Hey, remember the 80s? The hair, the neon, the pop music, and OMG THE SCENE WITH THE TREE RAPE?! Yes, dear friends, I’m talking about The Evil Dead, the low-budget horror flick which launched the career of Sam Raimi. Sam would go on to direct Spiderman and produce succesful shows like Xena.
Well, The Evil Dead is back and ready to raise a new army of deadites with the aid of the Necronomicon (You do …
Skyline (2011) Directors: Greg Strause, Colin Strause Actors: Eric Balfour, Donald Faison
Skyline is a cheap B movie that accidentally stumbled onto a slightly bigger budget. Roger Corman would have shot 20 films with the money spent on this one and you might have ended up with more-interesting storylines.
Blending together ID4, the most recent War of the Worlds, Cloverfield, and even a dash of District 9, it’s a mess of a film, even …
This is the cutest, goriest bit of clay I have seen, ever! A short video that compresses The Thing into a couple of minutes is making the rounds of YouTube. The quirk? It stars Pingu, the loveable children’s character!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToCq_c3wOM8
While watching it, I also paused to watch some other animated horrors. First off, “The Terrible Old Man” version by Eldritch Animation:
I followed this with another Eldritch short, “The Statement of Randolph Carter”:
Finally, I discovered …
Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather (2006). Director: Vadim Jean. Cast: Neil Pearson, Tony Robinson, David Jason and Stephen Marcus. Country: UK.
I’m not one for heartwarming holiday specials, but if you have to watch something of that sort this time of year, I would recommend Terry Prachet’s Hogfather or Scrooged. Hogfather is a 2006 two-part television mini-series based on…um…Terry Prachet’s Discworld book of the same name. Though it’s made for television and, thus, a lower-budget affair, it’s a …
If you have a couple of spare toys this Christmas (and you live in the USA), you ought to enter the Toys for Tots Horror Style contest. Entrants need to post a pic of themselves dropping a toy into a “Toys For Tots” donation box. One random winner will win a whole library of horror books. Titles up for grabs include our own Future Lovecraft anthology, A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert …
