London Comic Con

Well I turned up all ready with sketch book to meet Mr Bernie Wrightson but alas he was not doing custom sketches but he seemed like a really chill person, didn't get to talk much as he was being interviewed but I got my con badge signed by him and a picture.

I also met Stan Lee -gloatgloat-

Awesome

Been a busy week here so not been updating much so as a little sorry, have a fucking awesome car.

REMINDER: Horror News!

London Super Comic Convention which will be held in LONDON between the 25th and 26th of Feb will have many, many comic book artists and writers including STAN LEE! but that's not the horror part of it.

Bernie Wrightson

Who is a big player in the world of horror related comic work will be there. To see his list of work please follow the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Wrightson

To see more information on the London Super Comic Convention visit here: http://www.londonsupercomicconvention.com/

I myself will be going, see you there!

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Just add 'Zombie'

Just add 'Zombie'

For those of you who are not in the know and have no idea what 'etsy' is it's an ebay for people to sell their homemade goods from the awesome, to the odd to the.... wtf.. really? so I decided to type in 'zombie' and since all the cool kids fucking love zombies, alot came up and I am here to share some of my finds as there is just so much to go through.

Zombie Love Corpse Cleanser

£6.49/$10.00

I think this is a neat item for woman or for a gift for your horror, zombie loving girlfriend/wife/mistress. Comes in four smells. I think this is both neat but also rather odd thing to decide to create.

Buy

Be a Zombie T-Shirt

£8.42/$12.99

I can't tell if this idea is stupid as hell or amazing. Either way I laughed and thought it as one of the more original items I saw on the site. Could for a laugh with friends but I don't think anyone wants to see a man doing this and bearing his hairy chest, though might be a happy ending if the wearer was female.

Buy

Mini Brain Soaps

£4.17/$6.00 [AUD]

Another one for the girls I'd say but I think these are also pretty nifty, brain shaped soaps which would be awesome as little Halloween gifts for people you know or trick or treaters, they are also scented, I always thought brains would be raspberry smelling..

Buy

Zombie wedding cake toppers

£51.88/$100

Nerds get married too, we do you know. I love the idea behind this and I have seen some amazing ones done.. But these? for the price they wish to charge I'd damn well expect abit better then some shoddy workmanship but like I said the idea is awesome.

Buy

Blood splattered zombie murder tunic shirt top

£16.21/$25

YES! for just $25 you can buy this tatty old white T-shirt which someone has just chucked a little red paint on and put two hand prints on! Grab the deal of a life time! As an avid cosplayer/costumer I've made better looking blood countless times and worked with fake blood on props and this is clearly 'red paint on white T-shirt' I don't know if she was thinking it would sell or what.. good luck for trying!

Buy

Call of Duty Nazi Zombies Real Life Perk-A-Colas

£35/$55

Another person I think fancies their chances of cashing in on someones stupidity. Now these bottles are neat, and look well done but the fact is the person have a piss up, got drunk, cleaned the bottles and stuck print on labels on the bottles and the stuff inside is water with food dye.. £35 for some glass bottles and food dye?

I'd either make them muuuch cheaper or make a drink or colours booze. Damn.

Buy

Bloody Hand Prints Vinyl decal sticker

£6.49/$10

Something a little cheaper now, hand print stickers. I personaly want to get some of these and do the classy thing of having them on my laptop also cus I honestly think these are cool. On your car or bedroom door would look ace.

Buy

Zombie Evolution

£9.72/$12.99

A nifty T-shirt and I've had a looka round his store, seems he does a range of awesome nerdy T-shirts and as a nerd, can't get enough of them.

Buy

Hope you enjoyed my shopping trip.

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Bill Spectre's Oxford Ghost Walk

Bill Spectre's Ghost Walks

I've always wanted to go on a Ghost Walk being into the supernatural and all that jazz and last October me and some friends went to the Oxford ghost walk with Bill Spectre and it was so fantastic I felt it needed it's own review on the blog.

If your ever in Oxford you really need to do this trail, I think he runs them Friday and Sunday but you would have to check his website for that which will be linked.

Bill Spectre meets you at Oxford castle where you pay and get your ticket/sticker. First thing we notice about Bill is he is into his role 100% he's dressed the part, acts the part even down to his mannerisms and how he talks gives the event such a flare.

He takes you around the city of Oxford which is a beautiful city on its own and full of amazing looking buildings and worth a site seeing anyway. He tells you about the history and the ghost stories of the city and every stop has a story and even a little bit of a show.

It's history, ghost stories, magic and comedy all rolled into one amazing package, Bill Spectre is a great entertainer. The ghost walk is around about an hour and is £7 a head which if worth it.

Links to Bill Spectre's site:

Bill Spectre's Home Page

More Info

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Silly Saturday

Face huggers are alot like spiders, they can get IN the bath fine but can't get back out.

Have a good weekend!

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The Woman In Black

Harry Potter And The Woman In Black

2012

So I've never been one to go with the flow and dis a movie if the collective reviews are negative or love the fuck out of something that's a 'cult classic' I'm honest with my reviews and I like what I like and I liked this movie.

The very first scene gets right to it, we see three girls all playing with their dolls having a grand old time and the suddenly they all stop dead and slowly and eerily walk to their window and jump. Suicides are a popular theme in this movie.

The movie is well shot and once you get past all the Harry Potter jokes you see that Danny Radcliff is a rather fantastic actor and I think he breaks away from the role of Harry well enough that he can be a better and wider actor then he first started off.

My one issue with Mr Radcliff is his character has a four year old son... a FOUR YEAR OLD SON when Danny himself doesn't look more then 19 with a bit of bum fluff going on where a beard should be and sporting very wtf eyebrows..

His son is adorable and we find out about his tragic past,cus no good character can get away without some tragic past right?

We all have a giggle at the sons drawings showing how sadface the miserable and gritty looking main man is. He travels to a little village to get some dead woman's will in order and the village gives off one hell of a 'This is a local village for local people!' right away everyone hates him.

Cus he's a wizard outsider.

One guy who doesn't believe in all this mumbo jumbo be-friends Mr Kipp and even invites him to dinner. It's made more then clear that the people of the village don't want him there and he manages to bribe some very homeless looking guy to take him to the dead woman's house..

Which is on an island, on it's own, separated from the village by the sea. Cliche of all cliches I know but bare with us. The house the moment he goes in is very typical of a haunted house and right away we know shit is going down. He spends the day and in true supernatural horror form things go bump in the night.

Every scare is easy to see coming from the footsteps along the old wooden floors to the thunder storm raging out the window. And you know that EVERY SINGLE TIME Danny Radcliff looks into a reflective surface or out a window for a prolonged amount of time OMG THERE SHE IS THE WOMAN IN BLACK, EVERYONE SCREAM!!! AAAAAH!

Yes, 95% of the scares you do see coming but you WILL still jump. The movie is shot very well and the fading in and out of faces of the woman and the other dead is very well done and tastefull. If you want a good old fashioned super natural ghost story with great costumes and an old worldly feel this is good. Beats the fuck out of Paranormal 'this is a real story but has a sequel or two' Activity

So we find out that every time someone sees the woman in black someone in the village, a child DIES and it's all Danny's fault and they try once again run him out.

But that's be no fun right? so he stays anyway and low and behold more shit goes down, we even see zombie mud man son of woman in black. We find out more of her story, how her sister fucked up with her husband and took the child with them, how the child died and the woman's hatred for her sister.

Danny and his friend decide if they find the kids body and reunite it with the mother all will be well so we get to see Danny covered in mud and some over acting [although alot of the cast is a tad hamming it up] so the plan goes ahead and the son and mother are reunited but the words NEVER FORGIVE echo through the old ladies house.

The curse as it was, is not over and his son and nanny come to visit and once again the woman in black decides to tell a child to go and kill themselves.

The ending as more cheese then a double cheese and bacon whooper meal but it's sweet, very sweet and it a lovely ending as you do feel for this man and his troubles. Also this movie has alot of child killing which is still a mega taboo in alot of things.

If your looking for a movie with depth, maybe not this one but it is a good old fashion scary ghost story, it's so nice to have something like this over the gore, gore, gore slash stab kill gore that the horror genre is pretty much stuffed with.

If you want to watch a good movie that will make you and a few people scream in the movies, you need this one.

Acting: 3.5/5

Scares: 5/5

Gore: 0/5

Story: 4/5

Overall: 5/5

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The Tortured

The Tortured

2010

The Tortured is by a writer of SAW and to be honest when that is the bragging line on any movie DVD case it's cause to walk the other way and pretend we never ever saw it, but in the sales it was £3 and I was in a buying mood to add to my ever growing collection of horror movies.

Now I was slapped in the face with this movie, soon as I saw ol' TWISTED PICTURES come up I gave up faith on this being a good movie but Jesus even now my stomach feels like it's jumping, this movie is the most gory movie I have ever seen it made SAW look tame, it's like they saved all their good stuff for this movie.

The plot was gripping and the action started right away, it's about the 'perfect' married couple who have it all, big awesome house, adorable son and then it goes tits up, their son is captured and murdered by a nutjob, he is found and brought to justice and it's found he has killed so many kids.

In a bid to find out the other kids that he murdered identity's they give the man 25 years to life a lighter sentence then he would have got, the two torn married people aren't pleased and between being angry and torn with anguish about their dead son they set out to kidnap the killer and get their own back for their son.

The most gory scenes I have seen are in this movie, if you do not like needles then this movie will fuck you up, there is alot that bothers me in this movie, I confess it takes alot to gore me out, honestly. I can sit and watch zombie movies and crave KFC and watch most SAW's with a shrug but the needles... the nail stuff... ugh gross.

The story is powerfully acted and you feel for the parents of the dead kid and all away through the movie you feel for them and think this man is getting what comes to him and as horrid as it is you've felt and been moved by the couple that your on their side, but as the plot goes on you soon find something out and you feel very bad and doubt yourself.

The ending is a killer.

Going into this movie with so many doubts I was very pleasantly surprised. Well done movie. It had some cliche bits but the horror genre as a whole has alot of that so I excused it.

It is also very much got SAW all over it, from what the two parents say to what happens but if you try ignore that and see it as it's own movie then you'll enjoy it.

Gore: 5/5

Plot: 5/5

Acting: 5/5

Overall: 5/5

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Horror News!

London Super Comic Convention which will be held in LONDON between the 25th and 26th of Feb will have many, many comic book artists and writers including STAN LEE! but that's not the horror part of it.

Bernie Wrightson

Who is a big player in the world of horror related comic work will be there. To see his list of work please follow the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Wrightson

To see more information on the London Super Comic Convention visit here: http://www.londonsupercomicconvention.com/

I myself will be going, see you there!

X6XJigsawX6X

Worst 5 Horror Movies

DAMN I have seen some bad movies in my time I even own alot of rubbish but this post is for my top/bottom worst movies I have ever seen EVER. There will be some everyone knows.. somebody knows and some.. people just clean block out.

Here we are in no real order..

Skinned Deep

2004

I blame myself for this one, I did get it for 75p this should really have been my first clue that it was so god awfully bad that and I have never heard about it. I don't know where to even start with how bad this movie is... fuck. I guess I should start by saying for a 2004 movie it had the style and budget of a late 70's early 80's B rated movie.. no idea if that was the plan or not?

The cast looks like it was the camera mans family and they had asked them to join in on the fun. I like how it was clearly meant to be a horror and the dude in the mask, the main 'evil guy' was being pegged as a new 'horror idol' but then they change their minds and are like LOL YEAH WE WERE KIDDING!!!11 no, you made a fucking awful movie and you can't back peddle fast enough.

I can't even remember this guys fucking name but I swear all the budget was pumped into his mask cus there was no sign of a budget anywhere else! the movie has OAP hells angels.. a dude with water on the brain like one of the mutants in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and a midget.. covered in flour..who..throws.. plates..

What..

I wish to GOD they'd been trollin'

Basic plot is family stop at this rest stop.. turns out to be full of nut jobs.. family dies and girl has to marry fat head... I can't remember much I tried to block it from my mind.. worse movie I've ever seen in any genre I swear. I remember head guy running around naked which I did not need to see also an OAP fights our midget in flour.

The gore.. I... words fail me it was so bad but then again this whole movie was so bad so it's fine. The ending was from what I remember this big huuuuge hunky greased up headless body who was rippling with muscles, alot of electric charge and the girl killing it some how.

My advice is just avoid. You can get a smiler enjoyment by getting a kick in the nuts.

Last Of The Living

2008

Ok, ok I know it's a horror-comedy but it was neither funny nor scary, now I do enjoy the laid back 'do we have beer?' 'yep' 'then all is well' attitude during a zombie take over and it did have a good start but it just got really boring really fast for me, I found minus the awesome accents the cast were either dull or 'trying too hard' to be a funny stereotype.

This is one of the few movies I had to turn off half way through, was just really boring. My advice if you want horror-comedy go for something like Zombie Strippers, DOG HOUSE or SEVERANCE.

Burning Bright

2010

Still hoping this one is a joke, really. Whoever thought about the plot of being trapped in a house with your retarded younger brother with a TIGER was a good plot needs the same to happen to them, really. Basically these kids live with their step father, mother is dead and the girl had saved money to put her 'speicle' brother in a home but instead their step dad spends it all on a..

TIGER

Yes, a tiger. I'd rather have gotten drunk, shagged some hookers or bought a sports care with my midlife crises but hey, buying a Tiger is cool... right?

ANYWAY, the dad buys a tiger and decides he can make LOADS of money by having is step son die. Though I am really not sure what insurance company covers killed by wild Tiger in home but sure. And he seals the house and add's his tiger.

Cue rest of the movie the girl trying to look after her ill brother while there is a tiger around and trying to avoid said tiger, it's a riot let me tell you.

This hair cut is near enough child abuse.

Good work on finding a new and different plot idea, bad work for making this movie.

House Of The Dead 2

2005

Tits, tits.. tits... zombies? Basically nothing like the arcade game, nothing related, lets move on and pretend this movie was never made [just like the piss poor voice acting in House Of The Dead 2's game]

STUCK

2007

Movie plot:

Brandi is a hard-partying, overworked, nursing assistant desperate for a promotion at the retirement home where she works. After a night of drug-binging and partying, she accidentally hits a certain Thomas Bardo a deadbeat and recently evicted man who gets stuck in the windshield of her car. Not wanting to call for help since she is driving under the influence, Brandi, chooses not to get Thomas medical help and instead drives home and leaves him clinging to his life in the windshield of her car. While Brandi frantically tries to decide what she is going to do, Thomas, tries to free himself knowing his time is running out

Which seems like a very bad and drawn out version of the urban legend that has been going around for years which can be seen here http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bargrill.asp

The acting is poor, the movie is pretty much a write off when you think to yourself.. if he hit that man so hard he was stuck int he window? surely he would have died on impact anyway? and after that I didn't care about the movie, it wasn't the worst I'd seen but damn. BUT the guy gets his revenge in an awesome way so the ending is worth seein if nothing else and the hobo guy makes the movie.



Happy Valentines

Ju-On

Ju-On

Ju-On novel by Kei Ohishi published in 2003

Based off of a very large franchise in Japan spanning two manga adaptions and 5 Japanese movie tittles and three American re-makes with a tba 4th this year , a game for the Wii and two shorts.  More commonly known as 'The Grudge'

So unlike RING or DARK WATER the book did not come first and then the movies but the book is a going into the plot more. And let me tell you what a fantastic read this book is.

The style is pretty different from alot of things I have read, the start of every piece will have someones name and it'll be third person on them, this also means there is alot of the same scene but from another person's angle each time and there is ALOT that gets re-told over and over with just a few things changed each time.

There is also some very lazy writing inside, it looks like he used copy paste alot to achieve this book but it still seems to work, it's cool seeing something from an attackers POV followed by the victims POV all the different thoughts and feelings that go through that persons head as it happens.

The gore is fantastically described and again unlike some other Asian horror's I have read the action starts pretty much on the second page of the book! and it doesn't seem to lapse, the pacing is amazing and I finished the book under a week where I was so gripped with the story telling and could not put it down! there are some bits that stay in your mind after and you can't help but feel nervous in dark.

Our main lady Kayako who all the bad shit happens too, you feel sorry for her at the start and by the end you just think she is a selfish bitch, that sort of character switch from thinking poor girl to fucking fruit cake is good writing. The book even explains the Japanese suffix's used in the book and each chapter tends to have a neat ghost story referenced from other people's work before it.

All in all this has been my favourite horror book to date. Kei Ohishi needs to do more, I liked his lazy but on edge writing.

Scares: 5/5

Gore: 5/5

Pacing: 5/5

Style: 3.5/5

Overall score 5/5

Off to re-watch all the Japanese and piss poor American versions now!

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Another

Another

Another is a brand new anime airing in Japan at the moment based on a best selling novel by Yukito Ayatsuji which was published in fall of 2009 and even has a live action set for summer in Japan. Another has about 5 episodes subbed at the moment.

I was big into anime back when I was a teenager but not as much any more unless it was of the horror genre, a friend linked me to the first episode so I decided to run with it and also decided to give a review. The series is a little confusing at times, the art style is neither too girly or too mannish, sure they have the pretty school girls with the big eyes but that's most anime for you.

There's nothing to write home about with the anime art style but it's nice enough to look at.

I personally find the anime slow going and not enough 'oooh' to keep me too interested in the first two episodes but after that it kicks off with it's gore and it gets interesting as a serious of unfortunate deaths happen around the people and their family, you find out more about what's going on and the plot gets deeper.

The gore is pretty neat, face planting the floor of a list so fast you die is pretty fun, even more so when it shows you in repeat like four times one after the other in case you blinked.

If your not a fan of creepy looking dolls, mainly BJDs [Ball Jointed Dolls] then they'll give you the creeps more so. When it gets into it's atmosphere it does it well in typical Japanese horror style, slow and foreboding.

If you want more from your horror then slow going eerie feelings then this isn't for you.

I will stick with it but like I said, it's ok I hope it picks up in episodes to come. For now I give it a 2.5/5

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Because acting your age is over rated

Since we are having a nice weekend and have spare time while partner plays DEAD SPACE 2 decided to post a costume group I was part of a few years back, we were one Zoey minus a Left4Dead group. Please enjoy our sillyness.

Expo is so much fun, I spent the night before making everyones medipacks. So there's some sillyness for you on this fine weekend.

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Horror News!

London Film and Comic Con

This event will be held from Friday 6th of July to Sunday 8th of July held in Olympia grand hall in London and it has some horror guests! [they seem pretty rare here in the UK to be honest]

Norman Reedus

Who plays Daryl in 'The Walking Dead'

Shepard in Pandorum

Tom Skerritt

Dallas from 'Alien'

Danielle Harris

Who has been in such horror franchise's as 'Halloween' 'Hatchet' and 'Fear Clinic'

Elise & Electra Avellan

From movies such as 'Machet' 'Planet Terror' 'Grindhouse' and 'Death Proff'

For more info: http://www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com/

Me and my facehugger will hopefully see you there.

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