Frank Thornton – Actor
British actor Frank Thornton, most famous for playing stuffy Captain Peacock in the long-running innuendo-filled BBC TV sitcom – and offshoot film – Are You Being Served? died in March 2012, …
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British actor Frank Thornton, most famous for playing stuffy Captain Peacock in the long-running innuendo-filled BBC TV sitcom – and offshoot film – Are You Being Served? died in March 2012, …
Frank Thornton – Actor Read MoreThe Mars Attacks trading card series was created by Topps in 1962. Product developer Len Brown, inspired by Wally Wood’s cover for EC Comics Weird Science #16, pitched the idea to Woody Gelman. Gelman and Brown created the story …
Mars Attacks trading cards – merchandise Read MoreDracula and Son – original title: Dracula père et fils – is a 1976 French comedy horror film written and directed by Édouard Molinaro, who would subsequently go on to make the …
DRACULA AND SON (1976) Reviews and overview Read MoreWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? is a 1971 British-American horror film directed by Curtis Harrington (Night Tide) and starring Ralph Richardson (Tales from the Crypt), Shelley Winters (Tentacles) and Mark Lester. Produced by …
WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO? (1971) Reviews and overview Read MoreScooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster is a 2004 animated film and the seventh of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. In it, the …
SCOOBY-DOO! AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER (2004) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe 1960s was a boom period in the United States for fantasy-themed situation comedies. For a while, it seemed that the standard domestic comedy show was a thing of the …
THE MUNSTERS – TV series, movies, spin-offs and merchandise Read MoreThe Transformation (A Sandwich of Nightmares) is a 1974 American comedy horror film written and directed by Lewis Jackson (Christmas Evil). The Palomino film was produced by Elliot Krasnow and stars Dianna …
THE TRANSFORMATION (A SANDWICH OF NIGHTMARES) (1974) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Borrower is a 1991 American science fiction horror film directed by John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) and produced by Cannon Pictures and Vision Pictures. The film sees an alien serial killer who is sent to Earth to live …
THE BORROWER (1991) Reviews and overview Read MoreSaiyūki – original title: 西遊記 – also known by its British title Monkey, is a Japanese television fantasy drama based on the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by …
MONKEY (1978-1980) TV series Read MoreDracula (The Dirty Old Man) is a 1969 American comedy horror film written and directed by William Edwards. Plot: Count Dracula (Vince Kelley) – or Alucard, as he is called here, …
DRACULA (THE DIRTY OLD MAN) (1969) Reviews and overview Read More‘The family that slays together stays together’ American Gothic is a 1987 Canadian-British horror film written by Burt Wetanson and Michael Vines and directed by John Hough (Twins of Evil, The …
AMERICAN GOTHIC (1987) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was a serial written by Spike Milligan and Ronnie Barker that ran every week on The Two Ronnies sketch show in 1976 …
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town Read More‘Stare into sheer horror!’ Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt is a 2011 comedy horror film and is a belated sequel to the 1999 The Killer Eye. It was directed and produced by Charles Band from his original …
KILLER EYE: HALLOWEEN HAUNT (2011) Overview Read MoreQueen Kong is a 1976 British-German comedy film directed by Frank Agrama. The film was never released theatrically in the UK, due to legal action by Dino De Laurentiis, producer of …
QUEEN KONG (1976) Reviews and overview Read More“It’s The Office meets American Psycho” screams the sleeve for 2009 production Corporate Cut Throat Massacre, but saying something doesn’t make it so, and anyone suckered in by that quote …
CORPORATE CUT THROAT MASSACRE (2009) Review and overview Read MoreFrankie Stein is a British comic book character who was popular throughout the 1970s. He should not be confused with the identically named female character from Monster High. The original …
Frankie Stein – comic book character Read More‘There’s something blood curdling for everyone!’ The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini is the seventh (and last) of the American International Pictures (AIP) beach party films and was released in 1966. The entire film takes …
THE GHOST IN THE INVISIBLE BIKINI (1966) Reviews and overview Read MoreTaxidermia is a 2006 Hungarian comedy-drama horror film directed by György Pálfi and starring Csaba Czene and Gergely Trócsányi. It is based on short stories by Lajos Parti Nagy. The …
TAXIDERMIA (2006) Reviews and overview Read MoreSARS Wars (Thai: ขุนกระบี่ผีระบาด or Khun krabii hiiroh, also subtitled Bangkok Zombie Crisis) is a 2004 Thai horror-comedy film directed and co-written by Taweewat Wantha (Long Weekend; Massagist). The film stars popular …
SARS WARS (2004) Thai comedy horror Read MoreHansel & Gretel Get Baked aka Hansel and Gretel and the 420 Witch is an American horror-comedy film from producer Mark Morgan, producer of The Twilight Saga film series. Directed …
HANSEL & GRETEL GET BAKED (2013) Reviews and overview Read More‘Stop on by and give the afterlife a try.’ Waxwork is a 1988 American comedy horror film about a wax museum owner who uses his horror exhibits to unleash evil …
WAXWORK (1988) Reviews of Anthony Hickox’s comedy horror Read MoreMad Monster Party? is a 1967 American animated comedy film directed by Jules Bass and written by Mad Magazine creator Harvey Kurtzman. It was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions for Embassy Pictures. Although promoted …
MAD MONSTER PARTY? (1967) Reviews and overview Read MoreSpiders are one of the most common phobias that people have (technical term: arachnophobia). Even normally fearless individuals can be reduced to quivering wrecks by the sight of a tiny …
Arachnophobia: Spiders on the Screen – article Read MoreWhat’s New, Scooby-Doo? is the 2002-2005 ninth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, and a revival of the original show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. It was the first time the …
WHAT’S NEW, SCOOBY-DOO? (2002 – 2005) TV series Read MoreThe Horror of Frankenstein – aka Horror of Frankenstein – is a 1970 British horror film produced and directed by Jimmy Sangster from a screenplay co-written with Jeremy Burnham, it is both a semi-parody …
THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN (1970) Reviews and overview Read MoreMonsters University is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney. Dan Scanlon is the director and Kori Rae is the producer. It is the fourteenth film produced by Pixar and the prequel to 2001’s Monsters, …
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (2013) reviews and overview Read More‘Keeping our streets safe for the undead’ The Revenant is a 2009 American dark comedy horror film written and directed by Kerry Prior and starring David Anders and Chris Wylde. …
THE REVENANT (2009) Reviews and overview Read More‘You’ll be scared shirtless’ Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre is a 2005 American comedy-horror film released by Wicked Pictures. The movie stars Stormy Daniels, Jessica Drake, Eric Masterson, Voodoo, Tommy …
CAMP CUDDLY PINES POWERTOOL MASSACRE (2005) Reviews and overview Read More‘Based on true events… that may not have happened’ 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2013 American comedy horror …
30 NIGHTS OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY WITH THE DEVIL INSIDE THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2013) Reviews and overview Read More‘A satyrical horror comedy of a beautiful woman with bizarre tastes’ The Vampire Happening is a 1971 West German comedy horror film directed by Freddie Francis (The Deadly Bees, Torture Garden, Tales from the Crypt). The …
THE VAMPIRE HAPPENING (1971) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Host is a 2006 South Korean horror film directed by Bong Joon-ho. The movie stars Song Kang-ho, Byeon Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona and Go Ah-sung. Original title: Hangul: …
THE HOST (2006) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Smiling Ghost is a 1941 American comedy horror film directed by Lewis Seiler from a screenplay by Kenneth Gamet based on a story by Stuart Palmer. This Warner Bros. …
THE SMILING GHOST (1941) Reviews and overview Read More‘Cold Body. Warm Heart.’ Warm Bodies is a 2012 American romantic zombie film directed by Jonathan Levine and based on Isaac Marion’s popular novel of the same name. The studio behind The Twilight Saga, Summit Entertainment, backed …
WARM BODIES (2012) Reviews and overview Read MoreTreehouse of Horror episodes are a series of episodes in the animated series The Simpsons. They are Halloween specials, each consisting of three separate, self-contained segments. These segments usually involve the Simpson family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting. They …
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror Read MoreGame of Werewolves is a 2011 Spanish comedy-horror film directed by Juan Martínez Moreno. Originally titled Lobos de Arga and also known as Attack of the Werewolves Plot: In 1910, in …
GAME OF WEREWOLVES (2011) Reviews and overview Read MoreBody Melt is a 1992 Australian horror film directed by Philip Brophy from a screenplay co-written with Rod Bishop. The satirical film, released in 1993, was influenced by “splatstick” Peter Jackson films such …
BODY MELT (1992) Reviews and overview Read MoreNasty was the ninth episode of British situation comedy series The Young Ones. It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall (also seen briefly in An American Werewolf in London) and Lise Mayer, and directed by …
‘Nasty’ Episode of The Young Ones TV series (1984) Read MoreEvil, also known as Το Κακό in Greek, is 2005 Greek zombie horror film directed by Yourgos Noussias. The film is notable for being the first Greek zombie movie. It …
EVIL aka TO KAKO (2005) Reviews and overview Read MoreThe Itchy & Scratchy Show is a show within a show in the animated television series The Simpsons. It usually appears as a part of The Krusty the Clown Show, watched regularly by Bart and Lisa Simpson. Itself an animated cartoon, The …
THE ITCHY & SCRATCHY SHOW Read MoreRe-Animator is a 1985 American science fiction comedic horror film based on the H. P. Lovecraft story ‘Herbert West–Reanimator’. Directed by Stuart Gordon, it was the first film in the …
RE-ANIMATOR (1985) Reviews of H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Read More‘Buddy has an axe to grind. A big axe.’ Slaughterhouse is a 1987 American comedy horror film written and directed by Rick Roessler. The movie stars Joe B. Barton, Don Barrett (Hobgoblins), Sherry …
SLAUGHTERHOUSE (1987) Reviews and overview Read MoreCritters is a science-fiction horror comedy directed by Stephen Herek (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead) and starring Scott Grimes, Dee Wallace-Stone, Don Opper, Billy Zane, Billy Green …
CRITTERS – Film franchise Read More‘Call them for a monster-ous good time.’ The Monster Squad is a 1987 American comedy horror film directed by Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps) from a screenplay co-written with …
THE MONSTER SQUAD (1987) Reviews and overview Read More’13½ murders + 1423 laughs =’ Student Bodies is a 1981 American comedy horror film written and directed by Mickey Rose, with an uncredited Michael Ritchie co-directing. A spoof of films such …
STUDENT BODIES (1981) Reviews and overview Read More‘An entire town bathed in pulsing human blood! Madmen crazed for carnage!’ Two Thousand Maniacs! is a 1964 American horror film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and starring Playboy magazine model Connie Mason. The …
TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! (1964) Reviews and overview Read MoreMonster House is a 2006 computer animated motion capture horror/comedy film directed by Gil Kenan (Poltergeist, 2014), produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, and released in 3D. The film’s characters are animated primarily utilizing performance capture. It features the voices of Mitchell Musso, Sam …
MONSTER HOUSE (2006) Reviews and overview Read MoreDead Heat is a 1988 American comedy horror film directed by Mark Goldblatt starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo and Vincent Price. Plot: Violent criminals who cannot be killed are shooting …
DEAD HEAT (1988) Reviews and overview Read More‘Zombies, sex and guns. Oh my!’ Dellamorte Dellamore – aka Cemetery Man – is a 1994 comedy horror film directed by Michele Soavi. An Italian-French-German co-production, the screenplay by Gianni Romoli was based …
DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE aka CEMETERY MAN Reviews of Michele Soavi’s cult classic Read More‘Meet the Bible Belter’ John Dies at the End is a 2012 American dark comedy-horror film written and directed by Don Coscarelli (Phantasm; Bubba Ho-Tep), based upon the David Wong novel …
JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012) Reviews and overview Read More‘Humans… the other white meat’ Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a 2006 musical comedy horror film from Troma Entertainment, directed by Lloyd Kaufman from a screenplay by Gabriel …
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD (2006) Reviews and overview Read More