Dateline: Santa Monica, California
Weblog: www.communistvampires.com
Articles: 80

Thomas M. Sipos is the author of the anti-Communist satire, Vampire Nation and Manhattan Sharks. Some of his essays on horror film aesthetics appear in his horror collection, Halloween Candy. He founded the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest and festival. He is Vice Chair of the Los Angeles County Libertarian Party.
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Movie Review: Hollow Man
Why does invisibility turn people into serial killers?
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DVD Review: The Devil's Nightmare, aka The Devil Walks At Midnight
If you like succubi - and who doesn't? - you'll like The Devil's Nightmare.
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Movie Review: Curtains
A slasher film that offers profound insight into fame, celebrity, and "making it" in Hollywood.
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Movie Review: Theater of Blood
Vincent Price hams it up in this wicked-fun black comedy.
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Movie Review: Nadja
There's enough fatalism, pessimism, and gloom in this horror-art film to delight a whole mausoleum-full of Goths.
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Film Festival Mistakes to Avoid: Lessons From the Tabloid Witch Awards
In reviewing entries for the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest, I see the same recurring mistakes.
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Movie Review: Mulholland Drive
This is a common Lynchian theme: The innocent who is drawn to dark strangers living corrupt lives under the Disney-fied surface of Americana.
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Book Review - Ten Years of Terror: British Horror Films of the Seventies
There's meat, and blood and guts and gore. This is a beautiful book, hugely glossy, lavishly illustrated, in resplendent color.
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DVD Review: Shadow of the Vampire
Vampires are usually depicted as either alluring romantics or repulsive beasts. To his great credit, Dafoe successfully blends the two personas.
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Book Review: Cinematic Hauntings
Intelligent and informative essays on key ghost films.
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