inktober 2018: week five
Tomorrow is the final day of Inktober 2018 and finishing things off is poor Casey Becker, who has had just about enough of the taunts from her unknown caller in the 1996 horror/spoof Scream.
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IF: witch
Ruth Gordon holds the distinction of being the only person to win an Oscar for playing a witch. When she accepted the award, at the age of 73, for her role as “Minnie Castevet” in Rosemary’s Baby, she said: “And thank all of you who voted for me, and to everyone who didn’t — please, …
DCS: boston corbett
As a young man, Boston Corbett began working in a hat factory in Troy, New York. He had regular exposure to mercury nitrate used in the production of felt. Boston showed signs of hallucinations, psychosis and twitching. After the death of his wife and child, he began drinking heavily. He was unable to hold a job until an …
inktober 2018: week four
It’s winding down to Week Four of Inktober 2018 and here’s Kathy Thorn shielding her young son Damien from the gift his nanny offers — all for him — the the 1976 film The Omen.
IF: ghost
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls Whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still that is the time when ghosts are present practicing their terror with ghoulish delight!
DCS: mary ure
As an elementary school student in her native Scotland, Mary Ure express an interest in acting. In her final year as a student at the Royal Albert Hall’s Central School of Speech and Drama, Mary was offered an opportunity to join the BBC’s Radio Drama Company. She declined. Instead she pursued a successful career on the London …
inktober 2018: week three
Week Three of Inktober 2018 finds poor Chris Washington forced into “the sunken place” to face his worst fears at the command of Mrs. Armitage in Jordan Peele’s 2017 allegorical psycho-thriller Get Out.
IF: magical
Theodore Hardeen. He was just as good.
DCS: renée adorée
Jeanne de la Fonte began performing with her family in their circus act and drew acclaim throughout her native France and Europe. Just into her 20s, she came to the United States and appeared in a musical revue in Washington DC, using the stage name “Renée Adorée.” The show, Oh Uncle!, was a hit and …
inktober 2018: week two
It’s Week Two of Inktober 2018 and Barbara didn’t listen to her brother Johnny when he warned “They’re coming for you!” in George A. Romero‘s 1968 ground-breaking horror classic Night of the Living Dead.