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Many Happy Returns: Our Final Post 15 Jun 2012 | 04:15 pm
As announced back in March, today will be the last day that Classic-Horror.com updates. After today, the site will remain online as an archive. It is also the site's thirteenth birthday. Classic horro...
The Terrorphile: The Song is Over (Farewell/Horror Tribute fanvid) 15 Jun 2012 | 04:14 pm
As the site draws to a close, I thought I would try to put into video form some kind of final farewell. I've worked on this on and off for the last three years (starting in 2009 when I thought I might...
Review: The Vampire Bat (1933) 15 Jun 2012 | 04:14 pm
Genre is cumulative. Successful elements of one film are picked up, refined, and tweaked by the next. Sometimes the result is an improvement or even an advancement, other times it is imitation or homa...
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) 8 Jun 2012 | 04:41 am
The world truly has lost one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Ray Bradbury, well known science fiction author among thousands of fans, died on June 5th, 2012 after a lengthy illness. Brad...
Review: Audition (1999) 2 Jun 2012 | 05:21 am
Audition is a devious film, the kind that draws you in with well-developed characters and a patiently-paced plot but that eventually begins hitting you unapologetically with scenes of horror before fi...
Twitchy Thumbs: Silent Hill (1999) 26 May 2012 | 09:38 am
The following is what would have been the first entry in an ongoing column about video games. However, since the site will no longer be updating after June 15th, only one entry was produced. We hope y...
Review: They Live (1988) 21 May 2012 | 08:31 am
Chances are if you've heard of They Live, it is for one of two reasons. One, you've heard the line that launched a million t-shirts: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out o...
Review: The Descent (2005) 5 May 2012 | 08:28 am
The Descent could be seen as a textbook guide to instilling horror in viewers. However, to view this film in such a way would be to consider it a mere genre exercise when instead it is a jarring metap...
Review: The Funhouse (1981) 21 Apr 2012 | 10:27 pm
Carnivals. Carnivals filled with clowns and cotton candy, merry go rounds and barkers, game booths and freakish sideshow oddities. What is their appeal? Why are we so afraid of these malevolent and da...
Jonathan Frid (1924 - 2012) 20 Apr 2012 | 04:19 pm
I will always remember April 14th, 2012 as probably the saddest day for any horror fan. It makes me so depressed to report on not only two deaths that happened in the same week, but on the same day to...
