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R.I.P.: A Nightmare on Elm Street cinematographer Jacques Haitkin has passed away

Posted 3 years ago

Jacques Haitkin, cinematographer on the first two Nightmare on Elm Street films and many others, has passed away

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The Arrow in the Head Show looks back at Wes Craven’s Shocker (1989)

Posted 4 years ago

Cody In a previous episode of The Arrow in the Head Show, co-host Lance confessed that he had never seen Wes Craven’s 1989 film Shocker (watch it HERE). Lance has since fulfilled his genre fan duty and watched the film,...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Black Widow, Cruella, Luca, Shocker

Posted 5 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Happy Birthday Wes Craven! Flashback! Spend time with Wes at Amoeba Music!

Posted 6 years ago

Happy Birthday WES CRAVEN! In honor of this MASTER OF HORROR who left us way too damn soon, we just re-posted this 2011 interview we did with the man at Amoeba Music Record Store in Los Angeles right before SCREAM...

Face-Off: A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child vs. Shocker

Posted 7 years ago

1989 saw the release of both A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD and NIGHTMARE creator Wes Craven's SHOCKER, which was Craven's attempt to create a new horror icon at Universal while Freddy was running on fumes at...

The F*cking Black Sheep: Deadly Blessing (1981)

Posted 7 years ago

THE BLACK SHEEP is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATH. We’re hoping this column will...

Face-Off: Trick Or Treat’s Sammi Curr vs. Shocker’s Horace Pinker

Posted 9 years ago

There were a whole lot of slasher movies released in the 1980s, but there were also some shockers in the mix. The most obvious of the shockers is a villain named Horace Pinker, since he starred in the film SHOCKER....

Where in the Horror are they Now? Mitch Pileggi

Posted 9 years ago

MITCH PILEGGI THEN: If today’s Where in the Horror are they Now subject had only done one specific role, he’d still be a legend in genre. Sure you could call Mitch Pileggi a character actor, but man has he played...

It’s the Booze Talkin’, Has Hollywood forgotten about the horror greats?

Posted 10 years ago

When you think of your favorite horror movies, how often do guys like Carpenter, Hooper, Craven or Romero come up?  They are the names behind some of the most iconic horror films ever made. Recently – courtesy of the home video...

This Week in Blu-ray / DVD Releases: Age of Adaline, Homeland, Gotham

Posted 11 years ago

This Week: Blake Lively doesn't look a day over 90 in The Age of Adaline, the town that dreads sundown again, and Homeland defies the haters. ► Blake Lively does her best stuff post ‘Gossip Girl’ in the intriguing fantasy...

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