Category: Horror History

The Shape of Water: You Snooze, You Lose!

March 5, 2018

Universal Studios had been sitting on “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” for 6 decades.

For dozens of different reasons they were never able to reboot the franchise. I suppose that director Guillermo deo Toro was tired of trying to pull blood from a stone. So he set out and did it his own way by designing his own creature (without ever using the word “creature” to describe it, by the way) and, now, the rest is cinematic history.

You snooze, you lose!

Congratulations to Fox Searchlight for helping Guillermo get it done!

An Icon Passes – RIP Gunnar Hansen

July 15, 2016

Actor Gunnar Hansen died at his home in Northeast Harbor, Maine from pancreatic cancer on November 7, 2015 at the age of 68.

Back in the late 90’s – when I was first getting into this whole horror game one of the first horror icons I got to meet was Gunnar Hansen. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I walked up to that table but it certainly wasn’t what I got. Gunnar was a soft spoken, highly intelligent monster of a man with the eyes of a wild man but the heart of a poet. I was transfixed by his soft, friendly demeanor and had a hard time placing this warm, friendly man behind that blood soaked apron.

Throughout the years our paths crossed here and there and I was always excited to read his writings and see any film work he participated in but by far his legacy will be that of Leatherface – to call that character iconic somehow does not quite do it justice and it’s all due to the way in which Gunnar approached the character and wild vibrancy he brought to the screen.

An entire genre raises its chainsaws in honor of a true legend. RIP Gunnar Hansen.

by: Dave Dreher

RIP Wes Craven

September 1, 2015

Legendary horror director Wes Craven dies at the age of 76.

FX Artist Rick Baker Announces Retirement – Kind Of – Sort Of

May 30, 2015

Legendary FX artist Rick Baker announces his retirement.

Bloody Bucket Road Horror History

December 4, 2014

A century ago, there was a former slave woman serving the folks of Wauchula as a mid-wife. She became concerned that people where having more babies than they could afford to feed.