Category: halloween

• Great TV: The Addams Family

  Let’s play a word association game. If I used the words creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky, and ooky, my guess is that you would snap your fingers twice and say The Addams Family. And it’s amazing at just how deeply the TV show has permeated popular culture at this point: running from 1964 to 1966 and…

  Mike Gray

  January 15, 2023

  American culture, culture, halloween, humor, television, Uncategorized

  1964, cult classic, Great TV, halloween, John Astin, Original Series, The Addams Family

• The Unstoppable Horror of the 21st Century

  

  Originally published on September 11, 2019 For readers of this site, I have written extensively on the horror genre. While mostly in a humorous manner, live-recapping horror films as I watched them, I have a sincere appreciation of the genre. Mostly because it delves into subject matter that we consciously, and perhaps forcefully, push out…

  Mike Gray

  November 9, 2022

  American culture, culture, halloween, horror

  21st century, 9/11, classic horror, essay, Hereditary, history of horror films, horror films, It Follows, Midsommar