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King Kong (1933) 85-years later and Still the King – By Baron Craze

This April the first true monster movie celebrates its 85th anniversary, which came from the mind of a 6-year-old boy who found him fascinated by gorillas and a nightmarish hatred for elevated trains, and who knew all of it would find its way into a 1933 classic raging and rampaging beast marked as the Eighth…


Horror Icon: Hazel Court – By Baron Craze

  As many who listen to my Baron’s Crypt show which has been airing since 2014 of January, I started about two years ago, doing a segment called Horror Icon, the plan to achieve 666 icons, in all fields of horror. Now plenty of writers choose icons of those still living to comment about their…


NJ Horror Con and Film Festival #3: Time to Shriek! – by Baron Craze

Well, this marked the third adventure to the New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival, and now writing for The Horror Times, the third different publication in 3-years, and the second time at the Renaissance Hotel in Iselin, NJ. I made it to the event one day early for two reasons, first to beat a…


Carrie: Want to go to the Prom (1976) – by Baron Craze

The subject and theme of bullying appears more often in many horror films; however, in the year 1976, it happened twice, in the course of three months, first with writer and director Rene Daalder’s Massacre at Central High (1976) and then in November with highly noted movie called Carrie from director Brian de Palma. The…


NJ Horror Con and Film Festival 3 Welcomes You – By Baron Craze

Once more, horror fans will witness the splendor of the convention season arriving and this time I will venture to the 3-day event in Iselin, New Jersey on March 2 – 4, at the Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel for another great time, by the creative minds of Ryan Scott Weber, Robert Bruce and his fantastic dedicated…


Gone in Life but Remain in Memory 2017 Celebrities Deaths – By Baron Craze

In life, Death aka the Grim Reaper stalks us all, no one can beat this hunter, but many of us either mark our flesh with his image or have his likeness on out walls, desks and shelves, all to enforce us to strive forward, knowing it seeks us out at some point. As many artists…


Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992): 25th Anniversary – By Baron Craze

Since Bram Stoker first brought the tale of Dracula to life in 1897, the story has been told and retold countless times on screen, and used in several hundred books, and highly likely any and all horror fans know of the tale and even able to quote famous lines. Many famous directors such as F.W….


Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972): 45yr Anniversary – By Baron Craze

There’s much more interesting than taking a trip back to watch a cult movie from the director who created the masterpieces of yin and yang of Christmas movies, Black Christmas [1974] and A Christmas Story (1983), none other than Bob Clark, with his first odd outing Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things. This frankly and…


Unleashing the New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival 2

    The New Jersey Horror Con and Film Festival held its second event of 2017, and expanded even more with the abilities to present a fan friendly and fun time for everyone including the vendors and stars, the pomp and circumstances not present rather sheer thrilling madness. As oppose to the first, the organizers…