ROSEMARY'S BABY

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into an apartment in a building with a bad reputation. They discover that their neighbors are a very friendly elderly couple named Roman and Minnie Castevet, and Guy begins to spend a lot of time with them. Strange things start to happen: a woman Rosemary meets in the washroom dies a mysterious death, Rosemary has strange dreams and hears strange noises and Guy becomes remote and distant. Then Rosemary falls pregnant and begins to suspect that her neighbors have special plans for her child.

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CREEPSHOW

Creepshow Has Some of the Greatest
Talent in Horror

Creepshow demonstrates what happens when gather together some of the greatest talents in horror, Stephen King and George Romero, and leave them alone to do what they do best.

Written by The Zombie Master Lee Roberts
January 26, 2007

Release: 1982
Directed by: George A. Romero
Written by: Stephen King

Starring:
Hal Holbrook as Professor Henry Northrup
Adrienne Barbeau as Wilma “Billie” Northrup
Leslie Nielsen as Richard Vickers
E.G. Marshall as Upson Pratt
Ted Danson as Harry Wentworth
Ed Harris as Hank Blaine

EC Comics, to those who do not know, was a force to be reckoned with in the 50’s. They had such titles as Crime Illustrated, Weird Fantasy, and Shock Illustrated. What they were best known for though, and ended up getting in trouble for, were such titles as Tales from the Crypt, Crypt of Terror, and Vault of Horror. It is within these horror comics that Stephen King (Carrie, Firestarter, etc.) and George Romero (Night of the Living Dead, etc.) found the inspiration for the film Creepshow.

Creepshow is an anthology of five short horror episodes from a fictitious comic book entitled Creepshow (coincidence, I think not). So let’s turn the page and see what eerie tales lay within the pages.

Father’s Day: This first story is about a woman who feels guilt for bashing her abusive fathers head in with a marble ash tray. And she should feel guilty because she killed him on Father’s Day. She has stopped by her father’s grave and during conversation he decides it is time to wake up and leave his underground abode. Yeah!! We see a young Ed Harris in this one as well. Good story.

The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill: This installment in Creepshow is where we see Stephen King himself in the role of Jordy Verrill, a backwoods redneck who happens to see a meteorite land on his farm. He is contemplating the money he will get from the museum when it breaks and he gets “meteor s**t” on him. What follows is the slow transformation of a man into a plant. Not bad but not great either. Good thing that it is short.

Something to Tide you Over: This is actually my favorite of the five Creepshow stories and is the one that we can learn from. First, we learn that if we are going to have an affair, make sure that the unknowing spouse isn’t insanely jealous to the point of vindictive murder. Second, we learn that if we happen to be the vindictive, murdering, insanely jealous, unknowing spouse we must be absolutely sure that the unfaithful duo is dead. I mean hole in the head dead. Not able to come back as a zombie dead. This Creepshow installment has a great story, with great acting from Leslie Nielsen.

The Crate: Classic actors Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, and the lovely Adrienne Barbeau make this story my second favorite Creepshow short. Weaver and Holbrook are professors at the local college. A crate is found underneath some stairs that is unbelievably old and upon further investigation is holding something living inside. Carnage, blood and laughs follow. Both cheesy and funny in a twisted sort of way, this is a great story.

They’re Creeping up on You: How can you go wrong with E.G. Marshall. In this Creepshow short Mr. Marshall plays a mean old businessman who happens to have a slight case of OCD. Being a clean freak, he cannot stand bugs and bugs are getting into his super clean hermetically sealed penthouse. How are they getting in? Where are they coming from? You will have to watch the movie.

Creepshow will go down as one of the best horror anthology films of all time. When you put Stephen King and George Romero together and leave them alone to do what they do best then the result has got to be good. The stories and execution are well done and the nature of an anthology of horror shorts prevents any one story from going on too long before resolution. If you have not seen this classic, go find and watch Creepshow. As a matter of fact, buy your own copy of it - Creepshow is one to have in your horror library and watch repeatedly. Questions or comments about Creepshow? Contact us!

THE ART LAIR HORRORPHILE

“The atmosphere of a film is the most important thing. Very early on I was fascinated by the moods and atmospheres which emanate from places and people. People in certain situations – in moments of terror, for example – especially interest me. They live more intensely, and we’re able to learn more about who they really are.” --- Roman Polanski

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THE ART LAIR - IX

September 23rd 2008 23:59

Well, I’ll be damned! I missed my monthly descent into The Art Lair. There was no August selection, I’m afraid. The horror! The horror! Lock me in the iron maiden and throw away the key! No! Wait a minute! Not that you were probably aware of the absence, but hey, what does it matter? These bones ain’t goin’ nowhere …

So, keeping the marrow to the point, here’s a selection of fantastic drawings as white as bone and as black as midnight on a moonless night … but with a hint of crimson, ‘cos that’s the kind of twisted person I am, heh heh heh … and you relish it, I know, I know.

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THE ART LAIR - VIII

July 21st 2008 02:26

I’ve had a long hard weekend. I am walking shell of man. I am in dire need of vegetable soup and mineral water. I am incapable of writing an informed and witty movie review. All I can post is something slowly emerging from the Darkness, primordial sludge, like the foul stuff oozing from my ears and clouding my bloodshot vision.

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THE ART LAIR - VII

June 25th 2008 05:06

I’m not sure if the above photo is an artistic installation, but it looks like one, so I’ve included it as my window display. I’ve got a thing for crocodiles (or is that an alligator?) … and the derriere and long legs of the female kind. But I digress …

There’s a bit more colour in this selection of art, a bit more vibrancy in the macabre. But that’s all I’m going to say. I’m not an art critic; I just compile the “exhibition” and let my readers have an oogle. That’s the best way to present art, let it speak for itself.

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THE ART LAIR - VI

May 1st 2008 23:14

Are your bad dreams a little on the bland and tedious side? Do you need a little inspiration for your nightmare melting pot? Imagery that’s truly surreal, grotesque, outlandish and seductively horrendous? You’ve come to the right place … The Horrorphile’s Art Lair, a scarily fine selection of paintings, sketches, and illustrations from international artists.

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THE ART LAIR - V

March 28th 2008 23:29

If only the modern horror movie was as richly textured, boldly formed, and palpably fearsome as the art work on display here in The Art Lair, I’d be a happy little chappy!

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THE ART LAIR - IV

February 22nd 2008 01:17

A picture may paint a thousand words … But a piece of horror art cuts through flesh and bone and etches deep into the marrow an obituary of dark and bloodied brilliance. Check these dark and delicious works by talented young artists from all over the world.

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THE ART LAIR - III

December 31st 2007 03:32

It’s my last post for the year. So I thought I’d end with the next exhibition of The Art Lair. These are dark and confronting illustrations from artists from all over the world. Linger and ogle.

And have a bloody good new year

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November 29th 2007 02:15

I love the way each person can interpret different things from a piece of artwork, more so than your average movie poster. As much as I love graphic design, a movie poster is, more often than not, designed to illicit an immediate and deliberate response from the viewer; basically the poster should be saying “You want to see this movie! Now!”

With a piece of artwork, whether it be an charcoal sketch, a water colour painting, an air-brushed illustration, or a metal sculpture, the intention of the artist is to create a reaction from the viewer; not necessarily a feel-good sensation, but definitely an excited one. With horror art, the artist’s intention is to create a sense of morbid fascination, unease, dread, a macabre rush of adrenalin as fear crawls up the spine, or, most effectively, a recoil, as the imagery reminds one of a recent nightmare

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THE ART LAIR - horror artwork

October 9th 2007 01:40

I was surfing with intent and came across a great site full of horror and Gothic art by a multitude of artists, most of which is actually uncredited. The site is intended for webpage designers, so many of them are quite small images for using as avatars, etc. There are numerous code generators and even a whole section for myspace junkies.

The site is a smorgasbord of horror artwork; all blood and darkness for the artiste children of the night. Most are vivid paintings, but many are digitally manipulated photographs, while others are just black and white sketches, and some images are almost endearing, in a strange, macabre kind of way

DARKSIDE OF THE NET

Dark Side of the Web: Horror

General Horror Pages | Horror Authors | Horror Links Pages | Horror Movies |

Online Horror/Gothic Literature | Online Dark/Horror Ezines

New Horror Links

The Attict - A horror fan's page with music, movie clips, photos, and a Livejournal.

Come Play With Us, Danny - A Horror movie review blog.

CreepyShit.com - Articles, reviews, convention coverage, DVD reviews, and links.

Fatally Yours - A nicely done horror review blog by multiple authors. Timely and interesting news on the horror genre.

Horror Yearbook - A well done horror genre news site. Articles, interviews, and reviews.

Monster Kids - A community for horror genre fans.

League of Tana Tea Drinkers - A group of bloggers who blog about horror. They've joined forces to support each other in building thoughtful, considerate, high quality blogs about the horror genre. This is a great jumping-off point to discover interesting horror bloggers and updated news on the genre.

General Horror Pages

All Things Zombie - Info on zombie movies, books, games, comics, toys. Zombie fiction, a message board, and links. They also have a couple of horror movie trailers.

Atrocities Cinema - News, reviews, contests.

Feo Amante - Highly recommended! News, reviews, comics, gallery, horror music, horror convention info, and fiction. Very useful site.

Beautiful, Dead Women - Some fiction, and an essay on women in horror films.

Beyond the Groovy Age of Horror - A blog covering 1960s/1970s pulp horror books.

Bloody Disgusting - Horror news, horror movie release dates, articles, and forums.

British Horror Films - Actors, timeline, films, extras, and a message board on the topic.

The CHUD Creature Corner - Extremely highly recommended! THE BEST source of daily horror news in the world. Delivered with attitude, accuracy and real knowledge of the horror field. They have cool contests, interesting messageboards, and often run exclusive interviews with horror directors, actors and writers.

Contamination Horror - History of horror and horror fandom, articles and research.

Dark Angel's Realm of Horror - UK based site with horror news, reviews, a chatroom, a history of horror, and links.

Dark Element 13 - A fan's site, with his lists of favorite stories, novels and movies.

Darkling Tales - A LiveJournal community for supernatural terror.

Darktales Infobase - Under construction as of April 2003.

Fiona's Fear and Loathing - One of the first horror sites on the net, Fiona reviews massive amounts of horror books. She may have even been around the net longer than me. Very knowledgeable lady.

The Fright Site - Games, stories, comics, reviews, and some streaming vampire movies.

The Horror Channel - These people are trying very hard to create a horror channel carried by cable television providers. I wish them luck. Meanwhile, they have a great news headlines section and interesting discussion forums.

Horror.com - Well designed site with discussions, reviews, articles, picture galleries, and links.

Horror Guide: Cafes, Pubs, Clubs, and Restaurants of the World - Theme cafes, bars and restaurants. Not updated since 2001 and icky popup ads.

Horror Host Gallery - Pics and info of TV horror hosts from the 1950s to the present, including Vampira, Jeepers Creepers, Ghouldardi, Svengoolie, Count Gore de Vol, Dr. Acula, Dr. Shock, and many more.

Famous Monsters Trading Cards of 1963 - A card-by-card guide, with photos, of the beloved series of cards.

Gruesome.com - Horror movie reviews, forums and chat.

International Horror Guild - Dark fantasy reviewers and critics join to present yearly horror literature awards.

Last Page on the Left - Horror articles, interviews and reviews. Very outdated, but was quite useful for years.

Tom Malafarina's Art of Horror

Mockfear.com - Horrorscopes, a zine, a forum, interviews, reviews, and links.

The Monster Club

Ray's Horror Site

Really Scary

Thrillpeddlers (Horror Theatre and Live Events)

Tribute to Horror

Where Horrors Dwell - Horror movie reviews, an award, some links, and an empty chatroom.

The Women of Horror Movies

Horror Links Pages

DarkEcho Horror Links

Hauntess's Horror Web

Horrorview - Essays, interviews, trailers, DVD reviews, and a shop.

K and J Horror

The Spookhouse, at LiveJournal

Val Cap Dungeon

Yahoo's Horror Page

Zombo's Closet - A nicely put together horror fan's blog.

updated September 20, 2008

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MY TOP TEN MINDFUCK HORROR FILMS

"Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead."

"I see dead people . . . Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead . . . They see only what they want to see."

"Don't you fucking look at me!" [Read the review]

"Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and . . . and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."

"There's no logical explanation for what I'm going to say to you now . . . The boy was badly crippled. I believe he was killed in an attic room of that house."

"Here we go, the world is spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning. Sun comes up, we laugh and we cry. Sun goes down, and then we all die."

"Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that . . . do not listen."

"We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?"

"Mother, what is the phrase? She isn't quite herself today."

"Some places are like people . . . some shine and some don't."

AND NOW THE SECOND FEATURE....

Dracula

C.H.U.D.

Robinson Crusoe on Mars

The Changeling

Invaders From Mars

The Giant Spider Invasion

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Mortuary

Fantastic Voyage

Dawn of the Mummy

Marooned

Destination Inner Space

Garden of the Dead

Piranha

The Shape of Things to Come

The Day It Came to Earth

Burial Ground

Orca

Mission Mars

First Spaceship on Venus

The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane

War of the Satellites

The Blob

Rollerball

Creature From the Black Lagoon

Atragon

TerrorVision

Jaws

100 HORROR FILM POSTERS PART ONE

100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1

By Andrew Lindstrom · October 28th, 2008 · Inspiration

For some, Halloween means costume parties and drunken debauchery. That’s never really been my style. Personally, I like to spend my Halloween evenings eating candy and watching scary movies. Yeah, I’m a nerd - I know.

This Halloween season has had me reminiscing of the brilliant horror and sci-fi movie posters of years past. Particularly, I am a fan of the illustrated posters that used to be the staple of nearly every science fiction and horror film released. These posters are able to communicate so much about a film with a single, masterfully created image that it’s a shame this style isn’t so popular nowadays.

Since there were so many amazing posters to showcase, I have split this post into two parts. Part two will be posted on October 31st. But for now, you may feast on the first half.