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Month: October 2015

Movies

The Classic Horror Stylings of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)

Oct 31, 2015 Brandie Ashe 1

Based on Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel, Psycho (1960) marks storied director Alfred Hitchcock’s first tentative steps into the horror genre. By today’s standards, in which the amount of gore and viscera is (seemingly) directly proportional to box-office […]

Animation

Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Vintage Hallowe’en

Oct 31, 2015 Brandie Ashe 0

A wild, weird, and wonderful All Hallows’ Eve to you all! This week, The Retro Set offers a smorgasbord of classic Halloween cartoons for your ghoulish pleasure–some familiar, some perhaps less so. Felix the Cat […]

Animation

Casper, Classism, and Cheap Candy

Oct 30, 2015 Jill Blake 0

Poor Casper. All he wants is to be a normal boy, running and playing with all the other kids…but he can’t, because he’s dead. It’s rather morbid, if you stop to think about it. He’s […]

Photographic Evidence

Halloween … Classic Hollywood Style.

Oct 30, 2015 The Retro Set 0

Who doesn’t love the smell of pumpkin and cinnamon in the air, some “Monster Mash” in the background, and the excuse to dress up while gorging on complex carbohydrates? Halloween brings out the kid in all of […]

Movies

The Unseen Horror in Face of Fire (1959)

Oct 29, 2015 Wade Sheeler 0

There’s genres, and sub-genres and sub-sub-genres. I like to think of deformity and its impact on society as a sub-sub-genre birthed through horror and further removed as paradoxical exercises in bigotry, racism, small-town fear; perhaps […]

Reviews

TV’s Monstrously Fun First Families of the Macabre

Oct 28, 2015 The Retro Set 2

OK, first things first. Let’s talk about 1964. Nineteen. Sixty. Effing. Four. If ever there was a year to be teenager, that was it. I mean, really stop and think about it. On your radio (transistors, […]

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