We don’t even think much of it anymore. When a horror movie trailer plays, it’s pretty much a given that every girl in said coming attraction will die in really brutally awful ways. Until the last few minutes or so, when the last girl standing — preferably pasty, pale, and virginal — manages to avoid doing anything excessively stupid long enough to survive. Should you find yourself, however unlikely, in a similar situation – Here’s 4 signs you won’t be the first to die: Read the full story
Remember the dreams you had as a kid which evoked disturbing emotions for which you had no names? The latest film, Cold Fish, by epic Japanese filmmaker, Sion Sono, recalls them all. Sono’s unique style of gore brings to mind the work of artists Paul Thek and Maskull Lasserre in the ways it makes the audience uncomfortable but introspective.
Comic Con 2010 is over and I have cast my vote for the fictitious “Bad Ass Mamma-Jamma Booth of the Year” award. Since I am the only voter in said academy, the winner is booth #2010! AMC television’s The Walking Dead set (a six-episode series based on the comic book written by Robert Kirkman). It’s not every day you can take the kids out for a stroll and pop in somewhere to have a lovely photo taken with your choice of:
If you’ve never heard of Creepy Magazine, you’re missing one of the greatest black-and-white pulp-horror comic publications of the past 50 years (which certainly narrows it down) — sort of a bastard love child, and perhaps the result of a tryst between tamer fare like Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror. Under the Taliban-like regime of the Comics Code Authority, that silly little ban on anything having to do with dirty language and naughty bits, though, the twisted genius of Creepy remained largely unknown for decades.
