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Meet the Horror Bloggers: TheoFantastique
In this installment, League of Tana Tea Drinkers' member John W. Morehead of TheoFantastique tells us about his life-long journey with the fantastic on film and television, and how it provides a catalyst for his studies in religion and culture. ...
Orphan (2009) Hell On Heels
Kids may say and do the damndedest things, but little orphan Esther is hell to be around. In Orphan, a movie that will do for adoption services what Jaws did for the summer beach trade, young Isabelle Fuhrman chills the scenery. ...
Lowdown on Mr. Lobo
These days, it is hard to pin the popular Mr. Lobo down. What with his involvement in one of the upcoming Plan 9 From Outer Space remakes (believe it or not, there are two remakes in the works), hosting of the documentary Virginia Creepers: The Horro...
Eye on the Prize
It was bound to happen sooner or later; some editor somewhere, reaching for his tenth cup of coffee in the dead of night spills it all over the towering slush pile of submissions. As he grabs a bunch of paper from the pile to wipe up the mess, his ey...
Night of the Living Dead Reanimated And Old Time Radio Horror Animated
Interesting zombie horror news, especially regarding the old time radio horror facelift... Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated is a mass collaborative artistic re-envisioning of George A. Romero's 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead. Interna...
What Lives On Zoc's Desk!
As I sit at my cluttered desk in the attic, pining away with the summer doldrums, pondering my next review, my next missive, my next revelation, and even my next fluffy piece of reading-candy, it suddenly struck me: why not......
Arbogast On Film Pays Us a Visit
Arbogast on Film takes time from his investigation into the mystery of cinema that can end only with his death to present us with a post all his own. There Will Be Blood Libel by Arbogast My first reaction upon......
LOTT D Roundtable: Torture Porn in Horror Today
Cinema tends to reflect either the banality, the sanctity, or the immorality of our times, and patrons of movies promote the ones they like most by buying more theater tickets, more DVDs, and more Netflix rentals for them. The popularity......
Night of the Demon (1957): It's in the trees! It's coming!
It's in the trees! It's coming!...
IRON MAN (2008): A Superhero with Heart
A Superhero with the Greatest Powers: His Brain and His Heart Marvelous Superheroes Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow make Iron Man more than the sum of the boilerplate screenplay by Mark Fergus, and the cover-the-basics villains and action direc...
Remembering the Beloved Gill Man
BIG BEN CHAPMAN Remembering the Beloved Gill Man Actor By Scott Essman Undying Universal Monsters Yes, there was Ricou Browning for the underwater scenes and suit performers on land who followed, notably Tom Hennesy and Don Magowan, but for millions....
Watch Horror Films – Keep America Strong
Watch Horror Films– Keep America Strong: A New Creature Features Documentary Horror Hosts Just received this press release from John Stanley. The DVD of this event will be available this summer! Thursday, May 15th at 7:00 PM The Grand Lake......
Prom Night (2008)
Why Rework a Slasher Classic Into a Lesser Movie? Bad Movie Drive-in Prom Night's life-size promotional cardboard standup of a door, strategically placed in theaters to pique the potential audience for this teen thriller, is a good indication of how....
Will Uwe Boll Ever Be Stopped?
markwilson12 on Twitter brought my attention to a hilarious hair-raising article on Ingram 2.0: Sign here to stop Uwe Boll. While I have found his movies to be creativity-free zones so far, I certainly don't want to keep anyone from......
Permuted Press's Best Selling Titles for March
Here's Permuted Press's Best Selling Titles for March. I've read Dying to Live and highly recommend it. I'm proud to say that Kim Paffenroth is a member of the League of Tana Tea Drinkers, horror bloggers par excellence. Way to......
Bram Stoker Award Winners for 2007
Eight bronze haunted castle statuettes were awarded at this year’s World Horror Convention, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This year’s winners are: Superior Achievement in a NOVEL The Missing by Sarah Langan Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL H...
Shrooms (2006)
League of Reluctant Reviewers: The Perplexing Case of the Axe-wielding Psycho and the Getting High-minded College Kids Bad Movie Drive-in Psilocybin mushrooms (also called psilocybian mushrooms) are fungi that contain the psychedelic substances psilo...
Peter Normanton Speaks From The Tomb
A Voice From The Tomb: An Interview With Peter Normanton Chilling Comic Books Peter Normanton is usually buried under, what with just completing The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics, and the rigors of publishing his From The Tomb magazine.......
6th Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award Winners!
It's been an exciting and record turnout for both fans and nominees this year. The votes are in, counted, and the winners for the 6th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards are: BEST FILM ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN (553 votes) BEST......
Massify: Pitching Ghosts in the Machine
Pitch Your Horror Movie Idea Until March 17 "Turn the horror movie of your dreams into the nightmares of a generation. After Dark Films and Massify are looking for the next generation of horror, and will produce one winning entry......
Crimson Orgy's Austin Williams Exploited
A Crimson QA With Austin Williams Incitable Interviews The body on the floor spread like the hands of a giant clock, with the arms pointing to ten and the legs tucked tightly together at the half-hour mark. Drops of crimson......
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
"See It With Someone With Warm Hands!" by John Cozzoli Filmed in "Emergo". An inflatable skeleton attached to a wire floated over the audience during the final moments of some showings of the film to parallel the action on the......
Smirk, Sneer and Scream: An Interview With Mark Clark
It's not that actors no longer give good performances in horror films (they still do), and it's not as if direction, editing, and special effects weren't important in the classic horror film era. But in most modern horrors, concept is......
League of Reluctant Reviewers: The Blood Shed (2007)
Watching paint dry would be a more productive expenditure of your seventy-three minutes. Possibly not as much fun for some of you, but definitely more productive. --LORR The League of Reluctant Reviewers Presents: The Inexplicable Case of The Blood S...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
The best horror film of 2007 is a musical about an unkempt barber who gives nasty-close shaves and an unkempt woman who bakes meaty pies with lots of heart (and other body parts), plying their trades in an unkempt 19th......
Dead of Night (1945)
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night; --from William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night "You must be......
Zombos Closet's Procrastinator's Horror Gift Guide for 2008
"This is not right at all?" lamented Zombos. He exerted great effort to disentangle himself from the strings of Christmas tree lights tightly winding around him. We were engaged in putting the lights on the tree, but that didn't go......
