Rick, over at the deliciously titled Eat More People, is spending the month leading up to Halloween blogging about his favorite horror movies.
He’s just getting started and he’s already got some good stuff up (especially the current post about Jaws).
Rick’s blog is new to me. He’s clearly a smart guy and he’s putting out [...]

Horror This Week is a quick summary of the new and/or interesting independent, international, or notable horror DVDs and comics that are being released this week. The comics listed here are those that are distributed by Diamond Comics Distributors. DVDs listed are those available at major retailers like Amazon and others. Small-scaled DVDs with no [...]

There’s a fascinating essay posted over at Steven Grant’s weekly Permanent Damage column today.
In it, Grant argues that the comic medium isn’t well-suited to horror and that there are hardly any horror comics at all.
Don’t dismiss this. It’s an interesting argument and Grant (as usual) has well-thought-out arguments to back his position.
Grant’s argument is essentially [...]

Writer: T.J. May | Artist: Shelton BryantPublisher: Summ Publications
It takes a lot of guts to publish a comic with a name that could so easily backfire on the creators as Ill Conceived. I mean, if the comic is terrible, you’re screwed, because the jokes just write themselves.
So it’s lucky for creators T.J. May and Shelton [...]

1965/UKDirector: Silvio NarizzanoStarring: Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughn, Donald SutherlandIMDB
Mention Die! Die! My Darling! to pretty much anyone under 35 and they’ll probably think first of the Misfits song. But before the Misfits, there was this little thriller meditating on religion, small-town English life, and terror.
In the film, Bankhead plays Mrs. Trefoile, a severe [...]

Writer | Artist: Josh HowardPublisher: Viper Comics
Buffy Summers casts a long shadow. The main character of TV’s sadly defunct Buffy the Vampire Slayer shows up in a lot of comics and TV shows these days, repackaged and diluted, bearing different names and faces. She’s at least a little in every wisecracking, cute-looking, spunky monster killing [...]

1958/EnglandDirected by: Terence FisherStarring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing IMDB | Hammer Films
Britain’s Hammer Films is a legendary producer of horror films starring classic horror actors such as Christopher Lee.
To the best of my recollection, Horror of Dracula is the first Hammer Film I’ve seen (with the possible exception of some edited, Saturday-afternoon TV broadcast of [...]

1964/JapanDirector: Masaki KobayashiIMDB
Kwaidan is, if I understand thing correctly, considered to be something of a masterpiece of world cinema. It’s out on a really nice (but aren’t they all?) Criterion Collection DVD, it won tons of awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965, and it seems to have been hugely influential.
But film scholars [...]

1964/U.S.Director and Writer: Jack HillStarring: Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Omhart, Quinn Redeker, Beverly Washburn, Jill Banner, Sid Haig IMDB
My understanding is that Spider Baby was shown primarily as the more risque, but perhaps also lower quality, part of a drive-in double bill during its initial cinematic run. After watching the movie, it’s not hard [...]

Writer: Gabriel Benson | Artist: Mike Hawthorne and Mike AtiyehPublisher: Beckett Comics
Reading comics on the web is not always ideal. As many an e-book proponent has found, the experience of reading a printed product translated to the screen is not always a pleasant one, and rarely equals the experience of having the physical thing [...]