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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Why does invisibility turn people into serial killers?
If you like succubi - and who doesn't? - you'll like The Devil's Nightmare.
A slasher film that offers profound insight into fame, celebrity, and "making it" in Hollywood.
Vincent Price hams it up in this wicked-fun black comedy.
There's enough fatalism, pessimism, and gloom in this horror-art film to delight a whole mausoleum-full of Goths.
In reviewing entries for the Tabloid Witch Awards horror film contest, I see the same recurring mistakes.
This is a common Lynchian theme: The innocent who is drawn to dark strangers living corrupt lives under the Disney-fied surface of Americana.
There's meat, and blood and guts and gore. This is a beautiful book, hugely glossy, lavishly illustrated, in resplendent color.
Vampires are usually depicted as either alluring romantics or repulsive beasts. To his great credit, Dafoe successfully blends the two personas.
Intelligent and informative essays on key ghost films.
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