Sunday Sacrifice Stuff...

You Axed for IT...Warren Oates! (by RCMerchant)"

News...

Last Week in Horror News: March 8th to the 15th @ HorrorsNotDead


Film...

Moon @ Twitch

Demons 5 @ Taliesin meets the vampires

Splinter @ Kindertrauma

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) @ DVD Talk

Night of the Bloody Apes @ The Uranium Cafe

Son of Terror (2009) & The Devil's Ground (2009) @ HorrorYearbook

Saturday the 14th @ Temple of Schlock

[REC] @ Bitchin' Film reviews

Inside (À l'intérieur) @ Film-Book Dot Com

Blood: The Last Vampire (2001) @ Rick's Flicks Picks

First Look: David Fincher's The Goon @ /Film

Dawn of the Dead -- 3D?!? @ Dread Central

Fangoria interviews Knowing/Dark City/The Crow Director Alex Proyas

I've Kaiju Under My Skin: A Guide to Showa-Era Godzilla @ The Vault of Horror

Paleo-Cinema Podcast #27 Damned Children:

This time I take a look at three movies about lethal children from the early 1960s. The first is Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley. The second is the sequel cum remake of it, Children of the Damned from 1963 starring Ian Hendry and Alan Badel and finally, an unrelated film: Joseph Losey's 1961 (released in 1963) Hammer film (These Are) The Damned. All have lethal children in them, all three take a different approach to the subject.

TV...

Kings @ Metacritic


Watch...

Lost Rod Serling Interview ("Science Fiction in Literature".) @ Author Scoop

When 'Evil Dead' Meets Doritos @ Cinematical

The Eye 2 & Nightmare Man @ Netflix Watch Instantly (req acct.)


Read...

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman @ Biblio File

Scott Westerfeld and Carrie Ryan on The Forest of Hands and Teeth @ Omnivoracious

what Lovecraft "gets away with" @ Object-Oriented Philosophy

Theofantastique interviews author Heather Duda (The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture)

The Bog Monster of Booker Creek (2009)(Wayne V. Miller) & The Yellow Fairy Book (1894) (Albert Lang) @ manybooks


Comics...

The Phantom Puppet @ The Horrors of it All

By the 10's: Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery! (Cover gallery) @ Random Acts of Geekery


Stuff (spooky)...

Modern art is dead. Or is it the other way around? @ And Now the Screaming Starts

 "Let The Right One In" dolls @ Martin Klasch

Dead Space, a 'Deep Media' Case Study @ The Underwire

If Atticus Finch had starred in The Exorcist @ Super Punch


Stuff (fun)...

Sunday Funnies: Adventures of Jerry Lewis @ Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Thirteen - The Movie (Official Comic Book Adapation) @ Lady, That's My Skull

a few stuff...

The Werewolf Of Washington @ Horror Movie A Day

'Watchmen': Epic film...or epic fail? @ Hero Complex

Mark Strong Reveals Details on Sherlock Holmes Villain @ First Showing

Kaiju Film Festival Stomps into San Francisco!! @ The Good, The Bad, The Godzilla

Joshua Bellin: A Tale of Two Kongs @ Theofantatique

Invisible Ghost @ Internet Archive

Bela Lugosi plays the role of Mr. Kessler, a man haunted and disturbed by the death of his wife.

Fantômas by Marcel Allain - Pierre Souvestre @ Feedbooks

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum @ The Onion via H.P. Lovecraft & His Legacy

t-t-t-tuesday stuff...

Good God it's cold here at Ravensdeath Manor. Enjoy these fine links while I go and throw another peasant on the fire...

LOTT D Roundup of Horror For February

When Time Ran Out... @ DVD Savant

Godzilla Raids Again @ And Now the Screaming Starts

Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth @ Dinner with Max Jenke

Trackman @ Film School Rejects

Dawn of the Mummy @ Final Girl

Plague of the Zombies @ Hammer and Beyond

The Horror: RiffTrax Mocks Classic Fright Flicks @ The Underwire

Zotz! Coins, Psycho Sticks, and Witch Deflectors @ Movie Morlocks

Want to Play Around in The Last House on the Left? @ Dread Central

Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell To Premiere at SXSW @ /Film

John Harrison talks BOOK OF BLOOD and composing the score for George Romero's ...OF THE DEAD @ Fangoria

The "Princess of Mars" That Pixar Won't Show You @ io9

Asian Cinema Scene: 'Ip Man,' 'Beast Stalker,' 'Legendary Assassin' @ Cinematical

ABC Exterminates LIFE ON MARS!! @ AICN

The Story Of The Shadow, The Peoria Plague, Rendezvous With Rama, Taybridge, The Angels They Grow Lonely and Three Ring Circus @ z0mbieastronaut

Stephen Edwards - Hellraiser: Hellseeker OST @ The Manchester Morgue

Destination Earth (1963) @ Cool-Mo-Dee

Oil company produced propaganda in which a martian comes to earth and learns that oil and competition are the two things that make America great! The animation is very stylized and very indicative of the time period.

The 10 Pokémon Least Equipped To Actually Survive In Nature @ Topless Robot

Behind Locked Doors @ The Horrors of it All

Mr. Poe Regrets @ Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes

Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh (Review, Interview) @ The Book Smugglers

Why Vampire Romances Have Bite @ Paranormal Romance Blog

Profiles in History Display at Forry Ackerman Tribute @ Famous Monsters

My Bloody Valentine, Dalek Obit, Blacula, The Twonky and more...

021 (by mattyadragna)

John Scott Martin, 'Man Inside the Dalek,' Dies at 82 @ TheUnderwire

Stacie Ponder reviews My Bloody Valentine 3D @ Horror Hacker

The Last Blog on the Left's MBV3D review

The Lightning Bug's Lair revisits The Last House on the Left

Scream Blacula Scream @ Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire

PHANTASM's Don Coscarelli on bizarre sci-fi horror flick THE TWONKY (1953)! @ AICN

Anchorwoman in Peril on the beeb's Crooked House

Lawrence Talks Legend Prequel @ Dread Central

Dead Snow Review, Plus Zombie Nazi Endorsements @ io9

Son of Frankenstein Turns 70 @ Frankensteinia

The Moon is a Dead World reviews Just After Sunset by Stephen King

Gamera Vs. Viras (Destroy All Planets) - Soundtrack @ Magic Carpet Burn

Son of Dracula OST @ The Manchester Morgue

Reggie Rides A Rocket @ Fortress of Fortitude

Guest of the Ghouls @ The Horrors of it All

I Chopped Her Head Off! @ Tomb It May Concern

By the 10's: House of Secrets, Part 1 @ Random Acts of Geekery

Godzilla Vs. Mecha-Pigeon @ Para-Abnormal

Tuesday Afternoon Terrors

Vintage Halloween Cake Toppers (by llulu)

Dread Central's Best & Worst of 2008

The Horror Section's Best & Worst Horror of 2008

io9's Year in Review

Horror's Not Dead's Horror 2008, a Retrospective:

Part 1: January to March
Part 2: April to June
Part 3: July to September

Jeff Allard's Best & Worst Horror Films of 2008

Autopsy Report: Top 10 Horror Previews, Headlines of 2008, The Best & Worst Horror Films of '08

BC's Best Horror Films of 2008!

Vault of Horror's Requiescant in Pace 2008: Part 1, Part 2

And Now the Screaming Starts uncovers Michael Haneke's Caché

13 on Godzilla Vs Monster Zero

The Leech Woman & Attack of the Giant Leeches @ The Uranium Cafe

Holiday Horrors wrap-up @ 13 Visions

Ring 2 @ Black Hole DVD Reviews

Chamber of Horrors & The Brides of Fu Manchu @ DVD Savant

Dead of Winter @ Horror Movie A Day

The Lightning Bug's Lair stops by the Mausoleum

New Year's Evil @ Cult Trailers

The Fanex Files - Hammer Films @ Hammer and Beyond

The Return of Doctor X @ Internet Archive

Giant Crabs, Puppet People and much more @ Random Acts of Geekery

Cool-Mo-Dee shares Grimm's Ghost Stories #20, #19, #18

Morning Stop Look and Listen

menhir (by matt knoth)

Grimm's Ghost Stories #6 @ Cool-Mo-Dee

Paul Durango offers 4 vintage sci-fi soundtracks :

• 1955 - Walter Schumann - Exploring The Unknown
• 1957 - Ronald Stein - Invasion Of The Saucer Men
• 1960 - Russ Garcia - The Time Machine
• 1962 - Ron Goodwin - The Day Of The Triffids
  

plus "some great tokusatsu superhero TV series soundtracks !"

The Horrors of it All presents The Monster and the Model

Adventures into Weird Worlds #6 @ Crosseyed Cyclops

Magic Carpet Burn brings us Godzilla Vs. Megalon.

Random Acts of Geekery presents Children's Book Theatre: Superman Big Little Book Chapter 1!

13: Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters

The BBC Tried To Ruin Doctor Who – Before It Even Began (io9)

The Moon is a Dead World reviews Suspiria

Frankenstein Reborn review at Cold Fusion

First Astro Boy teaser debuts (Newsarama)

Why We Love Vampires & Why We Should Hate Them @ whatigotsofar

Comic Previews at Comic Book Resources:

• Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode #2
• DemonWars Vol. 2: The Demon Spirit #3
• The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta, Vol. 1
• Dead Space HC

and over here we have...

Again with the Comics presents Thanksgiving Turkeys

Film School Rejects: In Response to Spike's 10 Most Overrated Directors List

"...Spike's ill-conceived list - a list that might has well have been called Spike's List of the Ten Directors That Spike Has Heard Of."

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 6: Morning

Dave Lowe shows you how to make your very own Jason Voorhees dummy in about an hour!

At Random Acts of Geekery it's time for Children's Book Theatre: Creature From the Black Lagoon, Part 1!

Lot's of neat Halloween pop culture paraphernalia (kid's division) at Magic Carpet Burn.

John Rozum pints us to the wonderful Haunted Paper Toys of Ray O'Bannon.

Super Punch has found a Cthulu for Pres. papercraft!

The Wolpire stalks The Horrors of it All.

At The Good, The Bad, and Godzilla:Monster of the Week Keloid Alien: S'PELL

In honor of the release of The Original Frankenstein (Frankenstein with all the Percy Shelly revisions expunged) Oct 7 is Frankenstein Day at the Bodleian Library. (via Monster Sightings)

Retrospace asks Whatever Happened to... ? Herschell Gordon Lewis, Texas Chainsaw's Teri McMinn and more b movie faves.

Kindertrauma interviews DW Films

The Colossus of New York @1 3

Hooper, Corman receive Eyegores (Cinefantastique)

Netflix Watch Instantly (req account)

Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf
Horror legend Christopher Lee stars as mysterious werewolf expert Stefan Crosscoe in this sequel that picks up at the funeral of Ben White's (Reb Brown) journalist sister, Karen. At the funeral, Crosscoe tells Ben and his friend Jenny that Karen's transformed into a werewolf. Crosscoe convinces Ben and Jenny to join him on a treacherous mission to Transylvania to hunt down werewolf queen Stirba (Sybil Danning) before she destroys mankind.

Aliens: Collector's Edition
Sigourney Weaver returns as Lt. Ripley in this action-packed sequel to Alien. The only survivor from the first film, Ripley finds her horrific account of the alien and her crew's fate is met with skepticism -- until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 prompts a team of high-tech Marines to investigate. Also features a commentary by cast and crew members and both the theatrical and special edition versions of the film.

31Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 3 : Afternoon

Monster Memories has a terrific post (though really all of Monster Memories posts are terrific) on Disney's 1977 Halloween Hall 'O Fame special featuring the timeless Jonathan Winters as Jack O. Lantern!

kindertrauma has posted a Woolworth's Halloween commercial featuring Darth Vader, Wonder Woman, Batman and The Hulk!

Branded in the 80's! peels back some Awesome! All*Stars, sticker cards that combined those two great loves of my childhood Baseball and goofy Monsters!

Doomed Movieblog loves the 80's too with Toto Coelo's "Dracula's Tango (Sucker For Your Love)" video

And Now the Screaming Starts concludes it's silent film festival with a much more recent release - the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's "The Call of Cthulhu"!

Gloomy Sunday shares The Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #4.

Row Three reviews the French horror À l'Interieur (Inside)

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Monster Mondays on a Friday! What kind od of diabolical madness is this!? Random Acts of Geekery goes careening off the calandar to bring you his salute to the King of Rubber Suited Terror - Godzilla!

Explotation Retrospect wonders if Cannibal terror might not be The Plan 9 of Cannibal Cinema?

Dr. Geektarded's 31 Films of Halloween

Anchorwoman in Peril hasn't seen Killer Klowns from Outer Space (lucky AiP)

Dread Central reports: Official Dracula Sequel Booked and Filmed for 2009!

DVD Talk Reviews:

• Pulse 2
• The Edgar Allan Poe Collection Volume 1: Annabel Lee
• J'Accuse

Netflix watch instantly (req. account)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Peter Weller stars as the titular hero, who makes his living as a physicist, neurosurgeon, secret agent and rock star traveling through a comic-book universe with his band of assistants and background musicians. Buckaroo's interdimensional experiments with his new invention, the Operation Overthruster, throw Earth into an alien war, and he finds himself with scant hours to save the world in director W.D. Richter's offbeat film.

The Wickeds
In this campy horror flick, seven teenagers decide to spend Halloween night inside a decaying house that's rumored to be haunted. Their quest for the ultimate scare turns deadly when a pair of grave robbers stop by unannounced, claiming to have a bunch of zombies hot on their trail. What sounds like a prank is anything but when the living dead arrive, out for blood. Justin Alvarez, Anna Bridgforth and Bryan Donoghue star.

The Quiet
A recently orphaned deaf and mute teen learns disturbing facts about her adoptive family in director Jamie Babbitt's visceral drama. After losing her father, Dot (Camilla Belle) goes to live with her dysfunctional godparents (Edie Falco and Martin Donovan) and their rebellious daughter Nina (Elisha Cuthbert). Before long, each is entrusting the silent Dot with shameful secrets they assume will be kept private. But Dot has secrets of her own ...

Wendingo
While driving to the country, urbanites Kim (Patricia Clarkson), George (Jake Weber) and their son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan) get into a car accident when they hit a deer hobbled by ruthless hunters, who complain that the city people killed "their" deer -- and worse, broke two of its antlers. But that's just the beginning of the family's worries: It seems they've also awakened the spirit of Wendigo, a mythical Native American figure.

Saturday Stuff

Fringe Stuff:
A pretty good reason to watch, or at least DVR, Saturday's repeat of the pilot episode...

from Blog Critics (via Fringe Television) :
"... series stars Joshua Jackson (Peter [Bishop]) and Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham) host the rebroadcast, FOX will also show "the first act of episode two at the tail end of the pilot."

Fox has released the first Fringe Podcast.

Frankensteinia looks at an early Frankie inspired cartoon (+YouTube link)

"...The Snow Man, produced in 1932, features a nasty North Pole bogeyman with scary claws and a literal stovepipe hat. The Frankenstein theme suggested by reporter Crow is incidental, the snowman being a creature assembled, brought to life and going on a rampage. A year later, the film might have been compared to King Kong instead. The 8-minute film survives today in black and white. Too bad, the aura borealis finale must have been stunning in color..."

Wait a Minute - The Thing Remake is Actually a Prequel?! - First Showing


Coming to SanFran Oct 17 & 18...
(via Hachigatsu @ Classic Horror Film Board)

SHOCK IT TO ME! returns for a fourth year celebrating classic horror films!

"Remember the Bay Area favorite of the 1970s, "Creature Features" and its host, Bob Wilkins? Well, even if you don't, everyone had a late-night horror show in their hometown, long before multiplexes took over and masked slashers replaced Dracula and Frankenstein as our favorite screen monsters. But, we're digging them back up - SHOCK IT TO ME!, San Francisco's annual classic horror film festival, devoted to the Golden Age of Horror Cinema, returns to the historic (and haunted) Castro Theatre for its fourth year with live presentations on stage, celebrity guests, trailers of terror, and a vendors area on the Castro's monstrous mezzanine..."

Giallo Fever reviews Midnight Blue.

"Buried Alive" at the Horrors of it All!

Halloween Templates @ Matthew Mead (via Living Locurto)

13 has a look and a listen to The Creeping Terror!

There's a full length video combining all the chapters of Whispering Shadow, a 1933 serial featuring Bela Lugosi, up at the Internet Archive.

The Most Accurate (and Inaccurate) Predictions About Homes of the Future (io9)

"For decades, scifi movies and futurist documentaries have promised us domestic bliss via flying cars and housecleaning droids. We may not have home heliports yet, but several old movies actually got it right when it came to predicting the crazy gadgets that would be in our homes today. We've whipped up an infographic for you (just click it to expand) that shows what nine movies predicted, and how accurate they were."

The Movie of the Week @ Random Acts of Geekery is Godzilla Vs. Mothra (Godzilla Vs. The Thing)

Pretty Scary News reports that Hell Girl is coming to IFC on Sept 30.

if this is Tuesday it must be stuff

Evil Dead: The Musical Coming to the Big Screen in 3D?! (FirstShowing)

The Forbidden Planet blog has info on a Rentaghost revival.

Fringe Bloggers have an episode preview and a review poll for tonight's premier episode.

Fringe reviews at Metacritic.

Giallo Fever looks at 1978's I Gabbiani volano basso (Seagulls Fly Low).

The Good, The Bad, and Godzilla's Monster of the Week is Doruge Demon: OKOZERUGE !

Carrie White Burns in Hell has the Hell Night trailer.

Internet archive has...
Deep Red (imdb)
Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (imdb)

The Last Blog on the Left reviews the unrated DVD of The Wizard of Gore.

Sweet Skulls carves into the Halloween II movie poster.

SciFi Japan notes that Sept. 14th is Death Note Day at New York City's Kinokuniya Bookstore.

Coney Island's AstroLand Park Closing, A Victim Of The Real Future (io9)

Trixie's Treats shares the sounds that haunt her house at Halloween.

Toyama bone collector on the prowl (Road to the Deep East via Japan News Junkie)

Since last August, one bizarre and horrible incident is scaring the people in Toyama prefecture. Someone is stealing the cremation urns from cemeteries in some villages.

Movie Morlocks list of 10 good things about the Book of Lists:Horror.

Flickr...

Weekend Stuff

Music From the Monster Movies has the sights and sounds of Two on a Guillotine.

Ain't it Cool News has reviews of a pair of Fright Fest pics including ..

I KNOW HOW MANY RUNS YOU SCORED LAST SUMMER
"...With a title like that, you know what it's going to try to deliver, and for the most part this micro budget effort from Australia did deliver. A crazed moustachioed cricketing psycho seeks bloody revenge after the torment he endured two decades earlier at the hands of his bullying team mates..."

Monster Kid # 7 is finally up! Here's some of the goodies that await your click...

RAY HARRYHAUSEN: MASTER OF THE MAJICKS
A look at the new in-depth book on the master of stop-motion effects.
FILMING THE VOYAGE WITHOUT LEAVING THE DOCK
From the new Harryhausen book - filming the live action for 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD.
JAMES BAMA - LEGENDS OF FILM AND FANTASY
The Witch's Dungeon crew interview the Aurora monster artist for a new documentary.
IS THE CYCLOPS THE GREATEST MOVIE MONSTER EVER?
Two experts give their opinions. Do you agree?
MONSTERS FROM THE THIRD DIMENSION
More 3-D pics from clas
DIETZ'S DUNGEON
Another "caricreature" from the sketchpad of Frank Dietz.
HEY, KIDS! BUILD YOUR OWN TORTURE CHAMBER ... AGAIN!
Some long gone '70s model kits are coming back to outrage parents once again.sic creature features.
STOP-MOTION MONSTER MANIA
Beyond Harryhausen. What other stop-motion monsters stack up?

Lots of great info and stuff at Dread Central's Weekly Wrap-Up!

The Groovy Age of Horror points us to Sexy Witch! How did I not know about this blog?!

The Horrors of it All has another creepy comic classic - "The Vampire Maker" from the Dec '52 issue of Adventures into Weird Worlds #13.

The Movie of the Week at Jon's Random Acts of Geekery is Godzilla Raids Again (Gigantis The Fire Monster)!

Cupcake Skulls!

Twitch's Kurt Halfyard reviews Sauna...

"Let us start with this. If I see a better flat out horror film than AJ Annila's wonderfully twisted Sauna in 2008, I'll eat my shirt..."

Spoiler TV has 2 new Sanctuary trailers, 5 more Fringe related clips and some cast interviews plus the Life on Mars Fall Preview.

Arbogast on Film presents Get Your Kill Face On VI: The Quest for Peace

Cinedelica reviews one of my favorite Vincent Price flicks, the wonderfully over the top Theatre of Blood.

Dark Roasted Blend has a neat video of a Creepy Fingered Musical Instrument

And You Call Yourself a Scientist reviews Paul Leni's 1929 film The Last Warning.

Old but cool links...

The Classic Horror Forum Model Kit Gallery

Pop Vultures: The 5 Creepiest Scariest TV Monsters via SF Signal / Whedonesque

Flickr...

flickr frights: King Kong Damonen aus den Weltall