Beware! The game’s afoot. Once again, the archives have been unburied, and the hideous horrors unleashed! For your entertainment and edification pleasure, of course.
Members of the League of Tana Tea Drinkers dig six feet deep to find their past misdeeds…and reveal them to you, one favorite and notable post at a time!
Classic-Horror dares to delve deeply into Blood for Dracula:
With all the revolutions in the film industry in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many of the older film monsters were starting to appear cliché, even trite. Dracula, long the enemy of Victorian standards, needed to be updated for a time when such standards had long passed. Leave it to pop artist/film producer Andy Warhol and director Paul Morrissey to do this by flipping the rules around and making Dracula the pathetic victim of permissive social mores.
Theofantastique posits the oppositional reconstruction of vampire symbolism in 30 Days of Night:
After watching the film I came away with the general impression that this is a good vampire film with the potential to breathe new life into cultural treatments of the vampire icon, and it is the cultural reconstruction of the vampire through this film that I will touch on with this post.
Vault of Horror opens up with their defense of The Mist:
Far be it from a curmudgeon like me to say this, but I think it’s entirely possible that we as horror fans run the risk of occasionally becoming a bit too cynical for our own good. Case in point: Why is it that a movie like Frank Darabont’s The Mist, a solid, enjoyable horror flick, has been so roundly pummeled by the online horror community? This morning I’m taking a stand and saying it’s damn fine little fright film.
Groovy Age of Horror shares his beef with bad-arsed jadedness in horror:
To be fair, this is only a handful of pretty marginal examples, but I really feel like something’s getting lost in contemporary horror, even in supernatural horror, and that is a sense of the supernatural as inherently uncanny. This unfortunate trend strikes me as pretty recent.
Dinner With Max Jenke writes up sleazy classic Vice Squad:
What’s amazing about Vice Squad is that the film – and Hauser’s performance – manage to surpass whatever expectations one may have. If you see one movie about a killer pimp in your lifetime, it absolutely has to be Vice Squad – otherwise you haven’t seen sh*t.
Until next week, then…and this week’s photo courtesy of Dr. Macro’s High Quality Movie Scans.
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