Scary Movie: Ma Xu Weibang and Song at Midnight (1937): At Kung Fu Cinema, Jean Lukitsh takes a fond look back at “China’s first true horror film,” an adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera.
Horror Icon Richard Widmark, 93, Dies: At Cinematical, Peter Martin makes an unconvincing attempt to paint the Hollywood actor as a horror star, based on his well-remembered protrait of grinning evil in KISS OF DEATH. Someone, Martin neglects to mention Widmark’s one true horror film, Hammer Film’s 1976 swan song TO THE DEVIL, A DAUGHTER, co-starring Christopher Lee.