Tag: Television Horror

Remembrance of the Dead for September 2024

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


Kolchak: The Devil’s Platform (1974) Season 1 Episode 7 – By Baron Craze

As I continue my journey through Kolchak: The Night Stalker series I’ve chosen on of my favorites for the spooky month of October, it’s none other than The Devil’s Platform which predates The Omen film by two years, it was one of four episodes directed Allen Baron and created from a story by Tim Maschler,…


Remembrance of the Dead for August 2024

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


Capsized: Blood In the Water (2019) – By Baron Craze

Chompfest 2024 In 2019 the Discovery channel decided it was time to do something new to celebrate their 31st shark week, and hence an original television movie was the final decision of Howard Swartz, Discovery’s senior vice president of production and development. Hence, instead of having narration about just sharks they used the real-life survival…


12 Days of Terror (2004) – By Baron Craze

Chompfest 2024 In 2001 author Richard Fernicola wrote the non-fiction novel “Twelve Days of Terror: A Definitive Investigation of the 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks” which was later made into an episode of The History Channel’s In search of… (2001) and then on May 1, 2004 for the Animal Planet (later the Discovery channel for…


Remembrance of the Dead for July 2024

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


Kolchak “The Ripper” Season 1 Episode 1 – By Baron Craze

As some might recall from the Kolchak Television Series article, I stated I would be taking the time to review individual episodes of this series, and no better way to start than with the first show entitled The Ripper which aired on Friday, September 13, 1974 directed by Allen Baron (who would go on to…


Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) – By Baron Craze

2024 marks the anniversary year of a beloved and yet short-lived horror tv-series, born from two television movies that gave future influence to The X-Files, and later spun a revival television series, I had planned encapsulating my favorite episodes into one article. However, as my passion for the episodes grew, I realized the article was…


Frankenfish (2004) – By Baron Craze

When it comes to nature-attack movies the sea kingdom is a great place to start, thanks to Jaws [1975] the menacing factors have increased exponentially, from Tentacles [1977], Orca [1977] (Killer Whales), to Piranha [1978] and then endless barrage of Shark flicks. Hence when a snakehead fish incident which occurred in Crofton, Maryland and the…


Cruise Into Terror (1978) – By Baron Craze

In the year 1978, there were plenty of cheesy yet entertaining made-for-television movies that flooded the small screens of households, of them 19 were in the horror genre; depending on the major networks and time of the year as to when they were released. Looking back to this one year the types of films varied…