Category: halloween

Happy Halloween, All You Ghouls and Boils

Jenna Kanell as Tara and David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown, clowning around on the set of Damian Leone’s Terrifier (2016). I went to a jam-packed horror convention last year around this time and the place was positively crawling with Art the Clown cosplayers. Lemme tell you, he’s one spooky motherfucker to cross paths … Continue reading Happy Halloween, All You Ghouls and Boils →

Bewitching Visions

An autumnal, Halloween feast for your hungry eyes. Mangia, and Happy Halloween. Actress Edie Adams was a total smokeshow. Those legs deserve all treat, no trick. She can put a spell on us any day. Betty Grable getting her spook on. Morgan Fairchild’s early eighties witch photoshoot lives rent free in my brain at all … Continue reading Bewitching Visions →

What I’ve Been Watching: October 2024

Before starting this jam post I quick double-checked the math and, yup, it’s been about fourteen months since my one and only “What I’ve Been Watching” post. Boy howdy, where’d the time go? I had planned to do these semi-regularly (like, every few months maybe?), but the first one took so long to write and … Continue reading What I’ve Been Watching: October 2024 →

The Gothic Horror Art of Bruce Timm

Artist, animator, writer, producer, and director: Bruce Timm has been an integral creative force across popular culture for decades now. He’s worked in comic books and television, primarily, and is probably best known for co-creating the landmark program Batman: The Animated Series, and his art style has been integral to DC Comics’ animated branding for … Continue reading The Gothic Horror Art of Bruce Timm →

She Slays

Back in the ‘80s, you had already established what would be a lifelong love of butt-kicking heroines across multiple genres and subgenres—scintillating superheroes, fabulous Final Girls, interstellar space babes, atomic action stars, sexy spies, etc. So it’s no surprise that a blonde high school cheerleader by day who moonlights as a high-kicking, ass-whooping vampire slayer … Continue reading She Slays →