flickr frights: A Spook Show Anniversary! (by halloween_guy)

Just as I was getting ready to resume normal service I've been beset by a series of technical glitches. Until I get it all sorted here's a pic from one of my favorite Flickr fiends halloween_guy...

flickr frights: Spooky Cemetery 2 (by jciv)

Spooky Cemetery 2 (by jciv)

31 Days : Tricks and Treats : Day 1: Morning

Halloween Countdown bloggers are ready for the season to go off...

Cool Moe Dee's Halloween Countdown : Dracula Lives #1 | Elvira's House of Mystery #1 | It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

John Rozum kicks off the season, spotlights artist Jeff Preston and posts a terrific list of fellow Halloween bloggers!

Wonderful Wonderblog has another fabulous list of Halloween Bloggers plus reposts of two of his most popular posts from the past Halloween Stomp & Elvira presents Haunted Hits !

Random Acts of Geekery goes By the 10's: Ghost Manor/Ghostly Haunts!, and shares the Castle Films condensed version of Frankenstein!

Weird Hollow starts things off with the Ask Vlad trailer

Universal Horror Sounds does The Monster Mash

Vinnie Rattolle's Records lays out it's plans, hangs out with those meddling kids, and ponders The Killing Kind.

Azaroth shares loads of cool and spooky kid's flexi-discs including the classic Count Chocula/Frankenberry slab "The Monsters Go Disco"!

The New Halloween Frolics of 1919 - Vintage Halloween decorating ideas at Senses Working Overtime

All Eyes and Ears : Scary Monsters

Harvey's Midnight Hour presents a Satanic Mash-up.

Other scary stuff...

The New Yorker's 5 Scariest Movies Ever?

Dread Central wishes Happy 40th Birthday to Night of the Living Dead

The Fortress of Fortitude offers a Ship of Evil

The Horrors of it All offers The Big Snake

Magic Carpet Burn has more Melvin Monster

Hallowween Addicts reccomends we Rifftrax our Halloween

Skull a Day has found some rockin' Skull Fonts

Not Coming to a Theater Near You reviews the 70's TV flick The Dead Don't Die

thursday's first stuff

I Am Legend Prequel Officially Greenlit at Warner Brothers (FirstShowing)

Fringe's Brain Science Flirts with Facts in 3rd Episode: Hollywood Fact vs. Fiction (Popular Mechanics)

Frankensteinia points us towards artist Aaron Blecha's neat-o monster designs.

Horror Movie a Day reviews This Darkness (2003)

Horrors Not Dead reviews Unearthed.

Midnight Muenster Podcast #15.

Mary Shelley Overdrive Unveils Full-Length Debut (Manchester Morgue)

The Toy Box looks at Amoktime's Rondo Hatton figure...

"If you're a fan of the old Universal horror movies, then you'll know exactly who Rondo Hatton is. In films like the Sherlock Holmes flick The Pearl of Death, House of Horrors and The Brute Man, Rondo played a disfigured killer often called the Creeper. His unusual looks landed him many uncredited and bit parts in films from 1936 until 1946, when a complication of the acromegaly that plagued him took his life..."

SFFaudio has news of upcoming H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society audio dramas.

Hello Skully (Skull a Day)

One Step Beyond : Delusion at Internet Archive

Harold Stern has an extremely rare blood type--so rare, in fact, that the act of giving blood causes him to become aware of events in the recipient's life that have not happened yet. One day he is called upon to give blood to save the life of a dying young girl, and he doesn't like what he sees in store for her.

Igor (2008): Where's Dwight Frye When You Need Him? (Zombo's Closet)

On My Desk: Metrosexual Vampires (Genreville)

"This train of thought naturally led to thinking of all the ways that male vampires are, shall we say, not like other men. They can't create children, though they sometimes adopt. They have excellent fashion sense and are well-spoken and mannerly. Their physical strength is significant but not overtly displayed, and they don't tend to engage in the dominance games that human men are so fond of. They enjoy the nightlife. They sparkle. Women can't resist them, but they're generally not into that whole romantic commitment thing. In other words, they're pretty much portrayed like stereotypical gay men."

Thank Gozer it's Friday stuff!

Samuel L. Jackson, M. Night Shyamalan On The 'Unbreakable' Sequel That Never Was, But Might Be @ MTV via Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

13: Looks at and listens to The Robot Vs the Aztec Mummy.

Black Hole reviews the seriously off kilter Czech fantasy flick Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Dave Sindelar reviews Let's Kill Uncle (1966)

The Classic Tales podcast presents Part One of The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

Crosseyed Cyclops offers the 1982 Warren Film Fantasy Yearbook

Check out the Spirit of '76 Moviethon wherein the intrepid Doomed Movieblogger revisits that Bi-Centennial year in film from Mako: The Jaws Of Death and Drive-In Massacre through The Clown Murders and Embryo all the way to Land Of The Minotaur and Mansion of the Doomed!

DVD Stalk has a roundup of recent Horror DVD doings.

Sci Fi stocks 'Warehouse' drama (Variety)

Series stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly as Secret Service agents charged with procuring a huge, top-secret South Dakota storage facility full of supernatural artifacts and relics.

Cinema Fromage presents Midnight Muenster 14!

Hulu has added episode 15 of the late, lamented John Doe

The Manchester Morgue shares the soundtrack to the 1992 antholgy show Nightmare Cafe.

Mad (x4) Movies reviews The Dracula Saga.

Monster A Go-Go reports that the already despicable cinema haters who run AMC have gutted the one decent thing they still do on that channel (excepting the beutifully crafted but emotionally hollow Mad Men) by gutting Monsterfest. Now instead of 2 weeks of badly butchered genre flicks we get 8 days of the same under the monker of Fear Fest. Before Mad Men, Monsterfest was the only time of the year I even remotely entertained the notion of tuning in to AMC. How the mighty have fallen. One upon a time AMC and Bravo were the best thing about cable Tv, now they're both embarressments.

SFFaudio on the Forgotten Classics Podcast's recently completed reading of The Wonder Stick.

Sweet Skulls on Boris the Friendly (and Educational) Skeleton

Those Fabulous Fifties shares a Spencer Spook story.

Satellite News looks back at MST3K Episode 513- The Brain that Wouldn't Die

Arbogast on Film on Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter.

Deadgirl Trailer

At DVD Talk, Preston Jones reviews Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pactes des loups): Director's Cut

Cinema Strikes Back reviews Last House on the Beach and Cannibal Terror.

Netflix Watch Instantly (w/membership)

Blood for Dracula
Paul Morrissey directs and Udo Kier stars (as the Count) in Andy Warhol's high-camp adaptation of the timeless Dracula tale. When the blood supply in Romania dries up, the ever-thirsty Dracula travels to Italy to feed himself. There, he meets the Marquis Dafoe (Vittorio de Sic), father of four luscious daughters. Dracula's plans are thwarted, though, when he learns that the handyman (Joe Dallesandro) has already tainted the vestal virgins.

Masters of Horror: Lucky McKee: Sick Girl
A bizarre bug tries to horn in on the fleshly action of a torrid lesbian tryst in this sensual and shocking thriller from writer-director Lucky McKee. A cryptic package from Brazil containing an unusual insect arrives on the doorstep of introvert entomologist Ida Teeter (Angela Bettis). When the creepy crawly bites Ida's new lover (Misty Mundae), the sapphic couple finds their erotic affair transformed into a gruesome ménage à trois.

New Guy
Gregg (Kelly Miller) is having a most unusual first day at the office. For starters, his cubicle is covered with Post-It notes, left by his predecessor who, Gregg discerns, did not depart on friendly terms. And the new guy's largely idle co-workers haven't exactly rolled out the welcome mat, either. Amid other bizarre events, Gregg slowly realizes that this corporation demands something far more ominous than a little overtime from its employees.

middle Monday stuff

UGO has an online preview of The Stand comic book from Marvel. (via Dread Central)

The Groovy Age of Horror reviews 1969's World's Fair Goblin...

"The 1939 New York World's Fair is terrorized by an eight-foot tall creature, covered in matted red hair and possessed of fantastic strength, which seems to appear and vanish at will..."

Monster Monday is here again at Random Acts of Geekery!

Skull Nightmares indeed - at Skull--A-Day!

Poster goodness at Wrong Side of the Art...

• Scream of Fear (aka Taste of Fear) (1961, UK)
• Satan's Cheerleaders (1977, USA)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, USA)

Zombo reviews Gordon B. Shriver's Boris Karloff: The Man Remembered.

Flickr...

the horror that is Monday morning stuff

And Now the Screaming Starts shows the late Monster Screaming Loony Party candidate Screaming Lord Sutch some much deserved love (with added musical Youtubery).

Remember those lovable second rate Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin imersenators featured, along side Bela Lugosi, in the Poverty Row horror comedy "Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla"? They were, by name, Sammy Petrillo and Duke Mitchell and, as unlikely as it would have seemed, they're also the stars of the premiere issue of Love & Rockets: New Stories #1! Find out how, if not why, at io9.

(go here if you'd like to check outsome comics starring the real Jerry Lewis)

Two-Headed Brain Trust Injects Fear Into Fringe at The Underwire.

kindertrauma sees "The Unseen".

"It's in the Trees...It's coming!" 13: Music From the Monster Movies examines Night of the Demon!

The Galaxy Express on Dark City.

Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire unspooled Paul Nachy's 2004 flick Rojo Sangre.

Hairy Green Eyeball caught up with the first Re-Animator flick.

The Last Blog on the Left rounds up the week's best horror news.

The Horrors of it All offers another vintage horror comic tale - "He Who Laughs Last"

The week's Monster Power Ranking at Monsterfest (Ghostbusters III leads the pack)

Stuart Galbraith IV reviews Cinematic Titanic's deconstruction of The Wasp Woman at DVDTalk.

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...

Friday Stuff

GaryP11111 at the Classic Horror Film Board looks at the 1938 ad war between competing theaters ballyhoo-ing their horror bills .

Geff Hinds on The Haunting of Hill House at Coudal Partners' Field Tested Books.

kindertrauma takes Communion with Christopher Walken.

13: Music from Monster Movies takes in The Terror.

Ain't it Cool! = Quint on Bava's Black Sabbath, Fantastic Fest.

Fantastic Fest Intergalactic Trailer Force 9000 (via AICN)

Has Final Girl found "The greatest VHS box art ever?"

Fortress of Fortitude presents "The Woman In The Tower" by Jack Kirby (Strange World Of Your Dreams #3)

Frankensteinia has a couple of amazing pix of Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory as envisioned by Industrial light & Magic for the sadly unrealized CGI frankenstein.

Giallo Fever examines Judex.

The Horrors of it All has gone to the Ants - Them! trailer, WWIII with the Ants!

Cinema Fromage reviews Cinematic Titanic's riffing of The Wasp Woman.

"Fringe Will Jump The Shark Early And Often, Says J.J. Abrams" at io9.

Monster Memories has a vintage interview with Bride of Frankenstein's Elsa Lanchester.

Hulu...

Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield
Curse of Alcatraz
When a Stranger Calls
The Hills Are Alive
Fear Itself

Flickr...

flickr frights: skull (by archplus)

skull (by archplus)

Thursday Stuff

readers at kindertrauma share thier haunted memories of the WPIX's Chiller Theater intro - and I can relate, jus seeing a sceencap of the thing gave me the shivers and i was suddenly, just for a brief moment, a frightened/excited eight year old again - staying up late to watch monster movies, alone in the dark except for the eerie flicker of the TV...

The Horrors of it All shares a tale from a 1953 issue of Strange Mysteries - Night of Horror!

The Haunting of Molly Hartley Trailer.

A cool skull at, where else, Skull-a-Day.

Colin Harvey's The Stinker (Free Fiction) at SFX (via Quasar Dragon)

Hulu ...

Elvira's Movie Macabre

• The House That Screamed
• The Werewolf Of Washington
• Legacy Of Blood
• Count Dracula's Great Love
• The Devil's Wedding Night
• The Doomsday Machine
• They Came From Beyond Space
• Blue Sunshine
• Monstroid
• Frankenstein's Castle Of Freaks

Netflix Watch Instantly (requires membership)

• Little Otik
• Shrooms
• Blood of Ghastly Horror
• Snuff
• Midnight
• Terror of Frankenstein
• In Search of Dracula

Flickr...

flickr favs: Untitled (by steevil)

Untitled (by steevil)