Zombies overrun 1930s Chicago in the 1975 TV movie The Dead Don’t Die, scripted by Robert Bloch, directed by Curtis Harrington, and starring George Hamilton, Linda Cristal and Ray Milland. Read all about it at Films From Beyond: filmsfrombeyond.com/2026/05/…

Recent acquisition - Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture by David J. Skal (RIP). Pairs nicely with Gregory Mank’s Hollywood’s Maddest Doctors.

Medical Nightmares Month begins with my review of The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959): cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.…

It just might be a case of More is Less when someone decided in 1959 that a new! improved! in Eastmancolor! remake of THE 39 STEPS, starring KENNETH MORE, was just was film audiences needed...Hint: Maybe not -- Now up as my newest Grand Old Movies post: grandoldmovies.wordpress.com…

It’s #TaglineTuesday, special Unspeakable Fears Edition: “There beyond the stars your unspeakable fears… deepest desires… come alive, and you are trapped in a spectacle of terror — your secret fears pitted against you!” — Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

Horrified movie victims, trapped in a plastic prison of panic for perpetuity! (Or until someone lets them out of the box.)

I’m a sucker for these vintage spooky tales from the bookstore discount shelves.

Did a Hammer movie ever earn a BAFTA nomination? Yes! Yesterday's Enemy (1959) received several nominations, including Best Actor for Stanley Baker. A lifelong Hammer fan, I recently saw this World War II movie for the first time. Here's my review: classicfilmtvcafe.com/2026/0…

Musical May concludes with a special 6-in-1 edition of Quick Picks and Pans: cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.…

Announcing next month's blog theme...

New Grand Old Movies post now up: JOHN ABBOTT is a melancholy vampire who can't find meaning in his life in the 1945 Republic Pictures horror classic THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST, one of the first screen credits for the great scenarist LEIGH BRACKETT: grandoldmovies.wordpress.com…

I don’t think people understand how psychologically damaging it is to flood society with infinite synthetic media. Human beings evolved in environments where images meant something. If you saw a photograph in 1950, it probably captured a real place. A real person. A real moment in time. Now every timeline is packed with things that never existed. Fake faces. Fake stories. Fake voices. Fake memories. Entire AI-generated humans engineered specifically to harvest attention from lonely people at industrial scale. And after enough exposure your brain starts treating everything with equal suspicion. Reality itself begins to feel negotiable. That’s the true cost of all this synthetic content. Not unemployment. Not copyright lawsuits. The gradual destruction of trust in your own perception. A civilization cannot function if nobody believes their eyes anymore.

Musical May continues with my review of Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979): cinematiccatharsis.blogspot.…

This Lesser Goldfinch has staked out his territory.

Our TOP TEN HORROR FILMS OF BORIS KARLOFF! youtube.com/watch?v=xm9keqhE…

Good night!

Road Trip Pics, Day 3, Grizzly Encounter (Bozeman, Montana) and Bannack Ghost Town (1/2) Fun Fact (first two pics): This is Max, one of three grizzlies at this grizzly rescue. He's 7 years old and 1,300 pounds, and according to his handlers, has more growing to do.

Took advantage of great weather this morning to hike the Kraft Mountain loop trail in Red Rock Canyon.

New video out later! Join us for the live premiere! (21.30 UK time) youtube.com/watch?v=_EwZFIxT…

When the names of the queens of the horror genre are thrown around, one lady is sadly forgotten. That stops today as MonsterZero NJ's Movie Madhouse gives a shoutout and some love to atom age monster movie queen Mara Corday! monsterzeronj.wordpress.com/…