http://rue-morgue.com/blog Welcome to the Rue Crew's official blog, where the designers and editors of Rue Morgue magazine share their terrible thoughts, odd opinions, anguished artwork and other random scraps of meat not necessarily fit for human consumption. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:01:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/03/08/three-things-to-start-the-week-off-right/ 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/25/horror-film-fundraiser-tonight-in-to/ 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/24/youre-a-strange-manimal/ Calling all Toronto area comic book nerds: this weekend has something to look forward  to, the Toronto ComiCON. But for the horror-loving comic nerds (like myself) there's something cooler going on off-site: Of Mystery and the Macabre: The Guy Davis Exhibition This Saturday, February the 27th, one of my favourite comic artists, ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/23/of-mystery-and-the-macabre-the-guy-davis-exhibition/ 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! http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/11/yo-jersey/ 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/07/sinister-seven-adam-green/ James Fisher, artist and creator of the witty and morbidly fantastic Disfigures of Speech that appears in each issue of Rue Morgue, is having a cool little contest. Come up with a caption to the drawing he's posted and you could win a print with your caption as the title. ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/05/fishers-creature-caption-contest/ 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/02/02/sinister-seven-ti-west/ 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/01/25/danse-macabre/ 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 ... http://rue-morgue.com/blog/archives/2010/01/22/895/