Boris Karloff News

Image Entertainment announced recently that it has acquired North American rights to the classic horror/suspense TV series THRILLER, hosted by Boris Karloff.

After three more or less straight - or at least non-comedic - attempts at bringing Edgar Allan Poe's work to the screen, Roger Corman opted to turn Poe's poem "The Raven" into a comic horror/fantasy, with the aid of Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a very young - and very awkward - Jack Nicholson, in his 1963 The Raven .

Early this morning, ComingSoon.net/ShockTillYouDrop.com had a chance to talk to director James McTeigue about his gory action-thriller Ninja Assassin .

The 411 Movies Top 5 10.30.09: Week 189 - Top 5 Most Important Horror Actors Posted by Trevor Snyder on 10.30.2009 From Max Schreck all the way to Bruce Campbell, the 411 staff takes a look through the history of the horror genre, and which actors left the biggest mark.

Halloween begins in September for Mike Johnson and Wayne Walls. That's when the couple put all the furnishings from their 1920s Victorian home near 14th and Dorcas Streets in storage to make way for their Halloween decorating.

Published: Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 5:43 p.m. With Halloween falling on a Saturday this year, the celebrations are expected to be especially plentiful.

Some things are meant to stay buried. You could certainly make that case for the horrific "Monster Mash" song which escapes from the crypts of long-dead music every year at the end of October.

Halloween isn't a time of year normally associated with great style, unless you consider zombie Elvises or slutty cheerleaders the height of sartorial sophistication.

There's a Boris Karloff marathon on Turner Classic Movies today. You can read about the entire line-up on their site , but here are some highlights.

Shocking. Horrifying. Ghastly. Terrifying. Yes, it's time to succumb to Hitchcock, Michael Myers, a head-turning Linda Blair, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and bloodthirsty zombies who deliciously deliver paranoia, death, drama and madness in chilling fashion.

Movie buffs act like they own Halloween. If you want to properly enjoy Oct. 31, they'll tell you, then watch some horror movies.

More than three decades after I gave up candy, Halloween is still my super-favorite holiday, giving me an excuse to put the rest of my life on hold and revert to the Famous Monsters of Filmland -reading adolescent who dreamed of doing nothing but watching horror movies - by which I mean ghost and monster and mad-scientist movies, not newfangled, ...

As long as there have been midnight movies, there have been double features. Often at drive-ins, these held their strongest appeal within the horror genre.

Compared to the neck-biting ecstacies of Twilight and True Blood , the vampires of Hollywood's past are downright chaste.

Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a frustrated actor who never made it big. But it was a song he wrote one Saturday afternoon and recorded as a joke based on his uncanny Boris Karloff impression that ended up bringing him a kind of far-reaching fame that most actors dream of, not to mention some hefty royalty checks every year around Halloween.

Halloween night will be filled with screams for the first horror movie series at the Edna Boykin Cultural Center.

Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster in the 1931 movie. Just in time for the Halloween season, "Piecemeal - The Frankenstein Musical" by Howard Odentz takes up residence at the Majestic Theater in West Springfield for some spooky good times today through early December.

You gotta have a gimmick. So said William Castle, whose horror films sometimes took a backseat to stunts, such as a free insurance policy in case you died of fright while watching the movie, or taking a poll at the climax to find out if you wanted the villain to die .

Boris Karloff never walked the grounds, but the history of Burg Frankenstein may have inspired Mary Shelley's famous monster.

G et in the mood for Halloween by renting and revisiting some classic horror movies.