As some of you know, I’m a tattoo enthusiast, collector and fledgling artist. As such, I attend a good amount of tattoo conventions and related events. Tatu Arte is Mexico’s biggest and best tattoo mag. They photographed me during a recent trip to Mexico to attend a three-day tattoo seminar as well as the country’s [...]
The Host with the Most
When I lived I Edmonton I’d go fishing in the North Saskatchewan River, a big, muddy body of water winding through the city, collecting run-off and crap flushed down the sewers. I wouldn’t eat a fish out of the North Sask, but there were large walleye, goldeye, pike and a variety of other fish living [...]
Horror movie posters pulled for being too “gruesome.”
As reported in a story on CNN.com, a poster campaign for the upcoming horror flick Captivity has been halted after the posters, featuring “images of the abduction, torture and death of a young woman”, used in its ad campaign drew public outcry. Apparently, the posters were not approved by the MPAA - which is standard [...]
Grindhouse To Be The Greatest Movie In The History Of The World?
We’ll see soon enough how Grindhouse did with the censors but over at the Wired Blog Network, Page 6 broke down some scenes from the highly anticipated film to a mathematical formula.
Click here to read on!
Ghoulish Creepshow t-shirts!
I thought I would share some recent t-shirt designs commissioned for the local psycho-billy outfit The Creepshow. I was in London Onterrible for their St. Patty’s Day gig and they unveiled three new designs by yours truly. The place was packed to the gills and we had a blast!
Check out their website at http//www.thecreepshow.ca or [...]
Let’s Make it Official
And the Horrorfind Hotness winner, as voted by Abattoir readers: Mr. Lucky McKee.
It was a landslide for Lucky, but how could it not be? I mean, c’mon, he’s the total package. From top down: that gorgeous thick hair says, “I just spent the morning surfing,” the glasses are like, “but I was in the library [...]
Can’t Spell “Romero” Without “Emo”
The awesome movie nerd blog Popcorn and Sticky Floors posted the song “George Romero” by UK band Sprites. Not your typical undead-themed song, but I dig it. It makes me wonder, though… if there was a zombie apocalypse, would the emo kids get eaten first because they were gazing at their shoes?
And now: “George Romero”
RM Writers Show up in the Strangest Places
Watch this trailer.
See anyone familiar?
(Thanks to Colin for sending the link)
Ready, Set… Shamble!
Now this is how you get attention for your low budget Canadian genre movie: “First Weekend Club, a non-profit organization that works to build audiences for great Canadian films during [their] critical first weekend theatrical release has been retained by Anagram Films, the producers of the much talked about zombie film FIDO, for a cross-Canada [...]
Critically Injured: Rotten Tomatoes’ Worst of the Worst
Rotten Tomatoes recently compiled a Worst of the Worst list: The 100 Worst-Reviewed Films of all Time, and wouldn’t you know it, there are in fact some horror titles on there (shocking, I know). The first thing you’re probably wondering is, “how did Boll score?” I went through the list and picked out all the [...]





