-fingers scary movies. For our final short of 2012, we have a slightly more thoughtful take on the end of days… Read More ›
Darling readers, in honor of today’s holiday in honor of saintly mothers everywhere, here’s a quick roundup up of ten of my favorite malignant matrons of the silver screen. 1. Joan Crawford as Lucy Harbin in Straight-Jacket (1964) 2. Wendie… Read More ›
“There the traveler meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the past…” In the Czech Republic, there is a medieval church long abandoned by the town after an ill-omened roof collapse during a funeral service half a century ago. With decades of decay running… Read More ›
Greetings, year-long Halloween fiends! Drew from FrightProps here – I’m one of the weirdos working behind the scenes at a Halloween prop making company based in the frozen wasteland of Minneapolis. I’m also the goony force behind the FrightProps blog…. Read More ›
At the beginning of the 20th century, Los Angeles was a city on the rise, “destined to become the most important city in this country, if not the world.” By the 1920’s, population had skyrocketed to nearly one million people,… Read More ›
There is something so disquieting about a amusement park long abandoned, decaying rides standing forlorn in a field or being slowly swallowed by creeping forests. Perhaps, like creepy kids and evil clowns, it is the juxtaposition of the joyous things of… Read More ›
If you came of age in the 80’s and 90’s, you might remember a little series called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Ostensibly a children’s book, this series paired creepy folkloric tales and urban legends told by Alvin Schwartz with… Read More ›
Costumed participants in a football match reported in the July 1920 issue of Polytechnic Magazine, via the University of Westminster Archives .
“…Deep dread and loathing of her solitude Fell on her, from which mood was born Scorn of herself; again, from out that mood Laughter at her self-scorn. “What! is not this my place of strength,” she said, “My spacious mansion… Read More ›
La Mort (Death), by Belgian symbolist artist Jean Delville, 1915.
