Horror Stubs: November

Here's the latest round of old movie stubs from many past Novembers.

Check out my Insta for more stubs by going here.

Horror Express Montreal!

One of the highlights of this year's trip to Fantasia was partaking in the sophomore voyage of The Horror Express. Created by author and cinephile Kier-La Janisse, this wonderful venture began last August in Toronto where she took a busload of people around to a dozen genre movie locations around town. This time, along with co-host journalist Mike Gingold, we toured Montreal.

We began the day at the old brownstone which saw Peter Weller battle a giant rat in Of Unknown Origin. I checked out this spot last year - along with the estate from Cathy's Curse - on my way out of town last year, but it's always terrific to see, especially because it's right downtown and most people don't even realize it's there.

As with the Toronto tour, David Cronenberg loomed large over the proceedings.

Starliner Towers from Shivers.

The mall where Santa gets shot in Rabid.

ConSec headquarters from Scanners.

For the latter movie, I was shocked to learn that the D.B. Clarke, a theatre I had been in a few times over the last twelve years, was actually the site of the iconic head explosion scene. And speaking of ol' Ironside, we drove a bit out of town to check out these digs.

St. Anne's from Visiting Hours

In between the more well-known spots, we also checked out some from more obscure tax shelter flicks, like The Blue Man, Sweet Movie and The Disappearance for which architectural marvel Habitat 67 was home to Donald Sutherland.

Other cool locations included the high rise building that Karen Black threw herself off at the beginning of The Pyx and the Crawford Academy from Happy Birthday To Me.

In the end, we visited about eleven locations over six hours. I imagine the next two iterations of The Horror Express will be in New York and Los Angeles for which I'll likely miss, but I'll sure try my best because these tours are the best.

It Came From The Archives 28.1!

Way back in 2014, I did a series of posts (click here for the backstory) about the old Blockbuster rental sleeves I liberated from my old store when they started getting rid of all their old stock to make room for new releases. During the most recent clean-out at the old homestead, I found a whole bunch more. 

While I'm away at Fantasia, I'll be posting them all week. If you recall, Blockbuster's catalogue was broken into subcategories, everything from Super Action to Wild Comedies - yes those were actual categories, they had headers and everything. As far as I could tell Super meant guns and explosions, and Wild meant nudity. At least that's what I told the customers who used to ask me on a weekly basis.

Anyhoo, Horror was considered a subcategory of Action - blasphemous as that may seem - and there were two subcategories, Supernatural and Drive-In Horror - because clearly those are the only two types. Here below are some of the Supernatural horrors that were available at ye olde store. Like the previous ones, some unknown pre-Imdb entity wrote helpful blurbs on them.

Check back tomorrow when I move onto the Drive-In Horror titles. You may also want to check out the original five entries which you can find here.