Happy Halloween everyone!
Well, as another horrorthon draws to a close, it’s time for another Shattered Lens tradition! Every Halloween, we share one of the greatest and most iconic horror films ever made. For your Halloween enjoyment, here is George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead!
(Be sure to read Arleigh’s equally famous review!)
From George Romero’s 1978 film, Dawn of the Dead.
To be honest, if I was a zombie, I would probably want to go shopping too.
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking.
It’s time.
4 Shots From 4 George Romero Films
The Crazies (1973, dir by George Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (1978, dir by George Romero)
Martin (1978, dir by George Romero)
Land of the Dead (2005, dir by George Romero)
Indeed, it is!
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Happy Halloween everyone!
Enjoy!
Tonight on Kolchak….
There’s something on the loose underneath Chicago! Could it be a …. killer lizard!? Kolchak’s on the story!
Sadly, all good things must come to an end and this was the final episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Darren McGavin, of course, would later go on to epitomize the ideal middle American father when he played The Old Man in A Christmas Story.
This finale originally aired on March 28th, 1975.
I hope you have enjoyed this October’s trip down Kolchak Lane!
For our next horror scene that I love, we have one of the greatest horror endings of all time.
As Lucio Fulci’s 1979 masterpiece, Zombi 2, comes to a close, Ian McCulloch and Tisa Farrow are on a boat. They’ve managed to escape from an island that been overrun by zombies. However, as they listen to a New York radio station, they discover that the zombie outbreak is not over. In fact, it’s just begun!
And then you get the final scene, in which hundreds of zombies are seen stumbling into New York!
Enjoy the end of the world!
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking.
It’s simply not the Halloween season without a little tribute to Bela Lugosi!
4 Shots From 4 Bela Lugosi Films
Island of Lost Souls (1932, dir by Erle C. Kenton)
The Black Cat (1934, dir by Edgar G. Ulmer)
The Invisible Ray (1936, dir by Lambert Hillyer)
The Return of the Vampire (1943, dir by Lew Landers)
(It’s tradition here at the Lens that, every October, we watch the original Little Shop of Horrors. And always, I start things off by telling this story…)
Enter singing.
Little Shop…Little Shop of Horrors…Little Shop…Little Shop of Terrors…
Hi! Good morning and Happy October the 30th! For today’s plunge into the world of public domain horror films, I’d like to present you with a true classic. From 1960, it’s the original Little Shop of Horrors!
When I was 19 years old, I was in a community theater production of the musical Little Shop of Horrors. Though I think I would have made the perfect Audrey, everybody always snickered whenever I sang so I ended up as a part of “the ensemble.” Being in the ensemble basically meant that I spent a lot of time dancing and showing off lots of cleavage. And you know what? The girl who did play Audrey was screechy, off-key, and annoying and after every show, all the old people in the audience always came back stage and ignored her and went straight over to me. So there.
Anyway, during rehearsals, our director thought it would be so funny if we all watched the original film. Now, I’m sorry to say, much like just about everyone else in the cast, this was my first exposure to the original and I even had to be told that the masochistic dentist patient was being played by Jack Nicholson. However, I’m also very proud to say that — out of that entire cast — I’m the only one who understood that the zero-budget film I was watching was actually better than the big spectacle we were attempting to perform on stage. Certainly, I understood the film better than that screechy little thing that was playing Audrey.
The first Little Shop of Horrors certainly isn’t scary and there’s nobody singing about somewhere that’s green (I always tear up when I hear that song, by the way). However, it is a very, very funny film with the just the right amount of a dark streak to make it perfect Halloween viewing.
So, if you have 72 minutes to kill, check out the original and the best Little Shop of Horrors…
Who doesn’t love a good ghost story?
From John Carpenter’s 1980 film, The Fog….
(That’s John Houseman telling the story, by the way)
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking.
Today, we pay homage to one of the most important horror directors of all time with….
4 Shots From 4 John Carpenter Films
The Fog (1980, dir by John Carpenter)
The Thing (1982, dir by John Carpenter)
In The Mouth of Madness (1994, dir by John Carpenter)
The Ward (2010, dir by John Carpenter)
