We’re crazy busy over here right now, putting a bang-up issue to bed, so there hasn’t been a lot of time to post, but I couldn’t let this slip by. You may have caught the news in the last few days that, according to supposed leaked government document, at the top of a list of […]

It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of longtime Rue Morgue friend, Ben “The Gillman” Chapman, who passed away this morning at 12:15 AM Hawaii time after being taken off life support, as per his living will. He was 79 years old.
Ben Chapman is most remembered for his role as The […]

If you’re ready (or even if you’re not), join us tonight at the Bloor, 9:30pm, for a 35mm screening of The Lost, starring Marc Senter as bad, bad, BAD seed Ray Pye, pictured above. This Jack Ketchum adaptation about a young narcissistic killer under investigation for a brutal double murder has touch of David Lynch, […]

The Modern Mechanix Blog has scanned and reprinted an article from the February, 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix, titled Makeup Secrets of Movie Horror Pictures, featuring the behind-the-scenes makeup effects for the Universal monsters, including photos of Karloff having his Mummy face application put on by Jack Pierce. It’s an awesome historical document. I particularly […]

You may or may not know that Rue Morgue writer Trevor Tuminski also rocks out with his metaphorical cock out in Canadian band Jet Set Satellite. In what is surely an effort to bring those two worlds closer, this past weekend Trev and crew were in Vancouver shooting a video for the song “Lady Killer,” […]

Ottawa filmmaker Lee Demarbre, of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace fame, is back with another genre gem in the form of The Dead Sleep Easy, a bloody, Mexico-set action flick, starring Canuck tough guy Ian Hodgkinson (who’s a wrestling star in Mexico under the name “Vampiro Canadiense”). Like Demarbre’s […]

This is an old journal entry from when our office was on Queen Street. I came across it recently and thought I’d post it here, to warn you about…
The Deadly Donut
This morning I strolled in to the local donut shop on Queen Street for a shot of their special brand of super-caffinated, rancid, dirty dishwater […]

The tagline on the above Chinese bootleg of Planet of the Apes says it all: “Where Rule is Broke!”
In its latest hilarious and misguided cultural crackdown, the Chinese government has declared war on horror movies, which, of course, will only make them more popular. For that I say thanks.
According to an article here, a […]

Most of you reading this have may of heard by now that Roy Scheider, best known for his role as Chief Brody in a little film called Jaws, has passed away at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. I can only hope that Roy is somewhere up there in a […]

Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dana Gould, Gabrielle Geiselman, and Piggy D., a memorial fund has been established in tribute to the late Maila “Vampira” Nurmi. Generous donations have helped secure her a final resting place in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery and also provided assistance to homeless animals through the Best Friends Animal Society, […]