Sure this is close to a year away, but no reason why you can’t start planning out events for next year, right? Creepy Classics and Monster Bash have scheduled their next film fest, this time featuring the work of Bela Lugosi! Taking place on Aug. 14th & 15th at the Palace Theatre in Canton, Ohio, they will have 2 days of Lugosi films! Below is the schedule: Continue reading
Tod Slaughter
Born March 19th, 1885 – Died Feb. 19th, 1956
Slaughter was a late bloomer when it came to movies. He was a stage actor who had been working for years before finally getting the film bug. But even before that, one of the characters that he played frequently, was that of the crazed murdering barber, Sweeney Todd. Before his life was over, it was rumored that he had played the character 4000 times. But the film version where he plays the title character, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936), he really shines. Some say that he may be over acting a bit, but coming from the stage, that is what they were use to. But to me, I think it fits perfectly here in this film.
Slaughter would go on to play in quite a few other dark melodramas, but also continued to do stage work at the same time. He actually died shortly after a performance of Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn. A performer truly to the end.
With all the crap going on in the world, whoever would have thought that there would be a special 2-disc edition soundtrack for the 1984 holiday horror film Silent Night, Deadly Night! What a world, right? Thanks to the fine folks at Howlin’ Wolf Records, this 2-disc special edition does exist.
I don’t have a release date, but you can pre-order your copy now, which, if you’re a fan of this movie, I would do just that because this release is only 300 CDs! You can pre-order it HERE.
The first disc has the complete score by Grammy-winning composer Perry Boktin, which is over an hour long! The second disc in a little over 30 minutes and contains all the songs written for the film by songwriter and singer Morgan Ames. It also contains a 20-page booklet with liner notes by co-executive producers Scott Schneid & Dennis Whitehead, screenwriter Michael Hickey, and composer Botkin.
Howlin’ Wolf Records went through a lot of time and effort to bring this release to the fans and from the looks of it, it looks to be well worth it. Priced at $19.95, don’t wait too long or you will think that Santa skipped your house this year!
Welcome to Monday, once again! While not a lot sent in the correct answer for our last photo, I’m thrilled that some did. And now once I announce the title, I hope everyone seeks it out, because it definitely will be on my Best Of list this year. The film is Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2017), written and directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo. We stumbled across this earlier this year and since it was produced by Álex de la Iglesia, I knew that was a good enough reason to give it a chance and I wasn’t disappointed. It plays like a fairy tale, not like Disney, but one from Grimms, much darker and just damn cool! Kudos to the following for sending in the correct answer: Hoby Abernathy, Aaron Christensen, Lee Nattrass, Kristin Wicks, and Will Wilson. Well done!
So let’s get to this week’s photo! This is another one of those old classics that should never be forgotten, so hopefully it will be easy for everyone. Give it a look and see what you can come up with. As always, please don’t post your answer here so everyone can have a chance at it. Just send it to us in an email to jon@kitleyskrypt.com. Good Luck!
Andrew Prine
Born Feb. 14th, 1936
You could say I grew up with Andrew Prine. When I started watching TV back in the late ’60s, I was seeing Prine on there. Not that I remembered him, but he made appearances on the shows I was watching, such as One Step Beyond, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and even Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Once I started to really get into movies, then I really became aware of this amazing actor, in such films as Simon, King of the Witches (1971), Crypt of the Living Dead (1973), The Centerfold Girls (1974), Grizzly (1976), The Evil (1978), and so many more. In the ’80s, he seemed to relish playing one of the bad lizards in the TV series V (1983) and the follow up V: The Final Battle (1984).
He was always so good and so much fun to watch on screen. He always seemed to make his characters come to life. While we celebrate him for his work in the genre, Prine played in just about every genre, making more than a few westerns, working with names like Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, and Dean Martin.
I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to meet Prine a few times at shows over the years, even interviewing him way back in 2005, and he’s always been such a great guy to chat with, not to mention giving me hours and hours of entertainment.
Back in the VHS days, this title would draw your attention in right away because it had a woman laying on a table with an axe buried in her chest! How could you not rent it?!?! But this is one of those hidden gems that never got a release on DVD. But now, thanks to the fine folks at Garagehouse Pictures, it is coming to Blu-ray in what looks to be an amazing special edition!
As a horror fan that loves books, who happens to live with two amazing cooks (my wife and son), it isn’t uncommon for me to occasionally buy them a cookbook that has some tie to the horror genre. Most of them are pretty generic or tend to be more on the treat side, like for Halloween parties and whatnot. But I recently stumbled across a recently published book that looked interesting, so I ordered it. Once it arrived and we started to page and read through it, we quickly realized the genius within the pages.
The Necronomnomnom was written by Mike Slater and Thomas Roache, published back last month from Countryman Press. It is 208 pages filled with 50 different recipes but with a very Lovecraftian twist to them, such as the Gin and Miskatonic drink, or The Great Old Buns, the Deep Fried Deep One, or some Cthus-Koos! Now we have not yet made any recipes from this… keyword yet, but just reading through it is a real treat and has some pretty interesting things that my son Nick has already expressed an interest in trying. Continue reading
Welcome to our first post Halloween Mystery Photo. The difference is… Nothing! Another Monday and another pictorial puzzle! So let’s get to it! Our last photo was from the film Southbound (2015), a really good anthology film that I would urge everyone to check out, if you haven’t already. Kudos to the following for sending in the correct answer: Hoby Abernathy, Craig Clark, Dustin Moravich, and Gavin Schmitt. Well done, lads!
So let’s get to this week’s photo. This is another one that I’ve been trying to get people to watch, so this is yet ANOTHER attempt! As always, please do not post your answers here so that others can have a chance at guessing. Just send your guess to us in an email, to jon@kitleyskrypt.com. Good Luck!
Yes, Halloween is over. At least it is according to the calendar. But for us fans of horror, every day is Halloween. It’s a comment I make quite often, because for me, it’s true. I know that for most people reading this, the horror genre isn’t something we follow at certain times of the year, but every single day. It is our passion. Yes, during the month of October, we almost fit in with the rest of the world. But come November 1st, they go back to planning for the big consumer holiday in a couple of months. Hell, those decorations have already been in the store for over a month now! But I digress. Continue reading
To every horror fan out there, from everyone here at Kitley’s Krypt, we wish you a Happy Halloween and hope you have been able to enjoy the season, watching plenty of great horror movies!
Then again, isn’t that what we do every day???
