This is the epitome of why I love the internet. Its beauty of web design, the content that simply confuses the masses, its just fantastic. 

The site is chockful o’ interesting little facts. The origin of Abrakadabra, a list of ‘Pellar’ tools, a list of rather useful powders (including my favorite, the love powder.) which also includes the ingrediants for those interested enough to make ‘Corpse Dust’, and a few unexplainable pages with odd passages from god only knows where.

Needless to say, Traditional Corish Witchcraft is going down in my books as a gem of the internet. Keep up the good work, oh faithful witches and wizards on the internets.

Zombies are obviously over played in Horror films…wether you love it or not. Sure there has been a few parodys, and some interesting twists on the zombie movie equation, but never yet has a movie shown just how difficult it is to be a zombie. Deadheads, from indie film maker Brett Pierce, is an incredibly good looking, low budget, zombie flick. Right at that junction of where Shawn of The Dead and Pineapple Express meet, we have the plot for a solid fun movie.

The movie centers around Mike, and Brent, who find themselves dead, and reanimated. Finding themselves apparently murdered, and with no recollection of their death, Brent and Mike set out to find how they met their end. A long the way, they cross pass with bounty hunters who were hired by the corporation that was responsible for zombiefication.

The hybrid zombie / comedy / road trip makes me giddy with excitement. This movie looks amazing. Keep your eyes out for it!

Deadheads

However, playing devils advocate, is the lack of CGI a bad thing? What can CGI produce in horror films that will put make up artists and special effects artists out of work? Its obviously not far fetched to imagine that CGI can benefit the genre. Some of the scariest experiences, in any medium, that I have experienced have been video games like Fatal Frame and Half Life 2’s epic Ravenholm environment. While obviously not the same effects seen in full CGI films like Bayowolf, it is inconsequential evidence that CGI can produce legitamentally scary horror effects.

I’d love to see some professional horror films using high class CGI special effects…see just what it can produce. But don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to see real special effects and make up simple wipe off the face of the earth, I just feel we are neglecting a potentially ground breaking technology in the genre of horror.

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Over at HeadInjuryTheature.com, we find the alphabet of horror. Full of 26 creepy black and white images of horror goodness. Check it out!

Web Urbanist has a run down of some supposedly haunted houses. There are some cool places with a lot of history, including the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining! [Link]

An interesting little web page from the depths of the internets shows one mans research into the orgins of Horror as a genre. Pretty interesting stuff. Check it out!

This little site takes screen shots of Rock Horror Picture Show and adds a little icanhazcheezeburger.com flair…which creates…awkwardness?…hilarity?…I just can’t figure this out.

Check out the full site for a rather butchered, yet entertaining, photo summary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The film’s about five American friends who join their Irish friend (who is actually English, another thing I figured out) to do magic mushrooms in rural Ireland near a closed institution that used to house a bunch of sadistic, homicidal brothers and a weird twin with a bag over his head (that reminded me of “Baghead,” which I’d just seen).  One girl, Tara, eats what she doesn’t know is a “death’s head mushroom” (that reminded me of “Silence of the Lambs”), which is potentially lethal, and has the ability to take the consumer into another dimension.  She goes into that other dimension resulting in bloodshed and horror, yada yada yada, one survivor, blah blah blah.

For me the movie kinda fell apart after the secret was revealed; some scenes that were deleted may have explained it a bit, but it was still a little floppy in the area of believability, in my book.  But, overall it creeped me out, so I cut it some slack.  I think the reason the movie’s frightening is because anything could happen, and you don’t know what’s really happening and what isn’t (unless you figure it out), and it’s full of spooky visuals, creepy folklore, and crazy country mofos.  At any moment, something could grab, stab or chop up these poor tripping kids, and they never see it coming, even when they know it is.

I suppose it was inevitable, but “Shrooms” was so much like an anti-drug film, I had to wonder if that was the intention.  I kinda doubt it, but I don’t know Paddy Breathnach, the director, and he could very well be trying to send a message to today’s carefree youths.  Or, you know, adults who haven’t yet experimented but just may decide to do so any second.  The film pretty much says, “If you take magic mushrooms, you could have a very, very bad trip and possibly get mutilated or murdered in some horrible fashion.”  I couldn’t help remembering the antidrug film I saw when I was a tweenie that kept me from being interested in drugs.

I was in the eighth grade when we were called into the gymnasium, where the principal had set up a large movie screen, and proceeded to “scare us straight” with a movie called “Cold Turkey,” which was probably about twenty minutes long but seemed to go on for an hour.  ”Cold Turkey” was comprised of a series of vignettes in which real-life junkies were attempting to get off heroin.  The way I remember it, these scenes unfolded to some heavy psychedelic music, and it was grainy, raw, and riveting.  Two junkies stood out for me:  one sat on a toilet, sweating, in total agony as he tried to shit his guts out, and the other was a woman on a staircase who projectile vomited - I swear - ten feet, in a curving fountain of yellow bile. Grossed out yet?  I was.  And terrified.  I have no idea what the kids around me were thinking or how they looked, but I’m quite sure my mouth hung open through the whole sordid freakshow.

and I thought Heath Ledger was creepy…

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