DOOMSDAY

Yep, this webmaster is working on some more websites. Good stuff. The common design is a dark background.

Been watching movies. Monster Zero (1965), Things (1989). I’ll probably watch Dawn of the Dead (1978) soon.

I’d like to do reviews for Grindhouse (region 2 disc), Nightmare City (aka City of the Walking Dead, 1980), and more. I have to get the new sites off the ground first.

This is an awesome movie! It’s recommended to anyone who is a fan of drive-in era horror films. Good stuff - fake trailers, and more! The two main features are Planet Terror (directed by Robert Rodriguez) and Death Proof (directed by Quentin Tarantino).

I’ll be reviewing it soon!

Too bad there aren’t that many drive-ins anymore. Some of them ran all-night marathons of horror and action films. With Monsters HD gone, it’s up to fans to created their own all-night horror marathons.

A highly recommended film is Grindhouse (2007). Back-to-back movies with fake trailers between them is a real treat.

I’d love to do some reviews, like for Classic Media’s Monster Zero and Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster.

Friday the 13th comes out in a few weeks, and it looks interesting. This reviewer read that it is a remake of what amounts to the first four movies. In any case, I’ll be waiting for the DVD.

This reviewer may have made it known in the past that he has a preference as to what type of audio commentary is more favorable when accompanying a DVD presentation of a film. This reviewer, at one time, enjoyed running audio commentaries by the actual film director, possibly with a producer or writer.

However, these Classic Media DVDs of the Godzilla movies are opening up a whole new perspective as highly-informed historians bring forth a great wealth of information on the films they comment on.

Monsters HD is gone. The channel that had been made for horror fans has been off the air since yesterday.

It had been expected for a long time, but it was announced last month that all of the VOOM HD channels were to stop operations in the last remaining area of broadcast, the tri-state area.

Monsters HD seemed to have cut off around 1AM Tuesday morning.

Well, I’m not really snowed in, but I’ll be shoveling over the course of the day!

I’m watching a marathon of Godzilla Vs. Mothra, Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster and Monster Zero!

These are all fantastic movies, and used to show up fairly often on New York’s Channel 11 (and later on TNT for MonsterVision).

Reminiscence of the old January Fango convention VHS roundup continues…..

1998 had just begun weeks before. The following day was the Fangoria convention. Staying at his girlfriend’s house before heading to the train station the next morning, this reviewer was only supplied with a newly-acquired Triboro VHS of the unrated version of Andy Warhol’s Dracula (aka Blood for Dracula, 1974). The night was long.

This reviewer arrived around 11AM in the morning. This first Fango con was overwhelming. Meeting the great director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, 1968; Dawn of the Dead, 1978), special “splatter” effects master Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th), and “El Hombre Lobo” himself - Paul Naschy, was a lot to absorb. However, the fact that hundreds of movies that would ordinarily be out of reach for this webmaster were plentiful - and for easy selection - was almost too much for the wallet to bear. Oasis of the Zombies (1982) was a quick ten dollar purchase.

This reviewer is starting the “zany horror movies bought at January’s Fango convention on VHS roundup.”

One of the first experiences this webmaster had at a Fangoria convention (aka Weekend of Horrors, put together by Creation Entertainment) was at a table where a guy was selling rare, widescreen VHS versions of Italian horror films, taken from Japanese sources. A film this reviewer wanted badly was Doctor Butcher, MD (Medical Deviate, aka Zombi Holocaust). The person selling the tapes cued up the tape and played the over-the-top trailer.

To say that this reviewer immediately bought the film would be all-too-simply put. The incredible voice-over by the legendary actor, Adolf Caesar (who could easily be mistaken for voice-over master Don LaFontaine) gave the film even more credibility…..

The following trailer is pretty gory…..

Continuing on with the “wine list” of horror films, there are other films that seem to work well for colder days, mainly the days where it is unnecessary to go outside. These films include engaging supernatural gore epics such as Hellraiser (1987) and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988). Other genre films include the classic Italian zombie films by Lucio Fulci; these include Zombi 2 (aka Zombie, 1979), City of the Living Dead (aka The Gates of Hell, 1980), and House by the Cemetery (1981).

A couple of black and white horrors that will definitely make a viewer’s cold, cloudy afternoon include Horror Hotel (aka City of the Dead, 1960) and Nightmare Castle (1965).