Every time I turn on The Wizard of Oz (which is fairly often), I end up in a rabbit hole trying to remind myself how the filmmakers pulled off such a realistic tornado in 1939. Seriously, if you haven’t seen it in a while, pull up a clip on YouTube.  The Wizard of Oz was the first film to show a tornado on screen, which ended up being one of the largest expenses of the film’s budget. The studio actually didn’t recoup the cost of the movie until it re-released it a decade afte

In June of 1998, Peter Weir’s “The Truman Show” was released. While not technically a horror film, I think most of us would agree that...

On Lunatics Radio Hour we’ve covered the history and cultural implications of most of the major classic Universal Monsters. This grouping...