October 7, 2024 - Since Halloween is a few weeks away I was talking to a friend recently about our favorite horror films and I have to confess I've got a bunch. Most of them I first encountered as a kid watching on our black and white TV (three channels all of which went off the air with the playing of the National Anthem at midnight and didn't start again until 7am): Them!, Curse of the Demon, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Haunting are on my list. When I was a little older I fell in love with the Hammer films including Horror of Dracula, The Mummy, Five Million Years to Earth, and Curse of the Werewolf among others; I wouldn't exactly call all of them great filmmaking, especially the later ones in the early 1970s, but they were…