REST IN PEACE - LAWRENCE P. RAFFEL & DOUG LONG

The HORROR 101 with Dr AC family lost a couple of cherished members this past year. Lawrence P. Raffel and Doug Long were excellent horror fans and incredible human beings. Both appeared on multiple episodes over the last few years and I'm sorry they never got to cross paths, although given their distinct loves of specific types of horror, that doesn't seem too surprising. Lawrence erred toward stranger, obscure Euro-horror titles whereas Doug loved the Hollywood classics of yesteryear. Not to say they didn't both appreciate a wide breadth of the genre, but those were the two areas they kept returning to time and again.

ZOMBIE (1979) (aka ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS) TURNS 45!!!

ZOMBIE (aka ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS / ZOMBI 2) (1979) d. Lucio Fulci (Italy)

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When George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead became a major success worldwide, Italians had a stake in the matter since horror icon Dario Argento was one of its producers. In Italy, the trimmed-down Dawn was rechristened Zombi, and its blockbuster status dramatically altered the horror landscape, with molto filmmakers clamoring to ride the coattails of its success. Veteran direction Lucio Fulci was first out of the gate in 1979 with his own rendering of the undead mythos. Its name was....

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (1994) 30TH ANNIVERSARY ROUND TABLE!!

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE (aka CEMETERY MAN) (1994) d. Michele Soavi (Italy)

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Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man) is arguably the last great Italian horror movie of that country’s heyday, and yet somehow still struggles for a place of respect amidst the masters. Originally a novel by Tziano Sclavi, and later adapted by Gianni Romoli and directed by Argento protege Michele Soavi, the story follows Buffalora Cemetery groundskeeper Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) spends his days helping the living put their loved ones to rest, and his nights keeping the dead in the ground.

MARIO BAVA'S BLACK SABBATH (1963) TURNS 60!!!

BLACK SABBATH (1963) d. Mario Bava (Italy)

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Following the success of Roger Corman’s comic exploration of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven in 1963, Boris Karloff found himself in high demand with American International Pictures. In addition to The Terror, notoriously shot in two days on the Raven’s sets, the horror icon appeared in The Comedy of Terrors for Jacques Tourneur (alongside Raven co-stars Vincent Price and Peter Lorre), and tonight’s selection, the masterful anthology Three Faces of Fear, or, as it was better known for its Stateside release, BLACK SABBATH.

HIDDEN HORROR News and Reviews, PART III!

Greetings, fellow fiends!

It's been a grand month or so since we last checked in with news of everyone's favorite compendium of rantings and ravings from the darker quarter. There have been accolades and acolytes, convention rails and monster sales, and we owe it all to the support of bloody brothers and sisters like YOU.

First off, we are thrilled to announce that HIDDEN HORROR has been nominated as "Best Horror Book of 2013" by the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. If you have not already, please stop by the Rondo Awards website and cast your vote!

The full ballot can be found HERE: http://www.rondoaward.com/

And don't forget to vote in category #11! (BEST BOOK)

PHENOMENA (aka CREEPERS) (1985) UHD BLU-RAY REVIEW

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Perhaps the only “insect detective” movie out there on the shelves, featuring a very young Jennifer Connelly (released one year before Labyrinth) as the daughter of a famous American movie star sent away to study at an exclusive Swiss girl’s academy, whose students just happen to be falling victim to a homicidal killer. But as this is an Argento movie, things are hardly what they seem.

FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984) ROUND TABLE!!!

FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER (1984) d. Joseph Zito (USA)

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One of the most influential modern horror films, 1980’s surprise hit from producer/director Sean S. Cunningham, Friday the 13th, spurred a spate of sequels and imitators, launching an entirely new genre: the American slasher film. Unlike its most immediate influence, Halloween, where emphasis was placed on spine-tingling suspense punctuated by scenes of violence, here the body count was everything and audiences flocked to witness the mayhem.