Share your horror-related New Year’s resolution.

Jeff O’Brien

I hope to see Gore Gore Goremet Come to fruition. The script is the result of collaboration with two people that I would like to actually meet in real life. This is an easy one to wish for as it’s out of my hands now. On a more difficult note I’d like to produce and direct a ten minute film - horror of course. That’s my goal.

Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

I’d like to get around to seeing Hostel, Wolf Creek, Saw, maybe the Texas Chainsaw and Hills Have Eyes remakes–if I’m going to opine on the modern-day meat movie all the time, I might as well watch ‘em first.

Bill Cunningham - DISContent

It’s my goal to push our movie HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS’ THE GORE GORE GORE-MET into production. We had some bites this year which led me to think that we would be started already, but alas it hasn’t happened yet.

Other than that, there are a few other things I can’t speak about because we’re in negotiations…

Billy

My new years horror resolution is that I need to watch more of the classics. I’m kinda noobish when it comes to the “real” horror. I putter around and watch the stuff that looks interesting, but i’ve never taken the time to learn the roots of horror.

Stacie - Final Girl

Hmm. Well, I’ll definitely keep on keepin’ on at Final Girl…I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve. I think I do, anyway. On the creative side, I’ve got some various projects in the works which will hopefully be completed in the coming year, such as a longer-form stick-o-vision horror comic. A BIG resolution for me is to be more vocal on the horror blogosphere circuit…I tend to read alot of blogs and the such but I rarely comment. I love it when people leave feedback on Final Girl- it’s good to know there are people out there, and comments can lead to great conversation.What do I hope to quit? Hmm. Nothing…I loves me some horror movies!

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

Well, this last year I went for 100 Spaghetti Westerns. I hit 48, but it was fun trying.
This year I want to read at least a dozen books by Guy N. Smith, finish writing the adaptation of Lucker The Necrophagus (from the as yet unproduced but accepted screenplay) and at the very least get my co-written (and completed minus layouts) TOUGH TO KILL:Italian Action Films of the 80’s published somewhere.

Oh, and survive the incoming double load of diapers!! THAT is horror in the best sense.

Warren - 150 Days of Sodom

I wish I could say that I would be done with schooling by the end of next year, but I’ve got a few years to go. I’m eager to get started on a career, as awful as that sounds. Hopefully by next year I will not be living with my ex fiancé Hopefully by next year I will have a room to call my own - not shared. If I am in the same apartment, I sure hope that by then I will have repaired the damage done to the walls by my pets. I’d really like to take the bulk of my video and poster collection out of storage, and by storage I mean off of the balcony. I’d like to furnish my apartment.

The good news is that I got a lot done this year. I’m back in Hollywood where I want to be.

I know I will be making short films this year and by necessity they will be done before the year’s completion. I sure as hell hope to have a full editing setup at home pretty soon.

Casey - Cinema Fromage

My 2007 Horror Resolutions:

Actually manage to attend a Horror Con!

Finish a few random short stories that I have floating about.

Expand on an ‘Encyclopedia of Crappy Movies’ book idea that’s been brewing for a bit.

Actually getting around to recording and launching my Midnight Muenster podcast that I’ve been putting off for most of 2006

Complete my Hammer Horror collection.

Find my wife a kick ass Elvira costume. (who doesn’t need one of those for their wife?)

Stop having hopes for remakes

Expand my network of fellow horror bloggers! (I’ve already bugged a few of you!)

Declare my man-love for Peter Cushing!

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

I would like to finish at least one horror screenplay before the end of 2007. It’s all about baby steps at this point.

Here’s wishing everyone all the happiness they can possibly stand in the coming New Year! Rock out with your cock out!

“I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.”

Describe the best horror-related gift you’ve ever received.

Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

Insofar as reading them was literally a lifechanging experience, the gift I received from my parents of all six of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood paperbacks on Christmas during my sophomore year of high school probably takes the top spot.

Bill Cunningham - DISContent (in more ways than one)

I have never in my life received a horror-related Christmas gift… ever.

Bah humbug!

JA - My New Plaid Pants

I loved the 18-inch Michael Myers figure that my boyfriend got me a couple of years ago so much I played with him until his Stabbing Action! arm snapped right off. Sigh. At least I can still hear Jaime Lee’s whimpers and screams if I push the button on his back! Whimpers & screams = the bright side.

Doug Nagy

Dutch salt candy.

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

Wow, I can’t pick just one-so a few quick highlights The “Hard Mo Hand” appliance from Hardware is still on my top shelf after a number of years, a friend found a super cool Mattei poster for Violence In A Womens Prison from Spain that I adore, a good buddy of mine snagged me a mint Rats poster and had it signed by Richard Raymond, an awesome set of Franco autographs (the one sheet of Other Side of the Mirror signed by Jess and Lina and some Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein lobbies signed by Jess under a bunch of pseudonyms…), a soundtrack for A Virgin Among The Living Dead, an incredible set of original artwork of Yor, Hunter From The Future done by Neil Vokes… the list goes on and on.

My favorite horror related gift is the opportunity to meet and have a blast sharing the movies with a lot of the guys I met in various forums though. It is something I get every day!

Mark - Exclamation Mark’s SciFi/Horror Review

Last year at Christmas, my wife bought me the books Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes (SciFi and Horror Interviews) by Tom Weaver, and Keep Watching the Skies (American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties) by Bill Warren. I felt like a kid again!

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

One year my wife gave me a double dose of HG Lewis flicks alongside the SLEEPAWAY CAMP Box Set. That was a great Christmas.

Casey Criswell - Cinema Fromage

Just a couple of weeks ago, my wife gave me an early Christmas present in the form of Grave Robbers From Outer Space. Make your own b-movie plot while playing a card game? It was a natural fit.

Make sure you visit the blogs above for even more terror this holiday season. And hey, show a horror geek you care. Give them something wholly inappropriate and disturbing for the holidays.

Sorry for the brief absence. Unfortunately, it’s most likely going to extend through the next week or two, with the exception of The Horror Roundtable which will be appearing on Fridays as usual. Enjoy your hot chocolate, everyone!

The Christmas Story clip courtesy of Film Junk.

Which piece of writing, artwork or other creative output do you feel is your best of the past year?

Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

I’m proudest that I dragged myself to Kinko’s to print out a handful of copies of Darling Comics #0, a one-man anthology of the comic strips I’ve written over the past few years. Sure, all five strips are viewable online, and all this “issue” was was a xerox packet held together by binder clips, but seeing all five strips together in a package I can hold in my hands and flip through reminds me how proud I am of how they all turned out, which ultimately is all that matters to me.

A close second, though, is “Evil for Thee, Not Me,” my big post on the recent brutal-horror film cycle–none of which I’ve even seen yet, unless you count The Descent, which I wouldn’t. But even without viewing them I’ve found them so intriguing and thought-provoking, insofar as they (along with a year of amazingly productive psychotherapy) appear to have coaxed out of me my baseline views about horror, and therefore about art, and therefore about life.

Don May, Jr. - Synapse

That’s a tough question because we put out many releases throughout the year and, personally, I think all are great. But, the one title that we worked the longest on and, I fell, turned out better than we expected, was the STREET TRASH: 2-DVD MELTDOWN EDITION. It took years to put it all together and the amount of money and work we put into it was astounding. That particular release we at Synapse Films are extremely proud of. From the cover to the content, everything went together extremely well.

Bill Cunningham - DisContent

I happen to think that my and my partner’s work creating the key art for DEAD MARY is a good indicator of something of which I’m proud. It came together in a flash of inspiration and it was great working with everyone - they all had great feedback.

Curt - Groovy Age of Horror

It better be my novel, which I’m in the process of posting as we speak: Night Falls on a Fairy Tale.

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

For this past year, I would have to say, that I feel that screenplays that I am currently writing have been improved. Hopefully, by next year I can say that one of my films is the most creative output for 2007.

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

I would have to go with a post and a follow up. Reviewing Insurrection! was a lot of fun, especially since I stumbled upon it by accident. As if the book wasn’t bizarre enough, I was contacted by a family friend of the author and was really delighted to put some information online that I couldn’t find that talked about pulp author and journalist Dan Brennan and his wild life.

A fun read and review with a rewarding result.

Joakim - Mexploitation

There’s probably two things, my two longish original essays/ruminations on horror, Technology and Horror: Unfulfilled Potential , and with the followup part 2, about the role technology has played and perhaps should play in horror narratives, which got a good reception, and then a bit later, Horror Monomyth: Female Ghosts, Harbingers of Death, about parallels between Mexican folk tales and J-Horror staples, with some European folklore thrown in for good measure. It was less read and commented on, but I think I’m more happy with it.

Casey Criswell - Cinema Fromage

Since my site has only been around since October of 2005, it grew quite a bit this past year. I started by only posting generic links to IMdb entries for everything I was watching, but in 2006 I actually started writing about the films. My earlier reviews were a little rough, but in my mind the site’s turning point has to be my review of Hammer Studios’ The Vampire Lovers.

This particular review was the start of my long-winded rambling phase, which has continued to grow to this day! Was it this post that helped me realize I was capable of more than just short, opinionated nerd rants? Perhaps. Before I was inspired by Ingrid Pitt in her Vampire Lovers role (or something like that, you want to say which role you are referring to), I could easily knock out a review in five minutes. Now it takes me upwards of two to three hours to come up with something like this.

Maybe I should think of Ms. Pitt as a muse? I can live with that.

Thanks once again to all the contributors. Make sure you check out the best these madmen have to offer.

On a side note, my brother Gary just landed in Australia for an extended vacation, and he wrote me to let me know that he regrets not being able to contribute to the Roundtable this week. He told me that if he had, it would have been for the illustration that makes up the banner for this post. You can see the full thing at his portfolio site. Fuck, I love that drawing.

Top Story

“The Frankenstein monster I play is a baby. He’s big and ugly and scary, but he’s just been born, remember, and it’s been traumatic, and to him the whole world is a brand new alien environment. That’s how I’m playing it.” - Peter Boyle 1935 - 2006

Movies

Prom Night is the latest horror movie to get the remake greenlight. Can you imagine what it will be like twenty-five years from now when they mine all this material once again. We can tell our grandkids we were there for the Golden Age of Remakes and that they couldn’t possibly understand.

Check out the new, consistently updated giallo blog, Giallo Fever. Link courtesy of The Groovy Age of Horror.

Cinematical casts some doubts on the upcoming thriller Open Grave. I guess I’m easy, because they had me at “some dude who wakes up in the middle of the woods in a pit full of dead bodies with no idea who these people are, how they were killed and whether or not he was the one who caused their death”.

Twitch Film has the lowdown on Fish War. This is perhaps the greatest film never made.

DVD

Anchor Bay is gearing up new releases of Re-Animator and Phantasm on March 20th and April 10th, respectively. That Elite version of Re-Animator was pretty packed as it is. I can’t even imagine cramming more material in there.

Interviews

Skull Ring is really knocking out the reviews and interviews. A few days back they interviewed comic author Steve Niles, and there’s plenty more where that came from.

Lit

Bookgasm reviews Ladies’ Night, Jack Ketchum’s brutal little novel of girls gone wild. I picked it up at the Festival of Fear over the summer and highly recommend it for people with with less than delicate sensibilities.

Curt of The Groovy Age of Horror has posted the first chapter of his novel, Night Falls on a Fairy Tale.

Clip of the Day

Here’s some video footage of a Resident Evil game being played by a guy scared out of his mind. As funny as it is, part of me was cringing thinking of all the times I screamed out loud during the game. I’m sure at least a few other people could relate. Courtesy of Film Junk.

Not Horror

Criterion has a blog!

Check back tomorrow for the latest Roundtable, and have yourself a great weekend. And once again, if you have any news or promotional material you’d like to send my way, please email me at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

Movies

Oh, my. Bloody Disgusting has revealed the international poster for Hostel 2, and it’s repulsive. Don’t click the link if you’re still eating breakfast.

Gaming

The gaming crossover event of the year? Horrorclix spills over into their parent game as Marvel Zombies make a suprise appearance in Heroclix.

Clip of the Day

The trailer for slasher desconstruction Behind The Mask - The Rise of Leslie Vernon is making me regret missing the movie when it played at various film festivals over the past year.

Not Horror

Guillermo del Toro reveals that he would cast Bruce Campbell as the infamous Lobster Johnson if given the chance.

If you have any news or promotional material you’d like to send my way, please email me at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

Top Story

“I had a feeling that the world was coming to an end, which I still think it is, and was making fear-based decisions, which were getting me into worse situations. I wanted to write a soap based on fear and anxiety in L.A.” - Bret Easton Ellis

It appears that American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is developing a television series for Showtime called The Canyons.

Movies

Contact Music considers the poor taste inherent in showing Black Christmas during the holiday season, and as a bonus, ponders what type of person would actually watch a horror movie on Christmas.

Speaking of Black Christmas, Pop Matters explores the schizophrenic ouvre of one of my favourite directors, Bob Clark.

DVD

Criterion is releasing Monsters and Madmen, a four film box set which contains two Boris Karloff goodies and a pair of sci-fi treats. As a bonus, the covers for each disc and the box itself have been designed by comic artist Darwyn Cooke, and they’re worth the price of the set alone. Link courtesy of Comics212.

Fangoria has more on Sex Machine, including the details on a follow-up.

Interviews

Skull Ring speaks to Paul Sninchak of the International Order of Horror Professionals, a new, more inclusive guild for those who dabble in horror arts and entertainment.

Comics

The New York Times has a review of Charles Addams - A Cartoonist’s Life over at their site, in addition to the first chapter from the book.

Lit

The UK SF Book News Network speaks to author Paul Kane concerning his examination of the Hellraiser films.

Blogcritics offers up some gift ideas for the horror connoisseur in your life.

Contests

Louis Fowler has all sorts of goodies to give away. Don’t miss out on his Future Kill contest, and if you’re within receiving distance you can win one of his wicked new t-shirts via his radio show.

Clip of the Day

Mondo Schlocko presents “Bigfoot Stole My Six-Pack”, a music video directed by the Polonia Bros. I admit, I could only make it through 2/3rd before shutting it off.

Not Horror

Almost immediately after posting about Raimi’s involvement with various pulp heroes, news has leaked that the project can actually be narrowed down to just one of the characters.

The Australian compares the Canadian film industry with their own product, including a look at various genre selections. Though I think they meant the Elgin Theater in New York and not the one in Toronto.

If you have any news or promotional material you’d like to send my way, please email me at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

I’m playing around with the format of the blog for the next week. Please let me know what you think, either in the comments below or at steven@thehorrorblog.com. Thanks!

Movies

It seems that Cinepix co-founder John Dunning is being treated in the hospital after being hit by a car. Cinepix was one of the pillars of Canuxploitation, giving the world such classics as Ilsa the She-Wolf, My Bloody Valentine, Happy Birthday To Me and launching the careers of Ivan Reitman and David Cronenberg.

“”My D.P. Milan Chadima shot it, and he busted out lenses from the 1970’s! It was too fucking cool. I really want it to look like the trailer for THE PROWLER or MANIAC, and we shot it with the old school camera and lenses. Nobody shot with them in years, and Milan said the rental house dug them up out of the basement just for him.” - Eli Roth

Eli Roth describes his experience directing one of the fake trailers for the upcoming Grind House feature. Courtesy of Dread Central.

Mr. Skin has announced the Top Ten cinematic nude scenes of 2006 and Barbara Nedeljakova makes the cut at #6 with her performance in Hostel.

Some Reach For The Top nerds have challenged Uwe Boll to a battle of the minds. Someone should tell them he’s a PhD.

The Toronto Star submits an article on the rise of gore in the movies, tying it in with the holiday season. It’s a surprisingly thoughtful and level-headed look at the history of gore.

Interviews

“A Little League baseball coach when he’s not spending his time master- minding sadistic ways to torture and kill his victims, Bell has given away a few of the scary Jigsaw clown masks to kids for them to use on Halloween.” - Tobin Bell

I’m not the biggest Saw fan, but based on his interviews I can dig star Tobin Bell.

Cinematical speaks with Crispin Glover about his highly disturbing film, What Is It?

Comics

David Z. posts yet another great horror comic, this one involving a sinister nurse and a bad case of the plague.

The latest issue of The Walking Dead sells out in less than 24-hours. While so many comics decline in readership over time, it’s refreshing to see one continue to gain support.

Matt Maxwell of Dark, But Shining ponders why comics don’t scare him, then describes a comic that scares him.

Lit

The further I read into the synopsis of Jack Ketchum’s latest novel, the more I realized just which crime he was inspired by, and it really creeped me out. I’m surprised there hasn’t been an uproar here in Ontario yet.

While at work I’ve been taking short breaks and indulging in a little flash fiction writing, that is, stories that come in under a very small word count. Now it appears that someone has opened an archive for horror flash ficiton at MicroHorror. Take a look, or submit your own. All stories must be under 666 words to be eligible. Link courtesy of Slash.

Misc. Horror

Now that’s just creeping me out

I have absolutely no interest in tattoos, but this Monster Engine design floors me. Thanks to J. for the head’s up.

The Gizmo Cafe Blog would like you to substitute ‘RIAA’ with the words ‘Brain eating zombies’ at every possible opportunity.

Not Horror

I’m still laughing over this post from I Spit On Your Movie.

The Movie Blog is organizing a film festival in Hamilton on January 20th for a local food bank. One of the films being shown is Shaun of the Dead, and our own Horror Roundtable contributor Doug Nagy will be doing stand-up at the show.

Sam Raimi may tackle classic pulp heroes after he’s through with Spider-man.

If you have any news or promotional material you’d like to send my way, please email me at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

SEX MACHINE “bootleg” trailer

Bow chika wow wouw. Horror Roundtable Direct-To-DVD specialist Bill Cunningham has directed his considerable pulp prowess towards promoting a little film called Sex Machine. From the press release.

Sex Machine , which takes its name from a mysterious tattoo on the hero’s arm is the gripping story of a man who wakes up in the middle of a gangland hit to discover that his limbs are not his own. Frank is a tough-talking patchwork assassin, stitched together from the body parts of other failed assassins. When Frank learns that his ex-girlfriend is the next test subject, he opens both barrels on his “creators” and unleashes a gory bloodbath of revenge.

Add to that some mad science, strip clubs and a mystery man with a bandaged face, and how could you possibly go wrong?

Describe your least favourite horror-related experience of 2006.

Bill Cunningham - DisContent

My least favorite horror experience was my recent trip to the video store where there was a GLUT of crappy product on the shelves. You have to admire the marketing power behind these shot-on-crappy-video flicks, but there has to be more originality and verve and craft in the market than this.

This is the same thing that drove a stake through the Urban market several years ago and it barely recovered (if it ever did). To the distributors I say, “Don’t buy up everything to corner the market.” To the filmmakers I say, “Stop. Relax. Breathe. Ask yourself if this is a movie you want to see. If it isn’t, flush it and go make the movie you would pay money to see at the theater. Also, pick up a film book or twenty and learn your job.”

Paul Corupe - Canuxploitation

I know it has its fans, but my least favourite horror experience of the year was Silent Hill. Despite an admittedly spooky atmosphere and occasionally interesting CGI work, Silent Hill is the perfect example of the disturbing trend (to me at least) of horror audiences far more concerned with the richness of visuals than the basic concepts of cohesive storytelling or character development. Suffering through pain-inducing dialogue, uncharismatic performances, and a frequently nonsensical plot that felt like the video game’s FAQ (take item A, proceed to room B, fight monster C), I spent the last half hour trying to poke my eyes out with an empty Glosette peanut box.

Gary Wintle

The Descent.

I feel bad for saying it, I really do! I just had problems following it and the hype I heard about it before seeing it must have really raised my expectations. There was certainly some cool scenes and I even had the pleasure of watching the original crazy ending, I dunno, it just didn’t do it for me. I went in expecting to finally watch a movie that could legitimately make my cold, black heart jump a few beats, but left wanting..more I guess. The inter-character stuff was a lot more fleshed out than most though, so props for that! Not to say this is a horrible movie or anything, but the expectation must have bunged it up for me. And I felt the same thing about Hostel too! Go figure. More gore!!!

Oh, and Saw III was just awful, but that`s a given. Needs dinosaurs or something.

T. Van - Tolerated Vandalism

My least favourite horror experience of 2006 would have to go to When A Stranger Calls. Why did I even bother with this piece of trash? I’m still asking myself that question. This is easily one of the lamest entries into the genre I’ve seen in a long time. I really wasn’t expecting much and this movie didn’t deliver. “Have you checked the children?” the killer asked. I was kind of hoping that when she finally did the kids would be did and the movie would be over. Instead we were subjected to hearing the goddamn phone ring every 30 seconds while the dumb chick who played the babysitter looked perplexed. As if watching the movie itself wasn’t bad enough, I tortured myself by viewing the Bonus Features on the DVD.

Tim - Mondo Schlocko

My least favorite experience was watching AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, the film had a great beginning, but such huge let down of a ending. If I had known that the director behind it was the same from the film version of DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS, I would have never watched it.

Rod Lott - Bookgasm

That’s too easy: A little something called STAY ALIVE. A movie so bad I never want to play a post-Pong video game or watch MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE ever again. Even if you had told me Sophia Bush would get naked in the final frames, I still wouldn’t have been able to finish it.

Runner-up: A werewolf novel called WOLF’S TRAP by W.D. Gagliani, which spends too much time devoting paragraphs describing the author’s favorite prog-rock solos instead of developing a story.

JA - My New Plaid Pants

I’m sorry to say the Evil Dead musical is all that’s springing to mind. I feel guilty in retrospect for harshing on it so in my review - it just wants to make you smile! - but man it pained me, like, physically so.

Mark - Exclamation Mark’s SciFi/Horror Review

I found myself sadly disappointed when I rushed to the theater to watch An American Haunting. With such a strong cast and fascinating history, I allowed my hopes to soar far too high. So the let down I felt at the film’s conclusion ranks as my least favorite horror-related experience of 2006.

Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat

After all the hype, the lone Masters of Horror installment I managed to watch, John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns, was a massive letdown. And that’s supposed to be one of the better ones!

Louis Fowler

Least favorite…geez, where do I start? When a Stranger Calls, The Return, The Omen, Underworld: Evolution, The Grudge 2, Stay Alive, The Covenant, Pulse, Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector…and that’s not even counting the straight-to-video junk.

Thank God I get paid to watch this shit, or else I would have not only killed others, but myself for wasting so much of my life.

Red Hawk - Happy Horror

It’s a little hard to think of something horror-related that disappointed me this past year. I enjoy just about everything that I’ve seen, so I have an unusual barometer in these things. However, if hard-pressed for an answer, there’s one thing that actually stands out in my mind, now that I think about it: the original sequel to the original Ringu movie, Rasen. While Ringu was rather slow and methodical, as alot of Japanese horror tends to be, Rasen made it seem like it was moving at high speeds. I was expecting more from it when I picked up the Ringu Anthology of Terror. Luckily, the other three movies in the set more than made up for it.

Casey Criswell - Cinema Fromage

My biggest disappointment of 2006 would have to be Pulse.

With promises of a dark and gritty apocalypse, the lovely Kristen Bell and decent looking trailers, I really had high hopes for this one. What I got was a boring, jumbled mess, with a plot that jumped around so fast it was hard to keep up.

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

Not having enough hours to see everything I own. My “too be (watched, read, played, written) piles” are HUGE!!

Thanks to all the vicious hate-mongers who contributed to this week’s Roundtable. Visit their respective sites for even more venomous bile. And while we’ve got you, please feel free to rant about your own awful experiences in the comments below.

Sorry I haven’t been posting as much as usual. I’m taking a small break from horror to kick back and read some crime novels. I’m sure I’ll be back at it like gangbusters next week, and remember, there’s always The Horror Roundtable tomorrow. Until then, here’s a car commercial my friend worked on for an advertising agency in Germany. It’s not horror, but it is damn cool.

This week the gang discusses the possibility of a Swedish Underwater Nazi Zombie conspiracy, as well as Rony’s expertise as the world’s greatest zombie hunter.

Download the magic here.

Sean T. Collins delivers the monster music goodness once again, this time with the video for Menomena’s song Cough Coughing. The video showcases a trashquatch Santa Claus wreaking havoc through suburbia. The narrative matches the editing of the video so closely you’d think the song was created for the visuals, and not vice versa.

We have a winner!

With an enormous 82% win over The Blair Witch and Ghoulies, The Blind Dead have come out on top of The Horror Blog Monster Rally. When asked to comment on their win, a representative for the Blind Dead replied, “What the fuck is this? The Stanley Cup?” No, it’s actually a miniature replica of the Stanley Cup. Enjoy!

Thanks to all the Roundtable participants who suggested combatants for the Rally, particularly David Z. who provided us with The Blind Dead, thereby proving his superiority over all others. Make sure you read David’s homage to the undead Templars, Ascension of the Blind Dead.

And while I was the only person to successfully predict that The Blind Dead would sweep the competition, John B. came closest of the contestants in the Monster Rally Office Pool with his guess of Pinhead. John has won a copy of LovecraCked - The Movie, a DVD compilation of Lovecraftian shorts courtesy of Biff Juggernaut, and a copy of My Dead Girlfriend, the latest film by Brett Kelly and one of my favourite films of the year, from Tempe Video.

Thanks to everyone who voted. Let’s never speak of this again.