Beware! Once again, the archives have been unburied, and the hideous horrors unleashed! For your entertainment and edification pleasure, of course. Members of the League of Tana Tea Drinkers dig six feet deep to find their past misdeeds…and reveal them to you, one favorite and notable post at a time!
Drunken Severed Head bids a fond farewell to the King of Pop in Goodby, Michael:
Like millions of others, I still have warm memories of seeing the video for the song “Thriller” for the first time. The song replaced “Monster Mash” for the post-Boomer generations as THE anthem of Halloween, my favorite holiday.
Classic Horror kicks off the action with Ten Sadistic Ways to Die in a Horror Movie:
They said, “Hey, guys, we have somebody getting yanked apart by two semi trucks in our movie. What about listing off some other brutal and/or sadistic deaths?” These aren’t necessarily the ten most brutal or sadistic deaths in a horror movie, just the ones we thought were notable.
Groovy Age of Horror switches on Channel Evil No. 1:
Oakley has a unique style that can be classy and articulate at times, creating a scene that is very film noir with a dose of abstract planes. At other times, the art gets the best of him, spiraling out of control and derails writer Alan Grant’s interesting story.
Dinner With Max Jenke shows us what’s strong enough for a Ninja, but made for a woman:
As a trilogy, the Ninja films were unrelated to each other – with the only constant being actor Sho Kosugi, who played a different role in each one. And while Enter the Ninja (1981) and Revenge of the Ninja (1983) were straight-forward action films with crime elements, Domination brought the series to a supernatural conclusion.
TheoFantastique ponders angels, aliens, and the supernatural other:
…This connection between the angelic and the alien in horror films is even more interesting when we consider the influence of Christian demonology in shaping the thinking and symbolism in these areas.
Vault of Horror lists their top ten favorites for 1950’s horror:
The 1950s was an amazing time for terror, filled with giant critters, 3-D nightmares, drive-in grotesqueries and the birth of sci-fi horror. There are so many to choose from, but if you held me down at gunpoint, these would probably be my ten favorite…