Was way too much fun! This year I had the rare opportunity to both paticipate in and enjoy the convention.

The best part: I got to meet some people I've wanted to meet for years. Thom Carnell, co-creator of "Carpe Noctem" magazine and walking horror movie encyclopedia, is a sweet, funny, and very smart dude. I really enjoyed hanging out with him. ( Read more... )

Sorry. If you're squicked by goth gurl crushes, you better run ( Read more... )

No, not the book about vampires...or the sexy '80's movie about vampires. This is a late-90's erotic horror series. Half-hour episodes, hosted by Terrance Stamp. If you missed it the first time, it's streaming on Netflix, and it's well worth a watch. Well-written, well-acted, great cast, and many of the episodes are based on fine stories by the ( Read more... )

Sorry. Just not. I prolonged it by going to see the Tiger Lillies last night. They were WONDERFUL. And one of the few bands that can actually give me nightmares.

FLIPPER BOY! FLIPPER BOY!

Sorry.

Anyway.

So, to keep my Halloweeny state of mind going, I'm going to tell you about some horror movies I saw this season.

Paranormal Activity
Bored the snot out ( Read more... )

Please cut out the following silly bullshit immediately:

• Using mealworms in place of maggots. Dude, I know what maggots look like. Everybody knows that. And they DON"T LOOK LIKE MEALWORMS. Just set out some meat in a box outside in the summer, and soon you'll have your own bumper crop of real, live maggots.
• Stop having characters flip open their cell ( Read more... )

So...are zombies who are not dead, ala "28 Days Later" and "Zombieland," any less scary than their dead zombie cousins? I think they may be MORE scary. As much as I adore dead zombies, c'mon people, it's just not likely to happen. But a plague that makes people go nuts and eat everybody? Yeah...that could happen. Then there's the added stress of ( Read more... )

What can I say. LOVED IT. I gave it 5 stars on Netflix, not because it was a perfect film, but because I enjoyed it so darn much. Three pointers ( Read more... )

I was pretty jazzed going into this flick. Sam Raimi had finally returned to horror! Yay! I tried to read as little about it as possible. All I knew was that some chick was trying not  to, um, get dragged to Hell.

I'll cut right to the chase. Fairly Epic Fail.

I can't understand why this movie got such great reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. All I can ( Read more... )

This was the SIFF movie I was looking forward to the most. I had heard it was deeply disturbing, pushed the envelope, and all that happy stuff. I walked out not only disappointed but kinda pissed, because it could have been so much better ( Read more... )

Or Dod Sno, it its native Norwegian.

Saw it tonight at a midnight showing at SIFF. What a kick in the pants! It’s the simple “besieged cabin in the middle of nowhere” setup. The young attractive victims are kinda-smug med students. (You kinda hope the zombies eat a few of them right away.) And the zombies…they were NAZI zombies! Zombie Nazis! Um, ( Read more... )