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It takes a full two and a half hours before the original TV version of Salem's Lot looks *anything* like the work of the man who directed it, but when it arrives, I couldn't help but nod and say aloud, "There he is."

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Also, I know that this scene is the one my generation remembers from childhood. There's a reason that each subsequent version of the story preserves it. But the scene that gets me as an adult is when Mike Ryerson finds his murdered dog.

I like to think that Elijah Cook's character survived The Killing and retired to Maine with Marie Windsor, btw. Perhaps hiding from gangsters.

When Mark Petrie and Susan Norton enter the Marsten house, you're suddenly out of the realm of blank-faced television and into Tobe Hooper's world.

krelllabs.blogspot.comWedding BellsMy first exposure to the story of the creation of Frankenstein was the prologue to The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, directed by James Wh...

I've never written about The Bride of Frankenstein before, which seems unbelievable to me. I rectified this oversight this morning at my movie blog. krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Today's morning fright film. New to me. Not significantly different from the version of this story you find in Kwaidan, but for the score by Akira Ifukube. Short, too, which is gratifying because they don't pad things to a longer length.

My movie companion this afternoon.

kickstarter.comFour Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer HorrorFour Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.

I am part of this project. I am the artist most likely to cause this project to ship out late (though I hope not; we'll see). Join us, please, and support queer comics. My story is set at carnival in Venice. @kickstarter.com @taramavery.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

krelllabs.blogspot.comTexting from BeyondLongtime readers of this blog probably know that I am a deeply skeptical person. I am a pure existentialist. I believe this is all there i...

I started my October horror movie blogging project with a piece on Mike Flanagan's Ouija: Origin of Evil. It's only ten years late, I guess... krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/10/ouij...

A Gothic movie a day that I love, sketchy dubbing edition. This brings all the stuff that's subtext in the Gothic up into the actual text. Kinky.

Another Gothic movie a day that I love. American silent film edition. Though, I guess it's international given that its director is a German expatriate.

archive.orgPaul Leni The Cat And The Canary ( 1927) Music By Dionysis Boukouvalas (live Version)The Cat And The Canary. 1927 This has been a PUBLIC DOMAIN staple for years. A film that was originally a horror film, Now it has comic elements. Please no bad reviews , no hate speech or generalized ...

You can watch this one without ads at the Internet Archive. Or download it and use it for your own purposes. Yay, public domain!

krelllabs.blogspot.comSpeed RunI have never played Resident Evil . I'm not a video game person at all. I have enough time-consuming hobbies, thank you very much. I have ...

Clearing the blogging pipes ahead of screening season and the Halloween Scare-a-thon. Looking at Resident Evil (2026). krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/09/resi...

21 Sept

A gothic movie a day that I love. This one is American, though set in England. It was one of my mother's favorite films. I wonder if she realized just how freaking queer it is.

21 Sept

A visitor to my office this morning.

21 Sept

Another Gothic film a day that I love, international edition. This movie was shot in 70mm technicolor, believe it or not. It's probably my favorite film from this actor.

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20 Sept

Reclaiming some of my writing from the now-defunct Film & Fishnets webzine. I'm very proud of this piece on the doomed cult actress, Zoe Tamerlis Lund. Ms.45 herself... krelllabs.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

20 Sept

This has footnotes, btw. Like I'm an actual academic. Hah.

18 Sept

Another Gothic horror movie a day that I love, international edition. This one is from Spain. Its leading man met a bad end, alas.

17 Sept

Another Gothic movie a day that I love, international edition. This one is from Taiwan.

16 Sept

A Gothic horror movie a day that I love, international edition. A wicked send-up of Hammer horror.

15 Sept

A gothic horror movie a day that I love, international edition. This is a batshit insane movie. Like yesterday's movie, this is from Mexico.

15 Sept

Saw a femmed Tintin on my feed tonight and I thought, "Why bother?" Tintin already looks like a baby dyke with that hairdo. I mean, y'all see it, right?

15 Sept

October is getting closer, so it's time for some horror movies I love. Particularly international Gothics from around the world.

13 Sept

Today's movie a day that I love is in the category of actors I had a crush on in my youth. It's an epistemological film noir, too, which is icing on the cake.

kickstarter.comComing soon: Four Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer HorrorFour Seasons of Fear: A Year of Queer Horror is a full-color comics anthology of LGBTQ+ horror stories centered around annual events.

11 Sept

I'm going to have a story in this anthology. My story is cursed but I think I'm going to push through on sheer spite. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...

11 Sept

My story is set at Carnivale in Venice. It's kinda sorta inspired by a couple of Thomas Ligotti stories. I'm doing EVERYTHING by hand as a middle finger to AI. The only computer touch will be scanning it for print. Here's a work in progress page, where I just pray I can trust the process.

11 Sept

A movie a day that I love. This film and this director seem to revel in turning genres upside down and round and round. This sucker has a punch.

10 Sept

A movie a day that I love, BDSM division.

8 Sept

Seated for Coyote vs Acme. I'll try to ignore the fact that coyotes are actually faster than roadrunner.

7 Sept

Another film a day that I love. The first time I saw this actress in a movie, she was playing a vampire and her voice was dubbed. Imagine my surprise at this film, which is a freaking masterpiece.

7 Sept

That movie was We Are the Night, by the way, which is pretty good even if its best scene is swiped from Near Dark. The film in this picture is not horror, but is altogether darker withal.

6 Sept

Yet another movie a day that I love, sacrilege edition.

6 Sept

Went to see The Wrath of Khan/Space Seed double last night and it was packed. Without commenting on any of the other stuff, I gotta say that the duel in the Mutara Nebula is the most beautiful space battle ever filmed. Just lovely.

5 Sept

It's been a while since I showed a pic of myself online. This isn't new, but I do love the attitude in it.

graphicpolicy.comEd Brubaker sued and accused of Hostile Work Environment on CriminalAnother comic creator is being accused of pretty horrendous behavior.

4 Sept

I think I need to stop reading comics. For fuck's sake, dude. What the hell are you doing?

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Ed Brubaker sued and accused of Hostile Work Environment on Criminal. Read the full 28 page court filing. https://graphicpolicy.com/2026/09/03/ed-brubaker-sued-and-accused-of-hostile-work-environment-on-criminal/

3 Sept

Another day, another film I love. I am generally not a fan of the director of this film, but he isn't on my black list because there is a small cluster of his work that tickles me just so. Like this film.

2 Sept

Yet another movie I love a day. I often tell people that French cinema is my blind spot, but for someone who says that, I own a LOT of French movies. Including this one.

1 Sept

A movie a day that I love, day who knows? A comedy chase sequence that has no equal in the sound era.

30 Aug

Seated for Camp Miasma. We shall see...

30 Aug

Late for a movie a day that I love, but whatever. I love this director.

28 Aug

Another movie I love, day whatever. I am well aware of the fact that this film's audience is very narrow, but I am squarely in the center of that audience.

28 Aug

"Triangles?" "I was the first." Heh.

The notion that Dolly Parton would have "liked" the groper in chief is absurd when you consider that she would have turned that rooster into a hen with one shot because he's a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot

A movie a day that I love returns, with my favorite late film from my favorite actress and my favorite 1970s film from one of the world's great directors.

I don't think there's another actor who moved so effortlessly between big studio Hollywood and European auteur cinema. I dunno, maybe Kate Hepburn did it, too, but I think maybe not as well. This film has one of the great performances.

@spacegirlkate.bsky.social Glad you made another trip around the sun, space girl.

Another movie a day that I love. "I am the law."

26 Aug

Donated. I've been reading BJ since her Day of the Woman blog. She's a valuable voice.

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