Ok, so Big Ole Face Full of Monster magazine is on hiatus as a print magazine. And its website went down awhile back due to problems with the provider. So to bridge the gap until print becomes possible again, I have a new webzine: Mystic Skull Mag at http://sites.google.com/ ( Read more... )

Top Ten lists hold very few surprises. They only serve to let the reader know whether you are a real fan or just a hack for a mass media mag pimping the latest big budget remakes and sequels. In the zombie genre specifically, they also usually break down into a later-Romero-sucks versus later-Romero-is-still-genius debate. If you are a continuing ( Read more... )

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I finally got a chance to see Creepy KOFY Movietime last night. What an utter piece of shit. Nothing to recommend it at all. The show is hosted by a couple of typical FM morning show douchbags doing frat-boy humor that doesn't relate in any way to sci-fi, horror, or B-movies. Just the usual doses of misogyny, substance abuse, and social bigotry ( Read more... )

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What songs do you know that contain an actual ghost story? Stan Ridgway's "Camouflage" is a song in the classic ghost story form about a dead marine who wants to come back just once and save a rookie grunt in a fire fight. There are also plenty of great old ballads that have narratives about ghosts, the best being "The Unquiet Grave" (Child #78 ( Read more... )

Update: San Francisco, CA - August 29, 2009 - Bay Area Film Events, Creatures at Large and The San Francisco Giants present Creature Features Night at AT&T Park!

Tickets can now be purchased at http://bayareafilmevents.com/giants.htm or the regular Giants ticketing site at http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/MLBEventInfo?orgid=2139&agency=MLBTGS13GNTS& ( Read more... )

After nearly a decade of skewering politicians, corporations, organized religion, publishers, peers, enemies, friends, and often himself, Brian Keene’s extremely popular ‘Hail Saten’ finally came to an end in 2008. For almost ten years, Keene’s essays were a must-read for both fans and pros. Unfortunately, in a post 9/11 world, they also became a ( Read more... )

Responses to Romero's post trilogy films have been mixed but mostly based on unreasonable expectations that the new films would not only be of the same quality but that the audiences wouldn't have changed. Classic horror films like Psycho, Last House on the Left and Night of the Living Dead were made great not just by their filmmakers but by the ( Read more... )

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Nevermore
An evening with Edgar Allan Poe.
...Prose, Poetry and Perversion...

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