Before Plan 9: Plans 1-8 From Outer Space cover
Words fail me. It’s beautiful. The Nazi Gorilla Shark monster is my creation. Seeing it so wonderfully rendered is a huge boost to my already titanic ego. When Before Plan 9: Plans 1-8 From Outer Space is released I will be pimping the heck out of it. In the interim, expect more updates on this and other projects.
Before Plan 9: Plans 1-8 From Outer Space
Hey, why haven’t there been any articles posted on this blog for so long? Where has Captain Midnight been? What is he doing? How may licks are in a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop? The answers: I’ve been busy with other horror related projects which will be either released this year or early next year. I am still at Midnight Manor which I have been redecorating with Godzilla murals and King Kong posters. There are three licks in a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop (source: Mr. Owl).
What I want to share with you today, Mom, is a link to Twin Star Media’s MyFace page. Why? Wellllllll, for starters, they are publishing an anthology called Before Plan 9: Plans 1-8 From Outer Space, which is based on the film by the late, great Edward Wood jr. Yeah, it’s a fab idea, isn’t it? Even more fab is that it includes a short story written by me. I know! It also includes writers you’ve actually heard of: Jonathan Maberry, Joe McKinney, Michael McCarty, Craig DiLouie, Patrick D’Orazio, David Dunwoody, Tonia Brown, Greg Carter and D.A. Chaney.
Here is what you need to do: Go www.facebook.com/TwinStarMedia hit the “Like” button for Twin Star Media. Once there are one hundred “likes”, Tony Schaab will post an exclusive preview of the book’s totally bitchin’ cover on the MyFace page.
What of the cover? Insanely cool? Yes! I’ve seen the cover and I’ll tell you what, I have been peeing myself with excitement all afternoon.
Top 100 Horror Films
Yeah, the internet LOVES lists, so I made one : Captain Midnight’s Top 100 Horror Films. The criteria? I ranked them according to importance to the genre, how much I personally like them, and re-watchability. Feel free to correct me, argue and nominate your own suggestions. Read the rest of this entry »
Island of Lost Souls News
Island of Lost Souls (1932) has been out of print for years and has never received a good dvd release; an intolerable state of affairs given that the films star the legendary Charles Laughton as the deliciously evil Dr. Moreau. If that wasn’t enough, the always emotive Bela Lugosi has a small but intense little bit as the Sayer of the Law, Arthur Hohl as Montgomery and Kathleen Burke as Lota the lovely Panther woman. Any movie with a panther woman is total gold.
Criterion aims to remedy the situation by releasing a restored version of this excellent film on October 25, 2011. Here are the features:
New high-definition digital restoration of the uncut theatrical version (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Audio commentary by film historian Gregory Mank, author of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff and Hollywood’s Maddest Doctors
New video conversation among filmmaker John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London, Videodrome), and genre expert Bob Burns
New interviews with horror film historian David J. Skal (The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror); filmmaker Richard Stanley (Hardware, original director of the ill-fated 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau)
New interviews with Devo founding members Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh, whose manifesto is rooted in themes from Island of Lost Souls Theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Christine Smallwood
Go here to Pre-Order from Criterion or here to get dibs at Amazon or here at Barnes & Noble
Horror-O-Scope: July 1-14
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Paashaat
There are times when I watch movies and afterwards wonder just what it was that I watched. This can be good or bad, depending on the fun level of the movie. Paashaat is one of those WTF films. Set in the carrot growing region of Orange – a place where Easter bunnies roam free, building nests and hatching the next generation of bunnies from colorful eggs – where the De Vries family has grown carrots for generations, we find that all is not well. The carrot harvest is failing; a failing carrot harvest, as we are told, is a life or death issue.
The Creeping Flesh
As a kid I had a magazine called Vincent Price’s Silver Screen Horror. It was a cheap one-off ‘zine printed on newsprint. The cover was a garage band flier quality hodgepodge of images from classic monster movies set against a nauseating yellow background. I loved that magazine with an attachment bordering on lunacy. For a year (which is a very long time for a small child) I carried that magazine with everywhere I went. Any time I had a free moment I would open it up and carefully study the black and white pictures within and imagine stories to go with the horrors captured on the pages.
