Hello, Persephoneers! Welcome to our third week of Halloween-themed movie reviews that coincide with Slay Belle’s 31 Days of Halloween! This week’s film is the classic The House on Haunted Hill, released in 1959, and starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Elisha Cook, and Carolyn Craig.
Swordplay, derring-do, and intrigue help spin the story in the 1948 film “The Three Musketeers,” based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. The film features an all-star cast and was the second highest grossing film of the 1940s.
Happy early three-day weekend, Persephoneers! This week, we’re going to kick off the unofficial summer with a movie that’s based on a book that’s perfect for summer reading, or for watching during those severe summer thunderstorms. This week’s pick is “Dragonwyck,” made in 1946 and based on Anya Seton’s novel of the same name.
My brushes with celebrity are limited to the time I think I served John Mellencamp coffee when I worked the overnight at Denny’s and some of the cast of Battlestar Galactica (the new one) at a con. This was my first celebrity interview, and I’m pretty sure even if my next interview is James McAvoy […]