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I’m late coming to the Hellraiser fandom, and I can’t believe what I’ve been missing. Hellraiser is one of those movies I put off watching despite how interesting Pinhead looked. My reason for not watching? It’s a weak one because it goes against my own rule about judging something myself and not being swayed by…
If you’re partial to both love stories and horror stories, Head in the Herbs by Giovanni Boccaccio combines both. It also has three nasty villains. Lovers Lisabetta and Lorenzno are happy with their secret meetings until her three brothers discover them. Back then, a young unmarried woman having sex would destroy her reputation as well…
One of my favorite themes is revenge. There’s something incomparably satisfying about a person getting even with the one who wronged him. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop Frog is a great revenge story. It delivers the expected appalling behavior of hateful tormentors and the pleasure of the victim getting even, but it also raises interesting questions….
He extorts money, he frightens the innocent, he commits murder and creates torture chambers, but somehow he’s one of the most sympathetic and strangely romantic characters in classic horror. Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, was shunned by his family for nothing more than his appearance. Always an outcast, he relies on his keen intelligence…
As a horror fan, one of my favorite classic novels is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story explores dark parts of the human soul and raises questions about good and evil. Since the story is told in Victor Frankenstein’s point of view, his monster is the antagonist, but which character is of a more villainous nature?…