Attention all Los Angeles FEARnettians: Here’s a calendar update for 5 upcoming Dark Delicacies events guaranteed to satisfy your appetite! Events include a Repo! signing with Darren Lynn Bousman and a massive, unavoidable His Name Was Jason signing with a slew of Jasons and Friday the 13thers galore! Hit the jump for full details!
There comes a time in every girl's--or boy's--life where she must count her post-holiday gift cards and decide what to splurge on. This is my splurge-cision...
To be honest, the following quote is disturbing, but only in the sense that I personally might have said the same thing regarding “heroine slinging/baby selling season” and Pink Flamingos:
“It’s the best seasonal film of all time. I wish I had kids. I’d make them watch it every year and, if they didn’t like it, they’d be punished!”
Less disturbing is the fact that I’m quoting obscure, mustachian director John Waters regarding the winter holiday season and the widely renowned Christmas Evil (1980). Along with Waters, genre fans are basically convinced that Christmas Evil, originally titled You Better Watch Out, is the greatest holiday horror film of all time. So this Christmas, Evil director Lewis Jackson is bringing you some hell-sent holiday treats by screening his original 35MM print in selected North American cities and pairing those delectable screenings with other gore gurgling celebratory events.
For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, Christmas Evil or have been face first in a bowl of eggnog since 1979, Evil follows the holiday escapades of Harry, who, after seeing his mother engage in some naughty activities with his dad dressed as jolly ol’ St. Nick, realizes that Santa is not real! A HO indeed! But upon this realization, Harry did not react like most children who merely tell 20+ other classmates that the present wielding, sleigh riding magic-man is simply a velvet draped bearded guy who eats his feelings. Rather, Harry makes perfectly constructed toys, keeps a naughty and nice list of neighbor children and goes on an all out yuletide killing spree.
Read after the jump for screening location information. And if you don’t happen to live anywhere near Philadelphia, Toronto or Los Angeles, never fear Christmas Evil-ians! FEARnet will be airing Jackson’s original Christmas Evil print On Demand all December long and online the week of Christmas!
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We’ve found it! It’s the gift they’ll--or you’ll--Love(craft)! Here at FEARnet we don’t know a lick about knittin’ so the bountiful information put forth by Toymania.com seems like gibberish to us. But, for the knitter in your life, I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to translate the gobbledygookin’ instructions into a quite stylish and terrifying Cthulhu inspired scarf!
P.S. - I’d be more than happy to accept gifts from FEARnet.com community members with a penchant for the needle…ehhhhh, you know what I mean.
At this moment, just barely two weeks after America’s 2008 Presidential election, there’s not a man alive that’s more popular, loved or sensationalized than President Elect Barack Obama; however, it seems that in the wake of the heated election and impassioned political spitfire, the undead have actually become the rancid flavor of the week!
Yes folks, while you were standing in line at the wrong polling location filling out a paper ballot, campaigning for “Change” or thinking “Country First” a zombie revolution of colossal proportions took over YouTube. Yet, refreshingly, it seems that zombies, though headstrong, stubborn and seemingly Republican, actually seem to be nonpartisan, putting political affiliation aside and shamelessly attacking from all angles…depending on whose undead representation of the politics you indulge. According to Nader, Obama-ites are to fear but according to George W. Bush, it’s those pesky slow-moving tourists!
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Saw V did its fair share of trying to beat out tween sensation, High School Musical 2, for the number one box office spot just about a month ago when the two hotly anticipated sequels hit theaters on October 24th. But to be honest, Saw V’s efforts were pretty futile and even their post-opening-weekend advertisements reading “High School Is for Pussies” didn’t help much. However, over at a pretty hilarious video site called Black20.com the philosophy is, "if ya’ can’t beat em’, join em’"! Watch this valiant effort to equal the playing field after the jump….
Well howdy my Midwestern readers! Just when you thought October (a.k.a. Horror’s Mecca / Halloween) was heating up; November is proving to be an even better month for Midwesterners Living in FEAR! With two major Midwest comic conventions in the pipeline, it looks like November will be a rootin’-tootin’ good time for ya’ll…
I know. That's enough with all the lame, Yankee-east-coast vs. midwest jokes; so here are the details…
Well, almost. It’s actually much better than that! Stan “the mother-effing-man” Lee apparently has been caught on tape giving a charismatically nauseating (as only Stan could) and completely charming recitation of Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic work, The Raven. This morning one of my co-workers dug up the link, sent it my way and fulfilled one of my unknown fantasies. The funny part is, of all my personal fantasies that involved Stan “Mahh Man” Lee, I never even considered taking Lee and horror fixture, The Raven, and smacking them together into a 10 minute video extravaganza! It’s truly a Halloween miracle; although, with Stan’s cartoon voice and animated hand flailing, it feels more like he’s reciting a gentle Night Before Christmas than a skin crawling The Raven; but still, amazing.
On another Raven raving note, if your from the Philly area and your female equivalent to Stan Lee is horror icon and Mistress of Dark, Elvira, well, you’re life is sad. I mean, you’re in luck! Because Elvira is coming to Philly on October 31st, going to Edgar Allan Poe’s House (530 N. 7th Street, Philly, PA 19123) at 5:30 PM and reciting The Raven to kick off a year long Philly-style celebration of Poe’s 200th birthday! Do yourself a favor and watch Lee read The Raven...NOW!
It’s unfair that I’ve been focusing much of my “Living in FEAR” attention on the Halloween events surrounding the Philadelphia area so I guess I should broaden my horizons and focus my attention on the only other place in this universe that matters; sunny and shallow Los Angeles, California. But then again, I guess most people living in LA are used to kick-ass screenings and celebrity hubbub every night. But here in ol’ Philadelphia and the rest of the world, a special screening of Shaun of the Dead introduced by Mr. Edgar Wright on Halloween night is a big to-do! After the jump for details…
Halloween makes us do some pretty crazy things. Full grown adults eat way too much tooth-rotting candy, consume funky orange beverages to the point of obliterated intoxication, barf up said candy and funky beverages and do so all while dressing like straight-up hoes or gored-out ghouls. Aside from mass consumption of treats, uncontrollable barfing and unintentional hooking, Halloween also marks the time of year when we like to get unnecessarily spooked at collective craziness that wouldn’t necessarily happen to be scary on a day-to-day basis...
As trivial as it would seem, even the undead do not transcend cafeteria laws as we know them. The zombies don’t sit with the werewolves, werewolves avoid wolf men. And the prison guards? Well you prisoners sure as shit better not get caught sharing cup-o-noodles with them! What? Read on…
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Ohh the price we pay for gore and glory! Genre fans know that price all year round but during the Halloween season, even those regular folks who aren’t necessarily Living in FEAR feel the financial burden of finding the right amount of blood and guts without looking like a low-budg gorno production. This late in the game, with just one week until Halloween, you’re going to have to shell out a few extra clams to get high quality costumes but it’s definitely worth it once you see what The Horror Dome has to offer. Last week I stumbled upon THD’s official website which includes a whole slew of custom masks, costumes and prosthetic pieces. And being the kind soul that I am (heh) I decided to help those Living in FEAR and those just looking to score one of the sickest, most original costumes of the year by picking my personal favorite “Last Minute Premium Costume Picks” from TheHorrorDome.com. Check it out after the jump!
