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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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