Hallowe'en Machine!

Oct
31st

Wed

Arbogast on Film: 31 Screams

Enjoy the 2012 installment of this great blog’s “31 Screams” series!

billcorbett:

13 Ghosts, 1960

Questions: was it already a ghost when it was hung? If so, was it hung by fellow ghosts?

Broader question, really: how does the whole “ghost” thing work?

(Source: dodsrike, via castlemonster)

Free Horror Movies on Hulu (Courtesy Criterion Collection)!

Happy Hallowe’en everyone! Enjoy these great picks on Hulu (for free) from the Criterion Collection.

Oct
28th

Sun

Oct
27th

Sat

Polish horror posters

If you’ve never taken a look through some Polish movie posters, then get your Google Image Search going and type in that phrase. Wildly creative and often downright baffling, these are almost addictive to look at, especially being used to the bad-Photoshop, overused-template movie posters we get in this country.

Here are some great Polish posters for horror films:

Rosemary’s Baby

Young Frankenstein

Kwaidan

The Birds

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Nosferatu the Vampyre

The Legacy

The Fly

Alien

Oct
25th

Thu

Oct
20th

Sat

Weird-O-Matic Wax Episode 5

The season’s last podcast is up. Give it a listen.

Oct
19th

Fri

Horror at the fair

For a while now, I’ve been collecting pictures of old “ghost shows” and horror-themed fair attractions. This particular spiritualism-inspired exhibit developed into things like spookshows and the usually-disappointing clattering old fair rides (which I always still loved), but seem to not be around so much these days.

Here are some of my favorites from the heyday:

Check out more great examples here:

The Ghost on the Fairground

Horror Show Gallery

The Strange History of the Frankenstein Carnival Sideshow

Oct
16th

Tue

Horrorgami: Haunted Houses from a Single Sheet of Paper

Check out these incredible works of kirigami— in this case, recreations of famous haunted houses cut from a single sheet of paper.