Take THAT, Variety!
Though Variety magazine was founded in 1905, it initially covered just theatre and vaudeville, not film. You’d have to wait until 1933, when Daily Variety was launched, the read the publication’s coverage of motion pictures. So in those early years of film, many people turned to The Moving Picture World. Looking back at past issues, […]
First dummy/doll horror?
Could The Doll’s Revenge, directed by Cecil B. Hepworth in 1907, be the first dummy/doll horror film? And do the twin dolls at the end of the film remind you of the Grady girls in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining? Hepworth was a pioneering British filmmaker who, in 1903, made what is considered the first movie […]