Interview with The EVIL DEAD ladies

I am very proud to announce that the ladies from the first Evil Dead have given me quite an exstensive interview. It can be found at the new site - www.allthingshorror.co.uk

Heath Ledger

You silly arse.

CHANGE OF VENUE

It is with a heavy heart that this will be one of my final posts with blogspot. Since the conception of this site nearly a year ago, it has amazed me how much it has grown. Hence, the need for a new home. You can still type in www.allthingshorror.co.uk and it will direct you to a brand new site - something which will become much more user interactive. This site now reverts back to www.allthingshorror.blogspot.com

Now, I know it is a big ask for all of you brilliant people who have looked over the blog in the past to come and visit my new site - it IS bare bones at the moment - so I will still keep posting now and again on here until ATH.co.uk is fully operational.

I would like to thank everyone who has visited, commented and emailed me in the past - and I hope that your support continues onto my new home.

Johnny

Eerie Horror Fest

One of the better horror festivals on the circuit at the moment is the Eerie Horror Fest in Erie, PA. The past years have shown that it gets the best names, have shown some of the best films and just continues each year to go from strength to strength. This year will prove no different. Kane Hodder and Tony Moran are the first guests to be announced, and there is going to be a little get together that will make everyone crap their pants with excitement.

I am proud to say that the Rev. Greg at Eerie has taken this little website under its wing and will give me news as and when it happens. This in turn will give me some access to more interviews with some great stars from the horror world that will be posted on both websites.

http://www.eeriehorrorfilmfestival.com/

johnny

A quick scribble

Not been around much in the last few days - been madly phoning and emailing around, trying to make contacts to help the website out a little bit more. Have some very exciting interviews coming up shortly - trust me when I say I haven't let you down! Should be hopefully starting to post them some time by the end of this week/beginning of next week.

johnny

Flowers published by The Pygmy Giant

My weird little short story titled 'Flowers' has finally found a home courtesy of those good people at The Pygmy Giant at www.thepygmygiant.blogspot.com

It's been a story I've sent out a few times, and always got the bog standard rejection letter. But I've never given up on it, always thought it had something. So, I'm glad to call it my first pub of '08.


johnny

The Dead Outside

I have been in contact with Kris Bird, producer of a film called The Dead Outside which is in pre- production at the moment. He has very kindly agreed to give me news as is happens, interviews, and hopefully some photos. Here is what Kris told me about the film :


The film is called The Dead Outside, to be directed by Scottish music video director Kerry Anne Mullaney, and this is our current synopsis and logline--

Full Synopsis:A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent. Two survivors come together on an isolated farmhouse in desperate circumstances- April, a young mysterious girl with a dark past has survived alone for months, and Daniel, a man desperate and bereaved, clings desperately onto hope in the outside world. When a mysterious stranger turns up, they are confronted with a new enemy even deadlier than the one beyond the perimeter.

Logline: In a world ravaged by a psychological virus, two strangers on an isolated farmhouse fight for survival, but the dead outside want in.

In terms of 'zombies', the media have totally overblown that- for starters they're alive, not 'living dead', and we have everyone we need now! (i.e. 20 people local to Dumfries & Galloway, where we're shooting).

We think it's a brilliant concept and a brilliant script-- it's not a "zombie apocalypse" it's an intelligent horror/thriller piece, and we have very high hopes!

The Dead Outside is now casting! See blog.thedeadoutside.co.uk for news.


So visit the blog, have a look-see, and just a big thanks goes out to Kris for agreeing to do this!


johnny

First Horror Film?

The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, made in 1895 could be the first instance of 'horror' in a short film. Coming in at only one minute long it shows the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots with the axeman holding up the head for all to see afterwards.

Still a pretty effective little film, even today.

http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/4036.mpg

WHITE ZOMBIE

The word Zombie was first introduced into popular culture by the rampant adventurer William B Seabrook in his book Magic Island. However, while Das Kabinet Des Dr Calgari might be claimed as the first zombie/undead film in some quarters, for me it has to be White Zombie (1932).

Featuring Bela Lugosi in his most accomplished role, this film was among one of the first independent films not to be made by one of the major studios of the time, yet had the look and the feel of a big budget film. The film, made by the Halperin brothers for a reported $50,000 on Universals back lot retains its air of unease, even today in the domain of our gore soaked extravaganzas.

Remember, these early films of the undead were mainly about the voodoo rituals and black magic that brought the dead back to life. The film does have its flaws - there is some terribly bad acting, but in a strange way this helps the strange, dream-like quality of the film. The cinematography of this film is outstanding.

Langiushing on bad DVD copies (film is in public domain) the Roan Group recently brought out a cleaned up copy, which helps the viewing somewhat. This film, with its zombies from a different era is a forgotten little masterpiece and should be watched by as many people as possible.

So, courtesy of Google Video, here is the link to a rather scratchy copy of the film. Just sit back and let Murder Legendre (Bela Lugosi) mesmerise you with his haunting shiny orbs of evil.

As a side note - for all you film buffs, watch out for an uncredited Clarence Muse.

Here is the link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8495306856566723380


johnny

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Just a very, very quick post to wish you all a very happy new year. Unfortunately I am working at 7.30am on New Years Day, so it's off to bed with no whisky. As a side note, you can now type in www.allthingshorror.co.uk in the address bar and it will bring you here. Where it still says blogspot.com. Don't know how to get rid of that - anyone knows, please send me an email!

See you on the other side!

johnny

Bad Santa

Well, I never got the R1 Dawn boxset, but the above are some of the ace gifts Santa gave me. Also got a replica shirt that Peco wears in the film Ping Pong. Really cool.

Roll on Xmas next year!

johnny

New Web Address!

I am now the very proud owner of the www.allthingshorror.co.uk address which I will be attatching to this blog sometime in the next day or so.

johnny

Salutations

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and that they get what they wish for. I'm hoping for the Region 1 Dawn of the Dead boxset, so fingers crossed.

Will return in the New Year with a slightly tweaked format, trying to make the place more accessible and more user friendly. And hopefully with loads of interviews, news and reviews.

See you all soon, and thanks for visiting,

Johnny

Werner Herzog

Been going through a bit of a Werner Herzog phase at the moment - for those who are not familiar with his work; he is responsible for some of the most audacious and beautiful works ever released on film. I just watched a film called Fitzcarraldo today and it is one of the most intensly seraphic films I have ever watched. But as this is allthingshorror, he is also responsible for the 1979 re-imagining of Nosferatu, titled Phantom Der Nacht. Starring his real-life alter ego, Klaus Kinski, Nosferatu the Vampyre is a very haunting yet beautifully succinct work and in some weird level in my mind surpasses the F.W Murnau original. But watch both of them, then grab hold of as much of Werner Herzog's stuff as you can. There's a great boxset selling for £18 at HMV. His films won't let you down - though as you will find out next - he will!

Anyways, sent Werner Herzog's office a request for an interview concerning Nosferatu and they politely, yet firmly turned me down.

Dear John,

Thank you for your mail. Unfortunately we must inform you that due to his very tight schedule Mr Herzog is unable to do interviews or respond to questions by mail. We do hope for your understanding.

Thank you.

Dammit, my website is too shit and I'm too unimportant for my own good! All of this writing emails to get bog standard refusals is really starting to do my head in! What do I expect though, hey? I try...

LIST OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE REFUSED INTERVIEWS OR HAVE NEVER RETURNED MY REQUESTS:

Tom Savini

George Romero

Joe Hill

Denise Crosby

Dale Midkiff

Gaylen Ross

Shaun Hutson

Dean Koontz

Elvira

PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACCEPTED

Ken Foree (just waiting for him to send my questions back to a third party)

Ingrid Pitt (coming soon)

****

So there you have it, by this time next year, the refused list will be longer than an intestinal worm!

johnny

Shutterbug and the Bear

First off, here is a trailer for my good buddy Daniel I Russell's new ebook, Shutterbug. It's really good - so watch the advert, then buy the book from Wild Child Publishing!

Here's the link: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=23566040

Secondly: Here's my buddy - a bear based on Stephen King. Just nuts. On the back of him there is a dog kennel with glowing eyes in the middle of it. Cujo!

One of the weirdest things I own now.....

johnny

Finds of '07

It's been a good year for my old collection - eased back on the old Stephen King stuff (though many thanks go to the second hand book dealer who sold me a first NEL of The Running Man by Richard Bachman for only £1.20) Here are some photos of the stuff I've managed to get and only spent in total £100 on it all. I'm a bloody canny buyer!

1: German Dawn of the Dead cinema poster

2: German Day of the Dead cinema poster

3:Japanese Dawn of the Dead cinema poster

4:Belgian Dawn of the Dead cinema poster

5:1st print/set of 3 Dawn of the Dead comics

6: Dawn of the Dead incidental music CD

7: Australian Vampire Circus (Hammer Horror) cinema poster

8: Australian Dracula - Prince of Darkness (Hammer Horror cinema poster)

9: The Terminator film novelisation by Shaun Hutson ( a bit beaten up, but at long bloody last!)

johnny

Angel Heart

I bought the special edition DVD of Angel Heart ages ago, and was just sitting in my bookcase gathering dust until I watched it last night. The last time I watched it was a good few years after it came out and while I enjoyed the film I don't think I got what it was about. So last night was like watching it with a fresh set of eyes, and after the film was done I was staggered by what a truly fucking amazing piece of cinema it is.

Released in 1987, the film bombed at the box office because the mass populace didn't get what the film was about. Starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet (in a role which some feel damaged her career) the film is based on the novel 'Falling Angel' by William Hjortsberg and it's directed by Alan Parker, the man responsible for the stoners uberfilm, The Wall.

Rourke plays the part of Harry Angel, a sleazy private detective who works small cases, and sometimes the odd missing person case. Which is exactly what Louis Cyphre hires him to do. To find a crooner by the name of Johnny Favourite who was badly injured in WW2 and was hospitalized. But Harry find out that Johnny has vanished and the hospital had falsified documents for the last twelve years.

The case brings Harry to New Orleans, and the further he digs into it, he finds that it is tainted with elements of Voodoo and satanism, and Harry starts to fear for his health and sanity. He also meets Ephiphany Proudfoot, the daughter of a woman who knew Favourite well - and as lives, lies and the simmering heat of Louisiana come thundering to a juddering climax, Harry disovers that Louis Cypher isn't really concerned for his or Johnny Favourites well being.....

So there you have it, I won't mention the ending as I don't want to spoil it for people who have yet to see the film. I will say this though, Angel Heart is one of the most intelligent, thought provoking and complex films I have seen for a long time, the acting by everyone involed is just amaxzing - and it's just a shame that they don't make them like this any more.

ANGEL HEART FACTS

Released 6th March 1987

Budget$17,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend$3,688,721 (USA) (815 Screens)

Gross :$17,185,632 (USA) £1,141,192 (UK)

Filming Dates: 31 March 1986 - August 1986

johnny

ps: Wow, a sudden upsurge of people visiting the blog! Yay! Remind me to pull my finger out of my arse more in future then please....

the all things horror magazine

For my 100th post (yay) I've decided to celebrate my opening up a new wing to the blog called 'the all things horror magazine'.


This will feature stuff by the writers of strictly horror stories only. I was going to start up a blog showcasing my own stuff only, but I decided that there might be some unsung talent out there who have still to chase their first publishing, or sustained publishing. Now, in no way shape or form am I saying that it's going to be a cakewalk; the blog might self-implode within the first few months. But I'm keen to try out new ideas and explore new avenues, and I'm excited to see what the future will bring.

So here's the link. http://www.allthingshorrormagazine.blogspot.com/

Have a look, if you think you have a short story I'll like send it to me at allthingshorror.admin@gmail.com

johnny

Witches, Vampires and Zombies

I bought the above video today from a car boot sale. It stars John Russo, the co-author of Night of the Living Dead and Return of the Living Dead. The video is mostly a vanity project where he basically talks about the films he's had a hand in, plus some of the films he has directed - most notably Midnight. The film was released in 1990 by Simitar Entertainment, a company that no longer appears to exist. The film is 40 minutes long and was produced by Market Square Productions who seem to have had a hand in helping the production of Night of the Living Dead.

I've searched on IMDB and there is no mention of this on John Russo's biography, and no mention of it in the film database either. I've searched on Wiki, Ebay and as many search engines as possible - the only other mention of it was on Amazon, where I typed in the barcode to see if anything would come up and one person was selling it for £19.99.

Does anyone out there know anything more about this docu-film? Was this film released only in the UK?

Please email me at allthingshorror.admin@gmail.com if you know anything!!


johnny

You're goin' down. Chainsaw.

Fuel Cap from an evildeadchainsaw. Groovy!

Following is an interview with Rob from http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/. I got in touch with him because I found what he did was bloody fascinating. Thanks again to Rob for taking the time to answer my questions and I hope everyone enjoys the interview!

Johnny: Rob, welcome to allthingshorror. You are the wunderkind who runs www.evildeadchainsaws.com, manufacturing & selling non-working replica chainsaws based on the props seen in ‘Evil Dead 2’ & ‘Army of Darkness’.


Firstly, your site that mentions you are involved in special effects and modelmaking for TV & film. How did you first get into the industry, and who are your biggest influences?

Rob: I came into the special effects industry mainly because of seeing the ‘Evil Dead’ & Romero Dead trilogies at an early age. This led me to become interested the work of Tom Savini. Around that time I started experimenting with my own make-up effects and working with friends & creating my own home movies. When I left school I took a BTEC in ‘3D Studies’ and an HND in ‘Theatre & Media Production’. Looking back I now realize that, with the exception of life experience, these courses didn’t really further my career to any realistic extent. Having finished the HND in 2000, I moved to London and after 2 years of bits & pieces of special effects freelancing and lots of stop gap temporary jobs, I got a full time job in special effects which I’ve now been in for 5 years.


Johnny: Did you produce your first chainsaw purely as a way to make money, or was it more of a pet project?

Rob: Around July of 2002 I bought a Homelite XL chainsaw off EBay. As a pet project, I modified this to make it look like the real working chainsaw from ‘Evil Dead 2’, although this only meant a small amount of work changing the handle shape and adding a grill to the side, and I was happy to leave it at that. Over the next few years I worked on a range of special effects gags in my spare time; like trick machetes & compressed air squibs. Around 2005 someone suggested I should try to sell some of my effects rather than just making & storing each one, then moving on to the next idea. After a few months thinking about it I thought the best way to start out would be to keep it simple and concentrate on one really good idea, maybe introducing other items later on. During this period I discovered NightmareGloves.com run by Anders Eriksen in Denmark, He makes replica Freddy Kruger gloves. He gave me the idea to do much the same thing; find a prop I can replicate and setup a website selling them. After a little research I settled upon the chainsaw from ‘Evil Dead 2’. Between May to December of 2005 I prototyped the idea until I knew I could make something I could sell. I launched the website around December of 2005 with the first of the 3 model saws; the workshed saw. The remaining two saw models were designed & added to the website by the middle of 2006


Johnny: You must capture as many stills as possible from each film, allowing you to view the chainsaws from every conceivable angle. Was there ever a moment when you thought you had taken on too much?

Rob: Yes & no. Because ‘Evil Dead 2’ was filmed out of sequence, props can get broken, repaired & modified during the course of shooting, making continuity difficult. This meant that there are subtle differences in the chainsaws in virtually every scene in which you see one, making it impossible to just make ‘A Replica Chainsaw’. All 3 saws are amalgamated from various shots/angles at certain points in each movie, with a little educated guesswork to fill any gaps.


Johnny: Can you take us through the process of manufacturing a chainsaw?

Rob: Generally I don’t discuss exactly how I produce my saws. This is because of the large amount of time, effort & money I put in to developing the design itself & first prototype, coupled with the fact I’m the only person currently selling these professionally, with the exception of saws turning up on ‘EBay’ from time to time.

I use a combination of cast resin mouldings, parts machined up from scratch, and real chainsaw parts to make my saws. Each saw is made up of over 100 separate pieces, from the guide bar & chain down to the smallest nuts & bolts and from start to finish takes three weeks to make.


Johnny: You have supplied the chainsaws to ‘Evil Dead – The Musical’. How did that come about? Have you seen the musical yourself?

Rob: When I first started EDC I found out about the first Toronto run, and I emailed them in December of 2005 to see if they’d be interested in buying one of my saws. The production run that was well underway at that point and they decided to stick with the trusted props they already had rather than chopping & changing mid production run. In May of 2006, Christopher Bond emailed me regarding the upcoming New York production and it went from there.

I haven’t seen the musical yet, no. Living in the UK, the USA is a fair trek to see a show although hopefully it should make its way over here at some point.


Johnny: Do you own any ‘Evil Dead’ memorabilia, other than the saws you produce?

Rob: Not really, just run of the mill items like DVDs & various books. I’ve never really been a big ‘hoarder’ in that sense.


Johnny: Did you try to get in touch with the creators of the original prop chainsaws for any helpful tips?

Rob: I don’t think if that ever occurred to me at the design stage. Subsequently I have spoken to people but not while I was prototyping the idea. I knew that with the exception of the exterior look of the saws, the difficult inside structure would most likely be quite different to the inside of their original saws. With the help of stills from each of the movies I designed everything else myself, although I did get a little advice from a far more experienced person, Bill Person; head modelmaker on a large number of films including a couple of the recent Bond movies.


Johnny: Finally, have any of the ‘Evil Dead’ trilogy production team, particularly Bruce Campbell or Sam Raimi, expressed any opinions regarding your chainsaws?

Rob: I haven’t spoken to Bruce or Sam yet so I’m not sure what they would make of my saws. As I mention on my site; I only sell my saws though my website at this point and don’t tour the convention circuit either in the US or UK, although if I do start it shouldn’t be long before I bump into them. I have spoken to both Tom Sullivan and Rob Kurtzman, who worked on the special effects for the first and second films respectively. Tom actually has one of the saws I supplied to ‘Evil Dead – The Musical’ New York in his ‘Evil Dead Museum’ although its now looking a little worse for wear having been covered in blood & bashed about every night onstage for 6 months!


Johnny: Thank you very much Rob for taking the time out of your busy schedule to talk to me. May EvilDeadChainsaws expand, and I hope to see you do the conventions one day!

© allthingshorror 2007

HAIL TO THE KING BABY!

I have probably found THE coolest thing on earth. A fan of the Evil Dead series? Want a (non-working) replica of Ash's chainsaw? Then go no further than http://www.evildeadchainsaws.com/ where you will find some beautiful pieces based on the chainsaws from the second and third films in the series. Please note that the person who makes these was in no way affiliated with the making of the films - he is just a man who has a background in the Film and TV industry and he makes props etc.

The chainsaws may seem a little pricey to some, but as a once in a lifetime gift to a person who's nuts about the Evil Dead films - well it's absolutely priceless. And when you look at the work that has been put into each one...well, just stunning.

There are 3 chainsaws to be had

Workshed Chainsaw

Cabin Chainsaw

Medieval Chainsaw (from Army of Darkness)


Now, I've not been asked to give this site a plug or anything, I've stumbled over it all on my sweet ass ownsome, and if, in a million years I could scrape the money up to get one, I would in a shot. These are special beasties and the guy who has obviously spent many a moon getting this all together deserves a huge pat on the back.

johnny

Website of the Week

Just a quick one today. If you want a history of zombie outbreaks in our time, how to deal with vampires, weapons that can be used, all manner of defense etc - you will need to look no further than the The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency that unfortunately had the plug pulled on it in 1975. But all of the archival information remains and can be found via the following link. Enjoy!!

http://www.fvza.org/index.html

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer Jan 1923 - Nov 2007





My favourite book of all time is The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer who sadly died today. It is within reach of my computer on the next to bottom shelf of my bookcase. It sits there, sandwiched between Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote and William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways. These three books were all read at a very early age and are the books responsible for me wanting to become a writer.

Norman Mailer will go down in my mind at least as a man who never compromised a word in his search for the truth, who had a genteel genius when it came to writing some of the most searing and beautiful prose I have ever read.

A twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a writer whom critics and feminists alike who lambasted him for wanting to be an iconic writer writing about iconic people and the sexually obsessive overtones that often ran through his work.

He told it as he saw it and more often than not lost many more friends than he made in his stances on the Vietnam War through to this Gulf War.

If you are unfamiliar with his work, try Naked and the Dead, his first published novel - and the first book of Mailer's I ever read. It left a great impression on me; and then I read The Executioner's Song which totally blew wide open my thirteen year old mind.

I've not read the book for a couple of years now, it's just been there gathering dust - and while it is a shame to only want to read it again now Norman has died, it's always been comforting to see that book on my shelf knowing that I'll never have to struggle to find a copy of it - that it's going nowhere. And that once I open those pages and I've read the first sentence, I'll be hooked and will find the book very hard to put down until I've finished it.

A truly great author and one who will be deeply missed.


johnny

The Artist Forever Known as Mince

A small diversion from the horror side of things for a minute. But I just thought I'd address the fact that Prince has made the news recently for being the smallest person in the world to have the biggest ego. We've always known why he plays those oversized guitars. His cock is the size of a chipolata.


johnny

'You in the bath? That'd stop any invasion.'

I found this in a charity shop this morning for 25p and I'll say this after watching it Carry On Screaming is probably the best ever Carry On film that was ever made. I had only ever seen it the once before when I was about thirteen and it was more for Fenella Fieldings ample assets rather than wanting to watch a near perfect lampooning of the Hammer Horror films that have now come to obsess the hell out of me.


Despite the low budget of the Carry On's, this homage has been executed (pardon the pun) perfectly - probably due to the fact that Hammer films didn't have the biggest budgets themselves. While the sets. lighting and eerie music are fantastic - it is the script which sets this film apart from the rest of the Carry On series. Nothing is sacred and everything has the piss taken out of it in equal measures - The one liners are perfect - the script crackles with electricity and the story and plot just seems to click into place and the film has you grinning from ear to ear and way long after the film has finished.

And then there are the actors who truly have never been better than they have here. I'm a huge fan of Steptoe and Son, but I can honestly say that Harry H Corbett as Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung is one of the best characters he has ever played. Kenneth Williams as Doctor Orlando Watt is vicious and camp all rolled into an insane bundle of zombiefication and Fenella Fielding is just delicious as his vampire sister.

This is the last of the Anglo-Amalgamated Carry On films as they wanted to venture into more serious work, and they left at the pinnacle. None of the following films had the sheer lust for rudeness that this film had.

I'm not going to spolier-pepper the plot of the film, but let's just say when you see Kenneth Williams screeching 'Frying tonight' when he is dropping his victims into huge vats of bubbling wax - I defy you not to cry yourself laughing.


'Because when you're screaming
I know that you're dreaming of me
Come closer
For you bring out the monster in me'


A great film and one that gets 10/10 from me. If you haven't seen it before, you'll thank me.



johnny

BEYOND THE RAVE

Looks like the porn film I did last year......

Well. I've been keeping quiet about my feelings on the new film that the Hammer studios are filming called 'Beyond the Rave' because I don't know what to make of it. Then I was having a chat with the top bloke who runs a second hand DVD and video shop. ( And today I bought from him Plan 9 from Outer Space, Bad Taste, Orgy of the Dead and Bundy) Anyhoo we were talking about all of the old Hammer films, particualry Vampire Circus which my good friend TP was an AD on, when the subject of the new Hammer film came up.

My first bug bear is that it doesn't look like it will get a theatrical release and will only be available online. Whether it will ever be available on DVD is another thing altogether. It's such a shame that there is no funding available, when 'esteemed' people such as Stephen Poliakoff gets all the money under the sun thrown at him to write, produce and direct sub-standard pieces of shite that really make you want to go and slit your wrists.

The second is the plot. It just seems really, really lame. The only saving grace is hopefully that Hammer can bring a sense of the sheer joy and lust for splatter that they did back in the old days. I hope it doesn't turn into a CGI fuck fest.

Here is the outline for the plot:

Beyond the Rave, a vampire story set in England's underground party scene, is a combination of traditional horror themes and contemporary setting and characters. The movie follows the last hours of freedom of local soldier Ed, who is flying out to Iraq the following morning. With the help of his best friend Necro, he spends his last night in the UK tracking down his missing girlfriend Jen, last seen partying with a bizarre group of hardcore night-time ravers led by the mysterious Melech. But as he catches up with Jen at a party in a remote forest, Ed discovers that Melech's crowd, who are hosting the event, are looking for more than a night of fun, and that not everyone will make it through to dawn…

So there you have it. It's a vampire film, and no-one can do vampire films like Hammer. Whatever the outcome I will dutifully download it and watch it and just be grateful that Hammer are making films again. But I do have the right to rant like a bugger if they fuck things up....

johnny

Our cinema is showing what???

Now, I'm quite excited about this. Our local cinema is showing the second Hammer Horror film, Horror of Dracula and it will be a rare thing indeed to watch it on the big screen. Unfortunately it is on a digital print which has been cleaned up - I would have loved to have seen it with crackles et al - but beggars can't be choosers and I'm just thrilled to be seeing it at all.

Apologies for neglecting the blog - hopefully be getting a bit more time to do it sooner rather than later.

johnny

shame

Not one person in the whole wide world entered my halloween competition.

Night of the Living Dead Online

Yes Barbara, we know.....they're coming to get you.....



I like freebies, I'm sure you do too. If you want to watch George Romero's classic film that defined the way that horror films would be made forever for absolutely free - follow this link.

http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead_ipod


enjoy!

johnny

Save The Hedgehogs!!!!!!

My nephew Tom, who is only ten, has started up his own blog page which has something to do with horror - but a different kind of horror; cruelty to hedgehogs! Yes ladies and gents, hedgehogs are a much maligned member of natures family and Tom has the right idea in trying to raise awareness. I'm not sure how often he will update his blog (here's hoping he updates his more than I currently do mines...) but let's give him a big shout out:

http://www.savethehedgehogs.blogspot.com/

It's people like him who'll save a few creatures from going extinct you know...



On a sad note, my deepest sympathys go out to my good friend who lost his father recently. My thoughts are with you and we'll have a good time together soon, you mark my words.

johnny