Showing posts with label halloween 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween 2008. Show all posts

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Sunday Linkage

Cool-Mo-Dee shares some Funky Phantom

Dread Central's Weekly Wrap-Up plus Yuzna to Produce Trio of 3D Horrors

Horror's Not Dead reviews Dead Set

What Would Toto Watch? watches Splinter and Let the Right One In

Weekly Comic Review weighs in on Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein

io9's Tasty Super Scifi Cereal Breakdown

The Lightning Bug Dollar Deals: Fury of the Wolfman (1972)


The Vault of Horror notices something about Fulci's House By the Cemetery - Stephen King, By Way of Lucio Fulci

Moon in the Gutter looks back at the career of 80's cutie Betsy Russell who's made something of a comeback in the recent Saw sequels.

Retro Slashers reviews Return to Sleepaway Camp

meanlouise shares Bugs Bunny - Transylvania 6-5000

Videogamesblogger reviews Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)

Weird Hollow flicks Frankie's Bic

The Making of Vincent Peorice Presents @ Comic Monsters (via Unspeakable Horror)

Old Fashioned Halloween has a vintage ad for Sears, Roebuck and Co. Halloween Costumes

Cool Things in Random Places on the Punkin Chunkin 2008 Championship

Non-Horror Stuff:

Cheesecake album covers of yesteryear
at retrospace

Partridge Family Comics at Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Friday, November 07, 2008

Morning stuff

Vincent Price on The Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson (1973) (MikeTheMook)

Cool-Mo-Dee shares Out of the Night #8

Final Girl reviews Night Train to Terror

Horror Movie a Day takes on Exorcist: The Beginning

natsukashi gets Freaked!

Para Abnormal - Brain Juice!

FMC goes Ape for Thanksgiving - Mega-Marathon of Planet of the Apes Movies (and TV-Movies) set for Thanksgiving Weekend (The Forbidden Zone)

Hulu adds...
Slayers
In a land of fantasy and fairytale, magic rules and one can prosper by the point of a sword. But somewhere between the realms of good and evil, a band of misfits stumble upon an artifact which could prove the undoing of all…

Shuffle

Ten years ago, the gateway to the Realm of the Gods and the Realm of the Demons was opened. Soon afterwards, the gods and the demons began migrating to our world.

Rt. 666: America's Scariest Home Haunts
Hosted by Halloween (2007) star Danielle Harris, this original short form series will profile some of the country's scariest, most innovative haunted houses and meet the people behind the madness.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Election Day Quickie


An era inevitably begins to come to an end as AICN reports Forrest J Ackerman is slipping away...



Quint watches The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

Topless Robot's The 10 Greatest and Most Pathetic Old-School Halloween Costumes

Blecha reminds us to Remember, Remember the Fifth of November!

The Horrors of it All presents Nightmare Island

Randm Acts of Geekery presents a collection of cool Spiderman stuff

retrospace's Worst Comic Book Costumes

11 Downloadable Horror Movie Tracks @ Horror Yearbook

Hulu:
The Rats
A colony of rats—the result of a secret DNA research project—terrorizes the residents of New York City during the Christmas season.

The Night Of The Headless Horseman
The terrifying Washington Irving story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is given life in this up-to-date animated presentation.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Halloween Link Catch-up Part 2

John Rozum's Big Halloween Finale!

She Blogged By Night looks at Dracula Has Risen From the Grave

Alfred Hitchcock will not wear a Halloween costume at TV Squad

Cinematical:
Plauge Town trailer @ Spike plus The Top 10 Worst Slasher Villains Ever

Monster Mondays!
@ Random Acts of Geekery plus Halloween Night Movie Festival : The Mummy (Hammer), Horror of Dracula, and Blacula,

Last Blog on the Left reviews Dance of the Dead plus The Top 10 Best All-Time Horror Movies Ever & The Haunting of Molly Hartley

Shadowplay on She Wolf of London and Werewolf of Washington

League of Tana Tea Drinkers' Halloween Memories

Halloween Link Catch-up Part 1

I didn't really have time to do any web work on Halloween and I was away all weekend so here's a post full of wonderful tricks and treats that you may have missed - plus a few fresh ones mixed in...

The First Annual Kindertrauma Halloween Parade!

13 covered the likes of "EEGAH!!!", "The Monster Of Piedras Blancas" and "Fiend Without a Face".

It's a Halloween hootenany!
at And Now the Screaming Starts plus The Other Author of Frankenstein

Horror Movie a Day reviews The Beyond (1981)

The Horror Section's Halloween Link Roundup

arglebargle! celebrates The Munsters

The Wolfman (1941) & Werewolves 101
@ The Monsterverse

War of the Worlds 70th Anniversary
@ Blogue Macabre

Branded in the 80's remembers Saturday the 14th!

Halloween safety clips at Carrie White Burns in Hell
Link
Cinefantastique has Orson Welles on "The War of the Worlds" panic broadcast plus a Bruce Campbell interview

The Classic Tales Podcast presents Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker.

So much great stuff at Cool-Mo-Dee!
The Hammer Film Music Collection @ Cosmobells

Fong songs: Dancing at the Zombie Zoo

Dave Lowe has lots of great shots up of his yard haunt and home decor.

Stan Lee Reads The Raven @ Quickstop Entertainment

A Hardy (Boys) Halloween @ Dinner with Max Jenke

Diversions of the Groovy Kind has Jack Kirby's Spirit World! and Morbius--the Sci-Fi Vampire!

Halloween Party at The House of Edgar


Electronic Cerebrectomy's Link Recap

Evil on Two Legs critiques The Fashion of Haddonfield

Exploitation Retrospect reviews Argento's The Mother of Tears

Do They Know It's Hallowe'en?
@ Franklin Mint Blog

Groovy Age of Horror on the Universal & Hammer Monster Rallys plus "My Groovy Grandma - Halloween Edition"

Happy Halloween from Chas Addams @ Hairy Green Eyeball

Haunted Forum menber jimmyzdc's Phantom Hollow Yard Haunt

Avalard's Box of Obfuscation Podcast: Is This A Hammer Film? (via Hammer and Beyond)

Thanks for an Amazing Halloween!

Hope everyone had a happy, healthy, fun Halloween!

I want to sincerely thank all the amazing bloggers, writers, arists, photogrphers, musicians and devoted Halloween lovers who made this the best ever Halloween on the web.

I spent most of the evening frozen on my living room couch in abject terror - was it my annual Halloween monster movie marathon that had stunned me into fright induced paralysis? No, it was the fact that my newly teenage daughter was going out (at Night!) with a few of her girlfriends (on Halloween Night!) with, naturally, no parental supervision (did I mention it was night, when it's dark and Halloween, which is really, really scary!!). Even when she was too old to officially trick or treat she'd always tagged along with her younger sibling and cousins for the the whole house to house thing, with a big family Halloween party at the end the evening. This year she went all butterfly on us, spread her wings and flew off on her own.

Anyway..

... just back from a weekend of wedding festivities upstate and ready to get back to the blogging. As winter approaches I'll be ramping up the posts over at Santas Working Overtime but, rest assured, I'll be keeping up the horror end of things here as usual - just not "31 Days of Halloween" usual.

I managed 127 posts in October, actually a little bit less than I had anticipated, but I was also felled, on a couple of occasions, by some fairly hellish migraine action which slowed me down a tad. In fact I've loads of stuff I had intended to share that never made it up, and there's no point in holding on to it until next year so, I'll try to post post these goodies on a fairly regular basis.

Weekend link round-up should be ready later this evening...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 30: Elevenses

Cinematical:

Film School Rejects on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad

Movie Morlocks on...
DVD Talk:
Misunderstood Monsters profiled at Ricks Flicks Picks

Why I now embrace Ghost Whisperer and look forward to that big twist - TV Squad

Another Old Movie Blog looks at Karloff's The Walking Dead

Rotten Tomatoes Best Horror Movies

This sort of thing kills me - an amazing blog that's been doing first rate Halloween posts all month long and I only get around to them now - well better late than never - I give you (courtesy of Arbogast on Film):

The Kind of Face You Hate - Brilliant Horror Author Profiles

Shadowplay braves the Terror in the Midnight Sun

Disney's Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
@ Dial B For Blog

All Cannibal's Eve @ Para Abnormal

31 Days of Halloween: Day 30: Spooky Tunes

Halloween Music & Mixes...

@ Murder By Baltimore
@ Venagogo-go
@ Transistor Blast
@ Chuck Bleu
@ The Ghost Town
@ DJ Michael Hades
@ DJKelwin
@ Popmatters
@ Preeminent Productions
@ Altered Anthems
@ This is Not a Test
@ JSLV

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 30: Morning

Plaid Stallions presents The Top Ten Coolest Monster Toys of the 70's

Cool-Mo-Dee offers Beetljuice - Laugh of the Party

Digital Meltd0wn's Lovecraft-apalooza comes to a spectacular conclusion!

Voyages Extraordinaires visits Mickey Mouse's House of Horrors

20+ Ways to Enjoy Halloween Online @ Mashable

Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else's "Christmas at Halloween" suite is now complete.

Universal Horror Sounds unmasks the Phantom of The Paradise

Branded in the 80's presents the Son of Crestwood Monster Series!

Java's Cosmic Halloween Special 2008 Podcast

13 Visions 2008 Halloween Mix!

Halloween Manga recommendations at Manga Xanadu

Haunted Shack Theater #3
"I loaded up the Haunted Jukebox with a bunch of FX LPs, DVDs, and soundtrack records… I just set back and let the spirits do their work! If you're decorating your place up like Martha Stewart, having kids at your doorstep or just want to get into a spooky mood for Hallowe'en then this is what you ought to be listening to."
Doomed Movieblog reviews Some Halloween TV Specials

DVD Savant reviews Poltergeist

The Muppets and Vincent Price
@ Electronic Cerebrectomy

The Thing That Lived Again!
lives again at The Horrors of it All

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Sunday, October 12, 2008

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 12 : Afternoon

Latenight Wingman has a fairly complete list of Horror Movies on TV during the Halloween season (I meant to post this much earlier - oh well, better late than never)

Arrivederci Bloody Italiana Hello I Spit on Your Taste

Dave Lowe shows how to make a Moving Monster Eye.

Electronic Cerebrectomy joins Mickey in The Haunted House

Horror Movie a Day reviews The Burrowers

Paul Naschy's Vengence of the Zombies at Internet Archive

John Rozum spotlights monster artists Don Marquez

Lots of cool Planet of the Apes stuff on display at Random Acts of Geekery

Fantastic Monsters of the Films #4 highlights at Magic Carpet Burn

retrospace remembers the Razorblade/Apple scares of the '70s plus other Halloween safety tips.

The Home Theater Forum reviews The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Munsters:The Complete Series.

kevin g shinnick at the Scarlet Street Forums has posted a bunch of neat Youtube videos including a recent news report on The Witches Dungeon and a Zacherley Out-Take from the upcoming Legends Of Film & Fantasy.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Saturday, October 04, 2008

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 4: Nooner

The Drunken Severed Head remembers his first Halloween mag - a 1968 issue of Jack and Jill.

@ kindertrauma an appreciation Ghost Ship's opening Dance Scene. (Great scene, though I enjoyed the flick as a whole more than uncle lancifer,I guess I simply can't get enough of creepy boats)

The Amulet of Terror
now available at The Horrors of it All.

Monster Sightings points up to this cool Monster Maker.

Universal Monster Sounds has some The Groovie Goolies

13 returns with Godzilla Vs the Smog Monster!

Random Acts of Geekery's Movie of the Week is Terror of MechaGodzilla

Radio Drama Revival presents Dead Man's Hole

The Bloody Italiana reviews the Italian Jaws rip-off/homage/unofficial sequel Cruel Jaws.

Giallo Fever reviews Panic!

Blu Gilliand reviews Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.

Not Coming... reviews The Girl in 2A

Dread Central's Weekly Wrap-Up

Hulu has Sanctuary's first episode.

Super Punch found an Inflatable ongoing crime scene on sale at Walmart!

Flickr:

Colonial Garamon (by Jeff Lamm)
MODERN-MONSTER #2 (by Milan Rubio)

Friday, October 03, 2008

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:
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.