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Justin Erickson’s PIN-UP GHOULS

Tonight is the night, my fiends! When the clock strikes 8, and the moon is out, the PIN-UP GHOULS will crawl up from their tombs and haunt The Gladstone Hotel for the evening!
A collection of 20 brand new horror pin-up girl illustrations by Rue Morgue graphic designer, Justin Erickson. Limited edition prints will be available […]

Top 27 Horror Comedies

OMGhorror.com is quickly becoming one of my favourite websites for horror goodness. Today I happened across a list they compiled of the top 27 (?) Horror Comedies, which are some of the most re-watchable and fun movies out there. Major extra points for including The Burbs, an office favourite.
#27: Fright Night
#26: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
#25: […]

Updating Hitchcock.

No not the Gus van Sant shot for shot recreation of Psycho, which still perplexes me to this day.
Vanity Fair recently put (current issue maybe?) a photo series of iconic Hitchcock scenes using modern day actors and actresses. Not crappy D list celebrities either, they managed to pull quite a few A listers. I’m not […]

Bring out your dead!

Livescience.com has a pretty interesting little list about weird ways different cultures the world over deal with death and the disposal of the dead.

10. Towers of Silence
Zoroastrians believe the body is impure and shouldn’t pollute the earth after death through burial or cremation. Instead, the deceased are brought to a ceremonial “tower of silence”, usually […]

Bad censor…

Irony is delicious isn’t it?
I have serious problems with censoring. As an artist myself, I believe that a final work of an artist/writer/director/etc intends should be seen/read/experienced as it’s meant to. When suits and sexually repressed fuck-wads filter out material a select few deem “offensive”, it rapes the work’s integrity and molests the artist’s original […]

Top 20 Goriest Album Covers

According to these people: http://slideshow.dallasobserver.com/index.php?gallery=22732&type=1&current=0
Most of the bands and covers you expect to see are in there, like Cannibal Corpse, Impaled and Exhumed. But the cover that makes them all look like Anne Geddes photographs is Phil Collins’ But Seriously .

Breaking News from 1938!

For my first (long overdue) blog post, I’d like to remind you all of the 69th anniversary of Orson Welles’ infamous adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds.
The War of the Worlds has been adapted a number of times, most recently with the over-stuffed special effects demo reel directed by Steven Spielberg. Welles’ […]