Creature Feature
Oct 3, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
Horror movies were the heroin of my childhood, and I was a two bit junkie…
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Oct 3, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
Horror movies were the heroin of my childhood, and I was a two bit junkie…
1932, Freaks.
Political correctness wasn't invented in 1932.
Like the tent only the grownups were allowed to visit when the carnival came to town, this one gave me nightmares as a kid.
Gooble gobble, gooble gobble, one of us, one of us.
Sometimes what we imagine is far scarier than what we see.
Sometimes.
Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers at night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright.
Fucking A, Skippy.
Like the sick kid home from school we all at times long to be, Larry Talbot was the ultimate sympathetic figure.
He even takes one for the home team in the end.
And he gets to carry around that ultra-cool wolf's head cane, naked under the moonlight in search of steak.
That's every young American boy's dream.
Is there anything scarier than a really strange and unsettling dream? Methinks not.
I'm a huge fan of British horror, and this is a great example.
It begins with a man stopping at a house he's seen in a recurring dream, only to find it filled with the same group of people he's had nightmares about.
Strange tales ensue, several including one about a ventriloquist dummy who's no dummy.
If you haven't seen this one, you need to.
Disembodied hand of tortured artist bangs out some Ludwig von.
Stirrin' a little Peter Lorre, who let's face it, was plain and simple scary looking, and you've got pure madcap entertainment.
Not for music lovers only.
Incredible, realistic effects for its time.
1932, Freaks.
Political correctness wasn't invented in 1932.
Like the tent only the grownups were allowed to visit when the carnival came to town, this one gave me nightmares as a kid.
Gooble gobble, gooble gobble, one of us, one of us.
Sometimes what we imagine is far scarier than what we see.
Sometimes.
Even a man who is pure at heart and says his prayers at night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the moon is full and bright.
Fucking A, Skippy.
Like the sick kid home from school we all at times long to be, Larry Talbot was the ultimate sympathetic figure.
He even takes one for the home team in the end.
And he gets to carry around that ultra-cool wolf's head cane, naked under the moonlight in search of steak.
That's every young American boy's dream.
Is there anything scarier than a really strange and unsettling dream? Methinks not.
I'm a huge fan of British horror, and this is a great example.
It begins with a man stopping at a house he's seen in a recurring dream, only to find it filled with the same group of people he's had nightmares about.
Strange tales ensue, several including one about a ventriloquist dummy who's no dummy.
If you haven't seen this one, you need to.
Disembodied hand of tortured artist bangs out some Ludwig von.
Stirrin' a little Peter Lorre, who let's face it, was plain and simple scary looking, and you've got pure madcap entertainment.
Not for music lovers only.
Incredible, realistic effects for its time.
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