SCROOGED Should Be On Your Christmas Horror List Dark humor classic kicks off season

by Eric Olsen | Nov 27, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, media, movies, paranormal, seasonal | 0 comments

by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - As with the inevitable appearance of Santa Claus at the end of Thanksgiving Day parades, so does conclusion of turkey feast signal the beginning of the Christmas holiday season. For those inclined toward the darker end of the holiday...

Thanksgiving Horrors Real and imagined

by Eric Olsen | Nov 24, 2015 | culture, media, movies, seasonal | 0 comments

Thanksgiving is a modest holiday, a family-oriented time of reflection upon those things for which we are thankful. It’s a quiet, tryptophan-laden pause between the spooky revelry of Halloween and the one-two punch of religion and consumerism that is Christmas....

Tara Subkoff’s #Horror Dazzles with Style, Concept, Performances, Suspense Gets a little muddy on the story end

by Eric Olsen | Nov 20, 2015 | culture, media, movies | 0 comments

Actress, fashion designer, artist, activist, and now first-time feature filmmaker Tara Subkoff’s #Horror dazzles with bravura visual panache; important ideas on selfie culture, gadget addiction, and bullying; riveting performances by Chloe Sevigny, Timothy...

Filmmaker Tara Subkoff Talks #Horror on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Multi-talented auteur releasing first feature film

by Eric Olsen | Nov 19, 2015 | art, media, movies, radio | 0 comments

After Hours Am/America’s Most Haunted radio with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen is proud to welcome filmmaker, actress, designer, artist, activist Tara Subkoff tonight at 9pE/8C. Listen to the live show or the podcast recording right on this page! After a...

Why Has Hocus Pocus Become THE Halloween Family Favorite? It's about the relationships

by Eric Olsen | Nov 4, 2015 | culture, halloween, media, monsters, movies, seasonal, television, witches | 0 comments

We have a family holiday viewing routine, and by “holiday” I mean Halloween and Christmas. Yes, we make a point of watching A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, mostly for the sobering, astringent, historically accurate The Mayflower Voyagers feature that’s...

Dark Disney Walt Disney's worldview and many of his beloved classics were informed by the supernatural

by Eric Olsen | Oct 21, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, halloween, haunted locations, magick and occult, media, monsters, movies, paranormal, supernatural beings, television | 0 comments

by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - It’s easy to miss how deeply influenced by the supernatural Walt Disney was, and how many of the stories he chose to tell stood on a bedrock of magic and the otherworldly. From the earliest animated shorts, to ALL the fairy...