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Music, Music Feature Oct 15, 2019
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Because Count Orlok can’t speak for himself

Maxx McGathey of Gramps the Vamp scores silent horror films, including Nosferatu and The Man Who Laughs, which opens the Music Box of Horrors—and whose disfigured hero inspired the Joker.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Maxx McGathey, Gramps the Vamp, Music Box, Music Box of Horrors, Nosferatu, Count Orlok, The Man Who Laughs, Joker, The Lodger, Halloween, doom funk, The Cave of 10,000 Eyes, Chicago Park District, Movies in the Parks, Campfire Horrors, Paul Leni, Conrad Veidt, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Ryan Oestreich, Stevenson Valentor, Alfred Hitchcock, Dennis Scott, Jaws, Benet Academy High School, Lisle, Plainfield, Loyola, Kevin Holt, Nick Bush, Andy Rosenstein, Terrible Spaceship, Demonoid 1971, Paul Buscarello, Tod Browning, The Unknown, Luc Parcell, False Gods Trio, Mocrep, Annarita Tanzi, Fox Valley Orchestra, Alex Ellsworth, Hope Arthur, Mucca Pazza, Todd Phillips, Video

Film, Movie Review Oct 26, 2017
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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, The Old Dark House, James Whale, The Unknown movie, Tod Browning, University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Kent Lambert, Sam Wagster, Chicago Film Society, The Seventh Victim, Val Lewton, RKO Pictures, George A. Romero, Night of the Living Dead, Universal Pictures, Dracula, Bela Lugosi, Frankenstein, Boris Karloff, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, Lon Chaney, Freaks, MGM, Gods and Monsters, Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, J.B. Priestley, Charles Laughton, Elspeth Dudgeon, D.W. Griffith, Sigmund Freud, David Skal, Elias Savada, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry, Mark of the Vampire, The Devil-Doll, Show Boat, The Road Back, horror movies, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2013
Audio Video
Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, Michael Winterbottom The Look of Love, Steve Coogan Paul Raymond Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, Chicago International Movies & Music Festival, Music Box, Crimes Against Humanity, Dealin' With Idiots, Jeff Garlin, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, Matthew Goode, Deliver Us From Evil, Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, 20 Feet From Stardom, V/H/S/2, The Vikings, Kirk Douglas, Patio Theater Chicago, Northwest Chicago Film Society, Grave of the Fireflies, Satyajit Ray, Charulata, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Gene Siskel Film Center, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Blake Edwards, The Pink Panther, Northwestern University Norris Center, Hayao Miyazuki, Princess Mononoke, Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause, Logan Theater Chicago, Tod Browning, The Unholy Three, Dennis Scott, In the Shadow of His Airness, Michael Jordan, South Side Community Arts Center, Stanley M. Freehling: Chicago's Man of the Arts, Facets Cinematheque, movies, Audio, Video

Film, Movie Review May 30, 2013
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American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel

A Canadian horror import spoofs the body-modification cult.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Tod Browning, James Whale, Val Lewton, George Romero, John Carpenter, Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark, The Hurt Locker, American Mary, Katharine Isabelle, Ave Maria, Mary Mason, David Lovgren, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, Lon Chaney, Betty Boop, Max Fleischer, Paula Lindgren, The Unknown, Billy Barker, Frankenstein, The Island of Lost Souls, Eyes Without a Face, Clay St. Thomas, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jonathan Rosenbaum, List-o-Mania, Cinema Borealis, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Payne, Election movie, About Schmidt, Sideways movie, Mia Hansen-Love, Father of My Children movie, Lynne Ramsay, Ratcatcher movie, Movern Callar, Beloved Sky, From No. 37, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of Films From Iran, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blackthorn movie, Butch Cassidy, Sam Shepard, Footloose movie, Happy Happy, Limelight movie, Peter Gatien, Lowlands movie, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Thompson, Shut Up Little Man!, Jan Svankmajer, Alice movie, Comfort Station, Tod Browning, Dracula, University of Chicago Doc Films, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Valery Todorovsky, Hipsters movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie, Facets Night School, Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff, Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim, Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss movie, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life, The Godfather, Music Box Massacre, Waxworks, Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Wizard of Gore, Burn Witch Burn, Hour of the Wolf, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Poltergeist, film festivals, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 14, 2008
RIP FJA

Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Peter Lorre, Ray Harryhausen, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Forrest J. Ackerman, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Frankenstein, Dracula, King Kong, Phantom of the Opera, Lon Chaney, Willis J. O'Brien, Tod Browning, James Whale, Castle of Frankenstein, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury

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Because Count Orlok can’t speak for himself

Maxx McGathey of Gramps the Vamp scores silent horror films, including Nosferatu and The Man Who Laughs, which opens the Music Box of Horrors—and whose disfigured hero inspired the Joker.

Recommended Video
Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.

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Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

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American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel

A Canadian horror import spoofs the body-modification cult.

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RIP FJA

Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.

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Video Because Count Orlok can’t speak for himself

Maxx McGathey of Gramps the Vamp scores silent horror films, including Nosferatu and The Man Who Laughs, which opens the Music Box of Horrors—and whose disfigured hero inspired the Joker.

Recommended Video Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.

Audio Video Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Recommended American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel

A Canadian horror import spoofs the body-modification cult.

Video This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.

RIP FJA

Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman, who helped bring classic horror to the baby boom generation.

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Because Count Orlok can’t speak for himself

Recommended Video
Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House

Audio Video
Chicago in the lens, and the rest of this week's screenings

Recommended
American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel

Video
This Week's Movie Action