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Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films — A Descent into Gothic Cinema
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Movies
Cinemassacre revisits Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe film series (1960–1964), praising its Gothic atmosphere, production efficiency, and Vincent Price’s performances across eight features, while noting variations in quality and the series’ eventual fatigue.
- Overview of the eight Poe films produced by Corman (1960–1964)
- Discussion of each film: House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial, Tales of Terror, The Raven, The Haunted Palace, The MasK of the Red Death, Tomb of Ligeia
- Emphasis on production constraints, color Cinemascope, and set design ingenuity
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Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) - Clip
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Movies
For decades, comedy was the place where society tested its limits. Comedians were the court jesters of civilization — the people allowed to say the uncomfortable thing everyone else was thinking. They poked fun at politics, religion, relationships, culture, and even themselves. Nothing was sacred, and that was the entire point.
Then political correctness showed up like an angry hall monitor carrying a clipboard and a list of forbidden words.
Suddenly, jokes needed permission slips.
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The Friday the 13th Movie Poster is My Favourite Movie Poster of All-Time
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Art
There are great horror posters… and then there’s the poster for Friday the 13th, which looks like it was designed by a man who drank six cups of coffee, stared into the woods for three hours, and whispered, “What if silhouettes were terrifying?”
First of all, this poster understands something modern horror marketing forgot: mystery is scary. You don’t see a hockey mask. You don’t see twelve explosions. Nobody is standing back-to-back holding weapons like they’re auditioning for a haunted Avengers movie. It’s just a giant shadow figure staring at terrified camp counselors like he’s deciding which one forgot to bring marshmallows.
The silhouette design was created by designer Spiros Angelikas, while the final illustrated poster was painted by artist Alex Ebel.
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When Dracula Danced With Mickey: The Strange Story of Bela Lugosi and Fantasia
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- Written by: John Schollian
- Category: Movies
Before Fantasia became one of The Walt Disney Company’s most ambitious animated masterpieces, it nearly featured the King of Horror himself: Bela Lugosi.
Yes, the man who terrified audiences as Dracula apparently spent time creeping around a Disney soundstage pretending to be a demon for a cartoon. If that sounds like a fever dream caused by eating expired Halloween candy, welcome to old Hollywood.
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Play the Splatterhouse (1988) Arcade Game
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Games
Back in 1988, video games asked important questions like, “What if a hockey mask could legally adopt a bodybuilder?” Enter Splatterhouse — the arcade masterpiece that looked like someone spilled a horror VHS tape directly into a haunted gym.
You play Rick, a man whose relationship advice is apparently, “Put on this cursed mask and start punching furniture monsters.” Armed with a 2x4, questionable fashion choices, and the emotional range of a slasher villain, Rick smashes his way through a mansion filled with creatures that resemble rejected meatloaf recipes.
Parents hated it. Arcades loved it. And kids everywhere suddenly believed the best solution to demons was uppercuts and excessive property damage.
Think of it as date night gone horribly wrong: your girlfriend gets kidnapped, the house is alive, and now you’re committing aggravated assault against walking intestines. Classic romance.
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Watch Disney's "The Skeleton Dance"
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Movies
Long before Disney gave us singing snowmen, emotionally unavailable lions, and enough live-action remakes to bankrupt popcorn manufacturers, there was The Skeleton Dance — a cartoon where a bunch of dead skeletons leave the graveyard at midnight to absolutely tear up the dance floor like it’s Halloween at a retirement home for xylophones.
Released in 1929 as part of Disney’s Silly Symphonies, this short basically asked one important question:
“What if human bones had jazz?”
And somehow, the answer was “masterpiece.”
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Horror Hosts, Tennessee Macabre, Come to Rumble
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Series
Tonight on Tennessee Macabre — the movie that proves aliens traveled billions of light years just to make humans deeply uncomfortable. Forget advanced technology… these extraterrestrials look like they were designed during a fever dream in a discount Halloween store.
So grab your popcorn, lock your doors, and prepare yourself for giant-eyed invaders, questionable science, and enough low-budget chaos to make Ed Wood say, “Maybe tone it down a little.”
It’s creepy. It’s cheesy. It’s cosmic nonsense at its absolute finest. Welcome to the madness.
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Terms of Use
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
- Category: Other
Welcome to our website. By using this site, you agree to the following Terms of Use, which were written with very little sleep and far too much caffeine.
If you disagree with these terms, please leave dramatically while muttering “this place is cursed.”
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Privacy Policy
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- Written by: Gary Johnston
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Welcome to our Privacy Policy — the document nobody reads until something weird happens.
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