So the good dudes at Revolver Magazine asked me to be their guest blogger and do up a tutorial on a recent illustration I created for their August 2008 issue. Have a look!

Scientists prepare to smash down some atoms, inevitably ushering in the end of mankind.

Haven’t these fools read The Mist or The Rising?!?

If we hope to pull through this, I’d better get to work on my Lovecraftian Zombie-Smasher (patent pending) ASAP!

According to this article about morbid thoughts leading to cookie consumption, yes.

It states: “Thinking about your own death can make you reach for the cookie jar, with an international study finding that morbid thoughts tend to whet the appetite.”

Here is some disturbing video evidence. In it Cookie Monster is gorging himself somewhere in a black void. And you know what else “C” stands for? Cry for help, that’s what.

A reminder to all fans of slasher movies, zombie flicks, foreign horror films, Mondo Macabro cult titles and general bloody weirdness: tonight at 9:30, at The Bloor, is the CineMacabre screening of Pakistan’s first gore film, Hell’s Ground. If you’ve got the current issue of Rue Morgue, you can read Paul Corupe’s excellent feature all about it.

More info here.

A Plea from Clive Barker:

My Dear Friends,
As you may or may not have heard, due to certain politics, “Midnight Meat Train” is in danger of Lionsgate not giving it a wide release. The below email was brought to my attention earlier today and shows a movement, of sorts, in order to get the picture the proper support and release it deserves. I’m asking you to please help spread the word in order for all to enjoy this film. I want to passionately encourage everybody who cares about my work to use this chance to change the minds of the folks at Lionsgate. I’m excited at the prospect of a movement of people who care deeply enough to initiate a campaign such as this.
Anything any of you can do - be it emails, web postings, word of mouth, and the like - to help encourage this movement would be deeply appreciated. The film is worth the effort in my mind, and I do not want to see my work fall by the wayside.
If any of you have any further ideas, thoughts, or suggestions to help with this effort, please let me know.

Much Love,
Clive

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OPEN LETTER TO ALL HORROR FANS:

WE NEED TO START A VIRAL CAMPAIGN TO GET THIS MOVIE A WIDER RELEASE!!!

A very reliable SOURCE from within Lionsgate has told me that the decision to dump Midnight Meat Train in as few as 100 screens and then rush the film to DVD is based purely on INTERNAL POLITICS.

Something along the lines of: the new head honcho does not like the old head honcho so he is deliberately dumping all of his films out of spite and malice.

But there is HOPE. The only thing that overrides backstabbing politics in Hollywood is PURE GREED. It is clearly not healthy for investor relations to dump a movie that has a vocal and dedicated audience. Midnight Meat Train represents the kind of horror film that audiences have been dying for!!!

There is growing internal pressure within the company for a wider release of this film and PUBLIC FAN PRESSURE may help to push this decision over the edge.

If you wish to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN in all its big screen glory at a THEATER near you, please do the following:

Cut and paste the message at the bottom of this post and e-mail it to:

1) investor relations at Lionsgate: keasterling@lionsgate.com

2) Lionsgate: general-inquiries@lionsgate.com

3) call Lionsgate at (310) 449-9200 and express your desire to see MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN get the release it deserves.

BE POLITE AND PROFESSIONAL! We do not want to piss them off, just want them to know how many fans out there would like to shell out their hard earned cash to see the most groundbreaking horror film of the past ten years in a real movie theater!

4) SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

WE HAVE WAITED TOO LONG FOR THIS MOVIE TO LET IT GO STRAIGHT TO DVD!!!

Post this message everywhere, send it to your horror friends and spread the word! We need to act FAST to have an effect!!!

And LONG LIVE THE MEAT!!

HERE’S A SAMPLE MESSAGE FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE (or feel free to compose your own):

Dear Lionsgate,

As a long time Clive Barker fan, I am writing you to express my strong desire to see “The Midnight Meat Train” on the big screen.

Rumors are currently circulating that the film will only be released on a limited basis and I am very concerned that I will miss my opportunity to see the most highly anticipated Clive Barker film in over a decade in all of its big screen glory!

There are millions of horror fans like myself who have been disappointed by the recent trend towards watered down PG-13 horror movies. Clive’s work represents a return to serious, thought provoking horror movies and with Ryuhei Kitamura at the helm, I am even more excited to experience this collaboration as it was intended: in a packed theater with hundreds of other horror fans like myself!

I urge you to please give this film the release it deserves!

Many thanks,
YOUR NAME

“It’s not the cough that carries you off, but the coffin they carry you off in,” was a saying my grandma used like. Of course, had she watched a Coffin Joe film, it would’ve shattered her Christian soul.

Well, after many decades, there’s a new Coffin Joe movie coming out in Brazil, starring, directed and co-written by José Mojica Marins, the one and only original Co-Jo. Called Encarnação do Demônio, it was co-written by Dennison Ramalho, who made the amazing, disturbing short film Love for Mother Only.

Here is the killer trailer.

… and got stuffed into a Pug Sausage, it would look like my dog Godzilla.

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Hold on to your kitchen knives Myers fans! Rue Morgue just got its hands on this leaked picture from the recently announced sequel to Rob Zombie’s Halloween, and it’s a doozy. It’s to be directed by Inside directors Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury. We’re looking forward to this one, folks!

Halloween 2: The Night Michael Myers Came Home to Avenge Himself Against The Dr. Loomis Giant Brain Monster!

(For Julien and Alex - you’re IT! Grosses Bises!)

Check it out, Clive Barker fans: Rue Morgue just got its hands on this leaked picture from the upcoming Hellraiser remake, and it’s a doozy. Shame Doug Bradley won’t be in it, but I like the new headgear. Good to get away from the goth-y fetish look for a while, right?

For more on this developing story, go here.

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More comedy from Quiet Library here.