Lawrence C. Connolly

Author: Lawrence C. Connolly

  • This Weekend @ Confluence:
    The Best Recent Horror & 50’s SF

    This weekend some of the top names in science fiction, fantasy, and horror will gather at the Pittsburgh Airport Sheraton for the latest installment of Confluence, the region’s long-running sf convention, sponsored by Parsec, Pittsburgh’s premier science fiction and fantasy organization. The convention will run three days, July 26-28, and I’m looking forward to being there…

  • Nightmare Cinema in Japan

    Nightmare Cinema’s release schedule continues this month with its Japanese debut on July 19, complete with promotional art that incorporates elements of the US poster with striking details of its own. In place of the demon from Ryuhei Kitamura’s “Mashit” segment, the Japanese poster features the face of a sleeping woman, head cleaved above the…

  • Screenshots: The Spider from “Egress”

    Last week’s post about the “Egress” spider generated some terrific responses, with a number of readers asking about plans to include the scene on Nightmare Cinema‘s upcoming Blu-ray release. Although I have no information on that possibility, I do have a few more images from David Slade that offer a glimpse of what we might…

  • Q&A at The Parkway Theater (Part 2):
    Nightmare Cinema’s Lost Spider Scene

    We concluded our previous post with reference to King Kong’s lost spider scene  — a sequence so horrifying that producer-director Merian C. Cooper insisted that it be removed from the final cut. His reasoning: “It stopped the show.” A victim of judicious editing, that scene now joins other lost segments of film history, such as the…

  • Nightmare Cinema:
    Q&A at The Parkway Theater (Part One)

     “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” — Robert Frost “This Way to Egress,” the fourth segment of our new anthology film Nightmare Cinema, is about finding a way back home. This weekend, after a year-long tour of international film festivals and a week of theatrical premieres across…

  • Nightmare Cinema:
    Q&A at Frida Cinema in Santa Ana

     This week’s round of Nightmare Cinema release events concluded with a screening at The Frida Cinema on Saturday night. Sponsored by Horror Buzz and The Horrible Imaginings Film Festival, the event drew an enthusiastic crowd and concluded with a Q&A session where I joined directors Mick Garris, Alejandro Bruges, and Ryuhei Kitamura in a discussion…