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This post is part of The Bernard Herrmann Blogathon that The Classic Movie Muse is hosting from October 29 through October 31st! As the saying goes, “Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” And a comedy coming from Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense? Well, that must be the hardest comedy of all. The very idea …
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As we come screaming into All Hallows Eve, allow me to wish you and yours the very best of the season! May the weather favor your trick-or-treating or, if you have/are weak-in-the-knees parents, your trunk-or-treating. (Insert my sad eyeroll here.) Which reminds me: Parental Trick-Or-Treating ProTip #4: To allay any fears regarding wackos placing poisonous razor-bladed lightbulbs in the children’s …
Continue reading “Through The Decades With Dear Boris: The Raven (1963)”
Well, as I’ve noticed the huge cars with chrome fins, an abundance of poodle skirts, and a titanic hatred of communism, we must have landed smack dab in the 1950s! I thought something was up when I kept hearing Tennessee Ernie Ford on the radio and saw that huge piles of comic books were being burned …
Continue reading “Through The Decades With Dear Boris: Voodoo Island (1957)”
Well, here we are once again, diving headlong into the effervescent month of October. This can only mean one thing and one thing only: The Protestant Reformation! That’s right, I’m going to take a probing examination into the European world of the mid-1400s through the 1600s with a detailed analysis of Martin Luther and his contemporaries …
Continue reading “Through The Decades With Dear Boris: Isle of the Dead (1945)”
After the narcoleptic thrill-ride that was 2017’s The Mummy, I was glad to dive into the classics pool and watch the original 1932 version starring Boris Karloff. So glad in fact that I thought it would be pleasant to take a gander at some of the horror movies that Karloff starred in throughout the decades. In this little …
Continue reading “Through The Decades With Dear Boris: The Ghoul (1933)”
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