Rue Morgue : Horror in Culture and Entertainment

Different Sides of Serling

Dave Alexander on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

Zombies Attack the MF Gallery

Gary Pullin on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

You Have Got to be Shitting Me

Dave Alexander on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

Investigating the Seduction of the Innocent

Dave Alexander on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

The Funk of Forty-Thousand Years!

Gary Pullin on March 19, 2008 | 4 Comments
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

Price the Pitchman

Dave Alexander on March 19, 2008 | 4 Comments
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

Sinister Seven: Neil Marshall

Dave Alexander on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Category: Sinister Seven

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 [...]

Zombiemania Returns

Dave Alexander on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Category: News and Events

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.

Meet the Not-Quite-As-Great Old One

Dave Alexander on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Category: News and Events

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 [...]

The Greatest Show Unearthed is Coming

Dave Alexander on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Category: News and Events

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, [...]

When There’s No More Penn…

Dave Alexander on March 8, 2008 | 2 Comments
Category: News and Events

Teller of Penn & Teller (the magic-plying geniuses behind the hilarious Penn & Teller’s Bullshit), made this short film of him trying to survive the zombie holocaust after it hits Vegas. It’s unusually sombre and, stranger yet, Teller (the silent half of the duo) narrates it. I think that if you’re an illusionist/magician and the [...]

Fallow Update

Dave Alexander on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
Category: News and Events

Waaaay back in summer I blogged about the short horror film Fallow that I shot in Alberta with fellow former Edmontonians-turned-Torontonians, my co-writer/director Colin Landry, producer Brenton Bentz (also Monica’s husband), shooter Jason Pichonsky (a filmmaker in his own right who did the animation in Rod’s short film The Demonology of Desire), as well as [...]

Vanity Fear

Dave Alexander on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Category: News and Events

Justin blogged earlier about the Hitchcock photo spread in the current issue of Vanity Fair, but yesterday I read the following feature: KILLER INSTINCTS The modern horror movie slashed its way to box-office glory in the 1970s. Jason Zinoman speaks to the mastersâ€”from Wes Craven to John Carpenterâ€”who unleashed a billion-dollar tide of faceless madmen [...]

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