Now in list format!

1. If you have not been to Castle Vardulon, I suggest you drop what you’re doing right now and make way to this little corner of the internet post haste! The one and only Count Vardulon is a rare treat in that not only does he cover horror movies and literature, he also writes incredibly long yet hysterical reviews of episodes of popular TV shows such as CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds. Thrown into the mix are his hilarious Saturday Night RapeWatch columns and the weekly AVOD, the internet’s only audio-only video podcast. Run in tandem with the lovely Dive Mistress, herself a shining beacon on the horror blogging community, the AVOD is a hilarious podcast no horror fan should go without. This past week they invited me as a special guest to discuss my time spent at Fantastic Fest. I won’t post it here, but you should definitely go HERE and check it out for yourself.

2. Head on over to Horror Squad, where we’re unveiling the 31 Fates Worse Than Death and other wonderful things.

3. I received a bunch of new comics in the mail, so God willing I’ll be throwin’ some reviews of them within the next week or so. Life always seems to get in the way of what I want to do.

4. Here’s a picture. Enjoy.

Director: Jake West
Year: 2009
Country: United Kingdom

A plethora of zombie films have saturated the horror film landscape for almost a decade, drawing the ire of those who simply want something more than the same ol’ same ol’ out of the walking dead. Every so often, however, we’re given a unique zombie film, be it outright horror or the increasingly popular zombie-comedy (”zom-com”), to satisfy our lust for originality. Sadly, many of these fail to get the recognition they deserve and as such, they tend to make the rounds at film festivals and gain popularity through word-of-mouth before ultimately being released to DVD without so much as a limited theatrical release. With luck, Jake West will buck the trend, as his splatter zom-com Doghouse is a triumph of horror-comedy that takes basic zombie tropes and turns them every which way. The result is one of the most inventive and gut-busting horror comedies to be released in years

(Read the rest of the review at HorrorSquad)

Director: George Romero
Year: 2009
Country: United States

The air was thick with anticipation for the North American premiere of Survival of the Dead, an event made all the more poignant by the appearance of George A. Romero himself. Given that his prior film, Diary of the Dead, was (in my opinion) a pathetic attempt at capitalizing on the cinema verite phenomenon and thus a giant middle finger to the horror fans, expectations for an improvement were low.

(Read the rest of the review at HorrorSquad)

Director: Orin Peli
Year: 2007/2009
Country: United States

When I was seventeen years old I saw a midnight screening of the The Blair Witch Project in Sarasota, Florida at a tiny indie theater downtown. After leaving the film I went home to a pitch-black, dead-silent house, terrified out of my mind. Although no doubt bolstered by my post-film living arrangements, much of the fear drawn from that film comes from the cinema verite style in which it is shot. Not only are the characters in the film, but you, the viewer are as well, acting as a part of the story by seeing the action unfold through their eyes. It is real horror, and it possesses all the elements to construct a truly terrifying story.

(Read the rest of the review at HorrorSquad)