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POST APOCALYPSE – WAR IS PEACE
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It’s the Rue Morgue Podcast Christmas Special!
Last Chance Lance join me to read more of the contest entries we got for the 5 disc The Hammer House of Horror DVD courtesy of Synapse Films – and one of three copies of Color Correct My Cock courtesy of the mad buggers over at Vagrancy Films.
And we have a new contest! Win one of three copies of Rue Morgue’s 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need To See! (100 per cent Lance Chance Lance Free!)
Have A Christmas!
:- FDBK
p.s. And for your edification (and nightmares)…
Here he is – The DEMON OF DES MOINES! (If you see this man in public, run to a safe place and contact the authorities immediately.)
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Friday…8PM…Banjara Indian Cuisine
It will be magical, Lance.
I will let Tara watch.
I’m very sorry, Lance, I’m just hearing this now. Did Owen join you? Was it fun? I do love that restaurant, and the one next door with the yummy dosas. Another time, if you’ll allow… and perhaps with your partner as well? Lovely touch, Feedback, with the Silence of the Lambs score. If I’m fortunate enough, and armed, meeting you would also be a pleasure, Mr. Garth.
I hope he didn’t mean last Friday, I’m still trying to figure a way to sneak across the border. Need to disguise my van somehow. Don’t worry, Tara, when I get there I will collect you and we can seek out Lance together…
Oh, wonderful, Owen! I’ll stock up on Mace and prepare myself for your imminent arrival.
Black Sabbath
The Night of the Hunter
Red White & Blue
Sleepaway Camp
Torso
THANK U MR. FEEDBACK FOR THE MENTION ON THE PODCAST THAT MADE MY FUCKIN CHRISTMAS .MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YALL AND .I WILL BE WAITIN BY THE MAILBOX.
It should have arrived by now! So hopefully it hasn’t gone AWOL. Keep me posted and I’m glad we cheered up your Christmas!
My picks would have to be Fire Walk With Me, Halloween III, Hausu, Ghostwatch and Stan Brakhage’s The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes.
Pleasew enter me in the contest Thank You
I’ve never heard of those films….
Lots of tooth talk in this episode! I can personally attest that Paul Corupe has impeccable oral hygiene and from what I can recall, Douglas Buck is pretty dreamy.
Next time I meet Lance I’m going to punch him in the nuts as hard as I can. Let’s see if he remembers me after that!
And my entry for the contest… oh wait. I can’t enter to win the Top 200. I WROTE FOR IT!
Ironically, Lance has worse teeth than both of them!
by the way . . . if this is for the 200 alternative horror flicks, you can take me out of the contest. I already bought it, plus a second copy to give to someone as a Christmas gift. I’m only on the letter “C”, but I already highly recommend it!
No worries. It was a good entry regardless!
If you punch Lance in the nuts, please have someone record it!
My thoughts exactly.
I’d still love to see your list, Andrea.
Five films, hm?
Video Diary of a Lost Girl
Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love
Pulse/Kairo (Japan)
Cannibal (2006, dir. Marian Dora)
The Pact
Very original, Lance, accusing a guy who writes on a message board of living in his mom’s basement. Finger on the pulse of comedy, as usual.
Although ironically, I did listen to this podcast in my mom’s basement, because I was home for the holidays. So I guess you kinda got me after all.
My five picks:
Tourist Trap
Halloween 3
Phantom of the Paradise
The Eternal Evil of Asia
Trick r Treat
Lance has been busted by the Comedy Police! I can’t wait to deliver the summons….
In case you missed it because I put my reply in the wrong place (more ammo for Lance), I don’t need to enter the contest cuz I already have the mag.
I’d love a chance to win the 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need To See! magazine, there’d be a ton of great films to hunt down I’ve yet to see.
I hope all of you there at RM had a great Christmas/holiday and New Year’s, as well as all of your readers.
You have to listen to the show for details how to enter…..
My five films would be-
Death and the Maiden
Trick R’ Treat
People Under the Stairs
Creep
Homebodies
Blurb about Lance: Lance, you’re fuckin’ great. And only a tiny bit creepy.
Picks for the contest!
1. Blood and Roses by Roger Vadim
2. Spasmo by Umberto Lenzi
3. The House of the Laughing Windows by Pupi Avati
4. Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein by Andy Warhol
5. The Sentinel by Michael Winner
Very cool list. Incidentally, I wrote a review of THE SENTINEL for the 200 films issue.
Thanks! I’m hoping to win the issue so I can read your review! I love THE SENTINEL so hard. It’s so creepy in so many ways, ACTUALLY creepy. And there are so few movies that get that genuine reaction from me. It’s a keeper for sure. Happy New Year!
Angel Heart
Sssssssss
Session 9
The Company of Wolves
Mako: The Jaws of Death
I mentioned on the Mortuary that I wouldn’t enter, but purely for Lance’s signature on the cover…
Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf
Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visage (a masterpiece in and of itself, but I also consider essential horror viewing his amazing short on the slaughterhouses of Paris, included on the Criterion DVD)
Russell’s The Devils
Shindo’s Onibaba
Shindo’s Kuroneko
Awesome list.
Lance, shut it. Feedbag, you’re a lovable communist.
1. Ssssss (Strother Martin and Dirk Benedict? Please, what else do you need?)
2. The Wicker Man (Original. The songs alone make it horrific. Nicholas Cage’s hairpiece notwithstanding the remake.)
3. Nosferatu (or, as my ex-wife called it, “Nose for Two”)
4. Bubba Ho-Tep (Bruce Campbell. Elvis. JFK. Nursing Home.)
5. Zombi 2 (The tits. The eyeball popping. The bwah bwah bwah synths. That is all.)
Cheers.
Correction – a lovable ANARCHIST….big difference.
Fair enough! Lovable all the same.
What NOSFERATU are you referring to?
I’m not sure Zombie and The Wicker Man qualifies as ‘alternative’ either.
Hmmm…..
(I’m only asking so far after the fact coz I’m putting a master list together.)
Original Nosferatu. Original Wicker. You be the judge, Feedbag.
It was a very embarrassing experience. I am not sure which is more embarrassing, that experience or sitting through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I would probably rather dive into a pool of blood than have to endure a single frame from that abomination again. Oh and Feedback, I agree Island Of Death is a must see. A total mad mind fuck of a film. Happy New Year to you both.
Cheers! Happy New Year to you too!
I’d love to get my hands on a copy of that book- especially as I won’t have to worry about stumbling across any idiotic Lance ramblings within its pages.
So here are my 5 entries- though, to be fair its difficult to know what constitutes as ‘alternative’ these days….
Macabre (Indonesian horror flick with the creepiest villains I’ve ever seen)
Dead Hooker In a Trunk (a must-see for fans of indie-horror and grindhouse)
Bedevilled (One of the best revenge horrors that Korea has to offer)
Them
Abnormal Beauty
Happy New Year chaps
xx
Happy New Year 2 u 2 Chelsey!
Some great entries here – and I’m loving all the Last Chance Lance stuff too!
HAPPY NEW YEAR Everyone and All The Best for 2013!
FDBK
Lance who? You mean LAMP?
If I get a copy can I get Lance to sign the last page? 100% Last Page Last Chance Lance at last!
My picks are:
LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971)
THE SIGNAL (2007)
X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES (1963)
WESTWORLD (1973)
NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957)
Despite Lance’s assertion that I “don’t count”, and assuming that we’re talking about movies that tend to slip under most people’s radar (so the more well-known movies are a given), here are the movies I find myself pulling off the shelf time after time to show friends who haven’t seen them; these are 5 of my actual “Must See” movies, in no particular order:
• Session 9
• Altered
• Severance
• Cemetery Man
• Dust Devil
My picks in no particular order:
Creepshow 2
Sella Turcica
Blair Witch 2
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Honorable Mention: Ratline, the latest film by Eric Stanze starring Emily Haack and Jason Christ
After Lance shamelessly (or perhaps, shamefully?) plugged Ratline so many times I had to grab a copy and I actually loved it. It has already been discussed so much on the show though and I wanted to include 5 original titles.
A few of these films contain more than their share of bad acting and lackluster special effects, but they have some wonderfully creepy moments (with the exception of the blood-and-excrement splatterfest that is Poultrygeist). Sure, they can be laughably bad, but if they weren’t then they wouldn’t belong on an alternative horror list.
Lance’s head will explode with joy when he reads this!
I’ve been singing the praises of Blair Witch 2 since it came out. Not one of my favorite movies, but SO much better than it’s ever gotten credit for being.
Hi guys I discovered the podcast earlier in the year whilst searching for a new horror podcast to fill the void from another podcast ending. I was surprised to hear the familiar sound of a fellow scouser coming over the airwaves. I’d like to say well done to u fdbk for representing us Liverpudlians in such a respectable light and not the sock robbing theves that is the common opinion of our strangely beautiful city. Lance you make me laugh till i piss myself my child often asks why I’m laughing to myself I only wish I could share in the delights of such word play as you deliver to us listeners. My five movies are
The devils
Frostbite (awaiting screening)
Troll hunter
Pontypool
The stuff
Paddy from Liverpool
A fellow scouser! Fantastic. There’s a few of them who listen….
If you know any more Liverpudlian horror fans, let them know about the show!
FDBK
p.s. Another entry that Lance is gonna love….
Also if frostbite doesn’t count or is considered as a way of swaying lance in favor of my list I’d like to place dead mans shoes as my alternative.
Paddy
It’s ok – because we’re picking the winners purely by random for this one.
At this moment my list of alternative films which don’t get enough love and attention would include:
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Lifeforce (1985)
Dagon (2001)
Brides Of Dracula (1960)
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979)
So many great picks in here….
When this contest is closed, I’ll compile the list and scribble up a blog post entitled – “Essential Alternative Horror Movies – as selected by listeners of the Rue Morgue Podcast” (or something to that effect.
1. Jan Svankmajer’s “Alice”
2. Dream Home (The Pang Ho-Cheung Film, not the Daniel Craig POS)
3. The Woman
4. Imprint (Takashi Miike-Unaired Masters of Horror Episode)
5. I Saw the Devil
Note: I already picked up the 200 Alternative Horror Films guide, so if by chance I do win, can I have an alternate prize? Maybe one of Lance’s frozen pets? I would like to teach my children about cryonics.
Hello everyone, FEEDBACK and lamp,
Feedback thanks for getting back to me about performing the ceremony for my wedding, at the mutter museum. Even tho it was a no.
My five alternative horror films would be
Mom (1991)
the shining
Return of the night of the living dead
Ginger snaps
Eraser head
Lamp if you are interested in being our affiliate there are a few requests. You must being a trauma bag (for a wedding gift, we’d probably use it for sex) and you must do it as Christopher Walken.
Thanks for all the hard work.
Dave Wynne
I hope I’m not too late to enter.
First, who the fuck is Lance? I think his mother would be awfully disappoointed to know people constantly make the common mistake of calling him Lance, but more so that he isn’t correcting you folks! His name is LAMP. You’re welcome, LAMP!
My picks would be:
(1) Phantom of the Paradise. I saw someone else list this. I just saw it, while sitting next to my good buddy Owen Garth, during the Columbus 24 Hour Horror Movie Marathon last October. Excellent movie.
(2) Eyes Without A Face
(3) Combat Shock (does that count?)
(4) Repulsion
(5) Possession (1981) – also seen at the 24 Hour Horror Movie Marathon with Garth. A fucking masterpiece. Weird enough to make me break out into a sweat.
Happy new year, fellas. I missed you
Glad to have you back, Meli!
Pieces
Basket Case
The Legend of Hell House
Let The Right One In
The Beyond
Been meaning to send in a list of films for a while now. So many favorites, where to start?
Tales from the Crypt – LOVE Portmanteau films. This is the best of the bunch.
Psychomania – Underrated 70s biker/undead flick.
Horror Hotel – Birth of Amicus studios. Unique story structure. Chris Lee. Nuff said!
Island of Terror – Peter Cushing stuck on an island surrounded by slimy amoeba creatures that liquify bones and organs.
Zombie (Fulci) – Goblin soundtrack, buckets of gore. Remote island setting. My favorite zombie film.
So many other great movies being mentioned. I could have made a Top 20 just from these other suggestions.
Also getting some good ideas for movies I apparently need to see. Thanks, all!
Errr…Goblin didnt do the ZOMBIE soundtrack. That was Fabio Frizzi.
I have a copy of the Dawn of the Dead soundtrack done by Goblin and the cover is from the Italian release and it says “ZOMBI 2″ on it
When my husband gave it to me I yelled out “Oh, the soundtrack to ZOMBIE!” The record title confused me.
Either way, Goblin and Fabio Frizzi are both tops.
Err, it just says “ZOMBI” not “ZOMBI 2.” Whatever, I’m so confused *^_^*
@ZIMERMAAAAAAAAAN!!!
You are right, that is Fabio frizzi. It is Goblin-esque in sound, but you are 100% correct, that is Frizzi. A GREAT soundtrack though!
This is stupid late but if FDBK is still paying attention:
Wild Zero (GUITAR WOLF!!!)
Viy (Russians gave me nightmares)
Children Shouldn’t play with Dead Things (Bob Clark + annoying lead + devastating ending)
Simon King of Witches (this needs recognition!)
Long Weekend (Australian OG nature revenge)
I’m paying attention….