Montrealers Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion made their name on the stage with their acclaimed musical comedy J.O.B.: The Hip-Hop Musical, which premiered at Toronto’s Fringe Festival back in 2001. Now they’re back in the T-dot to screen their first short film, the 12-minute horror musical comedy The Legend of Beaver Dam. It plays in front of the much-anticipated stoner comedy Fubar II this Friday, September 9, at 11:59 p.m. at the Ryerson Theatre as part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program.
Rue Morgue spoke to Resident Evil: Afterlife producer Jeremy Bolt on the Toronto set last December. The full article is available in Issue #104 (available on newsstands now) but here is more from Bolt on working on 3D, the power of the RE franchise, and whether we can expect a fifth film
Check out this new trailer for upcoming Italian zombie epidemic film Eaters. Despite the fact it’s produced by German scheissemeister Uwe Boll (Bloodrayne, House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark), it actually looks promisingly gritty! His cinematic vision isn’t exactly known to be 20/20. In his blurry quest to discern whether that hole in the ground over there is actually his asshole, could he have tripped and fallen into a film production of actual worth?
With another Festival of Fear/FanExpo come and gone, there are no doubt many collectors out there trying to make room in their homes for the ghastly goodies they picked up at the show. Whether it be movies, masks, action figures or posters, it can become (and I speak from experience here) increasingly challenging to create space to display each new addition. Personally speaking, I promised myself not to spend too much this year and limit myself to just a few items. And I stuck to that by only picking up two bobble heads, a movie (VHS tape) and a couple of repro lobby cards. Now, while I won’t bother going into the tape or cards, I feel I have to show off these amazing bobble heads – inspired from what is probably the greatest TV show of all time:The Twilight Zone!
Rue Morgue spent an afternoon on the Toronto set of Resident Evil: Afterlife last December, and the story of that visit is available to read in our current issue (RM #104). To preview the film’s Sept. 10 opening, here is more of our interview with series star Milla Jovovich.
Seminal California gore/death metallers Autopsy, who originally called it quits in 1995, are back with a new EP called The Tomb Within (out October 5 as both a CD and 12″ vinyl release through Peaceville Records) after lead vocalist/drummer Chris Reifert pulled the plug on the band he’d assembled in Autopsy’s wake, Abscess (whose most recent album Dawn of Inhumanity was review in RM#100), earlier this summer. After giving the band’s repulsive new work a spin (which features such aural romance as “My Corpse Shall Rise,” “Seven Skulls” and “Mutant Village”), I stitched up my wounds, disinfected my headphones, put my desk back together (it was nearly rendered kindling from the onslaught) and sought out Reifert in order to subject him to a round of our favourite online inquisition.
Rue Morgue president Rodrigo Gudiño and M. Falcore’s new video for The Birthday Massacre’s IN THE DARK, their new single off their Pins & Needles album, is now live! The video is a homage to the horror flicks of the 1980s with a Birthday Massacre twist. Let us know what you think!
A new teaser trailer has been released for the feature-length film version of Hobo with a Shotgun, the amazing little Canadian-film-that-could from Nova Scotian writer/director Jason Eisener. The journey began more than three years ago, when a fake trailer for the hypothetical movie was entered into a contest at the annual SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival in Austin, Texas and won a spot amongst other fake trailers (such as Rob Zombie’s Werewolf Women of the SS) to screen before Robert Rodriguez’s and Quentin Tarantino’s throwback exploitation double-bill Grindhouse. Rodriguez’s own Machete has also been adapted into a feature and opens today in theatres across North America.
I was working late at the office last night when one of my favourite people called: Johnny Legend. He checked in to tell us about some new stuff he’s got coming out on DVD: Dennis Hopper: The Early Works, Betty White: From the Fabulous ’50s and Trek Stars Go West (old T.V. western episodes featuring cast members from the original Star Trek). Not horror but classic crazy Legend stuff.
Johnny also told me about a video from 1994 that he just posted on YouTube, featuring him on the (original) John Stewart Show talking about tracking down Jack Hill’s Spider Baby and re-releasing it on video. When they start talking about Spider Baby director Walter Hill, Quentin Tarantino appears…
Enjoy.
It’s actually very frustrating when one re-watches a film’s credits, purposely to find the name of the composer responsible for the eerie music, only to find no composer credit whatsoever.
Who wrote the music? Where did it come from? Did someone muck up the credit list?
In the case of Night of the Living Dead (1968), it’s been known for years that George Romero used stock or library music, which gave the film a very weird sense of watching some lost black & white classic, but without the heavy-handed bombast associated with giant bugs, or a Day-Glo Lon Chaney Jr.
It’s not often that there’s a mounted taxidermy example of an alleged cryptozoological beast, but in the case of the mysterious Shunka Warak’in, this might be a real possibility!
The name for this legendary creepy canid was provided by the Ioway Indians, roughly translated as “carrying off dogs.” It is said to be a four-legged animal similar to a wolf or hyena which lives (or lived) in the midwestern United States, most notably in the Montana region. Little is known about Shunka, but according to the native peoples of the area, he was indeed a real animal.
Grab your gravestones, ’cause German’s horror punk practitioners The Other has just dropped its latest album New Blood in North America. Front man Rod Usher tells us the terrifying tale of the latest album…
With a few hours left of August, here’s the latest tally of current and soon-to-be-released soundtracks, covering horror, giallo, gothic, suspense, and maybe a smidge of cult.
The list includes CD as well as the odd DVD / Blu-ray releases featuring isolated score materials (see Image Entertainment below).
We caught up with Craig David Wallace today, the creator of Todd & the Book of Pure Evil, a new Space TV series about Crowley High student Todd (Alex House) who dreams of two things: 1) becoming a metal god and 2) banging/going out with ultra-hot fellow student Jenny Kolinsky (Maggie Castle)
It’s not often that there’s a mounted taxidermy example of an alleged cryptozoological beast, but in the case of the mysterious Shunka Warak’in, this might be a real possibility!
