31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 30: Elevenses

Cinematical:

• Horror Movies for Girls
• Greatest Supporting Performances in Horror Films
• New "Drag Me to Hell" photos

Film School Rejects on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad

Movie Morlocks on...

• Dwight Frye
• NotLD
• The Entity

DVD Talk:

• Bloody Moon
• R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly
• Reaper: Season 1
• The Dead Pit
• Splatter Disco
• Poultrygesit: Night of the Chicken Dead

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: Tricks and Treats: Day 13 : Afternoon

13 : The Invisible Boy

Dave Sindelar reviews 1966's Exorcism at Midnight

datajunkie shares the 1974 Nightmare Summer Special plus some great psychotronic radio ads.

Dr. K reviews Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter and then wraps up Hammer Week with a taste of Kiss of the Vampire.

Dinner with Max Jenke reviews Quarantine as does The Horror Section.

The Horrors of it All kicks off a ghost story marathon with The Man Who Talked to Ghosts!

rockpainterx has added another colorized monster clip: Glenn Strange in A&C Meet Frankenstein

Movie Dearest goes on location in Blair Witch Country

Hulu:

The Crawling Hand
A medical student finds the deadly hand of a lost astronaut sought by scientists.

Terror is a Man
A shipwrecked sailor finds a mad doctor turning a panther into a human on Blood Island

The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
An oceanographer finds a professor's atomic mutant behind California beach deaths.

31Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 7 : Evening

Kindertrauma has a cold blast from the refrigerated past: Carvel Halloween Commercial.

datajunkie shares Scream 6 and a scary Boris Karloff L.P.

Cottage Way of Life shows you how to make your very own vintage style poison bottle.

Crosseyed Cyclops shares an episode of Freddy's Nightmares.

Evil on Two Legs gives us it's Favorite H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations

The Horrors of it All shares the creepy comic tale "The Head Man"

THE MUMMY (1932) Castle Films 16mm Digest at Random Acts of Geekery.

Hulu has added Carnival of Souls and Terror in the Haunted House.

io9 asks you to "Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes"

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.

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

Halloween Blogging....

Better Homes and Gardens has literally scads of neat Halloween crafts, recipes and costume and decorating tips in their 100 Days of Holidays section.

Weddings and Celebrations features a Halloween Candy Buffet.

Exploitation Retrospect kicks off 31 Days of Fright.

31 Days of Horror: A Cinematic Countdown to Halloween @ Triggeerstreet

31 Ghosts in 31 days at Do Ghosts Exist?

In the Void begins it's Oktober Horror Fest

B-Movie Star waxes nostalgic while kicking off 31 Days of Halloween.

Row Three's 31 Days of Horror begins with My Little Eye.

The Zombie Reporting Center is undead with their 31 Days of Halloween celebration.

Other Good Stuff...

Homer of the dead: Simpsons turn into zombies for horrific Hallowe'en episode (Daily Mail via Zombie Reporting Center)

Crosseyed Cyclops shares Boogeyman #1, an underground comic from 1969 featuring a certain R. Crumb.

Apparently, H.P. Lovecraft Had a Sense of Humor (Suite 101 SciFi)

Random Horror Comic Cover | Weird Mystery Tales Super Special

last Saturday in September stuff

One of the last of the real "Movie Stars" has left us.
Paul Newman R.I.P.

The Evil League of Evil is now accepting applications. No, really!

AICN's A Movie A Day is all horror all October.

The Bloody Italiana Blog announces Gialloween 2008!

Dread Central have posted The Weekly Wrap-Up.

Frankensteinia reviews Igor.

Jon's Movie of the Week, at Random Acts of Geekery, is... Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero!

Monster Brains on the astonishing, and unsettling, work of artist Patricia Piccinini.

Pretty Scary clues us in to a very cool sounding interactive horror theater event in Philly... Slumber Party Slaughterhouse: The Interactive Game

For all you Haunt makers out there - Creating Faux Wooden Boards with Cardboard @ My Ghoul Friday

thursday night storm stuff

It is a dark and stormy night here in Ravensdeath Manor...

Storycast has posted the first of it's Halloween shows - The Black Cat's Message.

DannyChoo offers supercool, though unintelligible to a non japanese speaker such as myself, clips from a Beat Takeshi hosted paranormal panel show "Unbelievable". The topic here is Ghost Photography Japan-style.

Cosmobells is hosting all the Mighty Samson and Kona: Monarh of Monster Island comics you'll ever need!

Ain't it Cool Fantastic Fest reviews:

• The Brothers Bloom and The Good The Bad and The Weird
• Let the Right One In and Gachi Boy
• The Dead Outside, The Disappeared, Mirrors, Death Race & various shorts, previews and trailers.

Cool-Mo-Dee has a classic Thunderbirds comic for your nostalgic enjoyment.

Steven Spielberg Might Direct John Wyndham's Chocky? (Firstshowing)

Splinter - Trailer

Nightmare Boat Doll (October Effigies)

No Smoking in the Skull Cave champions the somewhat underground art horror of "Blood for Dracula" and "Flesh for Frankenstein"

Final Girl unlocks the childhood nightmare that is Medusa!

thursday afternoon stuff

Cinebeats remembers the Japanese monster flicks 100 Monsters aka Yôkai hyaku monogatari and Yokai Monsters - Spook Warfare aka Yôkai daisensô

Cloverfield's Matt Reeves Remaking Let the Right One In (Firstshowing)

HTF announces the 9th Annual HTF October Scary Movie Challenge!

Retro Slashers gets it's own trailer!

SF Signal's first impressions of The Mentalist.

Ten Horror Sequels and Remakes that Top the Originals @ suvudu


Now that the new TV season's well and fully underway I figured I'd jot down a few notes on the subject...

Fringe: Pleasantly surprised. Thus far the only new show I actually look forward to watching.

The Mentalist: Not so much a horror genre related series - I guess I hoped they'd do more with the psychic bit. As many have suggested it's essentially Psych with serial killers and less slapstick. However, I thought the first episode was pretty good and I'm more than willing to keep watching.

Sarah Connor/Terminator thingie: I wanted to like, no, I wanted to love this show but I don't. I have no emotional attachment to any of these characters, I don't believe in them. I've ditched my season pass (again) and will catch up on Fox.com and Hulu.

Destination Truth: This is the one high-ish profile ghost/monster/ufo hunting series that doesn't take itself too seriously or try to defraud the viewer at every other turn. There have been a couple of times this season where it looked headed in the night vision heavy, fake shock-a-thon bin (the haunted Malaysian Mosque for instance) but I have faith in Josh Gates who's simply too cool to go total woo.

I'll miss Eureka, until it returns next year, and I missed the last few minutes of the last episode thanks to what, wrestling? On Scifi? Idiots - both me and them - I should have checked my season pass and padded the episode - they should have never canceled MST3K ( yeah, I can hold a grudge) or started showing wrestling!

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

some little Sunday stuff

Dartman shares soundtracks to Escape & Beneath the Planet of the Apes (plus bonus Ape goodness) and Destroy All Monsters.

Harry's Saturday at Fantastic Fest mega post (ain't it cool)

The Definitive Cinematic Retrospective presents "31 Days of Graveyard Screams" starting October 1st

"With a program airing every night, we would love for you to tune your "skeleton dial" in and help us spread the chills. Our main program is The Definitive Cinematic Retrospective but each year in October we switch over to all things horror. We highlight classic films, television, radio ect. from the silent era all the way up to 1970. That classic monster movie era!
We also let our audience talk about their favorites by having them participate in every show we do. We've got some great prizes to give away this year."

Crosseyed Cyclops offer more Famous Monsters of Filmland. (and here as well)

Full Film Lineup for Screamfest 2008! via Dread Central Also, make sure to check out Dread Central's weekly wrap-up.

At the Classic Horror Film Board oldmanster reviews The Tatooist.

Frankensteinia on Dick Briefer's Frankenstein comic book series.

Find The Pattern..Find The Triangles? @ Fringe Bloggers

While I may be forever disgusted with the powers that be at AMC I do love thier Monsterfest blog (will it be renamed to Fearfest as well?). Here they ponder The Flesh Eaters.

saturday stuff quickie the first

Got lots of family stuff on tap this weekend but I'll pop on when I can for the occasional short sharp shock of stuff...

kindertrauma imagines the absolutely best ever episode of BJ and the Bear!

And Now the Screaming Stars reviews the new, Peter Straub edited, horror anthology "Poe's Children".

Mad Hatter & Scarecrow Halloween costumes over at Bat-Blog.

Carrie White Burns in Hell offers the trailer for Student Bodies!

Doomed Movieblog reviews the Bollywood scarefest Gehrayee

Blogue Macabre remembers monster artist Linda "Meek" Miller.

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.

Tuesday stuffage

13 unearths dear old Basil Rathbone's final film, Autopsia De Un Fantasma!

"...This was Basil Rathbone's last film, and Yes, it's sad to say that the careers of some of the best, ended up as nothing more than Mexican farting robots!...:

Ain't it Cool points the way to the HD trailer for Fears in the Dark.

"The Strange Tree" grows at The Horrors of it All.

Dread Central gives us a heads up that the latest installment of No None Survivors is now available.

Bloody Good Horror Podcast Episode #41 now up

Hulu has added some Web Exclusive clips from "reality" show Ghost Hunters.

SFF Audio reviews Librivox's Turn of the Screw.

Super Punch's picks for the best covers coming out of DC's December releases include a nifty classic monsterific one by Gary Frank for Action #872.

Grantbridge Street shares "Blood of Our Fathers".

Toyriffic takes a look at a couple of his favorite Mystery Machines.

Twitch has the International trailer for the Russian horror remake Viy.

Underwire looks at Rick Geary's "The Lindbergh Child: America's Hero and the Crime of the Century"

Spoiler TV has..

• Fringe Episode 2 Sneak Peek
• Life on Mars Sneak Peek.

Pop Vultures has a Supernatural Preview.

Thrilling Days of Yesteryear remembers The Shadow.

Netflix Watch Instantly (req account)

Cheezy Fantasy Trailers
Swords, sorcery, monsters and mayhem abound in this collection of trailers for some of Hollywood's most spectacularly silly fantasy movies. Relive the magic -- without actually sitting through the movies -- of such good/bad flicks as The Giant Gila Monster, Mighty Ursus, Hercules, Captain Sinbad and The Slave. Also included are The Giant Behemoth, From Beyond Space, Valley of the Dragon, The Cyclops, The Abominable Snowman and more.

The Exorcist Chronicles
Dr. Eric Forester practices abnormal psychology, but this project may be beyond anything he's ever seen. It's 1983 and the Catholic Church approaches him to validate claims of demonic possession in this purported documentary. After he interviews several priests, Dr. Forester makes startling discoveries in his investigation. What horrifying truth lies behind these claims? The answer will scare the hell out of you.

King of the Rocket Men
A villain who calls himself Dr. Vulcan uses a remote control to kill a group of atomic researchers one by one in this classic sci-fi serial from the days of kid-centered Saturday matinees. Believing Dr. Vulcan is a member of their team who wants to grab all the glory of their technological discoveries for himself, one of the scientists (Tristram Coffin) dons an experimental rocket suit and takes to the skies to battle the evil adversary.

Monday stuff

13 has a look at one of my childhood favs - The Comedy of Terrors.

Over at the Classic Horror Film Board user Rapfred has a review of the Victor Buono thriller The Strangler.

Nigel Kneale's Quatermass II comics from 1955 at Quatermass II (via Oldmanster at CHFB)

Cool-Mo-Dee has a Music Monday / Halloween Countdown preview.

The Dark Sublime declares this week HAW - Hellraiser Appreciation Week.

Dinner with Max Jenke reviews Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse.

At Firstshowing.net: a review of The Burrowers and the extended preview of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

The Fortress of Fortitude shares Mother's Boy from Haunted Love #5.

Fringe Television has clips of Anna Torve and Joshua Jackson's weekend pilot repeat hosting gig.

Hallow E'en Witches' Flying-Machine points to a nice article about Dennison's Halloween Bogie Books. indispensible resources for the vintage Halloween enthusist, at Vintage Griffin.

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...

Dave Sindelar's Movie of the Day

Pretty much everyday for the last few years Dave Sindelar has been posting an amazing capsule genre film review, first to the now sadly defunct Sinister Cinema and Scifilm message boards (archives of these posts can be found at Fantastic Movie Musings and Rumbings) and now to The Classic Horror Film Board. I've happily lost huge chunks of time reading Dave's addictivly good reviews - there are more than two thousand to choose from!!!!

Recent posts include:

• The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)
• The Fantastic Animation Festival (1977)
• Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976)
• Wizards (1977)
• Killdozer (1974)
• 7 cadaveri per Scotland Yard (1971)
• The House That Would Not Die (1970)
• Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

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.

Friday night stuff

Greenbriar Picture Shows has yet another amazing post up. This time, a look at "The Pair That Curled Your Hair", Dracula and Frankenstein!

"...For seven years after their initial release in 1931, showmen regarded them separately. Playdates were infrequent as Universal provided sequels (Bride Of Frankenstein, Dracula's Daughter) beginning right where originals left off, but there were gold deposits untapped even as the mine's route lay not hidden, but in plain sight. The magic was in combining them, but nobody thought of that until seemingly bungled reissues of Frankenstein and Dracula suddenly caught fire together in August 1938..."

Cool-Mo-Dee shares The New Kroft Supershow Comic (#1) featuring "...Magic Mongo, Bigfoot and Wildboy, Kaptain Kool and the Kongs, and Wonderbug."

Fringe Television has uncovered Walter's Lab Notes.

Gloomy Sunday reviews The House That Fear Built by Cassandra Knye (aka Thomas M Disch and John Sladek)

"Listen! Do You Smell Something?": The Horror / Comedy Divide at The Last Blog on the Left.

Radio Drama Revival offers Quicksilver Radio Theater's production of The Speckled Band! Part One | Part Two

Mashed Up or Sweded - The Homemade SciFi Worth Watching Online at SciFi Scanner.

SF Audio reminds us to pick up the Torchwood Radio Drama "Lost Souls" while it's still free plus free Doctor Who and 5 more fantastic free listens!

Sweet Skulls reviews "Garfield in Disguise" (aka "Garfield's Halloween Adventure")

A Trip to Vietnamese Hell (via Japundit)

Between Productions honors The Blob on it's 50th anniversary! (via Arbogast on Film)

TV Squad's Jason Hughes looks at Ten unfinished sci fi/fantasy series ... and I'm dying for resolution

Movie Morlocks looks back at the "Genuine Hand-painted Movie Masks" that were, once upon a time, advertised for sale in the pages of Famous Moinsters Magazine.

Thursday evening stuff

In honor of "that scene from Fringe' here's io9's The Best Skin Melting Scenes From Scifi.

More Fringey stuff from TV Squad: You have some questions about Fringe, so here are some answers

and finally from Fringe Bloggers comes Fringe Premiere Episode 1.01: Scifi Vs Reality.

Can you interrogate a dead person?
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"...It's apparently quite possible to extract information from a corpse as long as it's been dead for no more than six hours—and as long as it's only on Fringe. "There is no way to gather information from a dead person's brain," says Dr. Milstein. "However, if a patient dies suddenly, there is a short period of time—between minutes and hours—during which a neuron might be able to transmit a signal." Nonetheless, Milstein says that without specific pathways set by a living brain, it serves no purpose. The experiment would be similar to sending a current down an electrical wire with nothing attached to either end. Good thing Fringe is far from over..."

and finally finally here's next week's Fringe trailer (spoilers)

Random Acts of Geekery opens up Movie Monsters #4

"...Movie Monsters was Atlas/Seaboard's entry into the monster mag field. This issue was the last one of this magazine's short run. As we get into this, you'll see some ads that will be very familiar to you if you've ever read any of the 1970s Atlas comics!..."

Monster Memories shares the 1974 Nightmare Yearbook!

The Third Season of Jonathan Creek is finally coming to the States. (TVshowsonDVD)

Unspeakable Horror points out a terrific, and new to me, lycanthropic blog - Werewolf News

Variety SF notes that Mimsy Were the Borogoves (wikipedia info) is now available gratis, online at scribd.

Ian Jane reviews It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown over at DVD Talk.

Thursday stuff

Ryan Keefer at DVDTalk reviews Supernatural: The Complete Third Season

kindertrauma looks at the Bigfoot horror flick Night of the Demon.

Dread Central reminds us that Spike's Scream 2008 nominees have been announced.

the Fortress of Fortitide shares some vintage sapphic subtext in the classic horror comic story Partners in Blood.

The Horrors of it All has another eerie comic gem Witch-Hunt!

The Last Blog on the Left reviews Doomsday.

Zombo's Closet of Horror has a great post full of sage advice for would be dead meat : The Horror Movie Victim's Guide to Being a Good Victim.

Fringe Television has loads of info including a comparison of the official pilot we all saw the other night and the previously leaked version, lots of info on the viral marketing of the series and scans of the Fringe comic.

(I'm still lukewarm on Fringe - I love the idea but the pilot's second act dragged on forever and I'm pretty much done with the "evil corporation/government agency" thing that every movie and Tv show from Prison Break to Barney seems to default to in order to prove how little real imagination the writers actually have.)

Librivox has released a rare version of a famous tale: TheString of Pearls

"The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled "The String of Pearls" in the weekly magazine "The People's Periodical and Family Library". Called by some a romance, by others a horror story, it is one of the earliest murder mysteries. In "The String of Pearls", Sweeney Todd is less sympathetic than in some of his later incarnations – a perfect villain, totally self-seeking with no redeeming qualities. How the deeds of Todd are uncovered and how he is brought to justice make a most intriguing tale, but one probably not suited for the very young and certainly not for the squeamish. (Summary by John Lieder)."