Finally watched this film.
A film made for people who hate the cover of Whitley Strieber's Communion.
It was a solid film. Very non-Hollywood. And VERY scary.
The soundtrack is absolute unnerving terror.
Click below for a listen:
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Dark Skies
Raggs
A really beautiful piece from Jeff at the Harrison Hollow blog.
Click below for a bunch of great pics:
Loving the detail. And the face is wonderful.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
She Called It Shining
Click below for a really fascinating interview with Wendy Carlos, co-composer for The Shining.
The Next In Line
"I don't mind skulls and bones," said Marie. "There's nothing even vaguely human to them. I'm not scared of skulls and bones. They're like something insectile. If a child was raised and didn't know he had a skeleton in him, he wouldn't think anything of bones, would he? That's how it is with me. Everything human has been scraped off these. There's nothing familiar left to be horrible. In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize. This isn't changed. They're still skeletons, like they always were. The part that changed is gone, and so there's nothing to show for it. Isn't that interesting?"
Joseph nodded.
She was quite brave now.
"Well," she said, "let's see the mummies."
"Here, senora," said the caretaker.
He took them far down the hall away from the stack of bones and when Joseph paid him a peso he unlocked the forbidden crystal doors and opened them wide and they looked into an even longer, dimly lighted hall in which stood the people.
Ray Bradbury
Monday, July 29, 2013
Beneath
I'm a fan of Larry Fessenden's films so I'm looking very forward to this tale of a giant hungry lake fish. And I hear it uses practical effects for the fish. Excellent.
Click below for the trailer:
Dark Tales
At once, the rain stopped, snuffing her lantern. Maura’s eyes grew dead white and a scream was lost to her. Her mouth hung open as she shook uncontrollably in her chair. Her radio slammed on at full volume. All of the logs and the newspaper on the table ran off to the floor in a mess unseen in the darkness. In a quick, horrible succession behind her, the doors of her house flung open violently in the pitch black, their sound blacked out by the radio and made hellish. She was grabbed up with a horrible, invisible quickness, pulled in half like a doll through the window by the sink, and was never seen again.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Abandoned Prairie Church
For more than a hundred years
it has clenched the candle of its spire
in a hard white fist,
waiting for thunder to light the short wick
of its cross. But the clouds pass by,
leaving no more than a flash
on the cracked and dusty panes.
The fist’s weight is firm on the lid
of this rough old box of Nebraska
in which all the relics are kept,
the skulls, the sermons, the prayers,
and a scatter of buffalo nickels
from the last collection.
Ted Kooser
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Music To Be Murdered By (By Which To Be Murdered)
This would be great mixed in with a Halloween Party playlist [theoretically]:
Friday, July 26, 2013
House Of Frog
We drove by a house today with two brick columns leading up to the front porch. On the top of each column sat a large cement-gray frog. It was a small modest house, and the frogs seemed like they should be guarding a vast old mansion with overgrown bushes and ancient trees with tired limbs.
I swear, if we ever win the lottery, our house will be out of control with things like this. I dare say bat-shit crazy.
Image source.
Re-Feature: Dead Man's Bones
I heard this song was featured in The Conjuring.
Very cool. We seem to play this album every year when the air gets cooler.
Click below:
Pumpkin Patch Update
Hopefully the cooler weather we're having will give these vines a chance to grow some fruit.
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| A gourd vine growing up through the Scarecrow. |
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| The only pumpkin at the moment. |
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| The first gourd (not sure when to harvest it). |
Thursday, July 25, 2013
The Hunter
Made a "joke" today that a coworker should be Jonathan Kincaid'd. An obscure Gilligan's Island reference that required some explaining, which made me seem like a sadistic madman. Mr. Kincaid came to the island looking for exotic game, and somehow decided to hunt Gilligan (which I'm sure the rest of the crew was secretly supporting). This episode always terrified me as a kid. Pure horror.
I had to add to the end of my rant "I mean all this in a humorous fun manner."
Hilarious to find a blog featuring this episode..and similar sentiments.
Click below:
Prince Of Darkness Collector's Edition
Can't WAIT.
- Audio Commentary with John Carpenter
- Sympathy For The Devil – An all-new Interview with Writer/Director John Carpenter
- Alice at the Apocalypse - An all-new interview with Actor & Rock Legend Alice Cooper
- The Messenger – All-new interview with Actor & Special Visual Effects Supervisor Robert Grasmere
- Hell On Earth –A look at the film’s score with Co-Composer Alan Howarth
- Horror’s Hallowed Grounds with host Sean Clark
- Alternate Opening from TV Version
- Original Theatrical Trailer
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Now Playing: The Conjuring
Haven't seen the film, but the score is horror-heaven.
Thanks, girl6, for the heads up!
Click that harmless doll below.
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