Wednesday, March 31, 2010

WALKING DEAD COMING TO TV

NEW YORK (AP) — AMC network says it's bringing the popular "Walking Dead" comic book to TV as a live-action series set to debut in October.

Created by Robert Kirkman, "The Walking Dead" explores the aftermath of a world overrun by zombies. It follows a group of human survivors, led by police officer Rick Grimes, who journey in search of a safe home.
AMC announced Monday that the series will begin filming in Atlanta in June. It was initially scheduled for six episodes.
Only Jon Bernthal has been announced for the cast. Among those behind the camera is executive producer Gale Anne Hurd, whose feature credits include "The Terminator," "Aliens" and "Armageddon."

Monday, March 29, 2010

frightening factoids

In medevil england,it was believed that leprosy could be cured by bathing in dogs blood.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
An average of 152,029 die everyday worldwide.
An omophagist is someone who likes to eat raw meat.
More people report being abducted by aliens in the state of California than anywhere else in the U.S.
Alfred Hitchcock sufferd from ovophobia, the fear of eggs.
In the 18th century it was believed you could prevent veneral disease by wrapping  ones genitals in a chicken carcass.
If you farted continuously for 6 years and 9 months,enough wind would be produced to equal the energy of an atomic bomb.
A florida woman was so worried about getting stomach cancer she drank 4 gallons of water a day. She died at the age of 29 of  kidney failure.
Playwright Tennesse Williams died of suffocation after bending his head back to use nose spray,the cap fell into his mouth and became stuck in his throat.


 



























MY PERSONAL TOP 10 OF THE BLOODIEST MOMENTS IN HORROR IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:





-Violent Shit 2-The whole movie is totally o.t.t, but the stapling the womans most intimate of areas shut has to be seen to be believed







- Inside- Once again the whole film, once the blood starts to flow it never stops 'till the movies credits roll.






- Dead^Alive-our hero uses a lawn mower to dispatch a house full of zombies and once you think he's done he starts again.










-City of the living dead-gut puking scene. classic,once you see it youll never forget it .








-Zombie-splinter in the eye.OUCH!









-The Beyond-zombie girls head explodes from shotgun blast.







-Day of the dead-captain gets his head ripped off. what makes this so cool is when his head is being pulled off the pitch of his screams get higher as his vocal chords stretch.









-Burial ground- zombie child gives mom mastectomy with his teeth.








-Friday the 13th : the final chapter- jasons death scene, not extremly gorey but it looks really cool when his head slides down the blade of the machete.









-Blood feast-the whole movie just for the fact it was the first gore film ever. brought to you by the godfather of gore H.G Lewis.

confessions of a horror junkie




Why boy, why do you like this kind of junk? This was something i heard from teachers and other people in positions of authority when i was growing up , no one seemed to understand my love of horror.

My parents were actually pretty cool about things, after all they did try to take me to the theater/drive in to see alot of the new horror films, though i do believe they got a little concerned as i got older as my whole life seemed to revolve around horror, heavy metal and hardcore punk music.

As a kid they always allowed me to stay up and watch the local version of shock theater and give me $ to buy Famous monsters and fangoria magazines.

I had a weekly ritual of looking through the tv guide to see what movies were coming on and then planning my week around them.

My family got our first vcr when i was around 15(early 80"s) and there were mom and pop rental stores EVERYWHERE , i mean it seemed like there was one every block or two, you could even rent at alot of the grocery and drug stores and i had memberships at them all and the horror/ sci-fi sections were huge, i was in heaven.

Most weekends insted of going out drinking and acting stupid(that didnt happen 'till I got older) i would rent a movie and watch it.

I dont know how many of you realize this but back then movies were priced for rental stores only( about 70 bucks a pop) but like everything else when the buzz wore off they were priced to sale and you could buy them at most department stores and thats when my library of vids started.

Now with the advent of dvds and the internet every big budget , b grade and z grade flick you could ever want( and never heard of) is there for your consumption.

I love all kinds of horror movies from the classics of the 30's up to the modern films but my favorites are the drive in movies from the 60' and 70's and the movies of the 80's slasher boom and thats what most of this blog will focus on, i mean as much as i love the old universal and hammer films they have all been reviewd a million times in a million books and web sites.

Speaking of horror review books it pisses me off that in a number of these publications the author seems to hate every thing that is not made for millions of dollars, heck half the time i wonder if they even watched the movie or if they just read the back of the video box.

I however am a horror fan most of the time i can find some value in just about any of them, i would rather watch the cheapest b film than sit through the latest big budget hollywood drivel anyday.

I am a horror fan through and through, i watch the movies,i read about them, study them and collect everything i can about them.
Im sure there are other like minded folks out there so i dedicate all of this to you ... the horror junkie. Enjoy!!!
mikey boy

Sunday, March 21, 2010

cool sites

Here are a few places to support to get your horror fix.

some of my favorite sites

houseofmysterioussecrets.com

horrormovies.com

monsterlandtoys.com

videoscreams.com

creepycassics.com

critcononline.com

mymoviemonsters.com

hysteria-lives.co.uk

goblinhaus.com

itsonlyamovie.co.uk

horrorbles.com official store of fangoria mag.

bmovies.com

monstersinmotion.com


xpoitedcinema.com