Collins' Crypt: Remastered

by Brian W. Collins, J.B. Sapienza (Illustrator), Dan Wilder (Illustrator)

Launched almost simultaneously with the site itself, Collins' Crypt was the longest running recurring column at Birth. Movies. Death (RIP), with nearly 500 installments published over the past decade. Unfortunately, over the years, the articles have been ravaged by site overhauls, some to the point of incoherency. This volume is a curated selection of many of the most popular installments, grouped by themes (Wes Craven, genre movies set on Christmas, Director's Cuts, etc.), with the articles restored to their pre-mangled condition. It also includes eight brand new Crypt essays exclusive to this release, and a few updates to occasional now-dated observations ("Carpenter and Curtis will never return to the Halloween series!").

1022 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2021

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having read most of these when they were originally posted on BMD, this was mostly a revisit of articles and insights with which I was largely already familiar, but there are some new bits here and there, and Collins makes for an amiable companion throughout. I also appreciate that he devoted one entire section purely to reviews of Wes Craven's filmography, and the breadth of everything covered over the course of this column is genuinely impressive.