Rue Morgue‘s own version of Rick The Temp, former intern Mike Beardsall, escapes his rickety cage in the unkempt bowels of the House of Horror long enough to file a review of Ghost’s Toronto show this past Sunday…
GHOST
13 Dates of Doom Tour
w/Blood Ceremony and Ancient VVisdom
Mod Club – Toronto
January 22, 2012
Avid RM readers will know that we here at the mag sure as hell love us some Ghost (so much, in fact, that we even named them the Best Musical Discovery of 2011 in the latest issue). So when we heard that they had rescheduled their first North American tour (the one they’d initially planned last fall cancelled due to travel visa-related complications) I jumped at the chance to finally bear witness to them firsthand.
CFC is presenting a special screening of an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead followed by an in-depth Q&A with executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, moderated by film critic Richard Crouse. From the press release:
“Hurd will speak to the making of this series, the process of adapting a popular graphic novel series as live action series, balancing expectations of the horror genre with those of a human drama in an award-winning and highly charged prime time show, as well the creative and producing challenges faced along the way.”
Sent to settle the affairs of a recently deceased widow in the decaying grounds of Eel Marsh House is middle-aged solicitor, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe). Upon his arrival, Kipps finds himself seeing and hearing unexplained noises that nearly send him over the edge. It soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the locals try to keep him from learning their tragic history, Kipps discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a woman whose appearances foreshadow a child’s death. Who is this woman? Watch the shocking mystery unfold in this new portrayal of the classic ghost story that will send chills down your spine.
No one, not even the children, are safe.
In theatres February 3.
Watch the EXCLUSIVE livestream of the black carpet premiere of The Woman in Black on the Alliance Films Facebook page this Thursday, January 26 at 6pm EST with special guest, Daniel Radcliffe.
Ti West’s The Innkeepers Opens Feb 3rd at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and you can win one of six double passes to attend the 9pm premiere. All ya gotta do is send an email to marketing@tiff.net with the answer to the following question…
Marcus Alqueres, most known for his visual effects work on 300, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes and most recently on Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin, has officially joined award-winning filmmaker and Rue Morgue founder Rodrigo Gudiño’s feature film debut The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, now in post-production. Alqueres will be supervising effects for a fully animated monster that appears in the film.
The Telefilm funded movie stars Aaron Poole (Small Town Murder Songs) alongside a yet to be announced surprise cast, details which will be revealed in the coming months.
In this supernatural thriller, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a widowed lawyer whose grief has put his career in jeopardy, is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost…and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance. Don’t miss Daniel Radcliffe in this new portrayal of a classic ghost story that will leave chills down your spine. In theatres February 3! Learn more on the movie’s official website. Watch the LIVE STREAM of the Woman in Black Toronto premiere at Scotiabank Theatre, on the Alliance Films Facebook page January 26 at 6 pm to see Daniel Radcliffe walking the Black Carpet!
Those mad creators of documentaries about the cool and arcane have posted their latest, a look into the arcane goings on in the Big Apple. Presenting The Midnight Archive‘s Occult New York, Parts 1 and 2.
The seventh installment of Little Terrors is upon us! The latest edition of the short film showcase, presented by Rue Morgue Magazine and Unstable Ground, goes down tomorrow night at Toronto’s newest rep cinema, The Projection Booth. Each month, Little Terrors brings you two full hours of the best genre-related short films, shown on the big screen. The films are followed by an in depth Q&A/meet & greet with some of the filmmakers. Also new this month: this will be a liquor licensed event!
Now that your curiosity is surely piqued by our Woman in Black cover story (RM #119), how about some free tickets to your local premiere? We’ve got ten double passes to each of the four screenings listed after the jump, courtesy of the nice folks at Alliance Films. To enter, email facebook@rue-morgue.com with your name, your full address, and which premiere you’d like attend. (Speaking of Facebook, have you ‘liked’ Rue Morgue’s official page yet?)
It’s the first Rue Morgue Podcast of 2012 but before we plunder forth into yonder year, let’s take a moment to reflect upon the one we just put to bed. We lost a lot of great genre icons in 2011, not the least of whom was the one and only David Hess, best known for his role as the sociopathic Krug Stillo from Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left (1972).
In 2009, he dropped by the Rue Morgue Studio of Rape and Revenge for a great little interview with director Lee Demarbre to promote their movie Smash Cut.
Sightings of SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC continue to hamper the confusion of the grindcore origin genealogy. Metalologists world over have been left in head-scratching confusion as to whether or not SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC really is a legendary grind band from Northern Michigan or some bizarre hoax perpetrated on the metal elite.
American heavy metal giants Lamb of God have just released this second video for the debut single “Ghost Walking” from its forthcoming seventh album, Resolution, out January 24 from Epic. While it doesn’t exactly runneth over with tasty horror moments, the animation is fantastic and, is it just me or does the fight near the end look like a dust-up between The Invisible Man and a 2-1B surgical droid from Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back? Plus, you just gotta love that acoustic guitar tease at the beginning of the song…
Toiling away in the word mines as we do, the small-but-dedicated team that shows up to the Rue Morgue House of Horror on a daily basis has, in recent years, witnessed a steep decline in the amount of physical product that shows up in the mail. Where once upon a time that promo copy of the latest Rammstein CD or a free copy of Trick ‘r’ Treat on DVD helped offset the often long hours we put in, the digital age has progressively groomed us to find solace in merely a job well done or the tender compliment of a punch drunk co-worker during the witching hours of production.
But today felt a little like old times when one of the good folks at Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company strode through the front door like an angel from heaven, carrying a glowing parcel under his arm that had all of us floating down the hallway toward him, our feet barely touching the ground…
[We're happy to announce the return of Daddy's Little Monster! Take it away, Ron and Emma...]
First, a short apology. We’re back, we’re sorry, won’t happen again.
Now, for our return, we felt it would be wise (and appropriate) to look back at the past year and its various highs and lows. We also both agreed that since most – okay, all – of you want to hear what she had to say, I’d let Emma do the talking. Without further ado, Part One of 2011: The Little Monster’s Point of View.
Rue Morgue‘s own version of Rick The Temp, former intern Mike Beardsall, escapes his rickety cage in the unkempt bowels of the House of Horror long enough to file a review of Ghost’s Toronto show this past Sunday…
CFC is presenting a special screening of an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead followed by an in-depth Q&A with executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, moderated by film critic Richard Crouse. From the press release:
Sent to settle the affairs of a recently deceased widow in the decaying grounds of Eel Marsh House is middle-aged solicitor, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe). Upon his arrival, Kipps finds himself seeing and hearing unexplained noises that nearly send him over the edge. It soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the locals try to keep him from learning their tragic history, Kipps discovers that the house is haunted by the ghost of a woman whose appearances foreshadow a child’s death. Who is this woman? Watch the shocking mystery unfold in this new portrayal of the classic ghost story that will send chills down your spine.
Ti West’s The Innkeepers Opens Feb 3rd at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and you can win one of six double passes to attend the 9pm premiere. All ya gotta do is send an email to marketing@tiff.net with the answer to the following question…
In this supernatural thriller, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), a widowed lawyer whose grief has put his career in jeopardy, is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret. Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost…and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance. Don’t miss Daniel Radcliffe in this new portrayal of a classic ghost story that will leave chills down your spine. In theatres February 3! Learn more on the movie’s 
The seventh installment of Little Terrors is upon us! The latest edition of the short film showcase, presented by Rue Morgue Magazine and Unstable Ground, goes down tomorrow night at Toronto’s newest rep cinema, The Projection Booth. Each month, Little Terrors brings you two full hours of the best genre-related short films, shown on the big screen. The films are followed by an in depth Q&A/meet & greet with some of the filmmakers. Also new this month: this will be a liquor licensed event!
Now that your curiosity is surely piqued by our Woman in Black cover story (RM #119), how about some free tickets to your local premiere? We’ve got ten double passes to each of the four screenings listed after the jump, courtesy of the nice folks at Alliance Films. To enter, email facebook@rue-morgue.com with your name, your full address, and which premiere you’d like attend. (Speaking of Facebook, have you ‘liked’ 
It’s the first Rue Morgue Podcast of 2012 but before we plunder forth into yonder year, let’s take a moment to reflect upon the one we just put to bed. We lost a lot of great genre icons in 2011, not the least of whom was the one and only 
[We're happy to announce the return of Daddy's Little Monster! Take it away, Ron and Emma...]
