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Harry Knowles, over at AICN is reporting the sad news of the failing health of Forrest J Ackerman, author, agent, co-creator and editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" magazine, inventor of the term "sci-fi", and the greatest film buff ever born. If one single person has had an influence on who I am today and what I have devoted my life to, it would be this man, who…

 

Today is Alfred Hitchcock's birthday (according to IMDB anyway), so it's worth mentioning a little-known trick that the world's greatest director perpetrated on those nagging censors in 1960 with my favorite film, "Psycho". Hitchcock pushed a lot of boundaries with this little low budget film (Hitchcock was known for big blockbusters such as "North by Northwest" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much" at the time). "Psycho", for instance…

 

What the hell am I doing with my life? I think I've strayed off target. Digital this, HD that, CG something-else. None of this is what I used to be all about. If the events of the notorious Sid Terror — "London After Midnight" kerfuffle (there, he wanted his name connected with the famous, lost Chaney film, now he's got it) had an upside, it's…

 

This year alone, I have already mentioned, on the pages of this blog, the passing of at least five creative greats who are no longer with us. I've touched briefly on the impact each has had on my life, but one genius I miss practically every month that passes is the incomparable Stanley Kubrick, who would have been eighty today. I can safely say that no other filmmaker has…

 

Earlier in the week I kinds flew off the handle here about a planned "Spider Baby" remake. Following this, I had the chance to speak with Jack Hill, the genius writer/director behind such classics as "The Switchblade Sisters", "Coffy", and "Foxy Brown" while he assuaged my fears and told me the "Spider Baby" remake was shaping up very nicely ... Jack Hill has a career of which I am frankly…