The seventh installment of Little Terrors is upon us! The latest edition of the short film showcase, presented by Rue Morgue Magazine and Unstable Ground, goes down tomorrow night at Toronto’s newest rep cinema, The Projection Booth. Each month, Little Terrors brings you two full hours of the best genre-related short films, shown on the big screen. The films are followed by an in depth Q&A/meet & greet with some of the filmmakers. Also new this month: this will be a liquor licensed event!
Now that your curiosity is surely piqued by our Woman in Black cover story (RM #119), how about some free tickets to your local premiere? We’ve got ten double passes to each of the four screenings listed after the jump, courtesy of the nice folks at Alliance Films. To enter, email facebook@rue-morgue.com with your name, your full address, and which premiere you’d like attend. (Speaking of Facebook, have you ‘liked’ Rue Morgue’s official page yet?)
It’s the first Rue Morgue Podcast of 2012 but before we plunder forth into yonder year, let’s take a moment to reflect upon the one we just put to bed. We lost a lot of great genre icons in 2011, not the least of whom was the one and only David Hess, best known for his role as the sociopathic Krug Stillo from Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left (1972).
In 2009, he dropped by the Rue Morgue Studio of Rape and Revenge for a great little interview with director Lee Demarbre to promote their movie Smash Cut.
Sightings of SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC continue to hamper the confusion of the grindcore origin genealogy. Metalologists world over have been left in head-scratching confusion as to whether or not SASQUATCH AGNOSTIC really is a legendary grind band from Northern Michigan or some bizarre hoax perpetrated on the metal elite.
American heavy metal giants Lamb of God have just released this second video for the debut single “Ghost Walking” from its forthcoming seventh album, Resolution, out January 24 from Epic. While it doesn’t exactly runneth over with tasty horror moments, the animation is fantastic and, is it just me or does the fight near the end look like a dust-up between The Invisible Man and a 2-1B surgical droid from Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back? Plus, you just gotta love that acoustic guitar tease at the beginning of the song…
Toiling away in the word mines as we do, the small-but-dedicated team that shows up to the Rue Morgue House of Horror on a daily basis has, in recent years, witnessed a steep decline in the amount of physical product that shows up in the mail. Where once upon a time that promo copy of the latest Rammstein CD or a free copy of Trick ‘r’ Treat on DVD helped offset the often long hours we put in, the digital age has progressively groomed us to find solace in merely a job well done or the tender compliment of a punch drunk co-worker during the witching hours of production.
But today felt a little like old times when one of the good folks at Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company strode through the front door like an angel from heaven, carrying a glowing parcel under his arm that had all of us floating down the hallway toward him, our feet barely touching the ground…
[We're happy to announce the return of Daddy's Little Monster! Take it away, Ron and Emma...]
First, a short apology. We’re back, we’re sorry, won’t happen again.
Now, for our return, we felt it would be wise (and appropriate) to look back at the past year and its various highs and lows. We also both agreed that since most – okay, all – of you want to hear what she had to say, I’d let Emma do the talking. Without further ado, Part One of 2011: The Little Monster’s Point of View.
Mike Nordstrom of Burlington, Vermont is obsessed with Garamon, a monster from 1960s Japanese TV that looks like a Muppet crossed with a turtle crossed with a barnacle. So obsessed that he has a blog dedicated to the creature (and its “recycled alter-ego” named Pygmon), called Garamania.
His love of the kaiju critter has also led him to launch an art show dedicated to it, called Garamaniacal, which will take place at the FOE Store & Gallery in Western Massachusetts from February 10 to March 4. The opening night takes place from 6 k – 9 on the 10th (full details here).
CineMacabre Movie Nights are back THIS THURSDAY, January 19 @ 9:30 p.m. at The Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina Avenue – Toronto) with a new twist on the zombie subgenre, Howard J. Ford and Jonathan Ford’s THE DEAD, presented by Rue Morgue and the Toronto Zombie Walk. Shot on location in Africa and in the tradition of George A. Romero, The Dead has been called “Night of the Living Dead reimagined as a Sergio Leone western. A knockout!” by The Village Voice.
One night only! Classic trailers! Killer prizes!
Sponsored by Anchor Bay Entertainment, Vagrancy Films, Exclaim.ca, Eyesore Cinema, My Big Fat Independent Movie Store, Rue Morgue Radio and the Toronto Zombie Walk.
[Rondal Scott, chief cook and bottle washer over at Strange Kids Club, pops in for a Sinister Seven with claymation wiz Lee Hardcastle. This is Rondal's first piece with us, so please return whatever you just swiped from him and make him feel welcome.]
Lee Hardcastle may not be a name that everyone is familiar with yet, but it will be. You’ve probably seen his work without even realizing it – maybe even passed it along to some friends because it was funny (The Thing with penguins,anyone?). Either way, you’re likely to be seeing a lot more of this up-and-coming director. His short film, T is for Toilet, is slated to appear later this year alongside films by Ti West (House of the Devil, The Innkeepers), Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List), Srdjan Spasojevic (A Serbian Film) and Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun) in Drafthouse Films’ The ABCs of Death.
Fans of the kind of smoke-cured heaviness regularly stoked by bands such as Red Fang, Clutch and Kyuss are gonna wanna take a gander at King Giant’s new video for “Appomattox,” the first track from the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Dismal Hollow (available worldwide on Tuesday, January 31 in digipak CD, deluxe digital download and gatefold 180-gram LP via King Giant’s own imprint Graveyard Hill Records and The Path Less Traveled Records).
Being that the doom rockers, along with video director/producer Kevin Barker, took to the Appalachian backwoods to lens this zombie-infested epic for the song, they figured the readers of Rue Morgue should be among the first to see it…[pregnant pause]…in the world.
Never ones to look a gift horse in its mouth (believe you me, we look those unpredictably generous fuckers right in their crazy, coal-black eyes), we agreed to exclusively premiere the video…under one condition.
“Gentlemen, have you heard of something called The Sinister Seven? Well, you have now…” [click past the jump]
Somewhere in an unsightly mancave beneath the stairs, The Gore-met is desperately trying to contain a raging boner…
America’s reigning kings of brutality, Cannibal Corpse, will unleash their twelfth studio offering this March via Metal Blade Records. Aptly titled Torture, the follow-up to 2009′s Evisceration Plague offers up twelve tracks of maniacally precise, soul-searing death metal. Torture was again produced by Hate Eternal’s Erik Rutan at his own Mana Recording Studio in St. Petersburg, Florida as well as Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and features the maniacal cover art by longtime Cannibal Corpse artist, Vincent Locke (click past the jump for a better look).
Those blood-spattered reprobates So Sick Social Club, who contributed the track “Birthday” to our Hymns From the House of Horror Vol. II free downloadable compilation album last year, are playing with plasma again in their new video for “Sweet Nothing,” the hard-hitting first single from the crew’s forthcoming album Dead Friends Don’t Tell (out later this year from Reel Wolf Records).
Featuring makeup FX master Tom Savini, Onyx, Psych Ward, Bishop Brigante and Ox – to say nothing of the copious amounts of mutilation, bloody hamburger and detached organs that coarse through this sanguinary saga – this hip hop, hard rock and horror mash-up will surely make even the most frightening aspects of this Monday morning seem like a ride on the teacups.
Late last year I talked with actor/stuntman Kane Hodder about the biography he had just completed with co-author Michael Aloisi. Unmasked: The True Story of the World’s Most Prolific Cinematic Killer covers much of the territory you’d expect — Hodder’s youth, his first jobs as a Hollywood stuntman, his rise to cult fame as the man in the hockey mask — but it also offers surprisingly candid accounts of a few of the darkest episodes in the actor’s life, including his childhood run-ins with bullies and the near-fatal burn injury that almost ended his career just as it was getting started. I’ve been waiting for the right time to post the interview; I don’t think there’ll ever be a better occasion than 2012′s first Friday the 13th.
Rue Morgue contributor and 3-D expert Jason Pichonsky checks in with a look at the latest tech treat for 3-D fans, 3-D TV, to see what it offers horror fans. This time: a remake of an ’80s classic.
As a fan of the original Fright Night, I didn’t expect much from this remake – yet another re-imagining of an ’80s horror classic in the long line of retreads mining the decade’s horror gold. As a teen of the era, I saw a direct reflection of myself in the film’s protagonist, Charley Brewster, and I didn’t imagine this adaptation would hold up to affection for the original. I did however have high hopes for the 3-D viewing experience. After all, Hollywood’s current flirtation with 3-D movies is now over three years old, proving it to be more that a fad. Isn’t it? And this new version, Fright Night 3-D, was designed for and shot in true 3-D. So the 3-D should be spot on. Shouldn’t it?.
The seventh installment of Little Terrors is upon us! The latest edition of the short film showcase, presented by Rue Morgue Magazine and Unstable Ground, goes down tomorrow night at Toronto’s newest rep cinema, The Projection Booth. Each month, Little Terrors brings you two full hours of the best genre-related short films, shown on the big screen. The films are followed by an in depth Q&A/meet & greet with some of the filmmakers. Also new this month: this will be a liquor licensed event!
Now that your curiosity is surely piqued by our Woman in Black cover story (RM #119), how about some free tickets to your local premiere? We’ve got ten double passes to each of the four screenings listed after the jump, courtesy of the nice folks at Alliance Films. To enter, email facebook@rue-morgue.com with your name, your full address, and which premiere you’d like attend. (Speaking of Facebook, have you ‘liked’ 
It’s the first Rue Morgue Podcast of 2012 but before we plunder forth into yonder year, let’s take a moment to reflect upon the one we just put to bed. We lost a lot of great genre icons in 2011, not the least of whom was the one and only 
[We're happy to announce the return of Daddy's Little Monster! Take it away, Ron and Emma...]
Mike Nordstrom of Burlington, Vermont is obsessed with Garamon, a monster from 1960s Japanese TV that looks like a Muppet crossed with a turtle crossed with a barnacle. So obsessed that he has a blog dedicated to the creature (and its “recycled alter-ego” named Pygmon), called 
[Rondal Scott, chief cook and bottle washer over at 
Late last year I talked with actor/stuntman Kane Hodder about the biography he had just completed with co-author Michael Aloisi. Unmasked: The True Story of the World’s Most Prolific Cinematic Killer covers much of the territory you’d expect — Hodder’s youth, his first jobs as a Hollywood stuntman, his rise to cult fame as the man in the hockey mask — but it also offers surprisingly candid accounts of a few of the darkest episodes in the actor’s life, including his childhood run-ins with bullies and the near-fatal burn injury that almost ended his career just as it was getting started. I’ve been waiting for the right time to post the interview; I don’t think there’ll ever be a better occasion than 2012′s first Friday the 13th.
Rue Morgue contributor and 3-D expert Jason Pichonsky checks in with a look at the latest tech treat for 3-D fans, 3-D TV, to see what it offers horror fans. This time: a remake of an ’80s classic.
