Evening Update

Don't forget to vote for your faves in The Rondos!


Movies...


The Haunting in Connecticut @ Cinematical

Vinyan & In Search of Lovecraft @ Fangoria

Gumnam Qatil @ Teleport City

Hell Girl: The Complete First Season @ DVD Talk

The Incredible Petrified World (1957) @ Atomic Monsters

Rick's Weekend Film Festival Celebrates Young Vampires @ Rick's Flick Picks

Funhouse Remake on the Way @ Dread Central

Mary Quant: Swinging London Icon, Horror Superheroine! @ The Groovy Age of Horror

What's Wrong With A Hunger Games Movie? @ io9

Star Wars Star Prowse Battling Cancer @ The Underwire


TV...

Harpers Globe Episode 1 (Harper's Island)


Watch...

Dead Sucks & The Dead Matter trailers @ Suburban Vampire

Quantum Leap @ Hulu

The Descent, Waxwork, Restraint, Trapped Ashes and more free movies @ FEARnet


Comics...

Nick Lyons on Bluewater's Vincent Price Presents @ Newsarama

Post-Apocalyptic Comics: The Walking Dead @ tor.com


Books...

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature @ SF Signal

Shortlist is out for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2009 @ SF Crowsnest


Mystery...

Laurie R. King Guest Blogs @ Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books

Macmillan reveals adventures of young Sherlock Holmes @ The Guardian

DailyLit's Big Read 2: 3 Short Reads by Edgar Allan Poe

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (Edgar Allan Poe) @ Manybooks

Hitchcock's Other Woman- Joan Harrison: In Hitch's Shadow @ Movie Morlocks

Le Silence de Lorna (2008) @ Cinema Talk


Stuff...

The Last Eruption of Mount Vesuvius @ Dark Destinations

The Quick 10: 10 Facts About Harry Houdini @ Mental Floss

Robert McGinnis on YouTube @ Modesty Blaise News

Afternoon Update

Dark Reel @ Horror Yearbook

The Ruins @ Movie Mobsters

The Invasion @ DarcKnyt

Fenomenal And The Treasure Of Tutankaman @ Double O Section

Auranella @ The Muller-Fokker Pulpbot Effect

"Who Shall Judge" @ Pappy's Golden Age Comics

Sexton Blake And The Demon God @ Permission to Kill

Red Panda Adventures 43 - The Golden Idol @ Decoder Ring Theatre

An Amityville Horror in Jersey @ Dark Destinations

Tusday stuff (Kill Baby Kill, Laura Mars, Colin Clive, Sherlock Holmes and more)

Kindertrauma on Kill Baby Kill

Final Girl on The Eyes of Laura Mars

Frankensteinia remembers Dr. Frankenstein : Colin Clive

Colossus - The Forbin Project.@ Grantbridge Street

Horror 2008, a Retrospective: Part 5, News & Events @ Horrors Not Dead

Awards Watch: VES Nominations @ Movie Dearest

DVD Talk reviews:
Eden Lake
Repo: The Genetic Opera
Cinematic Titanic - Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles @ Cool-Mo-Dee

The Space Voters @ Fortress of Fortitude

The Horrors of it All shares The Cask of Amontillado

Son of Frankenstein fumetti adaptation from April,1939 @ Golden Age Comic Stories

The Speckled Band @ Internet Archive

Rare Sherlock Holmes film starring Raymond Massey as SHerlock Holmes. Lyn Harding who plays Dr Rylot later appeared as Moriarty in "Silver Blaze"/"Murder at the Baskervilles."

Netflix Watch Instantly (req acct)

Body Snatchers
Young Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) and her family have just moved to a Southern military base so that her father (Terry Kinney) can study a curious environmental issue. Just as she's settling into her new life, Marty learns that an alien attack is imminent and that the creatures are planning to turn humans into "pod people" as they sleep. Marty and her friends must now band together to fight off the aliens.

Morons from Outer Space
When a handful of extremely dim-witted aliens accidentally maroon themselves on Earth, British authorities interrogate them and want them exterminated. But with the help of a shrewd news reporter, the aliens instead become media darlings … and then rock 'n' roll stars! The bizarre rock group soon embarks on a U.S. tour, but how long will they enjoy their new life before their mother ship whisks them back into space?

House of Wax / The Mystery of the Wax Museum
In this spine-tingling film -- one of the first 3D movies ever made -- Vincent Price thrills as Professor Henry Jarrod, the creepy curator of a wax museum who loses his beloved business to a fire and then rebuilds it. This time, though, he doesn't use wax models, but a ghoulish alternative: dead bodies. Also includes The Mystery of the Wax Museum, the 1933 feature that House of Wax was based on.

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 1 : Early Afternoon

Halloweenery...

Scooby-Doo.com is offering a new Halloween treat every day in their 31 Days of Halloween event. Today's freebie is a Halloween screensaver. More screensavers, wallpapers, buddy icons, jokes, masks and recipes are promised, day by day,

Join The Sexy Armpit in venturing into NYC's top haunted attraction - BloodManor!

Monster Memories romances The Brides of Frankenstein.

The Hallowe'en Tree's found a $25,500 Pumpkin Swing!

Orange and Black revels in Burger King's Treehouse of Terror collections! (I myself gained quite a few pounds collecting these babies...)

X-Entertainment gets all wrapped up in Frankenberry Fruit by the Foot! also check out recent posts SLIME TIME Watches!, Play-Doh Party Kit! and Cocoa Krispies Haunted House Kit!

Movie Dearest offers Modern Monsters of Hollywood Wallpaper!

Film School Rejects 31 Days of Horror...

"...Every day we will have a special 31 Days of Horror article that will, most often, recommend to you some of the greatest, goriest, or most fun ways you can watch a human get gutted - or just something to laugh at with the kids on Halloween night. So make sure to check out all our recommended movies and keep an eye out for special Horror Themed installments of your favorite columns.."

@ Cinematical: Fan Made: Eat a Bloody Shark Attack for Halloween!

Otherly...

kindertrauma reviews a guilty fave of mine, Happy Birthday To Me (I actually saw this on it's premier weekend, on my birthday, with a bunch of my young school chums! Scarred for life, we were...)

Zombo shares news of the 2009 Dark Shadows Convention.

Monster Brains announces a Witch Themed Web Art Show

DVD Talk Reviews:

• The Happening
• The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Vol. 5: Strange Aeons
• Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead
• Don't Go In The House Triple Feature : The Amityville Horror, The Legend of Hell House, Poltergeist II & III

Blood Feast @ Film Stills

Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire reviews Femina Ridens (The Frightened Woman)

@ SpoilerTV: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Facing the Axe?

Random Horror Comic Cover: Flinch 2

Friday morning stuff

The Classic Tales Podcast has released Part 2 of The Canterville Ghost

Comicmix interviews podcaster extraordinaire Steve Wilson of Prometheus Radio Theatre

Halloween was once a romantic occasion where lovers used various methods of arcane divination to forecast their love life. A Victorian Halloween examines one of these once popular pastimes, the fine art of Crystal Gazing.

Ain't it Cool's Moriarty's Fantastic Fest Mega Post Part One

New reviews @ Teleport City

The Witches
The College Girl Murders
Murder in the Museum
The Fellowship of the Frog
Strangler of the Swamp
Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

Dave Sindelar reviews Misterios de la magia negra (1958) aka Mysteries of Black Magic, Return from the Beyond

Omega Man has posted the MGM-HD genre sked for October. A frequent flick, the Curse of the Faceless Man, is wonderfully ludercrous.

Have you gotten your tickets yet?
(or at least checked out these creepy fright sites?)

• Halloween Horror Nights: Universal Studios Hollywood
• Halloween Horror Nights: Universal Studios Orlando
• Halloween time at Disneyland featuring Mickey's Trick-or-Treat Party
• Disney's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Walt Disney World
• Not a spooky site but an informative one : Six Flags Fright Fests 2008

The Horrors of it All presents Two Frightened People

Fears of the Dark - Trailer | Official Site

FEAR(S) OF THE DARK is a wildly inventive and visually dazzling collection of fearful tales by six of the world's most renowned comic and graphic artists - Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire. From a besotted student whose girlfriend is weirdly ardent in her affections, to a Japanese schoolgirl menaced by a long-dead samurai, and a pack of hounds on a bloodthirsty rampage, FEAR(S) has a story strand to trouble every sleep - not to mention a stunning range of animation styles. Shot in shimmering black and white, the six intertwined tales create an unprecedented epic where phobias and nightmares come to life and reveal Fear at its most naked and intense.

Scooby Doo & the Goblin King Mini Soundtrack @ Universal Monster sounds

more thursday afternoon stuff

7 Scary Ghost Towns: Eternal Remnants From Abandonment, Death and Destruction (Cult Case)

Free Torchwood Pumpkin Carving Pattern (Pink Raygun)

Haribo launching Halloween themed candies (slashfood)

Wisdom of the Moon shows off some fun & creepy monster cupcakes.

And Now the Screaming Starts is about to embark on another journey to the earliest days of horror cinema. be sure to check out the posts from last year, if you happen to have missed them.

flickr:

Tuesday morning stuff

Fantastic Fest is streaming 10 films gratis...

"From September 14-20, AMD FANTASTIC FEST ONLINE will provide five feature films and five shorts from the official 2008 Fantastic Fest lineup to also be available for online viewing for free via the BSide network. All films will stream in low-resolution for slow connections and in beautiful high-resolution for those with blazing speed.

You must be a member of the BSide community to watch the films, but the good news is that it is quick, easy and free to join. We encourage those who participate in AMD FANTASTIC FEST ONLINE to also rate and review the films, as we will be awarding cash and technology prizes courtesy of AMD to the 'online audience favorite' short and feature films. Awards will be presented on Monday, September 22 as part of the official 2008 Fantastic Fest awards ceremony..."

The Internet Archive has three new genre offerings available...

• A Bucket Of Blood (imdb)
• Gammera The Invincible (imdb)
• Destroy All Planets (imdb)

Netflix Watch Instantly (req. account)

The Children (imdb)
After being exposed to a noxious gas that's been leaking from the local power plant, a busload of New England children are transformed into terrifying zombies with pitch-black talons and a hankering for human flesh. Now, it's up to local Sheriff Billy Hart (Gil Rogers) to save the tiny town of Ravensback by rounding up the "little monsters." But are his valiant efforts to play hero enough to ground them for good?

io9 reviews True Blood.Plus Will We See Hellboy The TV Show?

Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies looks at one of my favorite guilty pleasure - the trippy fungal horror that is Matango!

Courtesy of Professor Hex:
Ripper's reign of terror 'began 25 years earlier'
The New York Times Attempts To Kill The Devil

And Now the Screaming Starts has a post up about the above Jersey Devil story as well.

Super Punch points us to a wicked kewl skull and crossed mics tee-shirt design up at Threadless.

Final Girl sits down for a steaming bowl of The Food of the Gods!

Fringe Bloggers has a Fringe News Round-Up


Flickr...

Sunday Stuff

Part Two of The haunted houses of Coney Island at And Now the Screaming Starts.

Ain't it Cool's A Movie a Day moves onto 1944's Curse of the Cat People.

First Showing has the trailer for Anne Hathaway's upcoming horror flick Passengers.

Neato Coolville uncovers the sinister, insidious and uncannily wet nosed Cult of the Collie!!!

From Flickr...

Saturday Stuff

Vote for the Best Lines in Cult TV History at The Underwire.

Today's Movie a day at Ain't it Cool - 1942's Cat People.

And Now the Screaming Starts looks at The Haunted Houses of Coney Island!

Universal Horror Sounds has another rare Cortland Hull/Witch's Dungeon related video clip.