John Dies At The End

At last, the new movie from Don Coscarelli of Phantasm fame! I'm guessing it may go straight to DVD in the UK, but from the trailer it certainly looks worth a punt. Let's hope it lives up to 'Bubba Ho-Tep', the 'Phantasm' quadrilogy and the amazing 'Kenny & Co.'

Monday 11th February 2013

Horsemeat warning

Following the decision by supermarkets such as Lidl, Aldi and Tesco, and food producer Findus to withdraw certain beef products such as burgers and lasagna due to them containing up to 100% horsemeat instead of beef - consumers are now being advised to check all frozen vegetarian products for traces of uniquorn!

Monday 11th February 2013

Doctor Who in crochet!

I saw this on a Dr Who fan website and must say well done to Allison Hoffman of Texas for making all 11 incarnations of the Doctor plus his TARDIS.

Wednesday 6th February 2013

Clive Barker's Jump Tribe

Here's something for the Clive Barker fans out there... Back in 2005 there was an intial launch of Jump Tribe. Each box contained a plush toy with an accompanying book with a short story related to the plush character. I picked up one from Forbidden Planet in London which had come from the 2005 San Diego Comic Convention and kept looking out for more but they didn't materialise. I subsequently found out that 4 characters were made out of a possible 240 designs. The books with each story were a separate tale but could link together. Anyway after finding out these were hard to track down I looked on ebay last year and there all 4 were - Yaboo, Kungu Nah, Twoth & Billum - 3 good guys and one baddie!

I guess the best conceptual description of the books would be 'Clive Barker does the Mr Men' in that there would be a whole pantheon of bizarre creatures to collect - although the stories are aimed at a higher reading level, have a really inventive otherworldy concept one would expect from Clive Barker, and feature an alphabet which the reader can decode much like Tolkein's runes in The Hobbit. It's just a shame that the presumably children's fiction series didn't take off, but then I recall reading in an interview that selling a plush 'larvae' in a toy shop may have a somewhat limited appeal! One can only hope that one day more of the Jump Tribe will appear and their story will continue...

Anyway when I looked today there were some very reasonably priced on ebay so catch them while you can.

Monday 21st January 2013

Mars Attacks!

Just finished reading one of my Christmas presents - the excellent book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mars Attacks Topps trading cards which shows all 55 cards from the 1962 series plus the 32 cards from the rarer 1994 set, as well as lots of other related designs and artwork. This book is well worth the money (£12.99 RRP in the UK). The hardest dilemma you'll face is whether to open the pack of exclusive 4 cards at the back of the book!

I decided not to but found the images on line, so you can enjoy them without devaluing your book!

So sadly no controversial 'Destroying a dog' card in this set of 4!

Thursday 3rd January 2013

New Year's Resolutions

Well, I don't normally make any, but after expecting a harvest of a few hundred Kentish cobnuts from my garden and actually harvesting only 6, I feel it is time to declare war on the squirrel population in the area and be thinking ahead to my summer barbeques! Hat's off to this 'Motel Hell' film image!

...oh and I must be nicer to Uncle Julian!

Tuesday 1st January 2013

Christopher Lee's Heavy Metal Christmas

Oh dear! This one seemed to pass me by until I was researching names to put on my 2013 Death List. And what a bad omen too.

Before Peter Cushing died an attrocious anti-drug rap record he did the vocals for called 'No White Lines' was released, and now whith a voice more suited to opera, Mr Lee releases heavy metal versions of two carols. I did contemplate whether to buy the mp3 files off of amazon... but when I heard the samples, sanity was restored and my credit card stayed in my wallet.

As a fan of Christopher Lee's work, all I can say is... why???

Friday 28th December 2012

Seasons Greetings

Well I can't claim to have sourced this image myself as it was on a Christmas card I received... but anyway, Merry Christmas.

Tuesday 18th December 2012

The season of goodwill to all... except kids who get a visit from The Krampus!

Well it's Christmas time again and to get me into the spirit I watched the excellent Dutch horror movie 'Sint' which is not surprisingly about Saint Nicholas and the Black Peters who kidnap naughty kids to take them back to Spain to be sold in slavery... oh if only reality mirrored the movies!

Anyway on a similar vein, here's some Krampus images to really give you some Christmas good cheer!

Monday 17th December 2012

Pumpkin Pie candle

It's getting quiet this time of year for Halloween or pumpkin produce and it'll soon be that time of year where we have to be pleasant to those we can't stand.

Anyway TKMaxx had another scented candle which smells nice when you take the lid off but doesn't really do much when you light it! I think I'll stick with the Yankee Candle company candles in future.

Friday 14th December 2012