Confession time, thanks to this class in Teen Wolf's "Werewolfology 201" I just learned what "loping" is. Did you guys know what that was? If you did, don't laugh at me. Loping is defined as "a steady, easy gate." It's also defined as when a "Teen Wolf" werewolf gets down on all fours and hauls tail!
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Shout! Factory Launches Horror-Centric Scream Factory Line!
Posted 6/1/12 9:54 am EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies
The already awesome Shout! Factory just got a little more awesomer thanks to the announcement of their new horror imprint Scream Factory! Shout! already has a killer rep when it comes to cult-cred, but with this announcement the cred-o-meter just dialed up to 11!
The first titles to hit Blu-ray and DVD will be "Halloween II" and the mightily underrated "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" in a 30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition!
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Watch the Second Trailer for 'True Blood' Season 5!
Posted 5/29/12 10:00 am EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, TV
We're getting closer to the premiere of "True Blood" Season 5 and HBO has unleashed another, juicier teaser to entice all the Truebies out there!
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That Time 'Men In Black 3' Makeup Maestro Rick Baker Created Aliens for 'The Richard Pryor Show'
Posted 5/25/12 1:57 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies
Baker with some MIB 3 creations
Remember The Richard Pryor Show from 1977? Yeah, me neither. The NBC sketch comedy series created by comedy legend Pryor lasted only four episodes! But among those four episodes--in the first sketch of the first episode in fact--was a Star Wars Mos Eisley Cantina spoof in which Pryor played a surly bartender in an alien bar inhabited by numerous creatures created by none other than Hollywood makeup master, Rick Baker!
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DVD Review: "The River: Season One," or Handheld Horror on the Amazon
Posted 5/22/12 3:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Reviews, TV
My first experience with ABC's found-footage horror show The River didn't begin all that auspiciously: can we just agree now that the found-footage style of filmmaking has been one with rapidly diminishing returns, a crutch for no-budget filmmakers to tell stories that don't necessarily have to be well-lit, staged, or edited? From its start, this eight-episode series trucks in some of the same, well-worn (tired) tropes: the cocky, often borderline personality disorder narcissist camera operator (The River is graced with no less than three in the first episode); cycling through cameras only for—shock—something unexpected and perhaps horrible to creep by. It's all the same as it ever was, and you can feel the fingerprints of series creator Oren Peli, the auteur, as it were, behind the Paranormal Activity movies.
And now that I've sufficiently talked trash about the type of show, The River is, I can take a breath and confess that I didn't hate it and would go so far as to say more often than not, I felt the same kind of allure for this show as I did for the outsized hysteria of An American Horror Story: that is to say, both are very much shows about horror, AHS mining decades of haunted house movies, while The River is pretty much every found footage horror movie you've ever seen in the service of a pretty compelling mystery. Read More...
Stephen King Reveals the Plot of His 'Shining' Sequel
Posted 5/11/12 9:46 am EST by Eddie Wright in Books, Horror
Legendary master of all things horrific fiction, Stephen King, has revealed the plot for his upcoming sequel to (in my opinion, his second best book*) "The Shining"!
The book is called "Doctor Sleep" and is described by StephenKing.com as follows:
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
"Doctor Sleep" hits in 2013!
REDRUM-ER!**
*The Stand wins.
**This doesn't makes sense.
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Blu-Ray Review: "Shock Labyrinth 3D"
Posted 5/9/12 4:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Movies, Reviews
Director Takashi Shimizu's Shock Labyrinth represents a couple of new challenges for the filmmaker behind The Grudge (aka Ju-on in their native Japan) series of movies: there's the technical issue of going from modestly-budgeted horror movies (with some games and TV work scattered about) featuring low production values but high on atmosphere to making a modestly-budgeted horror movie that will also be in 3D. Then, there's the fact that Shock Labyrinth is Japan's first attempt at the whole amusement park ride-turned feature thing that Disney blazed the trail for with Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion—the exhibit in question which gives the movie its title is a famous haunted house at a Japanese amusement park.
And it's in serving multiple masters here—technology and the license—that Shock Labyrinth occasionally stumbles, delivering an intriguing premise with frequently bizarre imagery, undercut by technical limitations and a thin plot.
The movie features a group of friends Ken, Motoki, and Rin—who are reunited after Ken moved away following the death of his mother. Motoki is dating Rin, who is blind, and has more or less served as her protector since they were children, while she has harbored feelings for Ken that as a kid he was perhaps too dense to notice. Upending their reunion is the arrival of Yuki, another childhood friend who disappeared ten years earlier, obviously disturbed, claiming to have escaped from somewhere. Is she some kind of mental patient? Is she even Yuki? Why can't the three of them remember precisely what happened to her or even the circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
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Interview: Heading to FEARnet's 'Holliston' With Creators/Stars Joe Lynch and Adam Green
Posted 4/18/12 10:26 am EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Interviews, TV
With their new FEARnet series, Hollistion, creator Adam Green and co-star/frequent collaborator Joe Lynch have created a sitcom about horror, if not a horror sitcom. Green, who directed the two Hatchet films along with the Sundance hit, Frozen and Lynch, who directed the upcoming Knights of Badassdom along with Wrong Turn 2 (you know, the good one with Henry Rollins), star as two wage slaves with horror filmmaking ambitions beset by the normal everyday evils of low-paying jobs, and the uphill battle to realize your dreams when everyone around you says you can't. Besides the day job, their characters, "Adam" and "Joe" have their own cable access horror show. Oh, and Adam's character gets advice from his imaginary friend, Oderus Urungus, lead of the horror-metal band GWAR, so there's that silver lining.
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The BBC fantasy horror series won't be living on in a second season.
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Check Out This Sneak Preview For "My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Part 3"!
Posted 3/9/12 3:00 pm EST by MTV Geek in Horror
If you're psyched about the premiere of "My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Part 3" Tuesday March 13 on MTV, you're in luck...we have a special sneek peek!
Skye Rotter must be the most unlucky high-schooler on the planet, having endured the torment of high school, surviving the bloodbath at the Rollerdome and confronting her serial killer father in the last two "My Super Psycho Sweet 16" installments. Now she's ready to head to college for a new life, but there's still one last party she has to attend...that of her estranged sister Alex. As the bodies pile up, will Skye clear the bad blood between her and Alex? Read More...
Twitter Giveaway For A Gruesome, Gory And Geeky Halloween Prize Pack
Posted 10/24/11 12:05 pm EST by MTV Geek in Anime, Comic Books, Halloween, Horror, Toys
Halloween is almost here! And to celebrate we're scaring up a killer Twitter Giveaway for all you gore-hound Tweeters out there!
Two if our lucky Twitter followers will win a gruesomely geeky Halloween prize pack made up of a dizzying array of spooktacular comics, toys, movies and more!
Check out the goods! Each prize pack includes: Read More...
Twitter Giveaway For Walking Dead Toys And Comics
Posted 10/3/11 12:00 pm EST by MTV Geek in Comic Books, Horror, Toys, TV
Wanna win a set of action figures based on Robert Kirkman's brilliant comic series that is now a smash hit television series on AMC? Wanna win a set of action figures based on Robert Kirkman's brilliant comic series that is now a smash hit television series on AMC that are signed by the legendary Todd McFarlane? Wanna win a set of action figures based on Robert Kirkman's brilliant comic series that is now a smash hit television series on AMC that are signed by the legendary Todd McFarlane and the first compendium of the comic series itself?
You said "Yes" right?
Then MTV Geek has a awesomely zombified Twitter Giveaway for you!
EXCLUSIVE: Lenore's Roman Dirge Gets 'Taxidermied'
Posted 9/23/11 2:00 pm EST by Alex Zalben in Books, Horror
You might know Roman Dirge best as the author/illustrator of Lenore, the world’s most lovable (sort of) dead girl, but what you might not know is that he’s also branched out into other areas of art. Some are fine, some… Well, cartoony would be the word.
Whatever aspect of art Dirge is embracing, you can always guarantee that there’s going to be some darkness there. Luckily, he’s just released a collection of his non-Lenore art, Taxidermied, which is a alarmingly beautiful collection of assorted work from Titan Books. And, before you head off to the bookstore, we have a bunch of exclusive images for you to check out. Here’s the official description of the book, then scroll down for the EXCLUSIVE art: Read More...
Diamond Select Toys Brings Back the Universal Monsters!
Posted 6/8/11 4:30 pm EST by Lemonjuice McGee in Diamond Select Toys, Horror, Toys
Sitting here, scouring the internet for random oddities, our minds tend to wander. We we’re just thinking how we sure could use a little more Frankenstein in our lives and sure enough our friends at Diamond Select Toys are releasing the Universal Monsters as highly detailed action figures! The classic horror icons will be shipping in both regular and Toys R’ Us-Exclusive editions, with the TRU versions appearing to be the same-- minus the larger display bases and extras. These look to be around the same scale as DST's awesome Marvel Select figures (with less articulation), so looks like it's about time for Dracula to face off against the Juggernaut, don't you think?
Oh, and don’t worry about missing out since these (blood)suckers are going to be available in plenty of time for Halloween!
Back to 'Screamland' With Harold Sipe and Christopher Sebela
Posted 4/27/11 6:00 pm EST by Charles Webb in Comic Books, Horror, Image Comics, Interviews
Screamland is back for a second series through Image Comics. The pitch, if you haven’t heard it, envisions a world where classic movie monsters—think Frankenstein’s Monster, the wolfman, Dracula—were not only real but celebrities in film. Now what if each of them was well past their sell-by date in the popular consciousness? What would their lives be like?
Co-writers Harold Sipe and Christopher Sebela are currently in the midst of their second arc, moving beyond the murder mystery at the heart of the first series and into the wider world of washed up horror icons. The new series hits on June 8th, and Mssrs. Sipe and Sebela were kind enough to tell us about what they have in store for their monstrous cast in the current volume.
MTV Geek: So much of the series is about the characters’ reactions to the changing horror landscape. Could you walk us through some of the ways modern horror has screwed up classic monsters?
Harold Sipe: I wouldn’t say screwing them up so much as completely leaving them behind. What was the last monster flick? It’s like the face of modern horror is all sparkling teenaged vampires, zombies or torture porn psychos. Chris is a bit more dialed into modern horror but I kinda got off the bus after the first Nightmare on Elm Street flick. That was the last one I really enjoyed for the most part.
I think the whole of horror flicks used to have a lot more class. That is my overall reaction that finds its way into Screamland. I think most of the characters and I are on the same page on this.
Christopher Sebela: Mostly modern horror doesn't care about classic monsters at all, except maybe to use them to point out how much scarier things are now. It's hard to be terrified of a lumbering guy stitched together from dead bodies when the alternatives are the entire world dead and wanting to eat your brains, a ghost girl crawling out of your TV for revenge or the lady in front of you at the grocery store kidnapping and torturing people in her basement for kicks. In Screamland, that is the killing blow to the classic monsters' egos. Most of them are just angry and/or depressed that no one finds them scary anymore.
But I think modern horror is justified in its move away from the classic monsters. They're classic for a reason. The same way that Elvis Presley's “Hound Dog” isn't quite the world-burner it was when it debuted, a dead guy wrapped in bandages with a little fez isn't quite the terrifying specter it used to be when we've lived through decades of nukes, holocausts and yearly threat of extinction of life as we know it.
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