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Variations on A Christmas Carol: CFQ Round Table Podcast 2:48.2

Variations on A Christmas Carol: CFQ Round Table Podcast 2:48.2

The Christmas season is upon us, and as we have had occasion to mention, that means ghosts and spirits. And what greater Christmas ghost story is there than Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL? That is the subject of this week’s Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast: Dan Persons, guest John W. Morehead (of Theofantastique.com), and Steve Biodrowski [...]

Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan)

Ghost Story of Yotsuya (Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan)

There is a tradition in Japan to present ghost stories during the warm summer months. An 18th century kabuki play by Nanboku Tsuruya provided the most popular and durable storyline – that of an ambitious, would-be samurai named Iemon who marries and then murders Iwa, whose ghost returns to wreak revenge on her faithless [...]

Yogi Bear, Original Tron, & Best Laid Plans: CFQ Post-Mortem Podcast 1:44.1

Yogi Bear, Original Tron, & Best Laid Plans: CFQ Post-Mortem Podcast 1:44.1

The Nightmare Lives: An indelible image from YOGI BEAR.
So, in the place of a CINEFANTASTIQUE PODCAST in which we discuss our top ten lists for 2010, we give you a CINEFANTASTIQUE POST-MORTEM in which we discuss doing a show in which we discuss our top ten lists for 2010. Who knew a little thing like [...]

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Cinefantastique Podcast 1:43

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Cinefantastique Podcast 1:43

For the second week in a row, Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons immerse themselves in a magical, 3D kingdom for this episode of The Cinefantastique Review. This time, though, instead of Disney whimsy, it’s C.S. Lewis faith-tinged adventure, as they join siblings Lucy and Edmund Pevensie (Susan and Peter appear to be away [...]

Javier Fuentes-León on UNDERTOW: Fantasy Film Podcast

Javier Fuentes-León on UNDERTOW: Fantasy Film Podcast

Torn Between Two Worlds: Ghost lover Manolo Cardona (center of image) and pregnant wife Tatiana Astengo (far right) put the pressure on Cristian Mercado in UNDERTOW.
The triangles just keep getting more complicated, don’t they? In the new Peruvian film, UNDERTOW, fisherman Miguel (Cristian Mercado) is eagerly awaiting the arrival of his child by [...]

Kill Katie Malone - Supernatural Thriller

Kill Katie Malone – Supernatural Thriller

Ghost movie stars Dean Cain and Masiela Lusha

Gaspar Noé on ENTER THE VOID: Fantasy Podcast Interview

Gaspar Noé on ENTER THE VOID: Fantasy Podcast Interview

I Sing the Afterlife Electric: A trippy moment from ENTER THE VOID.
Kinda sorry I’m going to see LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS in IMAX 3D this weekend, and not Gaspar Noé’s new film, ENTER THE VOID. This is the movie that could benefit from the full, immersive, 3D treatment: a swirling, gliding, electric voyage into life [...]

SyFy’s American ‘Being Human’ Teaser

Here’s the teaser for SyFy’s ‘Americanized’ take on BEING HUMAN, the UK’s “young urban monsters trying to pass in the real world” series.

Fall 2010 Movie Preview: The Chronic Rift Podcast

In anticipation of my assuming the role of movie critic for THE CHRONIC RIFT — the legendary discussion show of all things science fiction, fantasy and horror that’s beginning its third year as a podcast — John Drew invited me on to discuss what genre fans should be looking forward to [...]

Tormented (1960) on Mystery Science Theater 3000: A 50th Anniversary Horror Movie Review

Tormented (1960) on Mystery Science Theater 3000: A 50th Anniversary Horror Movie Review

Producer-director Bert I. Gordon is most well known for his low-budget 1950s science fiction pics like THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, KING DINOSAUR, and ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, but this little seen relic from 1960 is actually one of his better efforts. It is also one of the more entertaining installments of [...]

13 Ghosts: A Celebration of 1960 Horror Retrospective

13 Ghosts: A Celebration of 1960 Horror Retrospective

In the hot summer of 1960, one of the few places that had air conditioning in the small town where I lived was the local movie theater. That summer we went to the movies a lot. I can’t remember if it was during THE BELLBOY or THE ALAMO, but there was a preview for William [...]

Guillermo Del Toro to repossess to Disney's Haunted Mansion

Guillermo Del Toro to repossess to Disney’s Haunted Mansion

Variety reports that Wal Disney Pictures is planning to reboot its stillborn THE HAUNTED MANSION franchise with a new 3-D film, to be developed and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. Disney and Del Toro announced the venture at Comic Con, emphasizing that this version of THE HAUNTED MANSION would be a genuinely scary haunted house movie, not a spoof.

Radcliffe To Star In THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Radcliffe To Star In THE WOMAN IN BLACK

You’d think a boy wizard would be used to ghosts by now.