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The Plague of the Zombies (Real Folkloric Zombie Mayhem)
Amazing, a zombie film that embraces the use of the term “zombie.” I thought they were extinct! When did calling the undead “zombies” become a cuss word in cinema? Writers treat it like the plague (pun intended). Seriously though, the 1966 Hammer production (reproduced by Scream Factory on Blu-Ray, which is how I accessed […]
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The Curse of the Crying Woman (Mexican Folklore Turned Vampire Nostalgia)
Something about Lucha Libre (AAA in particular), got me into diving further into Mexican horror over the past few years. I was acutely aware of it already, primarily because of the great overview by Doyle Green in Mexploitation Cinema. Now, guy got the release date on The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición […]
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Bone Mother (Baba-Yaga Pronounced Correctly Folk Horror)
The horror industry should really dig into folklore more, from anywhere, and lose the jumpscares. I don’t mean dig in there, steal some stuff, and then claim it as one’s own, I mean let it reveal itself. Case in point this recent, animated, true-to-the-original short, Bone Mother, which draws on Russian folklore, in particular […]
