Horrors!

If you've been paying attention to the news lately, you know that sometimes people turn into monsters. In a more innocent time, that fact of life inspired a plethora of "B" movies that entertained and scared audiences with characters that symbolized our most primal fears. As a child, I spent many a rainy Saturday afternoon in front of the TV, scared witless by the living dead, ambulatory mummies, staggering zombies, "wolf" men and a huge variety of alien beings bent on world destruction and domination. On Monster Movie Matinee, the humans always won in the end. If only the world were still that simple, as black and white as the creaky old films celebrated by Scary Monsters Magazine. Sigh.