Johnny California: An Annoying Autobiographical Pause: BRIDE!

 by JB

Fasten your safety belts. I have taken a big bite of Proust's madeleine.

Movies is Good: Ten Sequels Better Than the Films That Spawned Them!

 by JB

The facts I speak this quiet morning on the F This Movie! website are indeed facts... and not opinions. They are incontrovertible as geometry to any enlightened community of minds.

Great Horror Performances: Boris Karloff in The Bride of Frankenstein

by JB

Although Karloff’s performance in the original Frankenstein is groundbreaking and unique, I keep going back to the sequel.

Cinema Bestius: The Bride of Frankenstein

This week, we take a loving look at a film that has been a part of The Pope’s consciousness for more than forty years.

Heath Holland On...My Road to Universal Horror

by Heath Holland

I didn’t always love the monsters.

Drunk on Foolish Pleasures: Really Universal Horrors!

by JB

This past weekend I went to Universal Studios Hollywood – the first time I’ve visited during Scary Movie Month. It got me to some excessive ruminating.

Netflix This Movie! Vol. 46

Round two of #ScaryMovieMonth picks. Watch them and post your seven-word reviews in the Scary Movie Challenge!

10 Superior Horror Sequels

by Patrick Bromley

A recent rewatch of Wrong Turn 2 (in conjunction with my piece on its director, Joe Lynch, and Holliston) got me thinking about horror sequels that surpass the originals. Not all of you will agree with all of my choices.

F This Movie! - Universal Monsters

Patrick and JB go back to the beginnings of horror movies and talk about the original monsters, now available on Blu-ray for the first time.

Our Favorite Movie Monsters

You can't have scary movies without the Something Scary. Here are some of our favorite movie monsters.

And don't forget to keep posting in the Scary Movie Challenge III! You guys are killing it so far.

F This Movie! - JB's Favorite Movies

With just one more show to go before the 100th episode spectacular, Patrick and JB talk about some of JB's old favorites. And we do mean old.

Watchin' Trailerz with Doug (October 21)

It's only Oct. 21, and we already have over 250 comments in the F This Movie! F Scary Movies! Challenge II. That's impressive! Good job, some of you! The rest of you? Step up your game! But #ScaryMovieMonth isn't over yet -- you still have over a week (and, really, the week before Halloween is where the rubber meets the road [huh?]) to submit your seven-word reviews to our website. It's the most fun you can have with your clothes on! Or off! You weirdos!

Our Favorite Moments in Horror Movies

In celebration of #ScaryMovieMonth, we all confront the demons of our past and remember some of the scariest, funniest, most moving and most entertaining moments in horror movies, with special appearances by the clown from Poltergeist, Captain Howdy from The Exorcist and Don Knotts.

Don't forget to keep kicking ass with the F This Movie! F Scary Movies! Challenge II!

Sh!#ting on the Classics: Universal Monsters!

It is Scary Movie Month at F This Movie! And I have a confession to make: I tried. I really tried. I just could not do it.

Thanksf'ing #1: Five Movies for Which JB is Thankful

It's November, and that can mean only one thing at F This Movie! -- it's time to celebrate the holiday of Thanksf'ing. Throughout the month, all of the F This Movie! crew will be sharing the movies for which they are thankful. Because the Mayflower.

First up is JB:

1. Singing in the Rain (1952) - Still one of the hap-ha-happiest films ever made; witness that the worst punishment meted out to the "villian" of the piece is that she is laughed at in public. Ouch. Tremendous script. Zippy dialogue. Dancing with no equal. Donald O'Connor singing "Make 'Em Laugh." Great songs from the Freed/Brown catalog. A film that suggests life can be an adventure and romantic love is still possible. Some of my students reject the film on this basis, like a bad kidney.

2. The Graduate (1967) - First semester of sixth grade I brought home the worst report card of my admittedly brief academic career. Mom and Dad were none too happy. They went out to dinner; I watched The Graduate on the CBS Wednesday Night Movie. It made me feel a lot better. Great performances. Endlessly quotable dialogue. ("Oh, no. It's fully baked.") A peak into young adulthood for a boy ready to grow up.

3. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Delirious sequel to one of the foundation Universal horror movies-- funny and scary and twisted and profound. This film takes horror cliches and bounces them on their ears. Karloff was never better. Thesiger chews the scenery. Elsa Lanchester as the Bride is still the most iconic female monster in history. . . and sexy.

4. 12 Angry Men (1957) - Still my favorite drama. . . I sometimes wish Turner Classic Movies would not show it so much. Whenever it is on, I drop whatever I am doing to watch it again. Every actor is at the peak of his game. It is probably one of the cleverest police procedurals to not feature a single detective. A profoundly democratic and American film, it suggests that we can get along and work things out, despite our many differences.

5. Anything By Buster Keaton - Love for Keaton is not quite as universal as that for Charlie Chaplin. Buster is an acquired taste, like dry white wine. No other silent comedian makes me laugh like Keaton does. . . or gasp. Thinking about Keaton, so many scenes and shots come to mind: grabbing a moving car and letting it lift him into the air in Cops, the entire front of a house falling around him in Steamboat Bill, Jr, the climactic train wreck in The General. The physics of amazement.

Got a movie or movies you're thankful for? Email us at fthismoviepodcast(at)gmail.com and share. We'll be reading submissions on the podcast all month long. Happy Thanksf'ing!