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Prepare for the Rise of the Kong Multiverse With SWC’s King Kong the Illustrated Classic!
For a monster who’s preparing to celebrate his 90th anniversary in March 2023, the big boss of Skull Island, King Kong, shows no signs of slowing down these days—in fact, for a nonagenarian who died in his first screen appearance, he … Continue reading
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The Headless Horseman to Ride Again
It’s Monday the 13th, which seems like the perfect time to pass along the recent announcement that writer Washington Irving’s classic tale of the Headless Horseman, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is scheduled for an all-new screen adaptation courtesy of Paramount Pictures and writer/director … Continue reading
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Tagged horror classics, movies, shameless plugs, sleepy hollow, starwarp concepts backlist, swc horror bites, the legend of sleepy hollow, washington irving
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Happy 100th Anniversary, Nosferatu!
This coming Friday marks a special occasion for horror fans, because it was on March 4, 1922 that the classic silent film Nosferatu made its cinematic debut at a special premiere held at Germany’s Berlin Zoological Garden. Directed by F.W. Murnau … Continue reading
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Tagged black coat press, count orlock, f.w. murnau, jean-marc lofficier, max schreck, movies, night's children, nosferatu, steven a. roman, tales of the shadowmen, the vampire almanac, vampire fiction
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Happy New Year! Welcome to the Future!
It’s 2022 (in case you didn’t get the memo about it), and we’ve now reached the future—at least the future as seen through the dystopian lens of the 1973 sci-fi feature film Soylent Green. Based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make … Continue reading
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Tagged 2022, charlton heston, harry harrison, make room! make room!, movies, soylent green
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Bob Larkin and Michael Myers: Now That’s Halloween!
To celebrate today’s release of Halloween Kills, the highly anticipated Jamie Lee Curtis–starring sequel to 2018’s Halloween, we’ve dipped into the Bob Larkin Archives to present this appropriately haunting image: an ad Bob painted for TV Guide in 1981, for the NBC broadcast … Continue reading
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King Kong: Back on the Big Scream!
It’s a rematch monster fans have been waiting decades for, and today’s the day it finally happens, when the often-delayed epic kaiju wrestling film Godzilla vs. Kong simultaneously debuts on streaming service HBOMax and in selected theaters! Originally scheduled for release … Continue reading
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Tagged delos w. lovelace, edgar wallace, godzilla vs kong, illustrated classics, king kong, merian c. cooper, movies, shameless plugs
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Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice…
Today is the much-talked-about debut on the HBOMax streaming service of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, aka the “Snyder Cut” that fans of the director have been waiting for since the not-too-spectacular theatrical release of the version of his project that hit … Continue reading
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Vampi Goes to Hollywood…Again!
Recently, it was announced by comics publisher Dynamite Entertainment that independent film company Mike the Pike Productions had optioned the film, television, and streaming rights to Vampirella, the queen of the comic book bad girls who celebrated her 50th anniversary two years … Continue reading
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Tagged from the stars a vampiress, mike the pike productions, movies, steven a. roman, vampirella
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She’s a Big-Screen Wonder…Again!
This Friday, December 25th (Christmas Day!) is the much-delayed U.S. theater release (and simultaneous HBOMax streaming debut) of Wonder Woman 1984, the latest entry in Warner Bros.’ DC Comics movie universe and the sequel to 2017’s box-office hit Wonder Woman. Gal Gadot … Continue reading
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Silence of the Graffiti
Here’s a little creepy treat for horror fans. Even though we’re all hunkered down these days, staying in place and self-isolating from the constant threat of the coronavirus, there are still chances for yours truly to exit the offices of … Continue reading
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Tagged graffiti art, horror movies, silence of the lambs
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