We’re crazy busy over here right now, putting a bang-up issue to bed, so there hasn’t been a lot of time to post, but I couldn’t let this slip by. You may have caught the news in the last few days that, according to supposed leaked government document, at the top of a list of [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 21, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
If you’re ready (or even if you’re not), join us tonight at the Bloor, 9:30pm, for a 35mm screening of The Lost, starring Marc Senter as bad, bad, BAD seed Ray Pye, pictured above. This Jack Ketchum adaptation about a young narcissistic killer under investigation for a brutal double murder has touch of David Lynch, [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 19, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
The Modern Mechanix Blog has scanned and reprinted an article from the February, 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix, titled Makeup Secrets of Movie Horror Pictures, featuring the behind-the-scenes makeup effects for the Universal monsters, including photos of Karloff having his Mummy face application put on by Jack Pierce. It’s an awesome historical document. I particularly [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 15, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
You may or may not know that Rue Morgue writer Trevor Tuminski also rocks out with his metaphorical cock out in Canadian band Jet Set Satellite. In what is surely an effort to bring those two worlds closer, this past weekend Trev and crew were in Vancouver shooting a video for the song “Lady Killer,” [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 15, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Ottawa filmmaker Lee Demarbre, of Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and Harry Knuckles and the Pearl Necklace fame, is back with another genre gem in the form of The Dead Sleep Easy, a bloody, Mexico-set action flick, starring Canuck tough guy Ian Hodgkinson (who’s a wrestling star in Mexico under the name “Vampiro Canadiense”). Like Demarbre’s [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 14, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
The tagline on the above Chinese bootleg of Planet of the Apes says it all: “Where Rule is Broke!” In its latest hilarious and misguided cultural crackdown, the Chinese government has declared war on horror movies, which, of course, will only make them more popular. For that I say thanks. According to an article here, [...]
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Gary Pullin on February 11, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Most of you reading this have may of heard by now that Roy Scheider, best known for his role as Chief Brody in a little film called Jaws, has passed away at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock. I can only hope that Roy is somewhere up there in a [...]
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Justin Erickson on February 8, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
No not the Gus van Sant shot for shot recreation of Psycho, which still perplexes me to this day. Vanity Fair recently put (current issue maybe?) a photo series of iconic Hitchcock scenes using modern day actors and actresses. Not crappy D list celebrities either, they managed to pull quite a few A listers. I’m [...]
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Gary Pullin on February 6, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
Here’s a sneak peek at a full page illustration of Rob Zombie appearing in an upcoming issue of Revolver Magazine. It’s going into their monthly “Going Postal” column, where rock stars answer fan mail. I’ve been a huge fan of Zombie’s music and art ever since “La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1″ made the hair [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 6, 2008 |
Category: Sinister Seven
Here’s the second part of my interview with Julie Benz, where we talk about one of my fave TV shows, Dexter, in which she plays the title character’s emotionally damaged girlfriend Rita. (Ff you want to read the first seven questions, where we talk Rambo, which she co-stars in, go here.) Although Benz isn’t a [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 6, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
I-Mockery dug up this insane old bike safety film featuring the scariest monkey masks ever made. Was it the product of an overzealous Planet of the Apes fan, or simply a two-wheeled simian nightmare committed to film? Whatever disturbed mind gave birth to this burned some truly creepy images into my brain. *Note to Dario [...]
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Dave Alexander on February 4, 2008 |
Category: News and Events
I was going through a bunch of old family photos this week and I found a few boyhood Halloween pics. As you can tell, we didn’t have a store-bought costume budget. 1. Dracula (or, in Canada: Dracula with a Parka). I went as a vampire more than once, I recall. The cape was homemade and [...]
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