Patrick McGoohan: The Prisoner and the Scarecrow Passes Away
This seems to be the week for the passing of childhood heroes for monster kids and those of us raised on the fantastic in cinema and television. In a previous post I mentioned the death of northern California’s Creature Features host Bob Wilkins, and now news is being circulated that Patrick McGoohan has died. McGoohan [...]
Top Horror Films Controversy: Definitions, Biases, and Criteria
Ask a group of people what the “best of” may be in any given category and you’re likely to get a diversity of answers. Along with that may come a good deal of disagreement, and possibly controversy, especially if the answers are shared in a public forum. This is exactly the scenario that has taken place in [...]
Dark Scribe Magazine: Dark Genre Roundtable
I was asked by Vince Liaguno of Dark Scribe Magazine to be part of a discussion with a few fellow League of Tana Tea Drinkers (LOTTD) horror bloggers. The result is the “Dark Genre Roundtable” which can be found here. My thanks go to Vince and Dark Scribe for the interview and where I can [...]
Coming Attractions
Plenty of items will be “screened” here in the near future, and in this post I’ll share a few textual trailers to let readers know what to look forward to. In addition to my own reflections and commentary several interviews will find their way here over the days and weeks to come. These include an [...]
Body Worlds: Art as Horrific Expression
Body Worlds is presently on display in Salt Lake City here in the state where I live. In case you haven’t heard of this before, Body Worlds is described as part art, part science, the brainchild of Gunther von Hagens. It involves the use of actual cadavers whose tissues have been injected with plastic in [...]
October Promotions
Since today being the 1st of October that means the month-long countdown to Halloween begins, and with it we ratchet up the celebration of the haunted and mystical season. With this post I will share three items that recently came across my desk for review, and which also represent October promotional items available for my readers. [...]
Starfest and Horrorfest: Brad Rusk Interview on Convention(s)
My friend Marc Lougee, producer of Ray Harryhausen Presents The Pit and the Pendulum, attended the Starfest Convention in Denver not long ago, and one of the people he introduced me to is Brad Rusk. Brad helps with the programming for the Horrorfest Convention part of Starfest, and he recently made some time to talk [...]
Kids in Horror: Reflections on Why They Get Under Our Skin
Regular readers of this blog might recall that in a previous post I mentioned my involved with LOTT D, a group of horror bloggers committed to excellence as they rise above the all-too-common froth of superficial commentary in the blogosphere. From time to time the members of LOTT D emphasize the community aspect of their [...]
Jed Rowen: Indie Horror Actor
My good friend Marc Lougee, the creative filmmaker behind The Pit and the Pendulum, recently attended a horror convention to promote his film and he returned with a new group of contacts that he introduced me to so that their work might be shared in the blogosphere. With this post we meet Jed Rowen, a [...]
Recent Developments
Readers may have noticed a few developments and changes in TheoFantastique over the last couple of weeks. First, I was humbled a while back when Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique Online asked me if he could link this blog to his publication. I was even more humbled when I was invited to contribute content to Cinefantastique’s [...]
