Most know Rod Serling through The Twilight Zone, of course, but this CNN article reminds us that he was also somewhat of a social crusader. Tomorrow at Ithaca College, where Serling taught until his death in ‘75, there will be a reading of his heavily censored script for the teleplay “Noon on Doomsday,” in which [...]

MF Gallery’s annual zombie art show called Zombies Attack Again is back! Running April 12 until the end of May, this years contributers will feature the sordid likes of Zorno, D. W. Frynendall, Mark Riddick, pieces from the Ed Gein Collection, yours truly and many more. So if your taking a bite out of the [...]

And you thought The Asylum was cheeky with its rip-offs!
I accidentally came across this on the British Amazon website. The angry reviews of it are hilarious. Nothing whatsoever to do with 28 Days/28 Weeks Later, it stars Reggie Bannister (oh Reggie…) and is titled Last Rites in North America.
Note the tagline: “The devastation continues.”
If there’s [...]

The New Yorker has a revealing feature on the comic book witch hunts of the 1950s that brought an end to the classic horror comics style spearheaded by EC. Not only does it go in-depth in regards to some of the personalities involved, including EC publisher Bill Gaines and Fredric Wertham, who penned the notorious [...]

Since we’re on a big Vinny Price kick (what else is new?), here’s a preview of an illustration Royal Flush had me do up for their upcoming piece on the 25th anniversary release of Micheal Jackson’s Thriller.
After watching the video before I began, I remembered “Making Michael Jackson’s Thriller” when it was first released on [...]

I was looking up an old TV ad starring Vincent Price, for an upcoming Rue Morgue article, and I came across a bunch of other ones on YouTube, which I’ve compiled here for your Vinnie-viewing pleasure. My fave is the one that has the least of him in it, as I love his maniacal laugh [...]

Neil Marshall is a director who understands and respects genre film. That’s not necessarily a rare thing, but what’s impressive is that he actually manages to get uncompromising horror films made without anyone completely fucking them up along the way. Dog Soldiers and The Descent (our cover story for issue #58) are much loved around [...]

Finally! The Space channel Zombiemania documentary that a bunch of the Rue Crew are in is getting a second showing, tonight at 10pm, EST (listing here). Everyone here friggin’ missed it the first time it played a while ago.

If you lived a middle class suburban childhood like the one I had growing up in Sherwood Park (just outside of Edmonton), then there’s a good chance you were no stranger to things that weren’t quite brand name. Perhaps it was the supermarket’s own “Fruity O’s” instead of Fruit Loops, “Action Soldier” G.I. Joe knock-offs [...]

One of my fave young bands is California’s The Creature Feature, which is coming to Toronto, April 13th, to the Opera House. I can’t wait to see ‘em live. In the meantime, here’s a video from their re-recorded, re-released first album, The Greatest Show Unearthed.
More info and tour dates at the group’s MySpace page, here.