We have to give a thanks to both Scott from The Scarehouse and also Neat O Rama for this one.
If you love horror and The Shining then you will want to decorate your walls with this one. The Shining Cuckoo Clock
Created by Chris Domino, this clock has Jack Nicholson’s head poking through the door every hour on the hour. You gotta LOVE THAT! It is also followed by him saying “Here’s Johnny!” Then Shelly Duval screams.
The Shining Cuckoo Clock by Chris Domino
Greetings Deadites,
It’s time for the next installment of Reading Between the Pages. In this segment, I’ll be looking at Jim Butcher’s Proven Guilty.
The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Copperfield Blackstone Dresden as a warden in Chicago. A warden is like the non-magical version of a police officer, and Harry takes his job very seriously.
This story opens with an execution or should I say a beheading of a warlock who has broken one of the laws of magic; the use of black magic and enforcing his will on others. The White Council gathers in an abandon warehouse in Chicago to carry out its sentence upon the seventeen-year-old Korean. And for Harry, he’s life is about to be thrown into chaos when he is asked to investigate the use of black magic in the Windy City.
If things weren’t complicated enough, Harry receives a midnight call from Molly Carpenter, the oldest daughter of Harry’s close friend Michael Carpenter. She calls Harry and asks if he will bail her out of jail which turns out to be a ruse. Upon his arrival at the police station, Harry discovers it’s Molly’s boyfriend, Nelson, that has been arrested. But it’s all in a day’s work for the wizard, his faithful dog and a talking skull named Bob.
I enjoy Proven Guilty by Mr. Butcher. It is part of his Dresden file series which I like to think of as Die Hard meets Harry Potter but with fewer explosions and car chases. What I especially like about the books is that even though Harry is a wizard, he struggles with his finances, his magic and his relationships. All these things give him human characteristics that the reader can relate to.
Next time, I’ll be looking at David Wellington’s Frostbite. Even though there’s been a lot of hoopla about werewolves lately, this is a tale with a very different twist. I’ve also got something special planned for the near future but for now, sit back, relax and rot away.
We all remember Dream a Little Dream, License to Drive and most of all The Lost Boys, one of the best Vampire films of my generation. And with that came the two Coreys. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. The duo made pop culture history in the 1980s with screaming girls and fun slapstick films.
As of today the 1980s child star Corey Haim has been found dead in Los Angeles. He was a mere 38 years old. The Los Angeles coroner’s office said that Haim died Wednesday morning at the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and they are awaiting an autopsy for cause of death. Although rumors have been tossed around that it may have been a possible drug overdose.
Haim began his acting career in 1984 with the film “Firstborn” and then moved on to some of his most famous roles in “Lucas” and “The Lost Boys”. Once drugs entered the scene of his career it pretty much tanked it. And in the recent years with 80s making a nostaliga comeback, he was in some lower budget films and in the popular television series “The Two Coreys,” again with Corey Feldman.
Corey Haim & Corey Feldman
The show lasted two seasons and Feldman declined to do another due to Haim’s drug use.
Haim was currently working on a comeback to his career with films currently in production that also starred Mischa Barton in “The Science of Cool” and “The Dead Sea”.
Overall, Haim will be lost forever to Hollywood’s often childhood tragedies and us fans can remember him as part of the Lost Boys Team.
R.I.P. Corey Haim: 1971-2010.
Greeting all you Deadites, it’s time for the next installment of what I like to call Reading Between the Pages.
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book reader Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s harsh and hurtful parting words. He buys an e-book reader and soon finds he can use the device to glimpse realities he never imagined and discovers literary riches beyond his wildest dreams…and all-too-human tragedies that surpass his worst nightmare. This is the plot summary for Stephen King’s latest work UR.
I love Stephen King’s work. He has a way of taking an object we take for granted, gives it life and then twist the realities in which it lives. The latest device is an Amazon Kindle. He has also done this with cell phones in Cell and stationary bikes in Stationary Bike. The last two I will reserve talking about later.
So for now let’s focus on the Kindle. But before I get back to the book, let me give you a brief history on my relationship with the writer.
I think it started when I read Misery. I was in college and had just finished mid-term exams. I went to the bookstore looking for something to occupy my time until classes resumed. I picked up the paperback not realizing it would lead to a 2 day marathon session. From the time I cracked the spine, I was riveted and barely took time to eat, drink or use the restroom. And in the two days it took to finish the book, I think I got about three hours of sleep.
Prior to reading Misery, I had read a couple of other books by Mr. King but for whatever reason, I wasn’t impressed. After I finished Misery and my breathing returned to a normal gate, I went back to the store and picked up a couple more books written before Misery. As before, I found myself in another marathon session as I consumed the words within the books as if they were food satisfying a wolfish appetite. Since that fateful day when I innocently walked into the bookstore looking for something to kill time, I have been a huge fan of Stephen King…maybe his number one fan.
UR is no different than Misery. As before, I was hooked before I could put a really good crack in the spine. I immediately liked Wesley Smith, the English instructor, and thought of some of the professors I had when in college. He is a likable nerdy guy who has enough social skills to relate to his students but seems a little retarded in other social scenes. Hell, I could have dated this guy….and have.
When Wesley receives his Kindle, I found myself smiling and grimacing as he fumbles with unfamiliar technology. I have found myself in numerous situations trying to help friends and family set up devices that are foreign to them. My parents spent six months doing nothing but playing solitaire before they learned how to use Windows XP. But when Wesley discovers the urs, my breathing sped up as if I were in a foot race, my mind flashed back to my college days and I read faster and faster before I finally reached the end, slammed the book shut and thought about calling the paramedics because heart was hammering so hard I thought it might burst through my shirt.
*Pause*breathe*relax*
UR is a suspenseful and horrific story about possibilities, alternate realities and trendy technology. It awakens the imagination to wonder what you would do if you had the knowledge and power to stop a catastrophic event. And if the catastrophe was thwarted, would you suffer the ramifications of stopping it?
I definitely recommend UR. While it’s not the same type of horror/suspense as Misery, Pet Cemetery or The Shinning, it will leave you breathless and make the hair on the back of your neck stand at attention.
Next time, I will be switching gears and looking at Jim Butcher’s Proven Guilty. However if there’s something you are interested in and want to know if it’s good before investing the money, please drop me a line and I give you an honest review of it.
So I just finished my copy of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. It is by far the best read yet by the author. I will post a full review of it later this week, but for now enjoy the Trailer for the book and get your copy, you will not be disappointed.
by: RFR Casket Crew Storm
Greetings Deadites,
The Oscars may be over but we have some Oscar ideas and picks that should have happened last night.
You have heard that Rotting Flesh Radio has been nominated for a Rondo Award? Take a few minutes and go to www.rondoaward.com and e-mail a ballot in. RFR is at number 20 for Best Horror Audio or Video Podcast, and follow the directions to e-mail your vote. You can also find a lot of useful information on all the horror resources that are out there. While filling out my ballot I was wondering what other awards Rotting Flesh Radio could be nominated for…
The Avatar Award: Best 3D listening experience, Podcast – Rotting Flesh Radio
National Weather Service Correspondent Award: Best Weather Related Correspondent Name – RFR’s Storm
The Chocolate Bunny Award: Best Use of Easter Bunny in a Holiday Show – RFR’s Peter Rottentail
The Arterial Spray Award: Best Use of Bloodsplatter graphics – rfrpodcast.com
The University of Wisconsin Taxidea Taxus Award: Best Overall Performance – RFR’s Badger
The Weird Al Yankovic Award: Most Relevant Use of a Weird Al Song – Rotting Flesh Radio, Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars
Monty Hall Award: Let’s Make A Deal, non-door related, Rotting Flesh Radio Advertisement Promotions
The Tornado Award: Best Use of a Doublewide – RFR’s Chuck’s Extra Dead Horror Game Review
The Midnight Show College Radio Award: Most Frequent Change in Song Genres While Keeping to an Overall Theme – Rotting Flesh Radio
So until next time Deadites, Sit Back, Relax, and Rot Away…
The Horror Dome has been providing costumes for the Haunt and Horror Industries for quite some time. Always full of detail, made of quality and great customer service.
Well just in time for the upcoming 2010 Haunt Season they have unleashed the beast. Brand New for 2010 is the Werewolf Costume to terrorize your customers.
For more information about the Horror dome visit them at: www.TheHorrorDome.com
About the Horror Dome:
We offer products for the Home Haunter as well as the Professional Haunter. In our Mask Shop you will find low cost high quality latex halloween masks, monster hands and feet. In our Prop Shop you will find all types of Halloween Props and Haunted House Decorations from witches to zombie risers and novelties. In our Costume Shop you will find over sized costumes from Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti to Evil Twins and Night Terrors that will make any Halloween Party a hit.
The Dunwich Horror by HP Lovecraft
Being new to the RFR Casket Crew, I thought I would introduce myself before telling you what I’ll be bringing to RFR and to all of you.
First I must confess that I’m a native Texan who loves the horror genre. From print to film, I love all things scary and spooky. I found RFR about a year and a half ago and kept up with everything as much as possible. When the opportunity popped out of the graveyard to work with Jonathan and the other casket crew members, I jumped out of my skin because I love to write. And I get excited about writing about a subject I’m passionate about.
The horror genre covers a wide range of things. From vampires to werewolves, witches to wizards. It covers everything dead and ummm…undead too. One of my fondest memories is listening to ghost stories at an early age. The stories terrified me but I couldn’t get enough. I would listen to these stories and go to sleep with the covers over my head. As I got older, I would read these stories and then tuck the book under the mattress before drifting off to my nightmares.
I still enjoy a good story whether I’m listening to an audio book or orator or reading the printed word. I like Stephen King, Dean Knootz, Ann Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton or Kelley Armstrong. However, I don’t think I would be able to read any of these authors’ works if it weren’t for those who paved, or helped pave, the road. One such man like H.P. Lovecraft.
Howard Phillip Lovecraft was an American author of horror fantasy and science fiction. During his career, it was classified simply as weird fiction.
The Dunwich Horror is part of Lovecraft’s weird fiction. It was first published in 1929. I actually listened to a dramatized version of this story that I purchased from Audible. And even though it’s been more than seventy years since its first publication, it’s still an eerie tale.
The plot revolves around the desire of Wilbur Whately, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, to acquire an unabridged Latin version of the Necronomicon – his imperfect English copy ill-suited for his dark purpose – so that he may open the way for the mysterious “Old Ones.”
Next time I’ll be catching a ride with Marty McFly as he goes back to the future. I’ll be reviewing Stephen King’s latest work UR.
Time to send out some Horror Birthday Love to Bobby “Boris” Pickett. Now sad to say, Bobby is no longer here, we can still remember all his works that have made Halloween a Party to remember every year. Mr. Pickett was born on February 11, 1938. He passed away in April of 2007, but still lives on in our hearts.
SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY MONSTER MASH KING
Bobby had a knack for doing an impression of the legendary actor Boris Karloff. His father, a theater owner encouraged him and helped drive his love of the golden age of Horror Films. This translated to him often doing an impression of Karloff during his time with the band the Cordials. It was there that the legend of the MONSTER MASH was born.
One of his bandmates told him he needed to do a whole song dedicated to the Horror Icon and so the writing of the song began. MONSTER MASH was written in about half an hour, and has since become the staple of Halloween, Trick or Treating and Parties around the world and of all time. Most of the sound effects were created by Pickett himself including the creaky door, a nail being pulled from a piece of wood, the boiling viles, Pickett blowing bubbles in a cup among others. This creative master piece went on to hit Number One on the Billboard Charts the week leading up to Halloween in 1962, 1970, and May of 1973!
Now as we know here at ROTTING FLESH RADIO, Pickett made entire albums full of campy, novelty Halloween Songs. Some of my personal favorites were Monsters Holiday, Wolfs Bane, Transylvania Twist and others. The LP remains in my collection today and I will never forget the time I was able to meet Bobby and talk with him about this classic era when Halloween was true Americana.
So with many Horror Conventions to attend, 2010 will be a hard year to decide which one you want to go to. Well, a good friend here at the show is throwing the perfect event for you to attend in the Famous Monsters Convention 2010 being held July 9-11, 2010 in Indianapolis.
The event will be full of meet and greets with your favorite celebrities, vendors to get some Horror Swag and more.
The site has just launched and will be updated often with the most recent guests, events and to get tickets. Stay tuned to Rotting Flesh Radio for all the details and we will also have the event organizers and friends here at the show on to discuss the event and keep you in the loop. Currently the have Derek Mears (Jason from Friday the 13th 2009), Thomas Jane (From Punisher, The Mist and more) scheduled to appear.
To see the newly launched site, join their Facebook, Twitter and other social outlets visit: www.FamousMonstersConvention.com
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., February 1, 2010 – Famous Monsters of Filmland, the original sci-fi/horror/fantasy-genre magazine that captured over three decades of imagination, announces today its foray into the horror convention circuit. The official Famous Monsters of FIlmland Convention will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 9-11, 2010. In attendance will be Thomas (The Mist, Punisher) Jane, a Night Of The Living Dead reunion, the cast of the 20th Century Fox release Predators and many more to be announced.
The weekend-long convention will be packed with special screenings, monstrous parties, exciting music acts, panels, a costume contest and lots more.
“We are so happy to invite you to the first in a series of horrific gatherings hosted by your friends at FM,” said Philip Kim, Senior Manger. The event will be held at the Wyndham Indianapolis West, located at 2544 Executive Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, visit www.famousmonstersconvention.com.
Famousmonsters.com represents the web entity of Famous Monsters of Filmland. Visitors can quickly and easily navigate between op-eds, video, news and reviews from our staff, exclusive interviews and columns from industry insiders and professionals, photo galleries, and much more.
We have to give a thanks to both Scott from The Scarehouse and also Neat O Rama for this one.If you love horror and The Shining then you will want to decorate your walls with this one. The Shining Cuckoo Clock
Created by Chris Domino, this clock has Jack Nicholson’s head poking through the door every [...]
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by: RFR Casket Crew Denise
Greetings Deadites,
It’s time for the next installment of Reading Between the Pages. In this segment, I’ll be looking at Jim Butcher’s Proven Guilty.The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Copperfield Blackstone Dresden as a warden in Chicago. A warden is like the non-magical version of a police officer, [...]
Hey Deadites, a friend of ours over at Twisted Toybox let us in on his newest creation for you Haunt Owners, Vendors and more.
TwistedToybox.net is now offering a new service in 2010, LATEX LOGOS. We all have seen the shirts with latex parts glued into them over the years, but NOW YOUR HAUNT can [...]
Spook House Logistics Ltd. needs your brains and creativity to help create “Edgar Krawly”, the creepy horror host of their major, under construction, haunted house attraction.The Grand Prize Winner will take home $10,000 and Thirteen Finalists win an amazing prize package with a retail value exceeding $650 dollars!
HOW IT WORKS: Write an essay (500 words [...]
The Haunted House Association (HHA) is moving its organization forward for 2010. So far there are many things to come of the newly formed association for haunted and these are are couple of the items we can expect to see to help move Haunters forward with support, networking and more.
Release:
PR Campaign:The HHA is embarking on [...]
Release: The Midwest Haunters Convention has been offering pre-convention bus tours of haunted attractions for six years. This year the tours have been expanded to include 7 haunts with 18 total attractions. Tours include a two day overnight bus trip to Northern Ohio and a Friday evening shuttle bus excursion to haunts in the Columbus [...]
We all remember Dream a Little Dream, License to Drive and most of all The Lost Boys, one of the best Vampire films of my generation. And with that came the two Coreys. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. The duo made pop culture history in the 1980s with screaming girls and fun slapstick films.
As of [...]
by: RFR Casket Crew Denise
Greeting all you Deadites, it’s time for the next installment of what I like to call Reading Between the Pages.
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book reader Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s harsh and hurtful parting words. He buys an e-book reader and soon finds he [...]
Since the end of Ironstock, Indy has been without a Haunters Event now. Well, fear not there is a new event for you Haunters in Indy and surrounding areas. The All-New Indy Haunt Fest 2010 is coming June 26-27, 2010.
This all new event is going to be the First Annual Indy Haunt Fest and will [...]