When tackling a haunted house story one of the more troubling aspects to tackle is why the residents don’t simply “Get Out” instead of hanging around while the walls drip blood and ghostly forces are trying to tear their faces off, and the two best literary examples of this would be Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting…
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The Cat and the Canary (1939) – Review
When it comes to playing cowardly leading men Bob Hope is at the top of the list – Lou Costello is disqualified as he rarely gets the girl in the end – and with the 1939 remake of The Cat and the Canary, we have on hand one of the best horror comedies to date,…
Thir13en Ghosts (2001) – Review
With the success of their remake of William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill Dark Castle Entertainment producers, Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, decided to tackle Castle’s 1960s classic 13 Ghosts in what turned out to be one of the better examples of taking an original premise and then spinning it in a variety of different…
The Peanut Butter Solution (1985) – Review
Meriam Webster’s Dictionary defines non sequitur as “an inference that does not follow from the premises” which, funnily enough, could also sum up the premise for director Michael Rubbo’s film The Peanut Butter Solution, a film that constantly has the viewer wondering what the hell is going on. Now, I’ve seen some pretty weird kid’s…
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) – Review
In five decades of Scooby-Doo mysteries, there is one show that really stands apart from the other incarnations and that would be the 1985 series The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo — not to be mistaken for William Castle’s 13 Ghosts — and it stands apart not because it had the gang encountering real ghosts and…