Ed. note- This has always been one of my favorite horror films, and it’s the greatest of the giant bug films, of which it was the first. And those effects are[…]
Tag: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
What if the Maniac Cop Only Killed Blacks?
One of the great thing about art is that the way we perceive it isn’t static. A film or novel or painting is exactly the same whole from one day to[…]
SLEEPAWAY CAMP Screening in NYC
SLEEPAWAY CAMP Screening Presented by Fangoria May 19, 2014 at Cinema Village, NY, NY “Hi, I’m Chad. And I love Sapporo.” One of the[…]
DE Delves into the 1940s
In comparison with the decades that bracketed it, the 1940s was a fallow decade for horror. Universal’s Classic Monsters[…]
Some Twilight Zone Under the Radar Episodes Worth Watching—Season 1
Ed. note- A belated Happy New Year from the staff at Death Ensemble. I didn’t actually spend New Year’s Day watching episodes of Rod Serling’s brilliant series The Twilight Zone, but I’m[…]
THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X
In 1956, Kevin McCarthy starred in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. His most famous film, it rages against the evils of conformity and how we lose everything when we sacrifice those[…]
Howling in Innerspace with Piranhas: The Kevin McCarthy/ Joe Dante Connection
All this recent buzz about THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X has Kevin McCarthy on my brain. The dashing movie star would have been 98 yesterday, and with fond memories of[…]
The Creases Make It Reel
My dad used to tell me when I was a kid that he was born in the wrong time, and he should’ve been an officer in Hitler’s army. He’d regale[…]
