Frank Moraes

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I love the original Blacula but this sequel is *at least* as good and probably better.

Wow! You're making my childhood sound idyllic!

Narrator: Yet his childhood was *not* idyllic!

😉

Ha! Diesel reminds me LA from my childhood...

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Two films released on this day:

Dead & Buried (1981)
The Princess Bride (1987).

I wrote a capsule review of Dead & Buried:

psychotronicreview.com/short-takes/...

Other birthdays today -- all actors, all alive:

Brian Blessed (1936-)
Chris O'Dowd (1979-)
Robert Wuhl (1951-)
Scott Bakula (1954-)
Tony Shalhoub (1953-).

Guillermo del Toro's Greatest Film - Psychotronic Review Guillermo del Toro is 61. He was born on 9 October 2025. Today, we are going to watch his horror masterpiece The Devil's Backbone.

Guillermo del Toro’s Greatest Film

The great director is 61 today. We watch my favorite of his films.

psychotronicreview.com/2025/10/09/g...

Short Takes: M - Psychotronic Review Short overviews of lots of films starting with M. Meant to become the ultimate source for quick information about psychotronic films. Updated constantly.

Capsule review of Murder by Death (1976)

I like this film a lot -- but not like I did when I was a kid!

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Kirk Alyn Will Always Be Superman - Psychotronic Review Kirk Alyn was born on 8 October 1910. He was a successful actor best remembered today as being the first live-action Superman.

Kirk Alyn Will Always Be Superman

The first live-action Superman was born on this day in 1910.

psychotronicreview.com/2025/10/08/k...

I've been working on an article about the Hammer Dracula films -- writing while I watched each. It was going well until I hit The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. It's actually quite a good film. But I feel like it shouldn't be included. It doesn't really fit.

There will be egg on your face when his plan comes out in 2 weeks! Or is that over because "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated!"?

Also on this day, in 1993, Demolition Man was released. I've written about it at length.

psychotronicreview.com/films/demoli...

Films released on this day:

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1967).

Lots of other birthdays today:

Rene Cardona (1905-1988)
James Olson (1930-2022)
Paul Hogan (1939-)
Chevy Chase (1942-)
Sigourney Weaver (1949-)
Stephanie Zimbalist (1956-)
Kristanna Loken (1979-)
Matt Damon (1970-).

Kirk Alyn Will Always Be Superman - Psychotronic Review Kirk Alyn was born on 8 October 1910. He was a successful actor best remembered today as being the first live-action Superman.

Kirk Alyn Will Always Be Superman

The first live-action Superman was born on this day in 1910.

psychotronicreview.com/2025/10/08/k...

The process is more like Broadcast News. The results are entirely Videodrome!

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

Why should you care about Dwain Esper? He directed films The Seventh Commandment (1932) where a medical student gets syphilis and Sex Madness (1934) about a former burlesque dancer with syphilis. Also: Marihuana (1936) where sex leads only to pregnancy!

Why should you care about Dwain Esper? He directed films The Seventh Commandment (1932) where a medical student gets syphilis and Sex Madness (1934) about a former burlesque dancer with syphilis. Also: Marihuana (1936) where sex leads only to pregnancy!

Only one other notable person today: special effects artist Screaming Mad George is 69 today.

These films were released on 7 October:

The Crawling Eye (1958)
4D Man (1959)
Fail Safe (1964)
Alien Nation (1988)
Big Boss (1971)
Ed Wood (1994)
Dead Snow 2 (2014)

Dwain Esper and Early Exploitation Filmmaking - Psychotronic Review Dwain Esper was born 7 October 1894. Or 1893. It depends on who you listen to. He was an early exploitation filmmaker.

Dwain Esper and Early Exploitation Filmmaking

He was born on this day in 1894.

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CarousHELL the the Power of Perseverance - Psychotronic Review Silver Spotlight Films released CarousHELL on 6 October 2016. It's a whole lot of fun and spawned two sequels.

CarousHELL the the Power of Perseverance

This low-budget gem was released on this day in 2016.

psychotronicreview.com/2025/10/06/c...

Other anniversaries/birthdays today:

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
Better Watch Out (2017).

Carole Lombard (1908-1942)
Wendy Robie (1953)
Elisabeth Shue (1963-).

Ingredients 2 onions diced 1 lb mushrooms 2 TB sesame oil 1 cup whole wheat flour 5-5½ cups water ½ cup soy sauce

In large pot, heat oil and saute onions and mushrooms. In a small bowl, whisk flour with enough water to form thin paste. Add remaining water and soy sauce to vegetables in pot. Start with 5 cups of water and add more at the end if the gravy is too thick. Bring to a boil, and cook until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes. Add flour mixture, stir well, and cook about 15 minutes until desired consistency is reached. Stir occasionally.

it’s just the premade packet of gravy you add water to lol

As promised, here is the recipe I use to make vegan mushroom gravy, and the recipe my husband uses to make meat-based gravy

CarousHELL the the Power of Perseverance - Psychotronic Review Silver Spotlight Films released CarousHELL on 6 October 2016. It's a whole lot of fun and spawned two sequels.

CarousHELL the the Power of Perseverance

This low-budget gem was released on this day in 2016.

psychotronicreview.com/2025/10/06/c...

Having watched all the Hammer Dracula films now, I'm struck that conventional wisdom is mostly wrong. Critics seem to have stopped liking the films when they started doing new things. But these films now stand out as excellent. The old ones? Kind of tired.

YouTube video by Save America Movement Amazing Grace

All I ask is that you watch and listen for 2 mins.

youtu.be/AxZDE8PBhFk

"For folks who have spent the last decade under a rock, a description that apparently applies to most of the Washington press corps..."

On 28 Feb 2017, Trump said, "'Nobody knew health care could be so complicated." You'd think the press would have learned by now!