Name something in a horror movie that frightens you or makes you squirm but doesn’t seem to scare anyone else you know.
Casey Criswell – Cinema Fromage
Spiders make me scream like a girl. For instance, I watched Arachnophobia from my best friends kitchen peeking around the corner. Just this past weekend, when watching [...]
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On Tuesday December 11th at 7pm Dark Delicacies will hold a DVD signing for the release of the Masters of Horror episode “The V-Word.” Scheduled to be on hand for the signing are Director Ernest Dickerson and Writer/Producer Mick Garris.
Dark Delicacies is located at 4213 West Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505 and can be reached for further information at (818) 556-6660 or via e-mail at Dark Delicacies
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Bloodlines. 2007. ThinkFilm. Reviewed by Brian Kirst
“This here’s the rules. There ain’t none. Y’all fight to the death. Entertain me!” – Billy Bob
Bloodlines is not a film for tho…
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The Sundance Film Festival titles were announced yesterday. Here is The Park City at Midnight lineup and all it’s horror titles.
ADVENTURES OF POWER, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Ari Gold) — In his quest to become the world’s greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day. Cast: Adrian Grenier, Jane Lynch, Jimmy Jean-Louis. World Premiere
THE BROKEN, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Sean Ellis) — On a busy London street a woman sees herself driving by in her own car. Stunned, she trails the mystery woman as events take an eerie turn into a living nightmare. Cast: Lena Heady, Richard Jenkins, Asier Newman. World Premiere
GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DIARY OF THE DEAD, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: George A. Romero) — When a group of film students making an indie horror film find themselves trapped in a world being consumed by flesh-eating zombies, they cleverly switch gears and use the camera to document the world crumbling around them. Cast: Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, George Buza, Wes Craven, Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Nick Alachiotis, Matt Birman, George Buza, Wes Craven, Stephen King, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro. U.S. Premiere
DONKEY PUNCH, United Kingdom (Director: Olly Blackburn; Screenwriters: Olly Blackburn, David Bloom) — After meeting at a nightclub in a Mediterranean resort, seven young adults decide to continue partying aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the ocean. But when one of them dies in a freak accident the others argue about what to do, leading to a ruthless fight for survival. Cast: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke. World Premiere
FUNNY GAMES, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Michael Haneke) — A family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood. Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart.
HELL RIDE, U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Larry Bishop) — Quentin Tarantino presents this bloody, sexy tale of motorcycle revenge. It’s a modern-day take on 1960s motorcycle flicks, with bikers who hit the road to avenge the death of one of their “old ladies” at the hands of a rival motorcycle gang. Cast: Larry Bishop, Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen. World Premiere
OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE, Germany/ Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Bruce LaBruce) — A lonely gay zombie searches for love and meaning in contemporary Berlin. Cast: Jey Crisfar, Katharina Klewinghaus, Susanne Sachsse, Marcel Schlutt. World Premiere
TIMECRIMES (LOS CRONOCRIMENES), Spain (Director and Screenwriter: Nacho Vigalondo) — A man accidentally travels back to the past, only to meet himself there. He also encounters a series of mysteries–pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle of terror, drama, and suspense–that all lead to an unthinkable crime. Cast: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga.
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival will Open on January 17 in Park City, Utah.
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Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! This week’s PICKS FROM THE CRYPT are a terrible trio of old school horror flicks that all feature heaping helpings of cannibal gluttony. I hope you’re hungry! LET THE BLOODSHED BEGIN!
“Antropophagus” (1980)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0082479/
A chance meeting inside a cable car in Greece brings together a young tourist named Julie (Tisa “Zombi II” Farrow) and a small group of travelers (including the lovely Zora Kerova of “Cannibal Ferox” infamy) about to take a boat trip along the Archipelago. Julie hitches a ride so she can be dropped off along the way on a remote island where a babysitting job awaits her. When the group finally arrive at the island they are shocked to find it completely deserted. Julie is especially worried when she finds the large house where her employers were supposed to be waiting for her to be empty, with the sole exception of the family’s young blind daughter – who was cowering inside a wine barrel in the cellar!
The traumatized girl babbles a mad tale of a foul smelling savage beast that devoured everyone on the island, including her parents. The gang is skeptical and wind up paying for it with their lives. The “beast” in question is actually a man – a man who was long ago driven insane by a shipwreck and the tragic death and forced consumption of his wife and child. The now completely deranged cannibal killer mutilates and devours anyone who dares set foot on the island he now calls home. The hideous looking madman (played very convincingly by co-writer Luigi Montefiori aka George Eastman of “Porno Holocaust” legend) immediately kidnaps the groups’ token whiny pregnant chick and stashes her away for late night snacking. Then the angry antropophagus sets his sights on Julie and her friends and slowly stalks after them in the night. It’s not the fear that will tear them apart…IT’S HIM!
“Antropophagus” is an especially nasty effort from the legendary director Joe D’Amato. (aka Aristide Massacessi – RIP) It plays out much like an 80’s slasher flick, punctuated with graphic moments of explicit violence that are more in the vein of some of D’Amato’s previous efforts like “Beyond The Darkness” & “Emmanuelle And The Last Cannibals.” It wouldn’t be a stretch to call this a slasher flick with a zombie killer. Although the antropophagus isn’t an undead ghoul, he is very much alive and consumed with bloodlust. The most infamous moment has to be the scene where George chows down on a freshly removed fetus! A skinned rabbit was used for this effect and it is convincingly pukeworthy. The gory gut munching ending is also incredibly memorable, and is usually splashed all over the cover artwork just to spoil everyone’s fun. Although the film suffers from a coffin’s pace it never skimps on the splatter when the man eater gets down to business. The minimal plot (most of the film consists of people walking around in the dark looking for other people) and maximum carnage make this one an acquired taste, but gorehounds should certainly consider this a must see.
This film was “nasty” enough to have been banned on video in the UK for over 18 years. Several different versions have been released on vhs and dvd over the years, with alternate titles including “Antropophagus: The Beast” (the UK video title), “Savage Island,” “Man Eater,” and “The Grim Reaper” (the original US video title). These releases were all butchered to suit the timid tastes of censors. The folks at Shriek Show were good enough to release a completely UNCUT version of “Antropophagus” which was made from the original Italian negative. Shriek Show’s two disc release includes a wealth of bonus features including a 67 minute documentary entitled “Joe D’Amato: Totally Uncut 2,” an interview with stars George Eastman and Zora Kerova, a photo gallery, and more trailers than you can shake a severed limb at.
Check out the original Italian trailer!
“Raw Meat” (1972)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0068458/
At the turn of the century a cave-in traps a group of miners deep within the caverns that will eventually house the London subway system. The unfortunate miners are forced to resort to cannibalism to stay alive, eating the flesh of the sick and dying. Incredibly, this horror goes on for decades as the group continuously breed among themselves and consume the dead. After a century of this miserable existence only two disgusting descendants of the original group survive – a man and a woman. The man (Hugh Armstrong) knows better than to eat his diseased “wife” and wanders out of the catacombs into the subway system looking for fresh meat.
He stumbles upon a sleazy lawyer on the prowl for prostitutes, attacks him, and then drags him back into his lair. This is almost interrupted by an annoying pair of young lovers (David Ladd & Sharon Gurney) named Alex and Patricia who find the lawyer passed out (shortly after being attacked) on the bottom of the subway station stairs. When the sick woman finally dies the inbred cannibal killer becomes even more unhinged and goes out looking for a new female companion. The conveniently located Patricia seems as good a candidate as any and is quickly kidnapped. It’s up to hippy college student Alex and wacky police inspector Donald Pleasence (Halloween, Alone In The Dark) to save the day and finally put an end to the tribe of once humans…the raw meat of the human race!
This one boasts an outrageous storyline, and an unbelievably creepy and claustrophobic setting. Director Gary Sherman did a fantastic job here (he also wrote the story) and later went on to direct two of my favorite genre flicks – “Dead And Buried” (1981) and “Vice Squad” (1982). The beautiful cinematography was done by Alex Thomson. Thomson and art director Dennis Gordon-Orr did an excellent job creating a superior rotting atmosphere. The highlight of the movie for me is the sequence where we first get a look at the cannibal’s lair with a lengthy tracking shot that slowly reveals several decaying corpses hung like cattle in loving close up.
The killer is also the victim of tragedy – a drooling, hopelessly inbred savage covered in sores. He manages to be sympathetic, despite the multiple violent murders and abductions he commits. He repeatedly yells his catchphrase “MIND THE DOORS!” and attacks his victims with great ferocity out of necessity. He’s hungry and horny, and far more interesting than the two young leads – who are both rather bland and unappealing. Donald Pleasence steals the show as you might expect with his blustery performance as the tea loving inspector in charge of the subway disappearance investigations. Christopher “Dracula” Lee makes a brief appearance in one scene and trades witty insults with Donald.
“Raw Meat” was originally released in the UK in 1973 as “Deathline” and never had a US release. This film was for many years only available in an uncut form via pricey and poor looking bootleg vhs copies. MGM did horror fans a big favor by releasing an excellent looking remastered widescreen dvd with all the bloody mayhem intact. The original AIP trailer is also included. This is a cool flick that doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough and one of the most unique 70’s cannibal flicks for sure.
“Motel Hell” (1980)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0081184/
The late great Rory Calhoun (Hell Comes To Frogtown) chews up the scenery as “Farmer” Vincent Smith, a successful rural motel owner and cured meat salesman. It’s well known throughout the county that it takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters, but no one suspects that Vincent’s trademark smoked ham is actually human flesh! Vincent and his dimwitted and tubby sister Ida (the late Nancy Parsons of “Porky’s” legend) long ago discovered the wonders of murder and cannibalism for profit and have made a comfortable living doing it for over 30 years.
We get to see the dynamic duo in action when a punk rock group called “Ivan & The Terribles” travel through town and suffer a little roadside sabotage thanks to Farmer Vincent. After a spectacular van accident the punks are buried up to their freshly slit necks in the Smith’s secret backyard garden. The unfortunate victims thus become “homegrown” cattle that Vincent & Ida will later happily slaughter, smoke, and then sell to their bumpkin kinfolk and eager tourists. Vincent & Ida are not your typical dimwitted backwoods savages though. They ponder the karmic implications of their actions and attempt to justify them as a means of ending overpopulation and famine at the same time.
A pretty young girl named Terry (Nina Axelrod) survives one of Vincent’s accidents and winds up falling in love with the silver fox (a bit of a stretch to say the least!). Vincent romances the girl for a long meandering chunk of the picture that involves extended scenes of picnics and water tubing. Vincent’s (much) younger brother Bruce – who happens to be the town sheriff also falls for Terry resulting in a deadly love triangle. At the film’s incredible conclusion the now completely deranged Vincent dons a giant pig mask for a bloody chainsaw duel to the death with his estranged brother.
Director Kevin Connor’s “Motel Hell” is a “meat” movie in the proud tradition of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Deranged.” It plays more for laughs than your typical cannibal effort and is also quite satiric. Not exactly thought provoking material, but it’s certainly fun stuff. My only real complaints are that it feels overlong and it’s never really as funny or as scary as it could have been. It’s still fairly creepy though, especially the whacked out scenes in the garden. The kick ass chainsaw duel at the end of the flick is the easily the highlight of the movie and rivals even the legendary battle between Leatherface and Dennis Hopper in TCM2.
A while back MGM released “Motel Hell” on dvd as one half of a Midnite Movies double feature with the 1974 Jeff Gillen/Alan Ormsby classic “Deranged.” Both films were nicely remastered and the double sided disc includes the original theatrical trailers. Sadly, MGM used the heavily edited R rated version of “Deranged” for this release – which unfortunately makes this a good, but not great purchase. I would love to see special edition dvds of both of these classic flicks.
Check out Farmer’s Vincent’s unique neck snapping technique!
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Review by Noel
Look at the DVD cover of Skinwalkers right now…because unfortunately it’s the scariest part of the movie. Look at it, a female werewolf with her fangs bared holds so much promise for the rest of the movie…
Yet as soon as you press “Play” all those potential scares and any audience goodwill leaks out like air from tire.
Sigh. Walk away. Walk far away from Skinwalkers. I’m sure there’s some homeless shelter you can volunteer at for the holidays or watch The Mist again…just don’t waste your life watching this…
I suppose I need to write what this is about. Sigh again…
Skinwalkers (aka werewolves) have two warring factions: those that love the werewolf hunger to feed and kill anything in their path…and those that don’t. But there’s a very special boy that can end the Skinwalker curse…or keep it going forever if he is killed by the time of the Red Blood Moon.
Who knows what kind of destruction will ensue if the bad Skinwalkers (those that want to remain werewolves forever) kill the boy? Who cares? I’m sure there are many other things you could be doing with the 90 minutes you’d spend watching this. (more…)
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Review by Tony DeFrancisco
Outrageous prices in gas and killing people combine into one of the biggest and craziest independent movies that I have ever seen. If you HATE movies that deal with killing kids, babies, animals, and other people, then by all means stay the fuck away from this film. But if you love the following, keep reading the review, because it’s packed into one fantastic indie film. Blood Car, directed by Alex Orr and stars Mike Brune, is a fantastic look into what could be in the future. And if this really is going to happen one day, I’m already looking forward to it.
In two weeks, gas prices will be at thirty-two dollars a gallon. People have abandoned the use of cars by either walking or riding their bikes. The only time they use cars is to have sex in them at the “car graveyard.” Archie Andrews (Mike Brune) is a kindergarten teacher, who has enough and decides to experiment on ways how to start up the car. He cuts himself, and figures out the secret ingredient – blood! While trying it out, his car starts, and it can drive! But the blood runs out quickly, so in order for the car to keep working, Archie picks up hitchhikers, shoots animals, and kills old people in the park that don’t have legs and arms. The government, however, starts tracking him down and watches his every move and kill.
There’s a lot more to Blood Car than what it seems like. It’s filled with a few subplots that seem to take up a lot of the time and it makes the film more interesting. One of the subplots is that Archie is a vegan who buys wheatgrass from Lorraine (Anna Chlumsky, from My Girl fame). If you know what a vegan is, you know how unusual it is for a guy who hates meat to kill people for their blood (and this guy has shirts and shit to prove how much he hates meat). In a few scenes after he kills a few people (and animals), the guy breaks down crying his eyes out. (more…)
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>Horror Yearbook: Many of your books deal with a common taboo in American horror, that of children endangered. What compels you to explore this topic?
Eric Enck: I was endangered, while I was young, so it is an interesting topic for me. My father was quite abusive. I find it interesting writing about children or anyone for that matter, climbing out of the darkness of a terrible situation.
>HYB: A childhood incident involving a family pet is said to be have been the catalyst for your dark interests. Care to share the details?
EE: When I was fifteen, we had a family dog that was a puppy when I was in my infancy. So you can imagine how close I was to the animal at the tender age. My Father forced me to kill the dog using a shotgun. I unfortunately committed this task, but in doing so missed most of the dog. He suffered for many moments in front of me. It was my brother who finally laid him to rest. I saw a school psychiatrist briefly after the event, stated: “Every time you have dark feelings or thoughts, write them down.” So here I am.
>HYB: Your bio suggests a rather solitary, or at least isolated upbringing. Describe how that fed your imagination.
EE: I read a lot of books. Even before tragedy, I was reading every author I could from ten years old onwards. My penchant for horror came from the unearthing of Stephen King’s THE SHINING. I also found Clive Barker in my father’s basement, the covers as moldy as the room I stayed in growing up. I lived in the mountains of Southern Pennsylvania. No friends. No neighbors. It was just my dog and I. Then it was just me. Books fueled my imagination, as well as wanting to kill my father.
>HYB: Your bio also mentions the work of Lovecraft and Stephen King’s The Shining as early favorites. What do you read now?
EE: I have found my appetite as a horror fan satisfied by many new authors. I really enjoy Brian Keene’s work, as well as Brian Knight. Cassandra Lee is the female version of King, and she hasn’t even started. I am also growing a fondness for Brett Easton Ellis, and Irvine Welsh, whose books are not horror per-say, but every bit as frightening in their themes.
>HYB: Your first book Tell Me Your Name (about a killer who preys on pregnant women) was based on a dream. How much of the book’s content truly came from the dream? Are most of your dreams vivid and horrific?
EE: Yes, I would say beyond horrific if that’s possible. In this day and age, I think it is. I dreamt not to long ago of my wife and kids dying in our house from a fire. I awoke unscathed, and when I found them, they were stuck together, melted. I tried to pull them apart in a panic. They couldn’t speak but their eyes told me everything I could ever want to know. I awoke screaming, as I do often. I have dear friends who I kill in my dreams. I can’t control them (who can?) I have dreams like that all the time. One of my best friends, a reporter and a collaborator for a future novel coming out next summer called SNUFF has died in my dreams. The mind is a vast temple with many rooms. TELL ME YOUR NAME was quite successful for me, because of the idea of writing a serial killer that can’t be stopped by ordinary police procedurals. I incorporated the nightmares I had while writing it into the book. One scene in particular where a cop is impaled on a wall riddled with deer antlers and torn apart by wolves came from a dream. Too much whiskey I guess, and not enough sleep. I think I’m still writing when I close my eyes. My wife was pregnant at the time and I needed motivation for my serial killer. I was staring at her beautiful body one day, and saw how much her belly had grown with my child inside. Suddenly, motivation was on the way.
>HYB: There’s a notable cross-referencing of sub-genres in some of your work, such as the serial killer meets vampire angle in The Reckoning. What inspired this?
EE: I enjoy doing that. I think it’s not my trademark, but eventually it’s what I will be known for. TELL ME YOUR NAME was about a demonic serial killer, who could very well be the anti-Christ. The Reckoning was serial killer vs. vampire. GHOST OF A CHANCE was a ghost against demons… I think it’s wonderful to write about let’s say, vampires for example. But when you can mix different elements together that is really interesting. In 2010, I have a zombie novel coming out called SÉANCE where children turn into zombies because of a haunted painting, and the devil is jealous of the painting itself. I wanted to write a zombie novel, but not follow the constant cross-referencing of people turn to zombies because of chemicals. That’s been done so much. THE RECKONING came apparent while I was signing copies of my first novel at a Barnes and Noble. A young man approached me dressed as Dracula. In his hand was Anne Rice’s INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE. After he bought a book and he left, I had a thought. “What if vampires were real, and if so, what would they think about vampire novels?” I also wanted to write a novel involving a female serial killer for a change. Women can be dangerous as they are sexy. So eventually, the antagonist, was murdering children because of her abusive past, and emulating her vampire books while doing so. She doesn’t realize however that her latest victim is a real vampire’s daughter.
It also made an interesting book because there is no protagonist. You have a vicious child murdering young sexy woman, and although you want her dead, you can’t help but understand why she is murdering all these people. On the other side of the fence, you have a legendary evil. A blood-drinking corpse, but…he has a daughter. It forces you to pick a side. I like that.
>HYB: Black Train Jack finds you venturing into graphic novel territory along with artist Daniele Serra. How did this project come about and was it as satisfying as pure prose?
EE: I’ve always been a huge fan of comics. I should go further and say, I’ve always been a huge fan of BATMAN. I think the character is very interesting from a realistic viewpoint. I always wanted to create a horror character for the comics, but had other endeavors to meet. Daniele Serra illustrates DR.WHO the comic, and he also illustrated the SOUND OF HORROR anthology. My publisher hired him to illustrate various horror covers, and he took an interest to my work and asked to work alongside me on a project. So I jumped at it, and came up with a really brutal character. The story is a fantasy. And Black Train Jack is the protector of author’s ideas while they find them. He lives in a land where castles are made from writer’s block. He has a haunted straight razor that he carries his dead sister’s ashes in. There are so many twists and turns and characters. It will be an ongoing series starting in March. Jack has a girlfriend who is half woman, half motorcycle. He rides a haunted train that is fueled by the ghosts of miscarried children. It’s very imaginative, and a different breather for me from my other works.
>HYB: Train was one of several collaborations. What are some of the dynamics of working with another author?
EE: Perspective mainly. With Dani, he let me have full run of his offerings. I wrote scenes in which he illustrated. He is wonderful to work with. Recently, and this is the first time I ever said this, he asked to start an entirely new project. Seems he has a fondness for haunted houses, so we will see. Jane Timm Baxter and I have a book coming out next Halloween. With Jane, she had a set goal in mind, and had a lot of fun going back and forth with me. It was like playing bloody ping-pong. Adam Huber, who I wrote SNUFF with, is a realist, in a sense that he wanted to write a non-paranormal book, meaning all my monsters would have to be put in their cages for the time being. It was quite fun. I think SNUFF is probably my scariest work, because the story we worked out together could really happen. Vampires probably won’t invade your house and steal children, but there are serial murderers and rapists making films in real life. SNUFF is a brutal book. I am scared of it. Even so, Adam is a brilliant writer, and his skills are unique. He writes short, choppy “I’m going to kill you” sentences, where I am very interested in back-stories. I think it worked out really well. There are scenes in that book you won’t forget.
>HYB: You have a backlog of several books awaiting release. Do you ever take a break from writing?
EE: Never. And that’s probably a good thing. A safe thing. If I’m not writing, I’m doing a signing, or helping another author find the truth in their dreams. Without stories the world would be a strange place and without color. I tend to believe that I would commit awful acts of crime if I did not write books. It’s a safe and healthy escape for me.
>HYB: What’s your personal favorite of your works and why?
EE: So far it would be GHOST OF A CHANCE because even though it’s a brutal horror novel filled with incredible amounts of gore, it has a lot of heart. It’s a love story at the bottom of a bloody pond. And under the waves of blood the treasures depict my childhood, and my meeting my wife. The main characters are basically very much like my wife and I. So it’s my most personable. It’s also the very first book I ever wrote. It just happens to be the third one published.
>HYB: DEVOTION marks your first foray into screenwriting. Is that project finished? Do you plan to write more movies?
EE: DEVOTION is done filming, and has entered the film festival phase. My next film based on my work is a short story I wrote for THE SOUND OF HORROR anthology. It’s about a haunted radio station where songs being requested by folks at home are killing them. I’m actually going to be involved in directing it as well.
>HYB: What are some favorite films, and why?
EE: No doubt, THE SHINING. I liked the claustrophobic, isolated feel of it. And I can relate. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (old one) was very disturbing and fun. I also am quite fond of Japanese anime, and pretty much all serial killer films. Old 80’s horror movies were very good. I appreciate the horror films of today, and am glad it is moving more and more towards hack/slash and terrify rather than the suspense. I don’t care about what’s waiting around the corner. I care about the son of a bitch coming at me with a chainsaw.
>HYB: The writer’s strike has brought to light the unfair way writers are treated by the Holywood system. What is your impression of the filmmaking process, as it relates to writers?
EE: I think for the most part, it’s a symbiosis of sorts. Hollywood needs to realize and quick, that without the writers, they would be nothing. There would be no shows, no sitcoms, nothing…the attitude where they are saying, ”Writers need producers and the show” that doesn’t work for me. Movies and the like wouldn’t survive and would cease to exist without the writers. I think a lot of them are under paid. If you can pay a quarterback 20 million dollars to year to catch a football, why can’t you pay a writer even half that to get the syndication together to depict that show where the quarterback is catching the football? We need them, make no mistake, and they need equal parts in the profit sharing.
HYB: Any other projects coming up that aren’t mentioned on your website?
I am involved with a calendar of horror, something many others and I have never seen before. It’s being produced by D.W. Green (Twisted Twins) where there are 365 tales by various authors. One tale for each day of the year. It’s coming out in September 2008.
Other than that, I have eleven novels coming out between now and 2012. A short story collection about the horrors of menstruation (called MONTHLY BLOOD) SNUFF, FISHERS OF CHILDREN, SÉANCE, and many more…
I’ve also written the direct sequel to DRACULA.
>HYB: This will be the second novel with the Dracula character. What significance does he hold for you?
EE: Well with The Reckoning, the signifigance was by and large, I wanted to use Dracula as a modern villian with a family. DRACULA IS BLEEDING is a direct sequel. The story picks up where Stoker left off. Dracula was the last subject I studied in High School (History) and it stayed with me. I’ve read Stoker’s novel more than I’ve read any other.
- Interview by Patrick Green
More info about Eric:
http://www.myspace.com/snuff08
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071028/LIFE/710280331
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You’ve probably heard of this spoof, if not, well.. you have now. It’s brought to us by same people who gave us Re-Penetrator (Read Review Here) lead star, “punk rock princess” and anal queen, Joanna Angel and director Doug Sakamann of Troma and LBP (Low-Budget Productions) fame. Now, I think I may have been a bit too harsh on Angel in my Re-Penetrator review. I guess the green make-up and blood simply didn’t flatter her pussy very well. At any rate, she looks pretty good in this one, despite the scabs.
The story, unless you’re a total retard that lives in a cave, you should know. It’s about a priest trying to save a demon-possessed chick. Of course this being a porn parady the girl (Joanna Angel) is horny. After dyking-out with her mom, Father Merkin (Tommy Pistol, also from Re-Penetrator) shows up to begin an exorcism. When the standard methods fail, he begins a sexorcism, and proceeds to use a crucifix dildo and baby Jesus butt plug on the girl to drive the devil out of her. When those prove unsuccessful the priest then has no choice left but to “fuck the hell” out of her.
Overall I’d say this is a pretty good flick. It even has good special effects and decent dialog. Lots of pea soup vomit too, which make for some really messy sex. A definate must see for any horror fan!
Apparently this also has three different endings, although I only saw one. The “sad” end sequence where the priest falls down the stairs is said to be the actual stairs from the original Exorcist. You can also order this DVD from Burning Angel, Joanna Angel will autograph it for $5.00.
- Chris Cooper
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Gauri – The Unborn falls into two unusually diverse genres of being a ‘horror’ and ‘social’ film at the same time. If you watch it from the former viewpoint, the film has a…
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