As if this day can’t get any better, what with the big announcement about Metropolis and all, we now hear that our favorite comic book ever, The Goon by Eric Powell, has been optioned to be made into a move by none other that director David Fincher (Zodiac and Fight Club)! And it gets better. Academy-Award nominated Blur Studio will be developing the film!
If you are unfamiliar with The Goon, a masterpiece of zombies and slapstick Lovecraftian humor set in some old-timey world, I highly suggest you walk into your local comicbook store and demand it. You’ll thank us for it.
Move over Ash, I have a new chainsaw wielding, zombie killing hero - CHAINSAW MAID!
Chainsaw Maid is the bloody claymation short about a maid, a chainsaw and zombies. What more do you really need to know? The film was created by Japanese amateur animator takena, who has a whole line of, as he calls it, “brutal clay animation!” you should check out.
Somehow I think Ray Harryhausen is giggling in the shadows.
I’ll be honest and tell you all that I am not a big fan of remakes, but damn, this looks like it could be a potential winner. Mirrors is the upcoming film is based on the 2003 South Korea horror movie Geoul sokeuro, which is about a mall security guard investigating a series of murders that somehow involve mirrors.
Director Alexandre Aja of High Tension fame makes some changes in his version but seems to keep the overall story intact. Kiefer Sutherland plays an ex-cop hired to guard an old building that is filled with mirrors. Soon he and his family become the target of an evil force that is using just about any reflective surface as a means to torment them. Blood, gore and creepy small children abound.
David Cronenberg has become a genius or is incredibly stupid. He and Grammy and Oscar-winner composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings) have teamed up with Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) to bring you The Fly The Opera, an operatic adaptation of Cronenberg’s 1986 film The Fly.
I don’t know much about operas but I do know who Plácido Domingo is, and they got him to conduct the U.S. premiere for the LA Opera, who commissioned the opera. In the world of stuffy music Domingo is a heavy-hitter, so having him involved adds some street-cred I would guess.
Time magazine described The Fly as “a profound parable on love and loss.” Uhm… what, no Brundle-Fly vomit?
VLOG (short for video blog) is a new online horror series from Twisted Pictures (the guys who dish out the SAW franchise of films) and Break.com. The premise is simple - Some lady named Brooke Marks and a deranged internet killer exchange a loving embrace… no wait… Marks is being hunted by the killer and you, the viewer, get to watch as her buddies get slaughtered one-by-one in each episode. That is until Marks is dispatched herself, at which point I’m sure she’ll return from the dead for the VLOG sequels.
You can watch all of the current episodes of over on the VLOG site. Below is the trailer that gives you a pretty good idea of what you’ll be watching.
Horror-Rocker king Rob Zombie released the teaser poster for his next film Tyrannosaurus Rex, which apparently is about a bad-ass wrestler on the run from a menacing biker gang from hell.
From the looks of this poster I think it’s pretty safe to say the usual suspects will be staring in the film - Ken Foree, Danny Trejo and Rob’s babe-a-licious wife Sheri Moon Zombie.
This is a life size Alien made of steal, resin, rigid foam and the fear of God - I think I may have just peed myself just a little. Really.
If you feel the need to scare the living hell out of say your neighbors, dogs attempting to befoul your lawn or your friends when they need to use the toilet, then this is the very thing to do it.
The folks at Monster Galaxy are responsible for this stunning nightmare. It’s ultra-realistic and can cause a heart attack in just 3 seconds.
And just like any other supermodel, Alien has his own stats:
Stands 7 feet 7 inches
Resin and Rigid Foam Head
Transparent Dental Acrylic Lips
Vacu-Form Dome
Steel Armature, Armature Wire in Tail to pose
Wood Base (4′ by 2′) Heal Pins into Steel Bracket
Latex and Polyfoam Body & Tail
That is so hot.
This fine specimen of Alien lov’n can be yours for the low price of $5,200.00 plus shipping! Diaper not included.
As you can see from the picture to the left, it was quite the event. Lots of blood, guts, gore and Elder God Lov’n. Fun times indeed.
We hit the Friday bus tour which took us to the Scare Factory, which is the FX company who host the History Chanel’s Surviving History. Then it was off to local club BoMA for some spooky-fun-time with the Club Vampire gig, a traveling night club, from The Terrorwithin.
Saturday night was the The IAHA Masquerade Party, which was monster-filled - just the way ZMP likes it.
Anywho, go on and check out the photos from the weekend. We’re just going to continue recuperating here at the ZMP labs.
Back in the day there was one thing that was universal on TV… horror hosts. Every city had them. Each week a macabre figure would greet you within their dungeon and entertain you with their usually campy shtick between the showing of a classic horror film.
Being that I’m a Philly boy I grew up with Dr. Shock, AKA Joseph Zawislak. He combined the traditional comedic insult formulas created by horror host god Zacherley with magic tricks and his own cast of sidekicks like Boris and Bubbles (Dr. Shocks daughter).
Unfortunately on September 28, 1979, Zawislak died of heart failure at the age of 42. His rabid fan base (including yours truly) were heartbroken. A few others tried to fill his shows, most notably Saturday night Dead’s Stella, but none could capture Zawislak’s charm and fun.
Below is the trailer for the straight-to DVD film Monster Movie, a very campy Cloverfiled spoof from the no-budget brothers Mark and John Polonia.
The film looks pretty straight forward - Friends go to a lake to go on a fishing trip when they notice something lurking in said lake. Next thing you know they along with all the redneck townies are being attacked by what looks like a giant Pleo. Guns can’t stop it! Jets can’t stop it! The mighty power of the Mullet can’t even stop it!
You get the picture. If anything this will make for a hell of a drinking game.
This is a life size Alien made of steal, resin, rigid foam and the fear of God - I think I may have just peed myself just a little. Really.
Just uploaded all of the pictures from the 
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