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10.31.11 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  Fantastic image by Rox of Spazhouse. We've reached the fifth year of 32 Days of Halloween. Thanks to everybody who came out, who contributed, who suggested things, the whole nine yards. If you enjoy this sort of thing and want to see it continue for Year 6, may we humbling suggest you check out options to help support the site at either our Support or Sponsorship pages. It's quick and easy to do and it goes a long way towards keeping the site alive. We're at our final movie night. And every year, Halloween night belongs to a single film: Night of the Living Dead. The original George Romero classic. The film without which we wouldn't have zombies as we know them today. Enjoy. And thanks again. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.31.11 by Widge @ 4:00 pm  Our final audio is coming early today so we can end with our movie of choice tonight. This is a final bit of poetry from Mr. Lovecraft. It's "Revelation." Hope you enjoy it. Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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10.31.11 by Widge @ 6:51 am  If there's one thing I love, it's the voice of Paul Frees. He handled everything from the Haunted Mansion to Hardware Wars to Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. But somehow I missed this. And it's shown up in time to make the cut--and it's fitting it closes out our short form stuff for 32 Days this year. It's his album, Paul Frees and the Poster People. I didn't even know it existed, but it's him singing in many of the voices he was known for doing impersonations of. I've snagged four for you to peruse: Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Sydney Greenstreet. The latter one made Rox chortle wildly, so there you have it. This album is woefully out of print...which blows my mind, honestly. If you can find it for less than $20 on vinyl, snag it without thinking twice. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.30.11 by Widge @ 11:13 pm  Can't say goodbye to Halloween without some more Poe. Here's "The Valley of Unrest." Enjoy. Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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10.30.11 by Widge @ 10:35 pm  Not the remake. Definitely not the remake. No, we're going to the 1960 William Castle original, which is the only film ever shot in "Illusion-O." You were given a ghost viewer that could let you either see the ghosts better than normal...or you could look through the other part of the viewer and be "spared" the utter terror. We're going to show you first the trailer that explains the Illusion-O gimmick. And is a bonus because it's narrated awesomely by Paul Frees. Also, yes, you're not hallucinating: that is the ever-fantastic Margaret Hamilton as the housekeeper. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.30.11 by Widge @ 9:24 am  Long before The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast hit Broadway, Disney had taken to the stage with adaptations of their stuff. And I don't just mean the versions you see in the theme parks. They're cute, but they lack...well, bite. However, back in 1979 they brought a stage production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Radio City Music Hall. It helped revitalize the Music Hall and played 106 performances before it closed for good. It was filmed and shown and TV and to my knowledge has never been officially released on DVD and isn't shown on TV any more. I have no bloody notion why. Thespia told me that we needed to post the transformation sequence from the Queen into the Hag from the show. But before we get into that, two things before you watch it. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.29.11 by Widge @ 9:00 pm  For my last original entry for this year's audio parade, here's one I call "Dreams in an Oil Drum." Hope you enjoy it. Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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10.29.11 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  Tonight has been a night for Dracula. And you would be amazed (or maybe not) as to how many different film versions there are. We've covered a lot of them but there's still more: case in point, Jess Franco's Count Dracula from 1970. Not a Hammer film and yet you've got Christopher Lee as Dracula. So it's, I guess you might say, the Never Say Never Again of Dracula flicks. The cast beyond Sir Christopher is impressive: Klaus Kinski as Renfield and Herbert Lom as Van Helsing. And the film on the whole is more faithful to the novel--notice this version of Dracula starts off old and gets younger, as opposed to the sauve-from-the-get-go Mr. Lugosi. Definitely worth a viewing. Enjoy! Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.29.11 by Widge @ 8:15 am  Since today we've generally spent our time with short subjects about zombies, trailers or otherwise, I decided to go looking for a zombie short film. I wasn't expecting to find something this good, especially with a name that sounds like it's derived from that legendary Hitman zombie aquarium two-parter that I keep going on about. But instead, you get a surprisingly moving vignette about a world in the midst of some degree of grand chaos and a character that says a crapload without ever being able to speak. Quite stunning. It's from filmmaker Chris Russell and it's Zombie in a Penguin Suit. Make sure you watch it. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.28.11 by Widge @ 9:00 pm  For today's audio, an excerpt from the poet Robert Blair's much longer piece, The Grave. This is "The Mansions of the Dead." Hope you enjoy it. Find it directly here. Or subscribe to the feed to get all the 32 Days audio. If you're already subscribed to our Needcoffee.com general podcast feed, you already get them, so you're good. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween and Podcasts
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