Orrin Grey

"Ghouls and walking dead? Cool it, Jack. These are the 1960's."
- Rod Serling, from the intro of Rod Serling's Triple W: Witches, Warlocks and Werewolves, c. 1963

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He truly had a Story He Wanted to Tell.

Boy, Have We Got a Vacation for You: Watching Westworld (1973) After All This Time - Unwinnable It takes roughly 10,000 years for the robots to finally go berserk.

"In many ways, Brynner’s Gunslinger seems like the least of our worries."

Finally watching Westworld (1973) very late to the party.

Pretty please Nightdive? 🙏💀👹

An illustration of Sadako from the Ring, framed inside of a VHS tape. Water comes up to her waist as she moves forward menacingly.

C U R S E

I usually do too! This one just missed me.

Would I have enjoyed this more if I hadn't read the book beforehand? There's no way to know, but I doubt it would have been much more.

Merritt himself apparently "sat through the picture and wept," stating that "the only similarity between the book and the picture was the title."

A still of Satan's opulent, overcrowded throne room from Seven Footprints to Satan (1929).

Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) | I recently read A. Merritt's 1927 novel Seven Footprints to Satan. It would make a pretty good movie, but this... ain't it.

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The Books essay from Exploits, featuring Orrin Grey on the novel About a Place in the Kinki Region. The image is of the book cover, a black and white view of a lake and mountain with a red sky and white Korean lettering.

@orringrey.com writes on About a Place in the Kinki Region for the Books section. "Sesuji’s novel is found footage in book form, decentralizing its narrative and spreading it across dozens of disparate stories, all of them unconnected, all of them unfinished – until, of course, they’re not."

This is an amazing answer, holy shit.

Punk Patch design of a Ghost Viewer with red and blue celluloid frames above the text THIRTEEN GHOSTS.

Black and white stencil design of a monstrous robed creature staring forward drawn on a black background.

Pen drawing of a monstrous creature wearing a polo shirt drawn on a black background.

Pen drawing of a scared looking woman with a phantom hand reaching after her drawn on a Hallmark stationary card.

On March 3, 1967, 13 Ghosts was screened on Ferdie's Inferno.

The Dark Séance: Newer Than Tomorrow! - Signal Horizon Besides HypnoMagic, HypnoVista, and PsychoRama, there were plenty of other gimmicks that were hailed as “technical innovations” that would change the way that audiences watched movies – though they ra...

The Dark Seance! In Sensurround!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) | Orrin Grey Meets the Monsters Get more from Orrin Grey Meets the Monsters on Patreon

Meanwhile, over at my Patreon, I write about the oldest movie I have so far ever covered: John Barrymore's 1920 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Want to read me writing about the book About a Place in the Kinki Region? How about more movie blurbs than you can shake a stick at? You can do all that and more in the latest issue of Exploits!

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) | Orrin Grey Meets the Monsters Get more from Orrin Grey Meets the Monsters on Patreon

Meanwhile, over at my Patreon, I write about the oldest movie I have so far ever covered: John Barrymore's 1920 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The Dark Séance: Newer Than Tomorrow! - Signal Horizon Besides HypnoMagic, HypnoVista, and PsychoRama, there were plenty of other gimmicks that were hailed as “technical innovations” that would change the way that audiences watched movies – though they ra...

The Dark Seance! In Sensurround!

This short likes weird faces.

A spooky building that looks like a face from The Love of the Little Dancer's Life (1924), a German silent short film made with marionettes.

From The Love of the Little Dancer's Life (1924), a German silent short film made with marionettes.

“Does damnation mean anything to you?” – La Main du Diable (1943) A thing that has happened to me more than a few times in my life is that I have seen a single still from a movie that has convinced me to add that movie to my watchlist, even when it has often take…

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The Devil's Hand (1943) is one of the best horror movies I have ever seen, and I'm very excited about this (unfortunately only region B) release from Eureka.

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A photograph of lots of very tiny hailstones, or "scringle," on a textured welcome mat.

Grace has declared this type of precipitation "scringle," so I'm going with that.

In the latest issue of Weird Horror, I wrote about one of my favorite subjects...

I've long been obsessed with the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, though I've never gotten to see them in person, and this is some neat archival info.

At least that meatball mascot is going to kill us all in our sleep.

"It's the Susie's Butt Festival!"