Summer

By Sam Heimer.

Rue Morgue

Session 9 is adored in this household...  this'll definitely be worth buying.

Fifteen years after its release, we return to the dreaded Danvers State Mental Hospital to relive SESSION 9. Director BRAD ANDERSON takes us back behind the peeling walls of the infamous Danvers State Mental Hospital where to SESSION 9 came to life. Plus: A look at the movie’s sound design.

Now Playing: Lookout Point

By James Horner.

Today is the one year anniversary of his untimely death.

Wanted to post an appropriate track from a favorite soundtrack...

Cities Last Broadcast: The Humming Tapes

New release from the Kammarheit side project Cities Last Broadcast.

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Seen first over at the Highbury Cemetery blog.

Willow Creek Cemetery

Images by RMJ.

The Ten Best Horror Movies Never Made

Hopsy

The beer drinking clown...

The Forensics Of Sacrifice

Crimes typically associated with ritual violence include: trespassing, vandalism, church desecration, theft, graffiti, arson, extortion, suicide, kidnapping, ritual abuse, animal sacrifice, and ritual murder. Trespassing related to ritualistic crime usually involves persons entering private areas such as woods, barns, and abandoned buildings for the purpose of having an isolated place to worship. Since most occult theologies are nature based, rituals are frequently held outdoors and altars are often constructed of natural elements. Vandalism most often associated with occult crime includes cemetery and church desecration. The most common types of cemetery desecration attributed to occult groups are digging up graves, grave robbing, and tampering with human corpses or skeletons. This is frequently motivated by religious beliefs that require human bones to fulfill specific rituals.

Image by Forde Sanders.

Text source.

Places You Can No Longer Go

A [Visual] History Of Horror

A great find by BloodyDisgusting's Jonathan Barkan.


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Now Playing: Ripley's Rescue

By James Horner...

Looking very forward to Mr. Horner's score for The Magnificent Seven film.  He wrote themes based on the script, prior to his untimely and completely unfair death.

The Toybox Murders

Photo set by Brynn Thorssen.

The Nun

As I watched The Conjuring 2 trailer dealing with a really neat "real" haunting event called the Enfield Poltergeist, I was horrified to see a weird nun ghost that reminded me of the vampire from Salem's Lot.  The vampire from Salem's Lot... in drag.

It seems there's a Nun spinoff in the works already.

I really am missing the gene that allows me to enjoy James Wan films.
They feel more like something that should be a Haunted Attraction Fun Ride and not a movie.

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I was going to call this post "Nunsense," but it seemed tacky.

Now Playing: Boris The Spider

A fun old school track by Halloween at High Noon's Monster Maker.

31

I'm totally on board.


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Halloween Stoop

Image by Melissa Powers.

Fireworks

Anyone else remember flipping through Fireworks Catalogs as a kid?  I feel like it'd always be one of the bad kids in school who brought in one of those things.  Shiny paper with pages and pages of colorful piles of explosives.  We'd huddle and slowly flip through.  The photos were enticing.  As you worked your way through the catalog, the piles of fireworks in each photo would grow larger and larger.  As would the prices. 

Totally illegal in this state, so it made the entire experience pretty exciting.

It seems small knives and Chinese stars were always catalog favorites too.

The only photo I could find that captured the scope of what it was like.

The Art Of Timo Sälekivi

The artist's site.

Espectrostatic's Silhouette

No lie:  I was lamenting today about how I need another Espectrostatic album.  I check out bloody-disgusting.com and there's an exclusive streaming album called Silhouette.

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Night Light

Image by Hector Martin.

Trick Or Treat

I totally should have color-coded my Halloween loot, back in the day...

Source.

His Pain Was Legendary

Haunted Places

Images by Matt of the Dead.

Shining 360

This is a really cool (groovy) video...
And strange...

It's Trash-CG Week, Apparently

Saw the trailer for a movie that actually looks like a lot of scary fun.  BUT, the shark is a CG shark.  And it's incredible how much of a difference that makes, even in the trailer.  Naturally my thoughts turn to JAWS and how so much of that horror was seeing the massive shark prop under the water (and above it). 


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20 Behind-the-Scenes Photos That Prove Practical Effects Will Always Be Better

Fun entry over at dreadcentral.com (that last line is hilarious[and true]):

What can really be said about practical effects that hasn’t already been said? There’s no denying that the horror genre was at its game-changing best when the blood was Karo syrup and the monsters played by men in costumes, and there’s also no denying that something was lost when makeup effects artisans were mostly replaced by computers.

Seriously. Watch Carpenter’s The Thing and The Thing (2011) side-by-side. You’ll cry.

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I kinda blame practical effects for my interest in Yard Haunting.  I feel like movies in my youth were inspirational things where you spent so much time wondering how something was made, and then wanting to make something similar.  My brother made Slimer from Ghostbusters.  We'd make eyeballs and fake blood and dummies to scare our mom.  We made super 8mm movies with burning spaceships and stop-frame animated dinosaurs.  It was time-consuming stuff, and it always seemed to be during the brutally hot days of Summer vacation.  It was great.

Do kids today get inspired watching CG creatures?  I have no idea.  I recall that feeling of knowing something was tangible and that someone was inside, below, or out-of-frame controlling it, making it live.  There were like six guys who made Jabba the Hutt come to life...four of them were stuffed inside.  Crazy.

Eggs & Dragons

I reject the idea of dragon eggs with a dragon-scale eggshell.
Do chicken eggs have feathers?

Melty

By Sam Heimer.

Now Playing: Day Before Us, Miscellaneous

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