Michael Keaton on BEETLEJUICE: “I don’t get it. Explain what you’re trying to do.”
In this clip from an interview about his career, Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton talked about working with director Tim Burton on the classic film and how he created the character’s distinctive look.
[Flashback] Dracula by Bram Stoker—“the events really took place…”
Bram Stoker claimed that parts of Dracula were real. The author wrote Dracula in the 1890s, generating ideas based on both folklore and history.
When Star Trek’s Captain Janeway Defeated Fear
“But what does fear seek—at the end of the ride?” Over the years, various episodes of the Star Trek saga have touched on horrific conditions. On ST: Voyager episode “The Thaw”, the crew must fight with a bizarre computerized trauma. The video discusses one of the key scenes from the episode.
Eat, Brains, Love (2019): Zombie comedy won Best Picture at the 2019 Screamfest Horror Film Festival
An ordinary lunch hour explodes in an orgy of spurting blood and flying organs. In the video playlist, watch the official trailer, and also watch an interview with the director.
Complete Blue Rose Trilogy by Peter Straub: “I knew how fear tasted and how it worked.”
A look behind how these horror/mystery books impacted all the popular writer’s work. “My childhood trauma demonstrated to me very bluntly that the world was not at all benign.” Find out more about the author—and all the books in this important series.
The Return of the Living Dead: What idea did the zombie comedy movie invent?
The Return of the Living Dead introduced some popular concepts to the zombie genre. Watch the official trailer, and go behind the scenes of the making of the Return of the Living Dead.
Army of Darkness (1993): How the zombie comedy went so far from its origins
A sarcastic hardware store clerk is stuck in 1300 A.D. and must battle an army of the dead. In the video playlist, we’ve got a trailer, clips, and a documentary about the making of Army of Darkness.
Warm Bodies (2013): How the warmhearted zombie comedy embraces survival
Find out more about the zombie-romance Warm Bodies, based on the novel by Isaac Marion. In the video playlist, watch the film’s trailer, meet the cast, and go behind the scenes.
Fantastic Four: 13 Reasons They Stand Out From Other Comics: “We’ve changed! We’re more than just human!”
Marvel’s First Family has regularly broken new ground for comic books. In this list, we go over several factors that make the FF stand out from other comic books.
Juan of the Dead (2011): The zombie comedy that criticized the leaders but raised up the people
Juan of the Dead provided a view of Cuba that was both positive and negative. In our video playlist, watch the movie’s trailer and also to see them promoting the film at LA Film Fest.
[Flashback] Wolfen by Whitley Strieber
The debut novel of Whitley Strieber, The Wolfen (1978), tells the story of two police detectives in New York City who are involved in the investigation of suspicious deaths across the city…
Little Monsters (2019): The zombie comedy where allergies are scarier than zombies (not a complaint)
Our list of zombie comedy movies had to include 2019’s Little Monsters. Watch the video playlist for the director and stars talking about a kindergarten class surviving the zombie apocalypse.
Cockneys vs Zombies (2012): Bank robbers and old folks vs monsters
Looking for a good zomedy? Cockneys vs Zombies follows some working-class Londoners out to rescue a retirement home from a zombie apocalypse. Visit the set of the film.
Dead Alive AKA Braindead (1992): This zombie comedy is one of the goriest movies ever made
This 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy splatter film is one of the most blood-soaked movies of all time. In our video playlist, you can watch the trailer, and hear director Peter Jackson talk about the film.
Cooties (2014): Zombie comedy about teachers vs. kids (and bad chicken nuggets)
Ranking 13 of the best funny zombie movies, we include the teachers vs. students zombie comedy Cooties. Watch the trailer, and go behind-the-scenes for the making of the movie.
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Retrospective: The Last Great Universal Monster
The last of the classic Universal Monsters, the Creature from the Black Lagoon starred in a trilogy. Looking over the legacy of the series, plus info about each movie in the series.
Zombieland (2009): How a TV pilot became a blockbuster movie
“Who’s Bill Murray?” In the video playlist, go behind the scenes of the zombie comedy Zombieland. Even see the reunited cast rewatch Zombieland’s best scenes 10 years later.
Shaun of the Dead (2004): How the zombie comedy borrowed a TV plot and became so much more
Zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead is one of the best. Watch the video playlist for the official trailer, a clip of Pegg’s character being oblivious to the zombies, plus see the process behind making it.
Fido (2006): Putting zombies to work? This zombie comedy has it figured out.
In a world where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies, ZomCon has created a remote control collar that turns hungry zombies into servants. Watch this behind-the-scenes video.
[Flashback] ‘The Vampyre’ by John Polidori—revising vampire folklore into the monster seen in vampire stories today.
Polidori has been credited with revising vampire of folklore, changing it into the humanistic monster now often seen in vampire stories today.