by Vince Stadon  “You see, Jason was my son, and today is his birthday…” – Mrs. Voorhees  Sunday the 1st. I begin watching Friday 13th for the first time in decades. Twenty minutes in it occurs to m...

by Vince Stadon “Are we not both the living dead?” – Hjalmar Poelzig  It’s not Karloff’s real hair, of course; it’s a wig he is wearing for his character, the murderous Satanist Hjalmar Poelzig. But...

by Vince Stadon “There's no need to be alone, you know. Poor little girl. All by herself. All shaking like a little frightened animal.” – Landlord  When that doorbell rings, Carol curls up into a ba...

by Vince Stadon “Just one more day...” - Reiko Asakawa If you watch the disturbing, unlabelled video tape, your phone will ring… and when you answer, an evil ghost woman will tell you that you are g...

by Vince Stadon “I see why you like this video camera so much… It’s not quite reality. It’s like a totally filtered reality… it’s like you can pretend everything’s not quite the way it is.” – Josh I...

by Vince Stadon “I'd rather see you dead than meddling with Black Magic!” – Duc de Richleau  It’s England in 1929. George V sits on the throne. Stern-jawed, stiff-upper-lip Englishmen are racing fas...

by Vince Stadon I read The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson back-to-back with The Shining by Stephen King. I was fourteen. In both cases, I wondered how filmmakers had made Hill House and th...

by Vince Stadon “Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous?” – Henry Frankenstein  Henry Frankenstein is an asshole. He’s not the worst asshole in Frankenstein, a film populated by ass...

by Vince Stadon “Remember, I'll be watching for you on the big screen.” – Irene   I don’t know what Mulholland Dr. is about.   I’ve watched it dozens of times—always thrilled by it, always seduced ...

by Vince Stadon “What else am I good for?” – Håkan  It’s 1982 and Oskar is a weedy, lonely, twelve-year-old blond boy who is being relentlessly bullied at school. His dad is an alcoholic who would r...

by Vince Stadon “Would you believe me if I told you there was something inside of that rock we found tonight? Something that could wipe out this whole town?” – Steve Andrews  In the ‘50s, the UK did...

by Vince Stadon “Now I'm gonna do what any rational human being would do, and that is to get the fuck outta here.” – Joel  Irony. It was everywhere in the ‘90s – the culture was steeped in it. Back ...

by Vince Stadon “I'll be perfectly honest with you, David. I'm not in the habit of bringing home stray, young American men.” – Alex Price.  The London of An American Werewolf in London is still ther...

by Vince Stadon “Because everything with you is seeing, isn’t it? Your primary sensory intake, that makes your dream live, is seeing.” – Will Graham  Manhunter is all about seeing. Francis Dollarhyd...

by Vince Stadon “I won't have any regrets.” – Nicole Horner  The world was cold in the early 1950s.   Money was coming. Money was surely on its way to warm things up and make everybody feel better,...

by Vince Stadon “We're gonna draw a little bit of everybody's blood... 'cause we're gonna find out who's the Thing.” – R.J. MacReady  If nothing monstrous or extraterrestrial or monstrously extrater...