Puttin’ On The Ritz
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.