It’s that spooky time of year again, when Alcohol Professor lets me turn my pen to libations most macabre. This year, we’re taking a break from visiting haunted bars, and with Night of the Booooozy Tales I pair six famous horror authors, six stories, and six cocktails and/or liquors.
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Unpacking Penda’s Fen can seem at first overwhelming. There is so much going on that one scarcely knows where to start, though the most common point is wondering how it got made in the first place.
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On The Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about Hammer Films’ These Are the Damned and the intersection of science fiction, horror, and folk horror in the atomic era.
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A lone samurai making his way home late at night meets a defenseless woman. So begins the horror of Kaneto Shindô’s tale of ghosts, vengeance, and the wrongs visited upon women by entitled men.
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I realized it’s ok to be weird. Hell, it’s preferable to be weird. To want something outside of the norm or to be something outside of the norm. To give in to temptation.
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Hammer and Christopher Lee tackle Satan and Dennis Wheatley’s occult adventurer Duc de Richleau on one of the studio’s finest horror films, despite some shoddy special effects at the back end.
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Among the mythical spirits that Suzzanna personified on screen were the South Seas Queen of Javanese legend and her daughter, The Snake Queen. But probably her most famous role was that of the Sundel Bolong.
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