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Archive for January, 2010

Danse Macabre

We often talk about “horror in all its forms” in Rue Morgue, and here’s a great example of how widespread the genre has become.
Roadkill is a dance theatre production by an Aussie trio called Splintergroup, which is currently touring and will hit Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre from February 3rd to 6th. Can’t say I’m [...]

Hammer Time!

Following their cover art poll for the re-release of Night of the Creeps, Sony is asking you, the Mighty Consumer, to pick you favourite cover for its upcoming Columbia Classics release of Icons of Suspense: Hammer set.
Put yer grubby two cents in here (hit the “Vote” button in the Poll section).
The choices:
1. “Knife Art”

2. [...]

Exclusive Pictures from Body Worlds

Recently, the Rue Crew was invited to visit the Body Worlds exhibit that’s currently on here in Toronto, at the Ontario Science Centre. We’re big fans of Body Worlds and the way in which it marries the artistic and the scientific in order to help us learn about our bodies and, of course, explore our [...]

Good to See Pumpkinhead’s Still Working

“Ed Harley, you need more bran in your diet!”
(Thanks, Angie!)

Does This Mean I Can Forget Seeing Rob Zombie Films?

“New research suggests we may be able to erase traumatic memories.”

Flesh Roasting Over an Open Fire

The holiday season is over, the tree taken down, knotted Christmas lights return to their basement dwellings and those damned carols have finally ceased to make our ears bleed and tempers flare. That doesn’t make this gingerbread house (err, church?) any less cool, though. Nicholas Daley and friends made this zombie apocalypse interpreted through ginger [...]

A few words about Chas. Balun. Rest In Peace.

Here.