Showing posts with label creepy crawlies. Show all posts
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Monday, November 10, 2008

More Tricks and Treats

It's Monster Monday! at Random Acts of Geekery with loads of amazing posters, stills and other ghoulish goodies plus cool Star Trek Stuff.

New Star Trek Trailer Offers Topless Uhura And Fun Scotty @ io9

And Now the Screaming Starts reviews "The Cave"

Horror's Not Dead reviews Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition

DVD Savant reviews Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Blu Ray)

Last Blog on the Left reviews Dark Floors

Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave! (Super Punch)

io9 is less than impressed, so far, by the MSN Uk's Web Video series Kirill but they do have some suggestions of what you should watch this week on TV from Chuck and Fringe to Supernatural and Robot Chicken.

Robot Chicken Star Wars: Episode II Clips (SF Signal)

Suvudu looks at the Horror that awaits to haunt theaters after the New Year.

Torches and Pitchforks Card Game Review at Flames Rising
"The Card Game of Monster Movie Mayhem! This is a funny card game from Green Ronin with spoofs on various horror classics ranging from Frankenstein to Dracula with ghosts, beasts and other monsters mixed in to keep things interesting. The local townsfolk team up to destroy these monsters and deal with mayhem along the way."

Saturday, October 25, 2008

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 25: Another Quickie


Vintage Trick or Treaters
at Plaid Stallions

Movie Morlocks share Dr. Renault's Secret

Universal Horror Sounds presents:
The Haunted House (1962)
This was fun! WFLA TV's Uncle Bruce and Barney The Clown explore an old Haunted House on Halloween night. Also titled as The Secret Of The Old Cypress Mansion.
Cool-Moe-Dee has some Halloween-ish South Park episodes

The Omen OST at Digital Meltd0wn

Hulu offers..
The Thing
John Carpenter's 1982 horror/science fiction classic about the revival of an unknown shape-shifting creature at a scientific research station in Antarctica.
Random Acts of Geekery presents Them

S4w-Monsters015-TheMummy (by senses working overtime)

Saturday, October 18, 2008

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 18: Noon

Frankenteinia on Mexico's El Castillo de los monstruos

Cool-Mo-Dee climbs up into The Treehouse of Horror

Part 6 of MY(P)WHAE's Halloween series is now available!

Vinnie Rattolle scares up The Funky Phantom

Deadman lives at Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Hellgate is Quint's Movie of the day

Real Science Meets Lovecraft's Imagination: Nyarlathotep
(Chris Perridas)

It's Frankenstein vs. Dracula! at Comic Coverage

Explotation Retrospect celebrates Klaus(Kinski)Day with a rare Nosferatu Radio Spot plus Jess Franco Does Dracula

The Uranium Cafe review Dario Argento's Jennifer and shares the original Creepy comic it was adapted from.

Random Acts of Geekery's Movie of the Week is one of my all time favorite 50's SciFi flicks - The Deadly Mantis!

Friday, October 03, 2008

31 Days of Halloween: Day 3: The Comics Rack : Scream

For 15 glorious weeks in 1984 British horror fan had a weekly comic all their own. Scream. It didn't last long but it made quite an impression while it was around - at least to it's, clearly not large enough to be profitable, fan base. Here is the first installment of a sort of highlights reel for Scream's tragically short run...

(note: a friend sent me these scans - he picked them up somewhere on the net but I've no clue where. Thanks very much to the original scanner!)

1984-03-24 Scream 01 01 (by senses working overtime)
1984-03-24 Scream 01 08 Monster [Alan Moore] (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-24 Scream 01 09 Monster [Alan Moore] (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-24 Scream 01 10 Monster [Alan Moore] (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-24 Scream 01 11 Monster [Alan Moore] (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-24 Scream 01 32 Scream poster (part 1 of 6) (by senses working overtime)
1984-03-31 Scream 02 01 (by senses working overtime)
1984-03-31 Scream 02 26 Terror of the Cats (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-31 Scream 02 27 Terror of the Cats (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-31 Scream 02 28 Terror of the Cats (by senses working overtime) 1984-03-31 Scream 02 32 Scream poster (part 2 of 6) (by senses working overtime)

More Scream Tomorrow...

For more information on Scream check out this great fan site

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

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...

Père-Lachaise (by Vineyards) Spooky! (by jen76me) Mac-O-Lantern Face 1 (by Tim Siedell)

Friday, September 05, 2008

more Friday stuff

Tor.com's William Smith lays out his Dream Zombie Game.

Tokyo After the Apocalypse at Environmental Graffiti.

Dan Hillier's new tentacle horrors @ Boing Boing.

Internet Archive...

Rocky Jones: Beyond the Curtain of Space
Captain Midnight

e-books...

(sci-fi) Edgar Pangborn's The Good Neighbors at Project Gutenberg (txt)/ feedbooks (many formats)

Torchwood Radio Play Preview...






Flickr...

Ultra Hot Rod (by Jeff Lamm) Draceno Morata (by creepyheads) Victima! (by rollingatron)

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...

Head (by Horriblesweet) halloween season is coming (by ConcreteWaffer) skull poster (by aziritt)

Thursday, September 04, 2008

some more Thursday stuff

MTV has a 5 page Fringe comic preview (via Pop Culture Safari)

Soul Rift at Echo Fiction:
A girl is found dead in a VIP room to a private S&M night club, a bomb strapped onto her body. After a devastating explosion, Detective Alice Walker and Spectre try to find her stolen soul, the key to a forming criminal underworld of the dead.
Episode one now available.

Comic Book Resources interviews the X-Files' Frank Spotnitz.

Unspeakable Horror reviews The Book of Lists: Horror.

Giallo Fever reviews George Franju's final work - Nuits rouges /Shadowman.

Boing Boing discovers a Skeleton Disco Ball.

Giant Mechanical spider attacks Liverpool! (courtesy of La Machine)