Category Archives: A Nightmare on Elm St.
Seven Killer Songs
In Irish folklore, the banshee is an apparition whose mournful, wailing song signals someone’s recent death. In most versions of the myth, the banshee’s song is so piercing and strong that it can cut through solid objects and drive those who hear it insane. It’s a shame that this intriguing myth isn’t used more often [...]
Foreign Horror Film Posters
poster-iffic awesomeness from strange, foreign lands where they do things like eat mayonnaise on their french fries, brew good beer, smoke inside restaurants, wear clothes with wacky names like “lederhosen” and produce awesome flicks like [REC] …
The Birds
(Czechoslovakia)
Dawn of the Dead
(Germany)
Carrie
(Turkey)
Carrie
(Spain)
The Exorcist
(Turkey)
The Howling
(Belgium)
Friday the 13th
(Australia)
Friday the 13th Part 2
(Turkey)
King Kong
(Spain)
Psycho
(Czechoslovakia)
A Nightmare on Elm St.
(Germany)
A Nightmare [...]
Elm Street Remake Trailer
the new a nightmare on elm street remake trailer is out, and it’s surprisingly good. i wasn’t particularly interested in this remake until this trailer, but now they’ve got my attention. i’d say they’ve definitely chosen the right guy to put on robert englund’s glove, as this freddy is definitely creepy. we’ll [...]
Nintendo DSi Does Horror Part 2
a few weeks ago i defiled the images of some classic horror icons using the nintendo dsi’s photo manipulation tools. well, i got bored and took a crack at a few more…
Nintendo DSi Does Horror
i was playing around with my nintendo dsi and discovered it comes with a fairly nifty photo manipulation program. with the built in camera and a few pokes of the stylus, you can easily turn a nice picture of your favorite horror blogger like this into
this monstrosity. like everything i encounter in life, [...]
Let’s Take a Virtual Terror Tour
google street view is both one of the coolest and one of the creepiest things ever invented. not only can you travel instantly around the globe, you can look into the windows of people living thousands of miles away, see drunk people passed out on street corners or dead animals hit by the google [...]
Classic Horror Games
in addition to film, the horror genre is found in all manners of places, such as novels, comics, toys, paintings, bobble-head dolls, and video games. it’s easy enough to find friday the 13th books, action figures and artwork, but, for some reason, the slasher genre has rarely been translated into video games. certainly [...]
Childhood Horrors
it’s said that sources of trauma and terror in childhood become sources of attraction later in life. if nothing else, this basic tenet of human psychology goes a long way to explaining my love of horror films and, i would wager, yours as well. would i still love slasher films if i hadn’t [...]
Strange and Bizarre Horror Collectibles
previously we looked at some of the coolest horror memoribilia out there. today we continue our look into horror toys, figurines, trinkets and knick-knacks — but with a focus on some of the stranger and more bizarre examples available. you may or may not desire to own these items, but with items like [...]
The One Who Dies With The Most Toys Wins
hannibal lecter once said:
How do we begin to covet, Clarice?
Do we seek out things to covet?
No, we begin by coveting what we see every day.
i humbly disagree. the only thing i can see from where i’m sitting right now is a half full cherry coke bottle and an empty tape dispenser. those aren’t [...]
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