I just saw the teaser trailer for Mayfair Witches S3, which is going to be set in Salem, MA, and I'm all kinds of giddy. The Salem witches wear pointy witch hats! And their wardrobe is sort of late puritan-sheik. I have enjoyed the first two seasons, so this looks like it will be worth the wait until December 30, 2026. Season 2 went nearly scorched Earth in the finale, and the season as a whole was really good, and completely fun, and ended with Rowan's uncle Cortland trapped in Julien's mind, thanks to the Victrola spell, leaving Julien to inhabit Cortland's body, free at last.

Ghost Story (1981). I haven't read the novel yet, but I picked up this Scream Factory Blu-ray years ago. The cover simply captivated my attention. Four old guys come together in a dark room and become the Chowder Society. I love this name. Anyway, their primary goal is to scare each other. to tell ghost stories and perhaps smoke some stogies. But lately, the group is having nightmares every night. This film is quite slow and can be boring at times. This movie was made for a different, older audience than today's 30-second Tik Tok generation. But the snowy winter setting set a nice mood piece with plenty of atmosphere, and the plot gets more disturbing as it builds up to its climax. The cozy atmosphere is the best thing about this movie, until the ghost (Alma or Eva) starts acting ghosty. We find out after a slog of story that the Chowder Society is collectively guilty of a most heinous accidental death. I won't ruin it, because it was quite interesting how things unfolded 5...

A24's The VVitch is close to a perfect witch story. It's dark, it's really dark, it's sad, and it has witches on broomsticks (or sticks, but in my mind their brooms). The film is quite sinister, and I learn more about the story with each successive watch. First things first, the twins. The twins are pieces of shit. These two kids (Mercy and Jonas) deserved to get, well, not what they got. But they deserved an ass-kickin'. These two kids are little pieces of shit. They do make me laugh though, because the girl in particular is such a lil shit. Mercy spends so much time accusing Thomasin of witchcraft even before Thomasin becomes a freakin' witch. The Billy goat Black Phillip should have bounced these two a long time ago, but I think he was trying to lure the twins to the dark side until he found Thomasin would be the easiest target. I'd like to take a moment of silence for young Samuel. Samuel is the infant son of William and Katherine, brother to the twins,...

Finally finished putting Margeret together and got her put up out front this evening. For the past few years, I've been trying to make my own bespoke Halloween decorations. I've been trying to put together pumpkin headed scarecrows on a T-bar but just couldn't find the right pieces to use. But then I ran into a black skeleton at Michael's the other day and thought that this would work. However, I've also been stuck on what to use for my witch decoration. I was stumped trying to make an upper torso witch and hang her from a 6- or 7-foot wooden stake. It was just a struggle. So I put my old Grim Reaper costume robe from the 1980s on the skeleton, along with a witch mask I had and I found a witch hat at Spirit Halloween. And she was done. Quick and easy. Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge was my first real introduction to Freddy Krueger. At that point in time it was only the three movies. After we watched the sequel one dark and st...

Here we are again, folks! Another October, or Halloweentober, as we like to call the month round here. I started watching monster movies a little early in late September this year, but that will be our little secret. Got it? I'm in a werewolf and witchy mood this spooky season! So I walked through the Scream Factory aisle tonight and picked a movie that goes way back to my childhood. One of my favorite movies of all time, let alone werewolf movie, is Teen Wolf . I saw this when it had just come out on VHS. I've been in love with this movie most of my life. I'm watching the movie today on my Scream Factory Blu-ray. Michael J Fox is one of the most likable characters in the world as Scott Howard. His dad Harold is pretty great, too. But Styles was always my favorite character. The kid is so cool and entrepreneurial. As soon as he sees Scott transform, he's not petrified, he's not pissed - he sees opportunity. And he gets to work making Scott the Teen Wolf....

I finally picked up an increasingly hard to find copy of My Mom's a Werewolf (1989) on DVD, from Rhino no less (who became Shout Factory!) and a snap case. The movie is actually hard to watch. It's quite boring, and never quite feels like anything's going to happen at all that we the viewer would care about. And the movie really does not know what it wants to be. Satire, dark comedy, funny horror film? It tries to be all things and succeeds at none of them. It could have done for werewolves what Fright Night or My Best Friends a Vampire did for vampires. But no, it was not to be. Now the movie is mostly forgotten, save for fans like me who want to keep its memory alive if only as a time capsule of a perfect time in Hollywood where anything could get made, especially monster movies. John Saxon is one of the standout characters in the movie. I mean, he is in everything he's in, right? From some massive hits (maybe his biggest being A Nightmare on Elm Street...