Tom Weaver has enjoyed a lengthy career writing about the horror genre through his reference guides and countless magazine contributions. His interviews are thorough and informative but presented conversationally, as though he is simply visiting with an old friend.
The Zombie Book: The Encyclopedia of the Living Dead by Nick Redfern and Brad Steiger is a catchall tome for anything vaguely associated to the topic of death. Luckily that's not all, as there is plenty of coverage for things completely unrelated to this broad subject, much less the titular zombie.
"Revenge" Season 4, Episode 6, titled "Damage," airs this Sunday, Nov. 2, on ABC. Nolan Ross and David Clarke are in the centre of this week's synopsis.
Pain without Auto-Tune, BenZel with Juicy J and Cashmere Cat, Glass Candy's Halloween and more in the music we Tweeted this week NYC electronic music duo The Golden Filter's song "Kill Me" causes shivers with vocals veiled in reverb and eerie, bare synths . Spanish DJ and producer John Talabot makes the dark tune more danceable, with a hypnotizing, wavering synth melody as its backbone, but preserving its raw emotion.
Everyone would like to think that Vincent Furnier came up with the name Alice Cooper after consulting with a Ouija board; it's been an urban myth for practically as long as Alice Cooper has existed . Alice Cooper was a group back then: Furnier eventually left the band and kept the name, which he had conceived of without otherworldly intervention, because it was the most ironically harmless one he could think of.
A scene with actor Janet Leigh from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" plays to the crowd at Grant Park. A scene with actor Janet Leigh from Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" plays to the crowd at Grant Park.
With Halloween now behind us, it's time to look at the November schedule on Turner Classic Movies! Instead of focusing on a single Star of the Month, the November theme is Silent Stars . Every Monday evening will be devoted to silent films with many of the era's greatest stars.
Horror currently reigns on TV, but not all shows have equal scare value -- and, of course, we're not all scared by the same things. In celebration of all things fearful this Halloween, we're ranking a select number of shows on a scale of "child's play," which is mild gore and frights mixed in with wry humor, to "horror masters" -- aka, the kind of episodes with the potential to mess with your head.
My much younger brother, Danny, is almost as obsessed with movies as I am. He doesn't see as many new films as I do, but he and his wife, Michelle, are always catching something on TV, whether it's a new release on demand or an old movie screening on Turner Classic Movies.
