Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Joshua Hoffine, Horror Photographer

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Joshua Hoffine is a horror photographer who has recently been featured in both Rue Morgue magazine and Fangoria. He left a career as a wedding photographer to capture images illuminating the darker side of our psyche, exposing our childhood nightmares and fears.


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Hoffline insists that the images be as real as possible, and that includes the children in the photographs. They're actually his real life daughters Anna (12), Shiva (10), Sade (5), and his main model Chloe (7).

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The series, called After Dark, My Sweet, is still in progress and can be viewed at his website, where you can also purchase prints.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Come Now, My Child

Come now, my child if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?          (click to enlarge)
Picture poem by Kenneth Patchen

Sunday, March 29, 2009

This Week in Horror: March 29 - April 4


March 29
2000 – Resident Evil Code: Veronica released for the Dreamcast in North America

March 30
1996 – Resident Evil released on the PlayStation in the United States
2000 – The Typing of the Dead released on Sega Dreamcast and PC
2001 – Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare released on Game Boy Color

March 31
2006 – Slither released theatrically

April 1
1883 – Lon Chaney, Sr. born (d. 1930)
2001 – Faust: Love of the Damned released theatrically
2004 – Resident Evil Outbreak released on the PlayStation 2 in North America

April 2
1971 – Dark Shadows ends its run on television
1982 – Cat People (1982) released theatrically

April 3
1961 – Eddie Murphy (actor in Vampire in Brooklyn) born
1962 – Jennifer Rubin (actress in numerous horror films) born

April 4
1932 – Anthony Perkins (actor who portrayed Norman Bates in the Psycho films) born (d. 1992)
1993 – When a Stranger Calls Back premieres on television
2003 – Beyond Re-Animator released theatrically




Source: wikipedia Portal:Horror/This day in horror archive

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Friday, March 27, 2009

Friday Nights Frights: The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

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Welcome to tonight's episode of Friday Night Frights.

Last week we had soldiers and werewolves, this week we have cowboys and dinosaurs!

Tonight's feature is a classic dinosaur movie from 1969, with some great stop-motion special effects by the genius Ray Harryhausen. I remember loving this on TV when I was a kid.

The Valley of Gwangi was directed by Jim O'Connolly; the cast includes James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, and Laurence Naismith.

Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing an Allosaurus living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. Guess what happens?

Here's the full movie, in a playlist:

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Crypticon Minneapolis 2009


Crypticon returns for Year 4!

November 6, 7, and 8 2009
at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota

A new hotel with more space, larger indoor theater, bands and more!

Keep checking the official website for up to date information about events and guests.

The Mysterious Stranger

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The Mysterious Stranger is an unfinished work, and the last novel attempted, by the American author Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until his death in 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".




Twain actually wrote multiple versions of this story, each unfinished and each involving the character of "Satan".

Project Gutenberg has an online eBook containing the story.


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ANIMATED VERSION
The Mysterious Stranger was adapted to a short scene in the 1985 claymation film The Adventures of Mark Twain, in which the children visit a planetoid and meet an angel named Satan. He claims to be incapable of performing an evil act as he does not understand the concept of wrongdoing. Satan builds a sandcastle and has the children make clay figures which he then brings to life. Two of the clay men bicker over ownership of a cow, and Satan kills them by mashing them with his palm. He then creates a storm and an earthquake to kill the remaining people and destroy the castle, to the horror of the watching children. Thereafter, the kids leave the planetoid as Satan lectures, "Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists save empty space and you, and you are but a thought," ultimately disappearing with the planetoid, an illusion he created himself.

Due to the disturbing nature of this scene, it is edited out of the movie when aired on American television.

Here's the scene:

Sunday, March 22, 2009

This Week in Horror: March 22 - 28


March 22
1985 – Friday the 13th: A New Beginning released theatrically
1986 – Chopping Mall released theatrically
1996 – Resident Evil released on the PlayStation in Japan
2002 – Blade II released theatrically
2002 – The Chronicle ends its run on television

March 23
1964 – Peter Lorre (actor in several horror films) dies (b. 1904)

March 24
1939 – The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) released theatrically
1974 – The Rocky Horror Show premieres at the the Roxy

March 25


March 26
1994 – System Shock released on PC and Mac

March 27
1973 – Sisters released theatrically
1986 – April Fool's Day released theatrically
1991 – Ralph Bates (actor in several Hammer horror films) dies (d. 1940)

March 28
1920 – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) released theatrically
1963 – The Birds released theatrically
1979 – Phantasm released theatrically




Source: wikipedia Portal:Horror/This day in horror archive

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