Category Archives: Literature
Horror Community Highlights – October 23, 2009
Illustrations for the Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Golden Age Comic Book Stories
Edmund Dulac’s illustrations complement Poe’s work, but they’re brilliant enough to also stand on their own.
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Planet of Terror
I’ll give a shout out to any website that rates movies according to these categories: Fear, Gore, Entertainment, Creepiness, and T&A Factor.
Visceral [...]
Hammer Glamour Winner
after a very complicated and technologically sophisticated random selection procedure (i.e., i put everyone’s name on a scrap of post-it note, placed them in a plastic bowl and had a co-worker pick one), we’ve decided on a winner for our hammer glamour book give-away!
in addition to running one of the most stylish and polished websites [...]
Hammer Glamour
titan books was kind enough to send us a preview copy of their upcoming book hammer glamour. the book details a bit of the history of hammer studios before giving a comprehensive list of the starlets that made the films famous. each actress is given their own filmography and biography, complete with gorgeous [...]
Slumber Party Massacre: The Poem
My name is Russ Thorn. You probably know me as the driller killer from Slumber Party Massacre, but lesser known are my many, many works of poetic literature, including Taladro Bella, my collection of Petrarchan love sonnets. Petrarch liked to compare love with warfare and affliction, and he dedicated all of [...]
Villanelle Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part Two
It’s been a while since my last poetry review, so to kick start the series again, I’ve decided to review Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. Of course, his original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a major milestone in horror history, but I’ve always been partial to the sequel. It’s really a dark [...]
The Phantom of the Opera (1998)
dario argento’s the phantom of the opera (1998) looked to be tailor-made for my fiancée and i. the last few weeks i’ve been on an argento kick, but i’ve been watching them by myself since she’s not the biggest fan of horror films to begin with — let alone surreal, incoherent italian ones. [...]
Play The Mist for Me
stephen king’s the mist hit dvd this week in a regular single disc and a two-disc collector’s edition. i would overwhelmingly recommend getting the latter as the second disc contains the entire film as frank darabont originally intended — in black and white.
i’ve seen the film both in color and black and white and [...]
Jon’s Haiku Reviews (part 2)
Bob Denver, look out!
Three-Finger and Saw-Tooth live
in West Virginia.
Wrong Turn (2003)
In the first slasher,
Leigh dies first. Bates is in drag.
There’s no final girl.
Psycho (1960)
I prefer Jason’s
knife and mask, but the raft scene
is Savini’s best.
The Burning (1981)
The Mist
“the long walk” is my favorite stephen king story, but “the mist” is a close second. so i was prepped and ready to hate the film version when i went to see it this weekend. surprisingly, my preparation was in vain. king translates well to the screen only rarely, but i’m [...]
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