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Horror's Not Dead

"The Living Dead and the dying living are all the same. Cut from the same cloth. But disposing of dead people is a public service, whereas you're in all sorts of trouble if you kill someone while they're still alive. "
-- Dellamorte Dellamore

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Thai Ghosts are the Best Ghosts.

Brilliant commercial that, once again, proves Thai have ghosts for everything.  There is probably a ghost for this post already, as a matter of fact.

I’d buy that for a dollar!

I hate the horror connotation. I hate the crowd of folk (and these chumps aren’t always outsiders) who think horror needs to be dressed in blood and guts, who think we spend our time poking road kill with our black painted finger nails when we’re not watching slashers. Yet every now and then […]

Kindertrauma

Kindertrauma is the robotrip of horror blogs.  Do the honorable thing and take it in small, healthy doses, otherwise those five senses of yours will double and the 3 dimensions you currently cozy in will seem cute in an antiquated kind of way.
Run by Uncle Lancifer and Aunt John, Kindertrauma is a pink shrine to […]

Lego Hostel is Scarier than Flesh Hostel

Video found via the great Kindertrauma.
The tragic part of this video?  Eli Roth is going to see it some day and think, "Awesome!  They love me so much they’ve spoofed me!"
It will never occur to Eli Roth that in 1 minute and 17 seconds, video editor David Vann made a more coherent film with the […]

How Eli Roth would have you spend 24 hours.

First off, thanks to John for the heads up.
I, sadly, do not read the Onion’s A.V. Club with any regularity, so I don’t know if Eli Roth is a regular contributor or this is solely a tie-in with the release of Hostel II on DVD, but either way they have a great feature up with […]

“Who the heck is this Lovecraft guy?”

 
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
H.P. Lovecraft 
Reader Brian poised the question a few days ago in response to Cloverfield, which some are hypothesizing to be about a Cthluhu-y monster.  Well, that rumor seems to be circling the drain, but the Lovecraft question remains all the same.
To textbook it, […]

Toshiba HD DVD players $100 cheaper 05/20 - 06/16

This really has nothing to do with the genre, I just love HD content; specifically HD DVD (eat it, Blu Ray!) and like to spread the word when I can.  If you haven’t taken sides in the format war yet, now is one more reason to jump on the HD bandwagon.
Toshiba, the top manufacturer of […]

Happy Friday the 13th!

The best kind of Friday!
What’s on your slate for today?  Were you to appear at our house - which from now on might as well be referred to as the house - you’d find yourself with a 3 movie minimum of Unrest, Altered and a third, yet to be determined, film.  Perhaps something to do […]

Your Time is Forfeit to ConceptArt.org’s Creature of the Week Gallery

Stop whatever you are doing right now and follow this link.  This is as much a recommendation from me to you as is a recommendation for breathing from your medulla oblongata to your lungs.  This needs to be obeyed, otherwise you’re going to die a little inside.
Not just a handful, but a genuine majority of […]

Tonight’s Nightmare Sponsored by… The Frilled Shark

I dig Cryptozoology like Mario digs plumbing.  I’m obsessed with the oddities of the natural world, especially the aliens that try to pass themselves off as sea creatures.  There are beasts down there that turn the ocean into an underwater Thunder Dome that I fear out of divine respect.
The Frilled Shark is just one of […]

Mary Poppins: Scary Mary Re-Cut Trailer

Trailer mashups and re-cuts are the new Star Wars kid.  Ten of them pop up each day, most of them are average at best if you bother to watch them.  However, Chris Rule’s Scary Mary is slick enough to deserve your minute.
Scary Mary at the Disney Blog.

“Something to be Desired” Halloween Episode

I wish I could say I’ve been a die hard fan of Pittsburgh based web series "Something to be Desired" since its inception, but honestly I hadn’t heard of it until I received an email from Erik Schark pointing me towards their Halloween episode.
Clocking it at 13 minutes, the special finds the cast of fictitious […]

Haunted Prison, October 14th on Sci-Fi

I’m not one to shill anything I don’t have a genuine interest in seeing, so when passed the info for Haunted Prison, my first reaction was fairly bitter.  The director, Kevin VanHook did make Voodoo Moon, a movie that is so painfully bland in its execution that I felt emotions about filmmaking I haven’t felt […]

You Should be Watching “Dexter”

I was going to write out a play-by-play of the pilot episode of "Dexter", Showtime’s new hour long about a serial killer who daylights as a forensics officer with a love for blood splatter analysis.  But since there are sites specifically for episodic recaps, I’ll take the easier route and pluck just a sampling of […]

Friday the 13th is Almost Here, What are you Watching?

Like a pothead chuckles when the clock strikes 4:20, a horror fan gets giddy over a Friday the 13th.  For this upcoming 13th, I’ve nominated Chris’ isolated lake house as the perfect setting for a horror movie marathon.  During said marathons, which usually feature just Christine and I in a blacked out room, the goal […]

Some things about those Snakes

1.  People will randomly yell Snakes on a Plane.  This isn’t that funny, but put it up with it in the begining and it’ll die down once people get into the movie.
2.  The movie is solid entertainment, but it isn’t perfection.  It could have been improved in nearly every aspect.  Think of it this way: […]

Nightmare on the Big Screen

I love the Nightmare on Elm Street series.  It is one of a few film franchises whose sequels I cherish, even if they’re horrible.  I don’t care what anyone says, Dream Warriors is a badass movie!
Anyways, as Scott at Cinematical pointed out (as well as the BD boys), New Line is doing a very limited […]

Snakes on a Phone

So I was walking out of the movies today and noticed I had a voice mail from some number I didn’t recognize.  Upon listening to it I went into a complete stupor.  It was a message from Samuel L. Jackson telling me to go see Snakes on a Plane.  I put it on speaker phone […]

I Almost Owe Some Guy $500

When I came across this just now I paniced, suddenly remembering that I had thrown the gauntlet back in the day, saying I’d give $500 to whoever got the Snakes on a Plane logo tattooed on them.  Luckily, the original offer included the qualifier, "across the back", but this guy’s dedication is …impressive… nonetheless.

A Look Inside The Asylum

You may not know production house The Asylum intimately, but I guarantee you’ve seen at least one of their DVD covers and thought to yourself, "Man, that is such a rip-off of [insert studio movie name]".
Well, Scott Weinberg, who fills the horror seat at Cinematical, one of my favorite film blogs, had a friendly chat […]

Off Topic: This Cannot Be Missed!

I came across a massive list of links to full length episodes of animated shows available on YouTube.  The list is impressive in how vast it is, but the crown jewel of it all is Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos.
I’m not making this entry to play onto the whole "Chuck Norris is cool again because he’s […]

Fantastic Concept Art

Twitch just threw up a great link to Miles Teves’ personal website, which features some amazing concept art from films he’s worked on.  There’s really good stuff on there, and some of it recognizeable from the end product, like the work for Slither or Chronicles of Riddick.
The above picture is from the forever in production […]

Real Horror: You’ll never guess what this snake was on…

It was bound to happen at some point.  I was expecting it to be a press stunt around the time of the movie’s release, but it happened a couple months early…so…free publicity for Snakes on a Plane at movie blogs across the internet!
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Monty Coles was 3,000 feet in the air when he […]

Worth1000, Movie Monsters in Renaissance Art

Worth1000.com always has amazing contests, but damned if this isn’t one of the most entertaining they’ve held.
Then again I love horror AND the Renaissance!
(Movie Monsters + Famous Renaissance Art) x Photoshop = So Damned Awesome!

Real Horror: ‘Hole Opens in Home, Swallows Man’

"It was like a scene from a horror film: A 27-year-old man plummeted into a gaping hole that suddenly opened beneath a house, trapping him beneath foundation rubble and killing him." 

Let’s all just face the facts.  Obviously the earth got hungry and ate a man for a snack.  Could happen to any of us. 
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A Follow Up to Some REAL Horror

About a month ago I posted some stills from Life in the Undergrowth of a giant African centipede that catches bats mid air and eats them. Well now, thanks to my good buddy Pablo, who is so nice that he selflessly shared this nightmare, you can watch this hell spawn eat a live mouse! […]

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