You always remember your first. George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was the horror movie gateway drug for this author, age 11 or so, on a Halloween night long ago, chopped to bits on Buffalo’s Fox affiliate WUTV yet still retaining its indelible impact. Sure, frights had come before (Dr Who’s creepy score, those saltshakerContinue reading “Remembering George Romero”
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The Fog
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air” Macbeth Frightful tales told around a campfire connect people with a more primitive form of horror, the kind that hearkened back to our oral culture. In The Fog, the Exemplar of Elocution John Houseman plays Mr. Machen, who is regaling localContinue reading “The Fog”
Really Awful Movies 