Stuff for a Tuesday afternoon

Tag along with kindertrauma on a Horror Movie Bar Crawl

Mr. Beaks Talks MOTHER OF TEARS And GIALLO With Dario Argento!! (AICN)

Cameras roll on new Hammer horror (BBC)

Hammer Films has begun shooting in Donegal on its first production in almost 30 years - a horror thriller entitled The Wake Wood.

The film - about a couple who try to resurrect their dead daughter - stars Timothy Spall and Aidan Gillen.

Games, clips, wallpaper & stuff @ Dorney Park's Halloween Haunt site (click on "Twisted Fun")

Blood Splattered Blog takes a bite out of Cannibal Terror.

Dave Sindelar reviews One Minute Before Death (1972)

Worst. Toy. Idea. Ever. (CHFB)

Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes Trailer (Firstshowing.net)

Steampunk Is The New Black - part of Steampunk Week at The Galaxy Express!

The Mentalist debuts tonight.

Hulu:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Richard Dreyfuss stars as an average guy who stumbles unto an encounter with a UFO while the U.S. government plots an elaborate cover-up of the impending UFO landing. One of the best science fiction films of all time!

Naruto
The Village Hidden in the Leaves is home to the stealthiest ninja in the land. But twelve years earlier, a fearsome Nine-tailed Fox terrorized the village before it was subdued and its spirit sealed within the body of a baby boy--Naruto Uzumaki!

Mushi-shi
Ginko helps people with supernatural problems related to the Mushi.

Death Note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal...or his life?

Science Fiction TV Classics You're Not Allowed To Own On DVD (io9)

The Vampire Nest On True Blood Is As Lame As It Sounds [True Blood Recap] (also io9)

Random Videos of Geekery: The Adventures of Superman - The Haunted Lighthouse!

Todd Erwin at HTF reviews Bloodsucking Cinema

The 50 greatest villains in literature (The Telegraph)

26 Cthulhu from The Call of Cthulhu, by HP Lovecraft

Gigantic tentacular star-spawned Presence in Lovecraft's baroque cosmogony, sleeping in a sunken, "non-Euclidean" city until the time comes for it to swallow the world's soul. Frequently evoked in barbaric, indecipherable language, although some people quite like Lovecraft's prose. Gloriously, you can now buy a T-shirt reading: "What part of 'ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn' don't you understand?"

Manybooks offers

Black Spirits and White, A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram(1895)
Werwolves (1912) by Elliott O'Donnell
The Mystery of the Green Ray (1915) by William le Queux

Random Scooby Doo:

Scooby Doo 135

Monday morning stuff

The Horrors of it All begins Journey into Unknown Worlds Week with The Undertaker.

Quatermass II - All Six Parts Compiled into One File @ Internet Archive.

Bloody Good Horror Podcast 42 now up.

"This week we review Casey's staff pick of "Something Wicked This Way Comes". We discuss the marked differences between this and the children's films of today, Schnaars' hangover, and why everyone is hating on me for my pick from last week of "Postal"."

Monster Mondays at Random Acts of Geekery features Gamera and The Ghost of Frankenstien.

Latest Horror Power Ranking List at Monsterfest. (SciFi Power Ranking's new too)

SFF Audio looks at LibriVox's 6th Ghost Story Collection.

EPA Shuts Down Local Ghost-Entrapment Business (The Onion)

Feedbooks has Jan Neruda's The Vampire.

Manybooks offers Edgar Wallace's "The Black" (more Wallace)

Phantom of the Paradise outtakes (via HTF)

I do love me a ghost ship so I'm absolutely going to check out Image's new comic Dead Ahead.

On a restless ocean, a group of weary survivors contemplate their grim fortune: What had started out as a fun little fishing trip soon turns into a nightmare of damnation, trapped on a floating prison. The continents have been hit by a plague that has turned humanity into living corpses - leaving our castaways at sea to fend for themselves! With provisions low, hope comes in the form of a luxury liner sailing into view on the horizon... All they needed to survive would be on board, but who among them has what it takes to find out what happened to its crew and passengers?

Sunday night quickie stuff

The Classic Tale Podcast offers H.P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann"read, and read bloody well, by B.J. Harrison. Also available are "Fear and the Graveyard" by Guy de Maupassant and "The Dream Woman" by Wilkie Collins

The latest Fringe Dwellers Podcast is now available...

"In the third episode of the Fringe Dwellers Podcast, Adele and Jen get their hands dirty delving into the mysteries of the Fringe Pilot. We discuss the gruesome teaser, cast chemistry, changes from the leaked to televised versions and the cow. We also read the emails and voicemails from our listeners."

Hub Magazine 65 now up ..

# Editorial: Will Smith as Captain America
# Fiction: Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
# Reviews: Orphanage, The Steel Remains
# Feature: Big Screen Future: Aliens
# Interview: Richard K Morgan

Sunday stuff

13 contemplates leaving The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock at the altar.

Crosseyed Cyclops shares the "extreme and violent" horror comic "Gore Shriek #1".

Dinner with Max Jenke wonders about "the unknown shooter" in the old Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game.

The Horror Section examines the French genre offering Martyrs.

The Horrors of it all shares Homecoming from 1954's Ghostly weird Stories #124...

"Jay Disbrow was one of a handful of pre-code artist/writers that could take an ordinary horror story idea and really give it that little extra something special... and if you love his stuff then you'll love this one for sure. It's a strangely satisfying story full of gasping sudden violence and hideous metamorphosis--- plus a truly exceptional Monster Mosh Pit ending!"

HorrorsNotDead's week in review is up.

Movies at Midnight reviews The Morgue.

Quasar Dragon points us to Manybooks release of the 1916 Horror Anthology Uncanny Tales plus lots more free eBooks, zines, and audio goodness .

Cinedelica reviews The Gore Gore Girls.

Daemon's TV has Supernatural S4 news & spoilers.

ShadowPlay on The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.

Twitch reviews Eden Lake.

Netflix Watch Instantly (req account)

Mark of the Witch / The Brides Wore Blood
This bloody double bill features Mark of the Witch, in which a group of college kids resurrect an old hag, and The Brides Wore Blood, in which vampires hound a family trying to break an ancient curse. In the first film, the resurrected witch promptly switches bodies with one of the coeds and wreaks havoc on the kids' descendents. In the second movie, one of the bloodsuckers in question tries to impregnate a woman in order to keep his kind alive.

Zontar: Thing from Venus / The Eye Creatures: Double Feature
This creepy double feature combines two of director Larry Buchanan's cult hits. In Zontar: Thing from Venus, Keith Ritchie (Anthony Huston), a scientist, and his colleague Curt Taylor (John Agar) face off against an extraterrestrial monster who's come to Earth to turn humans into zombielike beings with no emotions. Inspired by a 1957 sci-fi flick, The Eye Creatures has a teenager (John Ashley) and his girlfriend hunting down a UFO.

Monster of London City / Mystery of the Red Orchid: Double Feature
Settle in for a night of horror and mystery with this dark double feature from Germany. In Monster of London City, the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be alive and well in 1960s London. A series of vicious slayings appear to point to the lead in the new play about the famous slasher. Next, in Mystery of the Red Orchid, wealthy people are receiving mysterious notes demanding protection money -- and those who don't pay wind up brutally murdered.

The Magic Voyage of Sinbad / Day the Earth Froze: Double Feature
Two legends, producer Roger Corman and director Francis Ford Coppola, took part in restoring these relatively unknown classics from the 1960s produced by American International Pictures. In this pair of entertainingly trippy films, discover Sinbad's magical adventures (which Coppola refashions from the original Russian version) and find out what happens when the planet turns dangerously, frighteningly cold one day.

AB-Negative
Wooster Carneal (Mitchell Rad) always does the right thing. But when he loses his wife, his job and his home, a desperate Wooster is extorted into harvesting human organs for the black market. While hunting down his unsuspecting victims, he also takes revenge on those who ruined his life. But to save himself, Wooster must stay three steps ahead of police and the organ brokers. Banning Lary directs this "mildly erotic comedy horror thriller."

Flickr...

yet more Friday stuff

more ludicrous/wonderful video box art at Final Girl.

Happy Birthday Chucky! What Would Toto Watch? watches "Child's Play".

io9 interviews Dan Rebert - effects producer for HBO's True Blood (and Stargate Atlantis & Slither)

ebooks...

download a free copy of Neil Gaiman's classic Neverwhere
(plus help Neil's daughter in the real life search for her missing college classmate, a NYC school teacher - Hannah Upp )

Fiona McIntosh's Odalisque: Book One of The Percheron Saga.(you'll need to add the book to your cart and then use the supplied coupon code to get it for free)

1979's The Usbourne Book of the Future.at The Pointless Museum. (via Coudal)

Hulu... Night of the Hunter