Rocky Horror Picture Show
*contains spoilers My love of the actress Susan Sarandon (1946-) has always been based on a combination of her luminous brown eyes, her seemingly perfect breasts and her beautiful acting ability and persona. I fell in love with Sarandon before she became political when I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) while barely…
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*contains spoilers “Whatever happened to Fay Wray?….” Frank N. Furter asks us near the end of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) as he explains he wanted to be dressed in satin just like Fay before bursting into song once more. Whether American-Canadian actress Fay Wray (1907-2004 in sleep) saw this tribute to her remains…
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*contains spoilers To quote from Revelations in the Bible at around Chapter VIII of John: “…there fell a great star from heaven burning as it were a lamp and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters… and many men died of the waters. Because they were…
Read more H.P. Lovecraft’s Color Out of Space
*contains spoilers WANTED – An imaginative writer for publicity work in a waxworks exhibition. So begins Paul Leni’s (1885-1929 blood poisoning, infected tooth) silent film from 1924 entitled Waxworks. Waxworks kicked off the Nightmares in Wax craze and it was one of the first horror anthologies. It’s really not that horrible. The first was another…
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