Horror Countdown 2016: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) dir. J. Charles Haydon, Pioneer Film Corporation

By this point the strange case of Jekyll and Hyde was well known. There would be one last version of the story made in 1920, but the Head of Janus is sadly lost. With John Barrymore having made his take on the character already, Louis Meyer (no relation to Louis B. Mayer) no doubt figured the public wouldn't mind another version of the characters.

Horror Host 2016 Retrospective: The Bone Jangler

Real name: Unknown
Years active: 2001-present

And We're back for the weird and wild folks who host the spooky and kooky. Looking at the Land of Lincoln, we begin 2016 with the Bone Jangler.


Hosting the Bone Jangler on various Chicago and neighboring area stations, the nearly immortal host, along with his ever present companion Nocturna the Queen of the Night, oversees tales of terror. His larger than life persona overshadows most of the films, but given some of the things that crawl on celluloid isn't that something to be proud of? He's one of the few host still on the air, so next time you're in Aurora check him out.

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Castle Freak (1995)

Castle Freak (1995) dir. Stuart Gordon, Full Moon Enterprises/Full Moon Entertainment

And now we near the end of the Summer of Love (craft) 2, and what better way to cap the summer off than with a Stuart Gordon film staring Jeffery Combs?

Witch Hunt (1994)

Witch Hunt (1994) dir. Paul Schrader, Home Box Office/Pacific Western

When Dennis Hopper says something is weird, you know you are in for a treat.

With that said, it is odd they would take so long to do a sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell (and with missing almost all the cast), but I think the end result was a worthy follow up.

The Lurking Fear (1994)

The Lurking Fear (1994) dir. C. Courtney Joyner, Full Moon Entertainment

Surprised it took this long to get to Charles Band's Full Moon group. Lovecraft's stories did inspire quite a few Full Moon flicks, but not as many as you would think. This being the second take on the story "the Lurking Fear", could Band and his merry group do better than the ultra low budget Dark Heritage?

Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1994)

Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1994) dir. Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko, Davis-Films

Given how many of Lovecraft's stories were short, I'm surprised there weren't more anthologies of the man's work. Coupled with Yuzna and a returning Jeffery Combs, one would expect something along the lines of Re-Animator. Did they succeed?

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) dir. John Carpenter, New Line Cinema

John Carpenter might one of the few directors who could come close to capturing Lovecraft's style on film. Guillermo Del Toro comes a pretty close second though. Carpenter did do Providence's Favorite Son justice by capturing the sheer horror of living in a chaotic universe, and did so in a way that best ended his "things are bad and are just getting worse" trilogy.