Does everyone understand how important this moment is? To have Terrifier 2 in theaters at all is an astonishing feat in today’s world, but to have it held over for its “3rd Big Week!” This changes cinema history! When movies sold a lot of tickets back in the day, their ads in the newspaper would always have that line, “HELD OVER! 3rd Big Week!" That is where Terrifier 2 is. I remember when movies did not open simultaneously on 2,500 hundred screens, and little independent fi

Jim Rex joined the ICFH team in 2021 with his Slasher City Jukebox piece in what was then Part 2. (It was included in the relaunch of ICFH Book 2.) He has two articles in Book 3, a look at all the werewolf movies that hit screens in 1981 and what he calls a think piece on Jim Cameron's best ever movie, Piranha II. ("I think it's great!") The following piece was the first thing we read of his, which appeared on our friend Sam Panico's website www.bandsaboutmovies.com in 2020.

In 1987, when Count Draculon lead his armies from hell against the earth in an all out war that devastated the planet, one half-man/half-machine rose from the ashes after a ten year slumber to save mankind. MANBORG! If you are in the dark, Manborg is a 2011 "green screen" feature from the rambunctious group of Canadian filmmakers known as Astron-6, who are responsible for other features as Psycho Goreman, Father's Day, The Editor and The Void. The movie is a feast for your ey

Jean Dumont is Stranger Than Fiction or Down The Rabbit Hole with George George Seminara In which I find a picture and trace its identity to the ends of the earth to bring you another tale from early cinema. See this guy? His name is Jean Dumont. Look at the size of that schnozz. He could open envelopes with it, cook shish-kabobs, and pick locks! I usually don't begrudge someone's appearance, but something about this guy's mug drew me to the precipice. As I looked down into t

I hope everyone is celebrating the weekend at the movie theater giving director Damien Leone's slasher sequel Terrifier 2 a watch. Whether you love it or hate it, you have to admire that this little half a million dollar produced epic has managed to creep onto more than 800 theaters across the country. When you consider that Disney occupies half the screens in our country, it almost brings a tear to your eye when something like this happens. What is more amazing is that the o

Since January 2022, when I received The Phantom of the Movies archives in toto, I've been very busy. My son and I quickly set up an off-site location, central to us both, where we could meet every week and get down to the business of sorting through not only Joe Kane's movie paper but my own collection. Cataloging all of it and getting high-quality digital scans of everything as we progressed. We started meeting every Friday at Noon and working until 7 pm or so. Seven solid h

Jean-Luc Godard, December 3, 1930 – September 15, 2022 Bloviating by George Seminara Jean-Luc Godard, rest in peace. Just don't overthink it. I wasn't going to write about Godard at all. But I read a few obituaries and learned that he had assistance in leaving the planet. His reason was that he was tired. How freaking French is that? With a dismissive shrug and one last cigarette, one of the most influential filmmakers of the 20th Century left us. His most famous film was Bre