Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts

Friday, 29 July 2016

WRITTEN REVIEW: Monsters: TV For Couch Potatoes & Cyclopes

By CORY CARR
Since the success of Twilight Zone and spooky radio dramas before it, television networks have been trying to cash in with their own branded version of horror anthology. Horror on television has become a big business with shows like The Walking Dead and American Horror Story. Seasons of these shows now get big Hollywood budgets and have top notch make-up effects. But this hasn't always been true. Made for t.v. horror has ridden a long hard road to mainstream success. There was From Beyond, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery and after those and several others, came Monsters.
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Monday, 25 February 2013

WRITTEN REVIEW: The Elvira Show: An Unaired Pilot

By CORY CARR
It’s a strange phenomenon, the horror host is. Grown men and women dressing up for Halloween all year round, entombed in macabre slapstick themes as a way to market films that fall short of even a “B” rating.
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