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Three Things to Start the Week Off Right

1. Nim Vind sent in a link to the latest video from the Vancouver horror punks. I love this song. You probably will too.

2. Liisa forwarded this link to a BBC audio play about Vincent Price and the-behind-the-scenes events that took during the filming of The Witchfinder General. “It was the best performance of his [...]

Horror Film Fundraiser Tonight in T.O.

The guys behind the indie movie The Last are holding a fundraiser tonight to raise dough for their project.
Here are the details they sent along:
It’s going to be a great night, filled with live music, prizes, and great entertainment. We’ve got four bands performing, each a different style of music (as the film is [...]

You’re a Strange Manimal

A press release showed up in my inbox this afternoon for the Swedish band Manimal, which reminded me of the 1983 network TV show Manimal.
Manimal!
I’d forgotten about Manimal, which, as the Wikipedia states, was “centered around the character Dr Jonathan Chase (Simon MacCorkindale), a shape-shifting man who possessed the ability to turn himself into [...]

Yo! Jersey!

Wanna meet Frank Henenlotter? This Saturday he’s doing a signing in in Secaucus, NJ, from 1-3pm at the Rare Flix store (210 Meadowlands Pkwy). Get your mutant babies signed!

Sinister Seven: Adam Green

Being left on a bench isn’t much of a premise for a movie, unless that bench is a ski lift chair high above the ground, it’s freezing cold outside, there are hungry animals lurking below and no one will be around to find you for five days. Then it’s the kind of situation that’ll make [...]

Sinister Seven: Ti West

There’s a lot of nostalgic love going around for ’80s horror, and the best example is House of the Devil, the latest release from Ti West. Set sometime in the ’80s, it stars Jocelin Donahue (The Burrowers) as Samantha, a broke college girl who takes a babysitting gig at a mansion out in the country, [...]

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!)