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Archive for July, 2007

New shirts for The Creepshow

Just wanted to post an advance look at two new designs for local horror-billy band The Creepshow.
The t-shirts will be available at their merch booth at their shows across North America. Check out their myspace page for when and where they’ll be invading your town!

Credits Where Credit’s Due

Every week, Steve over at The Horror Blog does a roundtable where he asks a horror-related question that a bunch of us geeks pontificate on. This past week he asked us to name our favourite opening credit sequence in a horror film. I went with the first one that came to mind: the Dawn of […]

High Pressure Tattoo #2

Here is a tattoo I did on my friend Craig Helmich of Maui Tattoo Company in Hawaii. I did this at Night Gallery during the Toronto Tattoo Convention with tattoo titans Bob Tyrrell, Kurt Wiscombe and Tommy Lee all watching and barking advice at me. I was sweating bullets. Craig’s been tattooing 30 years so […]

Out of Work Slasher

One of the best horror movies to come out last year – or this year, depending on whether or not you saw it on the festival circuit or on DVD – was Scott Glosserman’s brilliant deconstruction of the slasher genre, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. We first previewed it in the December […]

Pompadour and Circumstance: A Farewell to Bretts

Designer Brett Bakker, who has been an integral part of the Rue Morgue team for over two-and-a-half years has escaped- er, moved on, from the RM brood. He’s moved right out of Toronto, in fact, to take a job with the city of Kitchener as a designer. So if you’re there, expect to see walk-sign […]

More than Meets the Scrimm

Like any other red-blooded North American child-man who grew up in the ‘80s, I saw the new Transformers movie this weekend. And while that bombastic piece of toy porn has little to do with horror, one genre-related thing struck me while watching it: Megatron’s voice and personality seems modeled after The Tall Man from Phantasm. […]

It’s a Bird…it’s a Plane…it’s…

…Rue Morgue’s resident superhero Feedback! Who knew he’d look so commanding with a clean-shaven face and a leather jumpsuit?

Of course, we all know what Feedback’s super power is: he’s able to defend any Quentin Tarantino movie in a single bound.

No Vampires

This morning we arrived at the office to discover the whole street and sidewalk in front of our workplace littered with garlic cloves. I’m sure none of you need me to explain why we found this so damned amusing.

M.I.A.: Missing in Alberta

As you may have noticed, I’ve been rather absent from the Abattoir as of late. And, as mentioned in Gary’s much-appreciated birthday post, I was back in Alberta recently shooting a short film, called Fallow (specifics on what it’s about below), so between May/June pre-production in my off hours on that, the ten days of […]