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Posted on 10.21.10 by Widge @ 11:28 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  For tonight's pick, we go back to Lovecraft for Dagon. 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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Posted on 10.21.10 by Widge @ 10:09 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  It's still Peter Cushing Day here at 32 Days of Halloween, so tonight we venture to 1964 for Cushing and Christopher Lee in The Gorgon. Also in the film is Patrick Troughton, who of course would later go on to play The Doctor. Two things I find disturbing about this film. One is Christopher Lee's hair and mustache. Two is the fact that they put "She had a face only a mummy could love" as one of the taglines on the poster. Seriously? I mean, don't get me wrong, I know this is Hammer, but...seriously? Last year we were checking out fu vampire territory with Cushing in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires! Before it was officially Cushing Day we were checking out Bucket of Blood in 2008 and then The Satanic Rites of Dracula in 2007. So we only took a year off from Cushing. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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Posted on 10.21.10 by Widge @ 5:28 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  It's Peter Cushing Day at 32 Days of Halloween, so let's go to 1977 and a trailer for the mad killer cat movie, The Uncanny. I've never seen the film, mostly because from what I can tell it's out of print in Region 1 and has never been available on DVD here. But from what I've been able to gather, it's an anthology piece about cats striving to kill us all and let Bast sort us out. Peter Cushing is The Man Who Knows and is trying to get the word out. This truly is a horror movie as far as I'm concerned because I'm deathly allergic to cats. If you ever spot me with my skin fallen off my body it's because I've been around a cat. So I can get on board with this crazy flick in a hurry. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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Posted on 10.20.10 by Rox @ 11:58 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  For tonight, Rox of Spazhouse performs a Russian folktale: "The Fiend." 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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Posted on 10.20.10 by Widge @ 7:01 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Welcome to Movie Night No. 21, which is our Official "From" Night. In which we use, as our very flimsy theme for the evening, titles where something is from something else. Prior year examples include They Came From Beyond Space and Brain From Planet Arous. This year we're going with an impressive cast list: Donald Pleasance, David Warner and Peter Cushing among them, in From Beyond the Grave. The moral of the story is: never try to cheat Peter Cushing. Something will probably end up handing you your ass. Also, it's weird seeing David Warner this young--even younger than Time After Time young. This is the last of the anthology films that Amicus put out--the first of which we posted back in 2008, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors. Enjoy! Update: Alas, the full film's been taken down. So we've fallen back on the trailer. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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Posted on 10.20.10 by Widge @ 6:06 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Okay, so normally we've been posting goofy crap on Day 21. This because we followed up a bit from Fearless Vampire Killers in 2008 with "Oscar Wilde's Frankenstein" in 2009. But frankly, it's kind of hard to follow that with something significantly funny and silly. So let's turn this car around, shall we? Because frankly, I've been dying to post this. It's the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's follow-up to their 2005 silent movie adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu. They're doing The Whisperer in Darkness. Cthulhu was the best Lovecraft adaptation I've ever seen and my favorite DVD of 2005. I'll post that trailer after this one in case you've not seen it before. We posted the original Whisperer teaser trailer, but now there's a brand new trailer out. And it looks freaking amazing. For all your Lovecraft needs, check out the HPLHS. They rock balls. You can also find updates on the Whisperer project here. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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Posted on 10.19.10 by Widge @ 11:53 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  For tonight, some Edgar Allan Poe poetry, with "Dreamland." 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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Posted on 10.19.10 by Widge @ 7:00 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Day 20 is a Blaxploitation Horror-themed day, but I was afraid we might not find something for you along those lines. Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde--can't find the full film. You can get Blacula on Hulu, but Hulu is stingy about worldwide viewing rights. Even Blackenstein, the film we all enjoyed together at this time last year...has been taken down. Where to turn? To one of the most utterly mental sci-fi films ever created. The tagline was "They transplanted a white bigot's head onto a soul brother's body!" The bigot was played by Ray Milland and the soul brother in question was played by Rosey Grier. Why Ray Milland? No idea. Why Rosey Grier for that matter...he'd made a slew of television appearances before debuting on the big screen in 1972 in Skyjacked and then appearing the same year in this. Very odd indeed. Speaking of very odd, if you've never seen this before you're in for a treat of massive WTF proportions. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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Posted on 10.19.10 by Widge @ 3:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  It's Abby, the blaxploitation answer to The Exorcist. In fact, it was such an answer to it that Warner Brothers sued the film for being too derivative and got it yanked from cinemas. And of course, once you've lost that case you can go ahead and release a "Black Exorcist" edition of the DVD, I guess. And yes, that is William "Blacula" Marshall as the Exorcist. Also of note is that William Girdler (co-scribe, director and producer of this film) was the man who brought you The Manitou, that Tony Curtis-starring resurrected-fetus thing classic. If you'd like to sample the radio spot for the film, you can check it out here. It's not embeddable. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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Posted on 10.18.10 by Widge @ 11:55 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Another original from my Something Else collection. It's "The Empty Recliner." 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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