Tag Archives: horror

The Scariest Ideas in Science

Popular Science article: The Scariest Ideas in Science by Laura Allen. Undead viruses! Killer foxes! Soldiers who never sleep! This is no horror movie – it’s today’s scientists at their most daring Maybe we saw The Andromeda Strain a few … Continue reading

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Movie Posters Links

From time to time Rashomon posts links to cinema posters sites. I save them and forgot to post after. Not it’s time to post some of those cool stuff that he finds. 1920′s 1930′s Horror Sci-fi Lobby Cards is just … Continue reading

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Nostalgia do Terror

It’s hard to find on-line good sites with vintage Brazilian images on-line (postcards, album covers, comics, pictures, maps, books). I don’t know why this happen, it’s probably a cultural -of the fault of it – problem. That’s why sites as … Continue reading

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Monster Kid

Monster Kid Magazine is intended as a fun and affectionate salute to the publications of the 1960s. Part of the look and feel of this site is inspired by the classic monster magazine traditions popularized by James Warren and Forrest … Continue reading

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Lovecraft – The Graphic Novel

Lovecraft is the last graphic novel that I’ve read, and I liked it a lot. Released by Vertigo, it’s a mix of Howard Phillips Lovecraft biography, his stories, the myths created by him and the work of imagination of Hans … Continue reading

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

How many adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson‘s classic The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde have you watched? I have seen at least five, and I’m not even counting the cartoons based on it, like Sylvester and Tweety: … Continue reading

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Psycho and Ghostly Tales

Still talking about comics, the always neat datajunkie recently made big posts with a lots of complety scans of horror comic books. My suggestion: Skywald magazines with Psycho comics and Ghostly Tales (a re-post).

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Bad films

When I go to movies I check first the name of the director, the actors and the stories. The reviews? I don’t like to read them beforehand, because of the influence that they can have on my perspective of the … Continue reading

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Mizna

The talented Japanese artist Mizna has a very nice work of illustration, from kawaii girls to horror illustrations. She loves horror comics from childhood, that explains why there are many works with this theme, even when they are cute, like … Continue reading

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From Zombies to Orson Welles

It has been long since I last made a post about films that are available for download or on-line watchig. It’s time to make a new one, and here it is: Public Domain Movie Torrents Public Domain Movie Torrents is … Continue reading

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