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[Bea’s Reviews] Dracula [1931 Spanish version]

[Bea’s Reviews] Dracula [1931 Spanish version]

Filmed simultaneously with Browning’s production during the nighttime hours, using the same story line, same sets, same schedule and same budget (more or less), George Melford’s Spanish reflection of Tod Browning’s film is a curio in early talkie cinema. Not to say Spanish ‘Dracula’ doesn’t have some nice things to offer because it does, more than … Continue reading

[Bea’s Reviews] Dracula [1931]

[Bea’s Reviews] Dracula [1931]

  Funny what time and emotional maturity does to you. When I first viewed Universal’s first of their many Golden Age releases, I honestly didn’t think much of it. Yes, I had heard this was not THE first Dracula adaptation (and neither wasNosferatu for that matter), but it was this film that embued pop culture for … Continue reading

LGBT Horror Month Retrospective/PSA

LGBT Horror Month Retrospective/PSA

No fancy word play, no snark, no self-depreciation in the form of clever little annotations. Just raw opinion and an emotional response to an unfortunate situation in the world of the horror genre… and cinema in general. Horror almost always seems to cater to the straight, often male gaze that there doesn’t seem to be … Continue reading

Batman and the Joker: Love Is A Joke by Bea Harper

Batman and the Joker: Love Is A Joke by Bea Harper

Fair warning: This self-indulgent, borderline pretentious looksee WILL contain spoilers pertaining the characters of Batman and the Joker in comics, games and other media. Avoid like Joker Toxin if you do not want your own experience to be spoiled. I repeat. SPOILERS. SPOIIIIIIIILEEEERRRRRS! Everybody loves Batman. Well, mayhaps not everybody, but the general consensus says … Continue reading

The Triumvirate of Terror

The Triumvirate of Terror

Ever since the dawn of our existence, we humans fear what we don’t understand or in some cases prefer not to understand. The power of giving something or somebody a name comforts us and helps us deal with something that is beyond our control. Our ancestors gave natural occurrences in nature names and faces in … Continue reading