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To me Halloween about a lot more than dressing up in flammable costumes and gourging on little fun size candy bars. It is a very important holiday for me and the holloween season is about to begin...It would be hard for me to say exactly why all this means so much to me and some of it seems so unrelated...it's campy, it's macabre, it's serious, it's irreverant, it's blasphemous and deeply holy, it's ancient and it's commercial. Halloween is where I feel safe and happy and completely me.
The Val Lewton Horror Collection
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Val Lewton was a man placed in the position of B-Movie maker by RKO. But out of his limited budgets and lurid studio-provided titles, he crafted masterpieces of horror and suspense. His atmospheric films are often neglected and rarely talked about and this boxed set includes the best for an incredibly reasonable price. These are truly artistic thrillers all together in one collection for less than $30 bucks. Don't let the silly titles fool you...these are serious films about the dark half of mankind. To quote an editorial review of the collection, James Agee, the premier American film critic of the 1940s, reckoned that Val Lewton was one of the three foremost creative figures in Hollywood--an assessment yet more impressive when we consider that the other two were Charles Chaplin and Walt Disney.
Includes: Cat People / The Curse of the Cat People / I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Bedlam / The Leopard Man / The Ghost Ship / The Seventh Victim / Shadows in the Dark
Updated Nov 1, 2008
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories by Tim Burton
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Tim Burton is one of those rare individuals whose name has become a pop culture adjective. Even people who do not love his nightmarish surreal cinema of fun recognize his visual style when they see it. From his mind have sprung some of the most incredible visions ever committed to celluloid including: Edward Scissorhands, Beetle Juice, Mars Attacks, Sweeney Todd, Ed Wood, Batman 1 and 2, James and the Giant Peach, Sleepy Hollow and his masterpiece: Nightmare before Christmas.
Now you can read poetry from that same mind...and it is far darker than I expected...and very tragic. Much of the humor and playfulness at work in the films alongside all that is macabre is missing in some of these books...Instead we find tiny stories about scared and rejected child-like characters that while clever are just plain bleak. And yet I love this little tome. It is sweet in its way and fun with wonderfully illustrated by Burton himself with his odd palsey ink lines and queer abstraction of bodies and faces. A must for any fan of Burton.
Updated Nov 1, 2008
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Ooky Spooky: Voltaire
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I only recently discovered this guy in my effort to find more Halloween music and he has quickly become one of my favorite recording artists. Havanna born Voltaire (if that IS his real name...) makes dinner music for the Addams family...
His musical style is unique, with salsa rythms, surfrock/psychobilly drums and guitar and gypsy caberet violins...
think Danny Elfman, Tom Waits and Cab Calloway if they all got together to jam.
The song topics run the range of typical 50's horror movie fair: zombies, devils, vampires but all interpreted with a modern wicked sense of humor...dark as pitch humor that makes "evil" fun... this is music for any occassion as long as such occassion may end in a plan to injure puppies and dig up corpses.
Updated Oct 27, 2008
Dead Alive
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Quite literally the goriest movie I've ever seen. And hilarious! If you can stomach the massive amounts of blood and over-the-top gore it is very funny but it's certainly not for everyone. But if you're curious what uber-nerd Peter Jackson was doing before he went all legit with King Kong and Lord of the Rings, he was making incredibly offensive films like this and "Meet the Feebles"...
Also known as "Braindead", it is called the goriest movie ever made because of the sheer amount of fake blood used during filming. During the infamous lawnmower scene alone, blood was pumped onto the set at a rate of 5 gallons every second...
Now, while the ability to drench your actors and sets in fake guts and gore may not make a movie that is a masterpiece there are definitely questions raised by the film...questions of aesthetics and morality in art and why we enjoy horror and revulsion...
But, really, why do people see this movie? It's because it has a zombie priest and a man cutting down a house of the undead with a toro strapped to his chest.
Do yourself a favor though: if you are thinking of watching it, check out the lawnmower scene on youtube. If you can stomach it...literally, if it doesn't make you puke a little, go ahead and rent or netflix it...otherwise stay away. really...it's bad.
but oh so gory good...
Updated Oct 27, 2008
Monster Theater PVC set 1
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Ok, one more set of pvc figures and then I'm done for a while...I'm not a collector of these things and honestly before now, I didn't understand why adults line their homes with them...before now...
because I could definitely see myself getting into ones like this...
Little wittle adorable monsters...who's a cute little monster? who's a cute wittle monster? you are! yes! you are...
Updated Oct 27, 2008
Lenore PVC Set #2
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I have a soft spot in my heart for Lenore...sure she's violent and twisted and weird and a little dead but she is really just a sweetheart...
This figure set includes Lenore with her bunny suit and mallet. But even better, it includes the Spam Witch...BUT EVEN BETTER is the figure of Taxidermy sitting in a creepy old chair and staring as Taxidermy usually does...
Updated Oct 27, 2008
Bernie Wrightson’s Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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It first appeared almost 25 years ago and now it's almost impossible to find. This is by far one of the most beautiful examples of an illustrated piece of literature and now Dark Horse Comics and Bernie Wrightson are working together to re-release this epic in a larger hard cover format that it deserves. It will include the entire novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and all 47 full-page illustrations by Wrightson. The precisely detailed and atmospheric pen and ink renderings of the story are truly breathtaking. Go to Dark Horse Comics' website and reserve your copy of this masterpiece today.
Updated Oct 27, 2008
War Of The Worlds (CD) by Orson Welles
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On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles launched himself into mass American consciousness by broadcasting the invasion of earth by Martians on the Mercury Theater on Air show. The radio adaptation of the H.G. Welles classic of the same name was performed by Welles in a realistic news break style that many listeners mistook as real. According to some, widespread panic ensued...whether this is true or not, it DID scare a hell of a lot of people and because of this Grovers Mill will live on in infamy. It is certainly easy to see why so many people took the fake newscast as legitimate...it was a first for the time such a prank was pulled and in the light of our current entertainment environment filled with false eyewitness reports like "Blair Witch," "Cloverfield," "Diary of the Dead," and "Quarantine"...such a publicity stunt seems easily rejected as pure entertainment but at such a time of unprecendented stunts and the building tensions prior to WWII it must have been truly terrifying...
see for yourself and relive the horrors of Halloweens past.
Updated Oct 25, 2008
Scared!: How to Draw Fantastic Horror Comic Characters by Steve Miller, Bryan Baugh
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Want to create your own renderings of horrific fiends and fantastic monsters? To scared to take a life drawing class with the wolfman and Dr. Frankenstein? Then this is the book for you...
Updated Oct 25, 2008
Approved By The Council Of Monsters T-Shirt - Archie McPhee
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From Archie McPhee, manufacturer of adult toys (NO! not that type!) and diversions comes this t-shirt that states quite plainly that YOU have been approved by the Council of Monsters...which as we all know is harder to get approval from than the United Nations and/or the Harper Valley PTA...
So snatch up this cool shirt in slime green because it is dirt cheap! graveyard dirt cheap! but don't worry, i'm sure it is made of the same high quality transylvanian cotton and third world child labor tears as the rest of your monster wardrobe...
Updated Oct 25, 2008
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