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Archive for May, 2007

“Action. Suspense. Emotion”

According to this Rotten Tomatoes article, Robert Rodriguez is making a straight-to-DVD feature-length version of Machete. It’s about time Danny Trejo got a high-profile ass-kicking action hero role.

Now, “Where are my wife and daughter?!”
On a related note, watching this trailer again I realized that no director, aside from maybe Sam Peckinpah, liked Gatling guns more [...]

For Obvious Reasons…

…I find this hilarious.

This is courtesy my buddy Fish, from his site Zardex. If you want to seem more of his sometimes puerile, often penile and always hilariously perverse Bill Benson strips, click here.

Do You Like Cult Movies, Beer and Chris Alexander?

If so, and you live in Toronto, you might want to check this out. And don’t forget about Chris’ YouTube ode to C.H.U.D..
FILM JOURNALIST CHRIS ALEXANDER PRESENTS
“FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS”
A NEW HORROR/CULT MOVIE SCREENING SERIES
STARTING THIS JUNE AT THE BRUNSWICK THEATRE.
May 9th, 2007 - What better way to start your steamy summer Friday nights than [...]

Brickfish Rue Morgue cover contest winner

During the month of April, Brickfish hosted the first contest to create your very own Rue Morgue cover. There were 80 submissions in total, ranging in all forms of creativity. Here is the winning cover and a brief description why we chose it. Thanks to those who took the time to submit to the contest!
RUE [...]

Sinister Seven: RM Radio’s Liisa Ladouceur

Also known as The Blood Spattered Guide, Liisa is the most recent addition to RM Radio, where she does music-related interviews, news and features. Few people know this, but she once shot a man in Reno, just to steal his “i” – it’s true! She also completes our series of interviews with the people who [...]

Sinister Seven: RM Radio’s Tomb Dragomir

DJ, audio engineer and all around Evil Angel of the Airwaves, Tomb Dragomir is third up in our series of interviews with the crew from Rue Morgue Radio. Part Wizard of Oz behind the scenes, part Wizard of Gore behind the mic, put your claws together for Toooooooomb…
1) Describe your role on Rue Morgue Radio.
Host/programmer/audio [...]

Sinister Seven: RM Radio’s Stuart Andrews

Part two of my interviews with the folks behind Rue Morgue Radio puts Stuart “Feedback” Andrews in the spotlight. For maximum effect, please read his answers with a wry British accent.
1) Describe your role on Rue Morgue Radio.
I conduct interviews with a wide variety of folks connected to the horror industry, from bonafide genre icons [...]

Sinister Seven: RM Radio’s Chris Alexander

In honour of the second anniversary of Rue Morgue Radio, I’m going to profile each of the four personalities who put together the show every week. I’ve asked all of them the same seven questions, and I’ll post one of the interviews each day. We’ll do this in alphabetical order, so first up, one half [...]

Take the Canuck Horror Quiz

I stumbled on this ten-question quiz the other day about Canadian horror films that the CBC put on its website a couple years ago. I love that graphic by Jillian Tamaki, so let’s revisit it. Some of the questions are way easy, while some are pretty damn obscure – or at least hard if you [...]

An Open Letter from Uncle Lloyd

Troma kingpin Lloyd Kaufman sent around the following letter around in response to a recent New York Times piece on the death of Jack Valenti, long time (former) head of the industry-run film rating body. If you want a real eye-opener on how shady the MPAA is, you should see the entertaining and ultimately disturbing [...]