Thursday, April 10, 2014
Creepy Nights
It
was a stormy night. The rain cascaded upon the canvas in torrents, with
the dull, drum-like sound familiar to dwellers in tents. As the
whooping blasts charged upon it the frail structure shook and swayed and
strained at its confining stakes and ropes.
Ambrose Bierce
Text source.
Now Playing: Roar
From Cloverfield, which is a tribute to the original Godzilla theme (assumption).
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Insensitive Jokes
I went to a Catholic high school, and I recall one horrid theology class where the strange little teacher was going to educate us on why telling cruel jokes was morally wrong. He claimed they desensitized issues which should never be desensitized. I guess they make humans colder than they should ever be. And I would have to agree in theory. But that's not even the point.
He decided the best way to prove this to us was to tell a dehumanizing desensitizing joke. So we're a bunch of 16 year olds in a boring theology class, with this soft-spoken tiny man. And he takes a deep breath as if this is going to be extremely painful for him. And I have a feeling it was.
He quietly asked: "Why did the Ethiopian cross the road?"
He paused, and answered: "He was chasing the chicken."
Now, you can imagine a room full of 16 year old boys hearing that joke for the first time. I have to admit that I howled. For that joke truly is a gas.
And I've told that joke many times since, and I totally blame that teacher.
He desensitized me.
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| In this undated photo, a rooster runs for its life. |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
How To Make A 7-Layer Candy Bar Dip And Become A Halloween Hero
If ever there were a Halloween Hero test, I think this might be it.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Suburban Haunter
Featured this cool Haunt before, but really loved this shot. It captures the strange and awesome thing that is a Yard Haunt. A tiny piece of weird in a world of boring Normal.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Flying Cars = Cool
Wow. The Fifth Element was made in 1997.
LOVE this film.
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And from the Total Recall remake (which was actually rather good).
Most Anticipated Horror Films
Mr. Jones made a Popcrush.com list. Nice exposure.
Though I've never heard of Popcrush before today, but I'm thinking all the cool kids probably have (their facebook has a buttload of likes).
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Killer Clowns
I'm thinking of going on a hunger striker until Killer Legends is viewable on something other than Chiller TV.
A Halloween Carol
Re-re-re-post of my personal favorite Halloween special.
Tales from the Darkside's Trick or Treat.
Corrupted Blind Sentinel
Old photo from when I finished this guy for the Scarecrow Catacomb. I figured he would be something that Mr. Jones built which was going to eventually be a Blind Sentinel, but for one reason or another, he left it and moved on to other scarecrows. I wanted it to feel unfinished and un-whole...and stunted.
40th Anniversary Restoration
I was a late-comer to The Texax Chainsaw Massacre. I had always assumed it was just a guy running around with a chainsaw. I was surprised how packed it was with style and weirdness and creepy images. And it still held up after all this time.
It's gone through a huge restoration process for a re-release on June 20th. Just praying it gets released somewhere in these parts. Would love to see this on the big screen.
“There were hundreds, if not thousands, of instances where you’d find a splice mark cooked into the middle of a frame. Some frames would have close to two hundred dirt events on them. We also spent a lot of time stabilizing the image. When doing a digital scan of a conformed 16mm print with a splice at every cut, it can be tough to achieve the high standards we all aspire to in the era of digital cinema. What might have passed as acceptable in the 70′s looks jarring now. So we worked hard to smooth out the tremors that almost inevitably occur when scanning this type of film element. There were tears in the film that we had to digitally rebuild from adjacent frames. There were tens of thousands of things we were dealing with,”
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Legend Of Hell House
Awesome to see a favorite film available on Netflix Instant.
Old school awesome. Absolutely LOVE this film.
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An End To A Favorite Haunt
Very sad to see this blog post at the Highbury Cemetery blog, but you can get some reasonably-priced high-end props out of it, and help keep the legend alive.
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