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.
Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat reviews Tarantino's bloody masterpiece Inglourious Basterds:
...In that sense Inglourious Basterds may be the punkest movie I've seen in I can't even think how long. Maybe ever. It's about nothing less than the power of art to destroy evil. It's about how important it is to love film more than the likes of Hitler hate life. It's about how movie violence, art violence, art designed as a FUCK YOU, can help you deal with the violence that so terrified Chamberlain's cohorts and to which Hitler and his cohorts were so indifferent.
I Love Horror didn't love Captivity, and gives us the top ten things they would have preferred doing:
Including...Spend three hours pressed between the well-lubricated buttocks of two 600-pound Jamaican women while listening to reggae as sung by the Chipmunks.
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.
Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire double-dares us as they defend Halloween II:
Namely, it's an aggressive, gruesome re-telling of a stalk-and-slash film that prominently features its director's trash-punk aesthetic. There's no subtlety going on here, and Mr. Zombie*** isn't trying to convey any larger cultural message than "what if Michael Meyers was a really murderey dude instead of a monster?"
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.
Evil On Two Legs shares their love for Polish horror posters:
i don’t know much about poland, but if their film posters are any indication, it is one wacky place. i’m particularly fond of/weirded out by the fly and the shining posters.
And room for one more...
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...
Until next time, then...
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