Tuesday Trailer - Halloween Throwback Edition!

Since it IS Halloween week, I figure I might as well put up some old trailers for some horror goodies you might have missed (most i've seen but some I have to see after watching the trailers.) Check these out, put 'em on your netflix queue, and get ready for some phenomenal scares!

Event Horizon

Halloween (original)

Rosemary's Baby

The Exorcist

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)

The Ring

more to come!

Monster Mash!

I don't know how i've waited so long to listen to this song this season! Guess that what happens when you're overly preoccupied. Here you have the original and a cover as well. Let's do the Monster Mash! It was a grave yard smash, after all!

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Cryptkickers

The Mistfits cover

Puttin' On The Ritz!

I've been slacking in my Halloween-related posts. Here's a clip from one of my all-time favorite not-so-scary Halloween films, Young Frankenstein:

Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder are magic in this film. So, so good.

An Ode To Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice was by far one of my favorite movies growing up. It's a little bit 80s and a little bit goth and a whole lot of Michael Keaton doing his best comedic performance ever. What little girl DIDN'T want to be the faux-depressed pale-face teen, Lydia Deetz? Alex Baldwin was still young and had his looks and was without the gut. Geena David was entertaining as all hell, especially when she has a zipper for a mouth. It's got the principal from Ferris Bueller. Lots of awesome sing-a-longs. Crazy sandworms. Plenty of crass provided by Mr. Keaton. Hell... What

more do you need? Add some Tim Burton (meaning lots and LOTS of black and white striped anything and of course, the illustrious Danny Elfman) and you got yourself one of the best movies of all time. It was so great, in fact, that it was made in to an awesome cartoon some years later, although it was a bit confusing since Beetlejuice and Lydia are friends in the cartoon along with some other crazy looking characters, and Adam and Barbara (Baldwin and Davis) are nowhere to be found. It was still plenty of fun to watch, tho!

Take a look at why I love this film (and cartoon) so damn much:

Meet Beetlejuice!

Shake Senora!

Day-O Song by Harry Belafonte

Beetlejuice TV Show Intro

"Make my millenium!"

Raccoons Love Jack-O-Lanterns!

CuteOverload had a Halloween themed pic up. Just thought i'd share. :)

I Put A Spell On You...

One of my favorite Halloween-related songs (well, witch-related, so close enough) has been done and re-done by so many artists. Here's a few of my favorite versions:

Screamin Jay Hawkins

Marilyn Manson

from the movie Hocus Pocus

The Animals

Nina Simone

Happy First Day of October! - The Asylum Eclectica

In honor of the start of the month of October, I'm here to bring to you some Halloween goodness every day (or almost every day) until that wonderful All Hallows Eve comes around again! Very excited about it this year (as I am every year.) To kick things off, i'd like to let you know about one of my favorite websites, good all year round but even more so in October.

I first discovered the Morbid Fact du Jour in the late 1990s and subscribed to the mailing list. Every day, I would thus receive an interesting and exceptionally morbid tidbit to ponder throughout the day. Over the years, The Comtesse DeSpair eventually branches away from having just a mailing list and created this interactive website of fun - The Asylum Eclectica, complete with Dark and Gruesome Links, My Brush With Morbidity, and one of my personal faves - Malady of the Month. I confess that I hadn't visited the website in quite a while and now I see she also has a blog up and has even joined the ranks of MySpace, Facebook, and even Twitter! If there's ever been a person that could change with the times, it's the horrifying Comtesse! If you're a fan of Halloween or of morbid-related things, do yourself a favor and check this website out. It seriously has everything (and if it doesn't, it has a link to it!) Support the Comtesse and the Asylum Eclectica! Happy First Day of All Hallows!

The Start of The Halloween Season?

Dead Man's Bones Hypnotism from biz3 publicity on Vimeo.

I'm a huge, huge, HUGE fan of the holidays. I go all out for all the Fall holidays (and I try to do as much as I can with the rest of the years' holidays as well - including St. Pattys, Easter, Bastille Day, Cinco de Mayo, etc.) Seeing as it's mid-September, it seems only appropriate to begin the Halloween season! To kick things off, NPR just put a song by the band Dead Man's Bones (the joint creation of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields) entitled 'My Body's a Zombie For You,' and let me tell you - it is all kinds of Halloweentastic (yes, I realize this makes me an uber-nerd)!

Upon further research, i've also discovered that the band is planning a tour starting next month! And to make them even cooler, the opening acts will be a talent show featuring local talent from every city they're at! These guys have seriously gained my total respect. Zombies? Halloween? and Talent Show? Sweet mother of jesus! Do yourselves a favor, go listen to the song, and then start bringing out your dusty Halloween decor like i'll be doing this weekend and get ready for the kick off to the best of the holiday season!

Trick 'r Treat! Finally!

I've been (rather impatiently) waiting for the arrival of the film Trick 'r Treat for about 2 or so years now, to no avail. It was supposed to be released 2 Halloweens ago. Then they said they couldn't find a distributor, but Halloween 2008 for sure! Then they said maybe it would be released on DVD for 2008, but no such luck. Can it be true? Will they FINALLY be releasing this mysterious Halloween tale from the shackles of ...wherever the hell it is that they keep unreleased movies?! Well that's what horror fan blogs are saying and I for one am secretly excited (outwardly, I'll pretend not to care in case of disappointment when they don't release it for the umpteenth time.) I'm a pretty big fan of all things holiday, and especially of all things Halloween. When I first saw the trailer, I was in awe. Finally, a REAL Halloween film for our generation! Not this Saw 1, 2, 3, 75, etc crap that we keep getting. But rather a film that really puts you in the thick of the holiday, the way the original John Carpenters' Halloween did over 30 years ago (alright, maybe not THAT good, but possibly still up there!) It's got everything you need for a great All Hallow's flick: costumes, candy, jack-o-lanterns, and a really creepy looking little serial killer type monster thing. So what have they been waiting for? You know it's going to make money if they put it in the theaters. My only fear is that the only good parts of the film have been shown in the trailer, but who knows. However, to tide us over for now, apparently 9 minutes of the film were included in the recent blu-ray release of Friday the 13th and they've finally leaked it to the very anxious internet world.

I warn you, it seems to be a tad spoilerish, but then again who knows. Either way, i've been waiting years for this so I figured I might as well watch before they take it down and I have to wait another 3 years for another 10 minute glimpse. 

Check it out here.. before it's too late!

And in additional Trick 'r Treat news, apparently they're going to be releasing a graphic novel by the same name around the time of the release (tentatively October 2009.) The first few pages they scanned up to the site look pretty sweet. I will certainly be purchasing that little as well.