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10.18.11 by Widge @ 9:30 pm  For tonight's 32 Days of Halloween audio, we have a selection from W.S. Gilbert. Yes, of "...and Sullivan" fame. Here's "When the Night Wind Howls." 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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10.18.11 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  I told you we'd have a nice visit with the Chaneys before the day is out. Here was have the relatively short feature film Man Made Monster from 1941 (also known as The Atomic Monster), starring Lon Jr. Also here is a stunning Lionel Atwill in full-on "But I Am a Scientist!" mode. Chaney plays a sideshow performer who plays with electricity and, as a result, has built up a tolerance to the stuff. He comes under the control of the aforementioned mad scientist who wants to use him as the prototype in an army of electrically-powered zombie killers. And things just crazier from there. Enjoy! Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.18.11 by Widge @ 7:11 am  There might be some of you wondering what's up with Day 19, since normally we start it with the Chaneys, father or son. Well, the simple fact of the matter is: I couldn't find a good short subject to address. So we'll do something with them for tonight's movie, fear not. However, if we switch gears here then I have a moment to tell you about this project by comic maniac Garth Ennis. It's Stitched, out on DVD from Avatar Press. You know Ennis. He brought you Preacher. A mad run on Hellblazer. A slew of Dredd. He is a truly disturbed individual, and for that we respect him greatly. But when I found out he was directing a film, I got excited. And when I found out it involved zombies, I got even more excited. You have to understand: I think the two-parter "Zombie Aquarium" story from Hitman might just be one of my favorite two-parters ever due to the sheer level of glee zombie penguins brought to my life. So you want to give this guy control of a camera and crew and give him zombies? Wicked. Let's give it a whirl. Bring it. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.17.11 by Widge @ 10:58 pm  Tonight's pick is another original: it's "The Library That Wrote Itself." 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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10.17.11 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  That's no old lady--that's Lon Chaney Jr.! Two black magicians, brothers in the DeSade family (spelled in the IMDB as "Desard" but we see what you did there), are in conflict. Probably because they're in a film that ran out of money, was cobbled together from bits and makes little in the way of actual sense. The brothers are Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine and the film is known as either Blood of the Man Devil or House of the Black Death, depending on who you ask. If nothing else--if you are pressed for time--at least watch the first part so you can hear the Lord of Darkness himself spout some poetry that makes Nipsey Russell sound like T.S. Eliot. Thanks to Rox for finding this for us. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.17.11 by Widge @ 6:37 am  Granted, it's not a horror film. In fact, it's sci-fi/crime if anything because of the surgery involved. Surgery? Why yes. Karloff plays a doctor who performs surgery on a friend to save his life. Brain surgery. As in brain bit transplants. And while the donor brain in question wasn't, shall we say, in a jar marked "Abby Normal," it did belong to a gangster. So now the friend is acting verrry strangely. The friend is not Bela Lugosi but Stanley Ridges. Lugosi plays a minor role as another gangster. Is it odd to hear a gangster with Lugosi's accent? A bit, yes. Do we care, since we're looking at a trailer with Karloff and Lugosi? Not really (although they don't actually appear together in the film--but again, so what?). Enjoy! Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.16.11 by Widge @ 8:48 pm  So two years ago when we posted The Astro Zombies, our intention was to bring you more bits of massive WTF level cinema from that mad genius, Ted V. Mikels. However, we turned up nothing. And yes, it was a year ago, but you can't forget a film when it's entitled Blood Orgy of the She-Devils. It is quite possibly the best title for marketing in the history of film. How do you best add to your existing coven of witches? Recruit young ladies who were witches in their previous lives, of course. However, where there's a fictional witch in a movie from the 70s, there are those who want her stopped. So hijinks ensue. Enjoy the schlock, friends. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.16.11 by Widge @ 5:20 am  The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City is an awesome location. The largest cathedral in the world (and yet still unfinished), it's sort of hard to describe unless you've been there. There's something amazing about really full-on bigass cathedrals. We don't get them a lot here in the southeastern United States. So when you walk into one in New York City, there's a great deal of wow factor involved. Some cathedrals are more wow than others, if you catch my drift, and I would put St. John the Divine towards the higher end of the spectrum. If the space itself wasn't cool enough--they do performance material like this: Frank Lee's The Procession of the Ghouls. This is how 32 Days of Halloween works sometimes. You go looking for one thing...you find something even cooler you didn't know existed. Granted, New York denizens may be well used to this. But it was news for Cosette, who in trying to find a Halloween SNL Landshark sketch (she found it, but the sound sync was atrocious), instead ran across Landshark creator Frank Lee and this project. Basically taking what started as a Halloween parade and making it into a cavalcade of puppets and costumes that cavort through the Cathedral. Watch this vid, and think to yourself, "How could this get any cooler?" Answer: a screening of the 1925 Phantom of the Opera follows it. New York, you have our envy. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.15.11 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  Movie Night #16! Holy crap, we're halfway through this madness. And tonight is the night we delve into silent films. Granted, some are more silent than others. But this time we're going for the actually good film called The Lost World from 1925 and based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel. Stop motion dinosaurs were a novelty in 1925. Reportedly, the first time people saw footage of a train speeding towards the camera, they flipped out because they had simply never seen it before. Now imagine people from 1925 watching Jurassic Park and how they would react. Ah, it makes me smile. When we invent time travel, I'm totally going and doing that. Anyway, this one's a classic. Enjoy. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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10.15.11 by Widge @ 6:51 am  Day 16 of 32 Days of Halloween has just sort of fallen to Vincent Price...and I realize I'm posting a longer bit of something that we posted a snippet of earlier. But we didn't know the thing was online in this form, thanks to the folks at Zombie Popcorn. The Horror Hall of Fame special is here from 1974, hosted by Price. And it glories in its corny awfulness. But amidst all the cheese you get some great moments--like Carradine from before and also Frank Gorshin showing up to provide impersonations. Silly and fun and it no doubt gave Mr. Price a check. Three things we always appreciated. Enjoy. Categorized as: 32 Days of Halloween
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