Here we are again. It?s been a rough few months for horror fans, and once again, we must say goodbye to another horror icon. This time, we pay tribute to Angus Scrimm, better known as Phantasm?s mystical mortician, The Tall Man. An aptly (if simply) named villain, Tall Man Scrimm measured in at 6?4??, a…
For all the cinematic greatness we who are living on the other side of 1960 have experienced (Jaws, Star Wars, Caddyshack), there is one calamitous, constant heartbreak we corporately endure: We already know all the secrets of Psycho. God bless those first few audiences, clueless to what Alfred Hitchcock had in store for them, when…
From all of us at ScreamFish, Have a killer Christmas!
Dear Santa, Can you please bring us more slashers as good as Black Christmas (no, not the shoddy remake from 2006; we’re referring to the 1974 original)?? Because someone or something needs to remind Hollywood that horror films are allowed to have talented legitimate actors, compelling scripts and genuinely effective–yet relatively gore-less–scares. Sure, it’s just…
There are some horror films that are plain difficult to watch. ?Cannibal Holocaust, The Human Centipede–heck, ? even The Exorcist churned more than its share of guts and left audiences either covering their eyes or abandoning their seats. But perhaps even more terrifying is the fright flick that’s repulsive not for its gore, but for…
As a general rule, it’s never a good thing to look into a mirror and repeat anything five times. Sure, Stuart Smalley may disagree, but doggone it, that many “good enoughs,” “smart enoughs,” and “people like mes” are not only superfluous, but–dare I say it–disingenuous as well.? Nobody is really that good enough, that smart…
When I was sixteen, I knew all about the holy trinity. Dick Smith, the father. Rick Baker, the son. Rob Bottin, the…heir apparent. Needless to say, my mother, the minister, was a little disappointed–and concerned. But for a splatter-fiend sophomore, those FX gurus were gods incarnate. Dick Smith began it all, with the groundbreaking makeup…
I remember it like it was yesterday. I stood there in the video section of Sam Goody, debating.? I had twenty bucks in my pocket so the $9.99 price tag wasn’t the intimidating part.? That wasn’t the reason my stomach fluttered and knotted all at the same time.? It was because I didn’t know if…
He could’ve just as easily played Santa Claus. He was big and happy and gentle and he could’ve made the perfect Kris Kringle. But instead, he became famous by wearing the skin from other people’s faces and hanging victims on meat hooks. His name was Gunnar Hansen, but most folks only know him as Leatherface.?…
So you had your identity stolen.? Maybe your bank account got hacked because of the great Target credit card breach of Ought-Fourteen.? Perhaps you even got busted talking to dudes that you thought were dudettes on Ashley Madison.? If that’s the extent of your cyber-crime victimization, consider yourself lucky. Go watch The Den if you…
