What a joy it was to do this episode with my two friends and
co-hosts! I hope that you, as listeners, felt the same way after listening to
it. I love that we covered true fear and laughter, schlocky b-grade and
top-tier work, old and new, independent and big budgeted movies. It was a
juxtaposition that ultimately we set out to accomplish more often than not with
this format. You already know my thoughts from the show on The Fly and Street
Trash so I wont dwell on those. What I would like to divulge a little more on
is not White Zombie but older horror in general.
Certainly by now, most of you have gathered that I love
vintage horror dating back to the beginning of film. Silent horror, studio
system era horror, 50’s atomic horror. I love all of the generations of scary
movies and think that if you have some imagination and a basic understanding of
film history you can really find a lot of pleasure in older films. What I have
never done is try and get people to watch this in any form of persuasion.
Watching and enjoying these films requires the viewer to do their homework and
have the genuine interest. What I was afraid to do was push a film like White
Zombie on my two co-hosts and listeners when they didn’t really have the
interest. So when Mad Chann selected White Zombie I was floored! I was even
more thrilled at the reaction and discussion on this episode from us that
ensued. I know that both the Grizz and Mad are smart film fans, if they weren’t
I would have never stuck with this show and I am sure the sentiment is the same
for them. 
However, this was uncharted territory covering an older
film. I never wanted to cover these films unless we were going to take an
academic approach to enjoying them. To watch a film from 1932 and not
understand it’s time and capability is a disservice to the film and the viewer.
I just feared covering these films and holding these films to the same
standards of a film made 70 years later. I thought that our coverage of the
movie was just right and I had a blast doing it. I hope that this branches us
in to some older films in the future from time to time and maybe even turn a
few listeners on to older films they have never watched.
Listeners, are there any old horror films you would like to
hear us cover? LET US KNOW ON SOCIAL MEDIA!! Until next time
Beware the moon
The Professor
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