Author: Jeffrey DeCristofaro
History of the Living Dead Part III: Day of the Dead
Many people getting introduced to the Living Dead series don’t realize that Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005) were originally supposed to be one feature. Romero wanted to conclude his zombie franchise on an epic scale; the final chapter of his proposed trilogy was to feature more full-blown action in…
History of the Living Dead Part II: Dawn of the Dead
While arguably the greatest decade in American film, the 1970s was also the Decade of Angry Cinema. It was a time when the horror film underwent a rapid evolution that continued until the early 1990’s. It was a time when Americans witnessed events including the expansion and eventual defeat of US involvement in Vietnam, the…
History of the Living Dead Part I: Night of the Living Dead
When people – horror fans or not – first hear mention of George A. Romero, their automatic response is usually to think of the decades-long Living Dead saga comprised of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1979), Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2005). Romero was, for…
BEWARE THE BLOB! 60 Years of Sci-Fi Horror’s Shapeless Alien
For most movie buffs, there are a few films that fascinated and scarred us in childhood, only for us to grow up and love them for entirely different reasons as adults. While there are a few such films for me, perhaps the first was 1958’s The Blob, a rather novel little film that introduced the…
Horror of Dracula: Celebrating 60 Years of Hammer’s Iconic Masterpiece
At age 15, when I heard that Christopher Lee was playing good-wizard-turned-bad Saruman in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Lord of the Rings trilogy, I was thrilled beyond my wildest dreams. I had grown up watching him in Hammer horror films playing Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, and of course, Count Dracula. I was finally going to get a…