Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Last night I watched El ataud del vampiro (1958) from this fantastic box set from Indicator/Powerhouse Films: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Who remembers Ben Cooper Halloween costumes: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Yesterday I hung my three movie posters for the month of October: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video takes a quick look at the Fanta Limited Edition Collection: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video takes a quick look at the Universal Monsters series of comic books from Skybound Entertainment, in association with Image Comics: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Today’s video… and the rest of the Countdown… is going to be a little different from what I anticipated… But it’s not going to end! Hear what I’m talking about in today’s video on @ClassicHorrorsTV: Visit countdowntohalloween.blogspot.comfor links to other great blogs celebrating!

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Remember, when we designate films before 1931 as horror, we are doing it retroactively. Before Frankenstein, horror was an ambiguous emotion or element, not a marketing category. Instead, at the time, these movies were referred to as, fantastic, mysterious, or weird. They relied on atmospheric terror and…

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. Many consider the first horror film to be the 1896 French short by Georges Melies, The House of the Devil, aka The Haunted Castle.) In its three-minute running time, Mephistopheles conjures a variety of supernatural characters from a magic cauldron. It features skeletons, ghosts, bats, and the…

Welcome back to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. The genre trap is dangerous. If we rely too much on labels, instead of the movies themselves, we’re either going to be misled into watching something we don’t like, or worse, not watch something we’d love. For someone like me who’s obsessed with placing everything into compartments…

Welcome to this year’s Countdown to Halloween. When I tell most people I’m a horror movie fan, they respond with the look of someone who’s, well, watching a horror movie. “Those are too gory for me!” they say. I then feel like I have to explain, “Oh, I don’t like the gory stuff. I like…