Apocalypse 'Monsters,' Redux

Director Gareth Edwards interview, part two

"...It's Halloween weekend and what better way to kick off the Season of the Weird than with some soon-to-be-very-Famous..."

Oct. 28, 2010 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Madness of King Geek

Harry Jay Knowles' Cool Movie News

"...You might as well try to explain the allure of the Martian canals, or the wind, or George Lucas'..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Out of the Shadow

Which new scary-programming cable channel will longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?

"...by a shambling thing in tatty bandages with a profile like a postmortem Ernie Kovacs minus the stogie. He..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

There's a New Uncle in Town

Harry Knowles wants to reinvent Famous Monsters of Filmland for the digital generation

"...a better bomb shelter. The overall mood is one of slowly mounting atomic dread...."

Dec. 17, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

"Lesbian Vampires"

"...Gladwin and Isiling Mack-Nataf. The independent shorts in this twofer attempt to shine a new light (or darkness) on..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

FJA 4-EVER

Famous Monster of Filmland Forrest J Ackerman gravely ill

"...Ain't It Cool News and a host of online blogs reported last week that the world's oldest..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Matinee

This film is a fondly humorous look back at the last gasp of America's innocence, being a kid, and, in particular, monster movies.

"...Dick Miller and John Sayles. Set against the background of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, at a time when..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monster House

This animated tale of a carnivorous, haunted house and the band of neighborhood kids who decide to put it out of commission feels maddeningly unfinished.

"...Bradbury and rickety carnival spook show, this animated tale of a carnivorous, haunted house and the band of neighborhood..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Step Right Up

The terror and the wonder of the Museum of the Weird

"...dead man frozen in permanent repose in the block of hazy blue ice, and it marked me forever. I..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Everything Went Black: Boo! Scary!

Whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist?

"...in the early, pre-dawn hours, it's my favorite time of the year again, and not a moment too soon...."

Oct. 4, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Kars: The Movie

Ron Mann on 'Tales of the Rat Fink'

"...it was mere hours before his latest documentary, Tales of the Rat Fink, was due to unspool at SXSW..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

How I Got Hitched

Marc Savlov on how Hitchcock was a family affair

"...I have a tattoo of Alfred Hitchcock's weirdly accurate line drawing of himself on..."

Oct. 15, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

AFF2012: Vampira and He

'Vampira and Me' director R.H. Greene speaks

"...to feminine carnality came not from the usual stack of your neighbor's dad's Playboys but from the pages of..."

Oct. 21, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Hellraisers

How classic horror movies made misfits out of these rockers

"...There are a lot of us out there this time of year – the..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Forever Lon

Eye to eye with the Man of Thousand Faces

"...that iconic American author Ray Bradbury has died. Bradbury famously attributed his love of all things weird, wild, and..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Here's Blood in Your Eye

Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors eviscerates the 512

"...all things monster. I had my own staticky version of the Videodrome signal skipping over the airwaves and into..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Man With Susan's Plan

"...been a singular American filmmaker, deftly mixing his love of the fantastic with outright comedy and the occasional touch..."

June 25, 1999 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Nowhere Near His Final Frontier

At 74, 'Starlog' and 'Fangoria' co-founder Kerry O'Quinn is just getting started

"...in town for the Austin Film Festival," a friend of mine told me the other day. "He's making a..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

In Print

Remembering Uncle Forry and his 'Legendary Ackermansion'

"...A Forbidden Look Inside the House of Ackerman: A Photographic Tour of the Legendary Ackermansionby Al..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

MondoCon

Escape to another fest with nerdiness in a different medium

"...Imagine the bedroom of the coolest film nerd you know. Now expand that..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Screens Feature by Dan Gentile

It's Alive!

The unassuming, 42-year-old Bill Jones is Austin's premier garage-kit model maker, and that Godzilla leering down at you from the corner of the room is only 1 / 500th scale. Lucky you.

"...Austinite Bill Jones lives in a house full of monsters. Behind the carefully manicured façade of his Cherrywood..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Forrest J Ackerman Remembered

"...Ackerman's influence on the world of fantastic films, fiction, and fandom simply cannot be underestimated,..."

Dec. 11, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Titan, King, God, Monster

Ray Harryhausen in Austin, Tuesday, March 28

"...bronze Talos, striding across a Crete beachhead in pursuit of Jason and his argonauts; the sorrowful Venusian Ymir, its..."

March 24, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Short Cuts

Fridays with Forrie

"...Is Halloween Dept.: Especially if you're Joseph Fotinos, aka Professor Griffin of Midnight Shadow Show infamy. While a cursory..."

April 9, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

"...Show of hands, please; how many of you have heard of..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Screens Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Poster Perfect

How Mondo is revolutionizing film art-vertising

"...are they decorated your bedroom wall, were clipped out of old issues of Forrest Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland,..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

"...monster with a face that looks like a wad of chewed-up bubblegum (or one of those dang dried-apple dolls..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

"...monster with a face that looks like a wad of chewed-up bubblegum (or one of those dang dried-apple dolls..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Screens Feature

Sfanthor Lowers the Drawbridge

Castle in the air finally lands

"...is Sfanthor, the newest outpost where the mad-genius Museum of the Weird owners, Steve and Veronica Busti, plan to..."

March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Scare Game

Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon on what went wrong with horror and where to go from here

"...whispered rumors. Lensed way back in 2009, the victim of distributor woes, and only now getting its well-deserved release,..."

March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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