His name was Zombie Robert Paulson. See also Zombie Machete, Zombie Alien, Zombie Dr. Zauis and more!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
'80S Cartoon Concert Posters
Vaughn Bode would love these. Or maybe he'd hate them. Who knows?
Via the Hypno Pimp.
T-shirt of the Day
The Madness of Mission 6 is back at Threadless! I've been waiting for this art to come back into rotation for months.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Rare Star Trek Photos
Slightly Warped has a great collection of rare Star Trek photos posted. There are a lot of behind-the-scenes images, as well as promotional and marketing materials, ranging from the television show's first pilot all the way to the film series. Below are some of my favorites.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Monster Cereals are 2010 Target Exclusives?!
Apparently there was a reason I had such a difficult time finding Monster Cereals: they're on sale exclusively at Target this year. It's possible this has been the case in previous years and I simply didn't notice the trend, but dealiciousmom.com had this to say about this year's availability:
Available for a limited time, Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry have added spoonfuls of Spooky Fun to breakfasts for more than 40 years. Make sure to grab your boxes of Monster Cereals before they disappear for another year because once the boxes are gone – they are gone for good! Plus at only $1.99 a box this is a nice little way to bring back memories and create some new Halloween traditions in your house!
Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Franken Berry will only be available from September 26-October 31 at your local Target checkout aisle.
Marker of the Beast
Overheard at Diesel Sweeties:
So I said to typographic wonder and Danzig aficionado Chris Piascik a while back, "We need to make Satanic Sharpies! They're called The MARKER OF THE BEAST!"
And then he drew the most demonic logo and I got to work making the packaging, which you'll see tomorrow.
The markers will be up at the stroke of midnight on October 6, starting at $6.66 in boxes I'm customizing by hand. (and shipping next week) I tried to get enough, but quantities are limited.
See you in about 24 hours?
I think it's fitting that the person holding the pen in the photo above is a lefty.
Via the Hypno Pimp.
Star Wars Fight Posters
I like to imagine there's a Star Wars equivalent of Don King involved with these fights.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Dr. Who LIVE tour in UK starts this week
American Dr. Who fans are a patient lot. It's not like we have much choice, mind you ... on the best of days we're a year behind British fans when it comes to access to new Dr. Who stories. On the worst? Fans in the 1970s were left to the whims of PBS scheduling, which was fairly erratic.
It hasn't always been easy for Dr. Who fans in the UK, either, with the situation ranging from feast to famine. The nation's present Dr. Who status is clearly "feast," though, as a new stage show called Dr. Who Live is set to begin Oct. 8 and will tour until next month.
Even better, Dr. Who Live features Nigel Planer (Neil of the Young Ones!)
From The Daily Mail:
Via.Created by Dr Who executive producer and writer Steven Moffat, it kicks off in London next week. ‘It’s everything I wanted since I was 11,’ says Moffat. ‘A live show with the coolest Doctor Who monsters, a proper story and new screen material for Matt Smith’s Doctor. I’ll probably attend every night!’
Audiences are warned to expect the unexpected. With Nigel Planer starring as a new character, Vorgensen — ‘the greatest showman in the galaxy’ — some of the best-loved monsters and most terrifying foes who have never managed to conquer the Time Lord make an appearance.
Die Hard Alien!
Most folks didn't notice, but the monster from Alien 3
was a very different kind of monster than seen in the previous films. Even though there doesn't seem to be a genetic relationship between the alien and its host (which is really just an incubator) the Alien 3 baddie was part cow/part alien because it was spawned from a steer.Thus endeth the alien biology lesson. I mention it only as a segue into a feature over at The Rush which shows what the aliens might look like if spawned from everything from Tyler Durden to Robocop.
Check out the entire series here!
Zombie Zinfandel
Here's something I stumbled upon at World Market last weekend: Zombie Zin, a California zinfandel. I'm not much of a wine enthusiast but slap a drawing of a zombie on a product and you've got my undivided attention. Zombie Ice Cream, please!
Anyway, here's what folks who tried Chateau Diana Vineyards' Zombie Zin wine had to say about it. These reviews cover batches produced over several years.
Build-A-Bear continues its conquest of the universe
Via StarWars.com
Star Wars fans - and friends of Star Wars fans - can now create their own Anakin Skywalker, Clone Captain Rex, Darth Vader, and Jedi Knight teddy bears, courtesy of Build-A-Bear Workshop!
Star Wars bear costumes are available with a bear or without, in case you'd like to try and suit up that old Ewok plush you've had stuffed up in the closet (a Jedi-robed Ewok? Hmmm....).
There's also the Slumber Style Scruffy Puppy decked out in Star Wars peejays if you prefer your cuddlables more down to earth!
See what Build-A-Bear has available.
Breakfast with Cap'n Crunch's Halloween Crunch
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| "Doctor, I think my cereal has an infection ..." |
In all, it's not a bad breakfast. It doesn't taste much different from Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries but that's nothing to complain about. The box boasts that the cereal turns the milk green and that's mostly true. It's not the robust Slimer-from-Ghostbusters green that I might have hoped for, but it was still a sickly color. Even better, though, the crunchberries appear to change color in milk. The pinkish cereal bits slowly show dark green speckling, which is pretty disgusting in a fun way.
The back of the box also features clip art showing aspects of different kinds of monsters to let you build your own. I snapped a photo of the back of the box, opened it in Photoshop and made my own monster. You can see it below!
Friday, October 1, 2010
Awesome JAWS event this weekend in Ohio
* Bloody Water shots at Parnell's Pu
* Special 'Shark Melt' sandwich at Melt all weekend
* Special appearance by JAWS himself, signing autographs for a donation of $1 (partial proceeds from the screening and sandwich will go towards the World Wildlife Fund)
Man ... I've always wanted to meet Jaws! I hear he's much nicer than Shatner.
Read more at the Facebook invite.
Monster Serial: BLADE
More to the point, when is a horror movie a horror movie? The concept, from a cinematic point of view, has been fragmenting almost from the start, dating back at least to the moment when James Whale decided Frankenstein
should be equal parts horror, science fiction and comedy.By the 1950s the notion of a "horror movie" usually included aliens, giant bugs, x-ray vision and a host of other elements not traditionally associated with horror movies. Which brings me to Blade
, the 1998 movie that launched the Marvel movie empire. Any movie about vampires should be a horror film, right? Then why is Blade almost always stocked in the "action" section of video stores?The concept behind Blade doesn’t come across like compelling movie material. The 1998 film took a second-string comic book character whose popularity peaked in 1978*, merged the storyline with elements usually associated with martial arts flicks, and threw in a bit of Indiana Jones for flavor. This is the kind of film Joe Bob Briggs
used to call an “outdoor movie,” which means it would have fit in fine between drive-in showings of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
and Porky’s
.
Recap time: Wesley Snipes plays an angry vampire hunter on a mission against an international cabal of undead monsters. Along for the ride (and to provide exposition) is Whistler, played with surly glee by Kris Kristofferson. Both men are on personal missions to avenge the deaths of family members by vampires, and seem almost apathetic to human suffering. The only thing that qualifies these men for good-guy status is that the bad guys are so much worse.
The movie begins in the middle of Blade’s war, kicking off with a very literal blood bath in a vampire nightclub. When one of Blade’s undead victims is mistakenly taken to a hospital, a young doctor (played by N’Bushe Wright, who's great here in what would usually be an unrewarding role) is dragged into the conflict. Through her eyes we get a look at Blade’s nightly combat sessions and learn that there is something bigger on the horizon that even the heroes can’t anticipate.
The action sequences are genuinely exciting, choreographed like a violent ballet. To accentuate the rhythm of the sequences (as well as draw attention to the dance-like fighting) is a heavy techno soundtrack which pushes the film along. If you’ve got a good sound system, remember to crank of the volume.
Snipes is also excellent and portrays the most dangerous anti-hero since Clint Eastwood’s “Man With No Name.” Director Stephen Norrington does an amazing job of establishing the bad guys in a matter of minutes, making them so rotten that anything Blade does to them, no matter how vicious, seems justified.
*And I say that with all due affection. I've been a fan of the character almost my whole life and was one of those people who got excited about the prospects of a Blade film back in 1989 when it was first announced in the pages of Comics Scene.
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