Film Watch: Tuck Me In This is what you call psychological horror. You twist something that is perfectly benign and commonplace in everyday life into something that can make you scream. Director Ignacio F. Rodo does not overplay the turn and intentionally refrains from any loud scares. It works. "Tuck Me In" is
Music Watch: Dragula by Rob Zombie [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI?rel=0&w=640&h=360]
Art Your 2014 Halloween Costume Inspiration: Makeup We all have two weeks left to get our Halloween business in order. Have you figured out a costume concept yet? Why not start from the makeup and work your way down? A good paint job covers a lot of sins when it comes to costumes and props. 1: Custom
Music Watch: First of the Year (Equinox) by Skrillex [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g?rel=0&w=640&h=360] Song by Skrillex Directed by Tony Truand
Art Watch: I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzK0mQER28A?rel=0&w=640&h=480] Adapted from the poem by Emily Dickinson Animated by Lynn Tomlinson
Film Horror Thursday: Detention What can I saw about this film? I liked the first and last 20 minutes of the film. I scored it merely by percentages. It's cute, it's funny, and it's definitely something different. Horror Thursday: Detention
Music Listen: Souling Song by Kristen Lawrence [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j35dvmdse9k&w=560&h=315] "Souling Song" by Kristen Lawrence, a must-have for any Halloween playlist.
Games Neverending Nightmares Review (Game, 2014) Neverending Nightmares is an interesting experiment in horror games. Developer Matt Gilgenbach takes his experience with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Depression and turns it into a looping game, exploring variations of the same world over and over until some form of reality is established. What still draws me to this
Books/Print Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix Review (Novel, 2014) If a business is successful enough, other business will pop up trying to copy the model. That's how we wind up with Orsk, a cheap Ikea knock-off central to Horrorstor. Amy sells desks in the Home Office section of Orsk. She just wants to get through the next
Film Dracula: Untold Review (Film, 2014) The biggest problem with Dracula: Untold is the name. If the film had any other name, there would not be the expectation that this is in any way supposed to be a story about the iconic Dracula character. In fact, it's an interesting attempt to combine the history
Views Watch: Charlie Browned [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLggjhD-Wo&w=560&h=315] From Jonathan Ian Mathers
Film Watch: I Put a Spell on You [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WokCYRlqtVc?rel=0&w=640&h=360] From the feature film Hocus Pocus. Performed by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker
Books/Print Read: "By Rote" By Roteby Robert Gannon The whispers are what get to you. People just don't realize that marble floors and tiled walls amplify everything. This is why the organ is on carpet and the younger altar boys wear sneakers under their oversized vestments. You think some of the comments
