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Scripting Errors: Jason Vs. Freddy

Chris Walker — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 12:00:22 +0000

Welcome back to Scripting Errors, where we look at movies that might have been! In honor of Halloween this week, we’re looking at one of many drafts of the flick that would become 2003’s Freddy Vs. Jason, this one in particular entitled…Jason vs. Freddy. Who Wrote It and When? This draft was written by Ronald…

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Movie Review: Director’s Cut

Chris Walker — Tue, 22 May 2018 12:00:17 +0000

We interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to bring you…an actual movie review. There’s a brand new horror movie streaming right now and I, being a crowdfunder on it, got a screener copy thereof (I’m going to get physical media when it becomes available). It’s called Director’s Cut, starring and written by Penn Jillette and directed…

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Tales of Terror (1962)

C. Scott Lovejoy — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:45:24 +0000

We’re already four weeks into our Roger Corman Poe cycle and this week we’ll take a look at Tales of Terror, starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. (You can find our earlier Roger Corman Poe articles here.) Tales of Terror is an anthology film featuring three short story segments connected by a short…

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The Premature Burial (1962)

C. Scott Lovejoy — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:17:04 +0000

The one-two punch of House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulum pretty much guaranteed that there would be more Edgar Allan Poe adaptations coming out from American International Pictures. For his third adaptation, Roger Corman decided on Poe’s short story, The Premature Burial, about a man who is obsessed with the notion that he will be…

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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

C. Scott Lovejoy — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:56:19 +0000

The success of House of Usher surprised American International execs, so they wanted to strike while the iron was hot and get another Poe-related adaptation on the market, right away. Roger Corman wasted no time re-enlisting Vincent Price for The Pit and the Pendulum, with a script by Richard Matheson. But, could they duplicate the success…

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Fall of the House of Usher (1960)

C. Scott Lovejoy — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:00:19 +0000

Fall of the House of Usher (nitpick – the title sequence is actually simply “House of Usher”, but every reference we’ve ever seen to the film, including the DVD box includes the “Fall of”.) is a great movie, so let’s just get that out of the way up front. It’s a fine balance of the…

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Join in and Watch It with Mike and Scott!

C. Scott Lovejoy — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 11:00:24 +0000

There’s been a tradition going on for quite a while at Back to the Past. Monday mornings, Mike and I will get together and discuss movies we’ve seen, sometimes in great depth, sometimes just in passing. We realized, before too long, that it would be more fun for us to do something a little more…

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Spook Show Cinema #12: Rites of Spring

Mike Mullins — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:00:54 +0000

I recently partook in a little film titled Rites of Spring. It caught my eye with its sweet retro poster. Something about it made me really want to see this movie. Maybe it was the fact that it shares a name with a sweet band. Who knows?

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