Movie-A-Day #292: Army of Darkness (1992).
October is National Book Month. And since we’re spending this month focusing on horror films, it seems only right that we should mention the most important book in horror, the Necronomicon. It’s turned up in a few films, but it’s never really been done right in the straight Lovecraft adaptations. “Army of Darkness” is pretty fun, but it sure plays fast and loose with the Lovecraftian canon. So if you want to see what all the fuss is really about you should, quite appropriately, stick to the original books.
Movie-A-Day #291: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).
If a heart attack hadn’t stopped him, the menacingly psychotic Klaus Kinski would have been 85 years old today. He came unhinged in a lot of movies in the 1970s and 1980s, most memorably for director Werner Herzog. But in their remake of the German horror classic “Nosferatu,” Kinski turns in a much more measured performance. Still menacing, though.
Movie-A-Day #290: Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954).
Happy 85th birthday to Julie Adams. She may not be a household name, but she has become iconic as the object of the creature’s affections in “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” But she didn’t stop there. She’s been active, working in television right up until the last couple years with guest starring roles is shows like “Lost” and “CSI: NY.”
Movie-A-Day #289: Cat People (1942).
Today is National Feral Cat Day, meant to raise awareness of the plight of the undomesticated cats who live in the alleys and shadows of our modern cityscapes. Or, in the case of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur’s classic “Cat People,” in the swim clubs and bedrooms as well.
Movie-A-Day #288: Peeping Tom (1960).
October is Photographer Appreciation Month, but frankly, Mark Lewis in “Peeping Tom” might make you reconsider that appreciation. While Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” was stealing all the headlines in 1960 for virtually creating the genre that would come to be known as stalker films, Michael Powell’s “Peeping Tom” was quietly out-creeping and out-disturbing it. It would take stalker films years to catch up with its level of discomfort.
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