FROM HELL AND BACK (You're A Naughty One, Saucy Jack)

MURDER BY DECREE – dir. Bob Clark. Starring Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Frank Finley, Susan Clark, Sir John Gielgud, etc.

FROM HELL – dirs. Albert and Allen Hughes. Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, etc.

Recently, I revisited two films dealing with the same subject matter: the Whitechapel murders of the late 19^th century. Actually, I practically viewed these back to back. More like one week after the other. And believe me, there was no intent on my part to assess a comparison while viewing the two. In fact, the notion of writing an article on either flick did not occur to me until after I sat through Bob Clark’s MURDER BY DECREE the other night.

RESONATING EVILS AND SINISTER INSPIRATIONS: CHILLER THEATER by Eric

During the next couple of weeks leading up to Halloween, I may post a few thoughts related to the horror genre. I was and still am a Horror/Monster movie nerd. In fact, my whole love of film was the resulting expansion from the thrillers I obsessed over as a kid. I cannot recall what the first horror film I saw was, but I definitely know which one had the first, initial impact on me at the time. It was CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS, a rather infamous cult flick by the directing/writing team of Bob Clark and Alan Ormsby. Both gentlemen would go onto greater success unleashing the PORKY'S series to the world. Bob Clark himself had directed another cult classic, the antithetically family friendly A CHRISTMAS STORY. Obviously this displayed a great versitility in a man who met an untimely death by car accident only two years ago.