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Spooky Film of the Day – Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1982)

Spooky Film of the Day – Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace, 1982)

October 25, 2010 4:30 pm / talkies / 5 comments

Happy Halloween Week everybody! I thought it might be jolly apt to kick things off with a film that was actually set on old Hallows eve itself… Strangely enough however, once you’ve overlooked the bleedin’ obvious, there are surprisingly very few half-decent horror films that take place around Halloween… The bleedin’ obvious being [...]

 
Single of the Day – John Carpenter – Moochie’s Death

Single of the Day – John Carpenter – Moochie’s Death

April 23, 2009 5:41 pm / muzak / No comments

  We all know John Carpenter is a talented little so and so (says so here) when it comes to recording his own music and that. So, I don’t really need to go into detail about Mr. Carpenter’s genius but today’s single is taken from his underrated score to his film adaptation of the Stephen [...]

 
Monday Morricone Madness!!!

Monday Morricone Madness!!!

March 9, 2009 3:21 pm / muzak, talkies / No comments

The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) When Aneet and myself challenged each other to name our Top 5 favourite film composers recently(that’s the sort of crazy shit we get up to), rather interestingly, other than the legendary Ennio Morricone, subject of our regular Monday salutes, the only “scorer” we picked in common [...]

 
“It’s Halloween…”

“It’s Halloween…”

October 31, 2008 7:21 pm / talkies / No comments

“… It’s Halloween. It’s time for scares. It’s time for screams. It’s Halloween It’s Halloween. It’s Halloween” – So sang the best-worst band of all time, The Shaggs. And today, at least, they’re absolutely spot on. And what better way could there possibly be to commemorate the scariest, spookiest, most [...]