Dave Alexander was imported from Deadmonton, Alberta in 2005 to become Rue Morgue’s Managing Editor. A film studies grad, award-winning short film-maker and former Editor-in-Chief of the University of Alberta student paper, he co-programs CineMacabre movie nights, and works on scripts in his spare time.
Grab your gravestones, ’cause German’s horror punk practitioners The Other has just dropped its latest album New Blood in North America. Front man Rod Usher tells us the terrifying tale of the latest album…
How are you going to spend your Halloween weekend in Indiana? Hopefully going to this kick-ass double bill at the Lafayette Brewing Company, featuring two bands from our Hymns From the House of Horror compilation: Harley Poe and Those Poor Bastards. And you gotta love this Hammer-fied gig poster by Joe Whitford (HP’s front man).
Jim Mickle’s vampire epic! A new John Carpenter movie!! An apocalypse film from Brad Anderson!!! The full lineup for Midnight Madness was announced this morning and there are some sweet picks for horror fans. Read on…
Here’s a piece I’ve never seen anyone tackle before: a run-down of what notorious properties have sold for, including the Amityville horror house, the In Cold Blood home, the rustic bungalow where the Manson murders took place and the two-story that was purportedly the site where the events took place that The Haunting in Connecticut was based on (pictured).
The greatest movie line I’ve heard in a long while is at the 1:01 mark of this trailer. Classic Troma… even if they are kinda ripping off Hobo with a Shotgun.
I love the smell of glavin in the morning, so there’s no better place to be than the 40th annual San Diego Comic Con. Like every year, this year’s nerdsplosion of geekiness was hectic, exhausting, informative and ridiculously fun. Here’s a peek at this year’s pop culture sensory overload.
The Abattoir presents a web exclusive interview by Peter Gutiérrez. Read on, zombie lovers…
It’s one of the many memorable images from Lucio Fulci’s Zombie (aka Zombi 2): hordes of the undead shambling across the iconic Brooklyn Bridge on their way to invade Manhattan. Now fans of Fulci’s baroquely gory and often delirious brand of zombie fare have themselves been invading midtown as “Zombo Italiano,” a three-week summer film series, has taken over a cultural institution in the heart of New York.
On Thursday, July 8th, Toronto’s Cinematheque is holding a screening of George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead, as part of its series paying tribute to the late film scholar Robin Wood, a giant on the Film Studies scene. I read several of Wood’s pieces on horror while in the Film Studies program at university, and while I didn’t always agree with him, the guy was brilliant and did a lot to draw academics into the genre. This is a fantastic tribute.
Here are all the details from the press release:
July 8th – Rare screening of DAY OF THE DEAD at Cinematheque Ontario
As part of the tribute to the late film critic Robin Wood, there will be a RARE screening of George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD at the Cinematheque Ontario. 35MM print! TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE!
As The Human Centipede continues to skitter its way to pop culture phenomenon status, some of the crafty folks in the Etsy community have made some items celebrating one of the film’s most famous images. A search for “Human Centipede” reveals several necklaces, a T-shirt and even a cat toy!
I’d forgotten all about it this classic commercial for Osteo-BiFlex starring Frankenstein’s monster, until Liisa sent it my way this weekend. I wonder if liver-eating contortionist Eugene Victor Tooms from The X-Files uses this stuff now?
CNN has a neato article about why humans insist on believing in cryptozoological creatures despite overwhelming evidence against them. They even quote a guy who tests poo to see if it belongs to a ‘squatches. Ha.
An excerpt:
Monsters represent dark aspects of our subconscious worlds and can be metaphors for the challenges of life, said Karen Sharf, a psychotherapist in New York.
“Some monsters are scary. Some monsters are friendly. Sometimes in movies or myths, we befriend the monster, and it’s just like in our inner world: There are monsters; there are dark aspects that we have to face,” she said.
Jim Mickle’s vampire epic! A new John Carpenter movie!! An apocalypse film from Brad Anderson!!! The full lineup for Midnight Madness was announced this morning and there are some sweet picks for horror fans. Read on…
