I’m bummed. You see, I was looking up the contact information for one of my favorite video stores and discovered that they had since closed their doors. I even tried calling to double check. It’s a bit odd for me to count Video Oasis as one of my favorites, seeing as how I only visited …
Category: News
Apr 17 2010
It’s Record Store Day!
Apr 16 2010
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Maybe you saw this mentioned on an Attack of the Show segment recently but there’s a site called Kickstarter, where creative sorts can set up an account to help find funding for their projects. Transylvania TV, something I mentioned a while ago, has something set up for their Halloween Special. If you like their stuff, …
Mar 31 2010
Rock The Rondos
Did you vote in the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards yet? Remember, the deadline is April 3rd 2010! Some of you may be asking: What are the Rondo Awards and who is Rondon Hatton? Well, it’s like this: The awards themselves were originally started in 2002 by Kerry Gammill and David Colton at the Classic …
Mar 27 2010
March Into News
Did Strange Jason’s review of Valley of the Robots whet your appetite? Want more? Here’s a (NSFW) preview: These puppets ain’t for kids! Amazingly, that was the tamest of the three trailers available at the official PuppeTose Youtube channel. You can order a copy (and find more PuppeTose madness) here. We’re planning on interviewing real …
Mar 10 2010
George W. Bush’s Silver Scream
Imagine my surprise when I came across an article by Psychotronic Video’s Michael J. Weldon, which claimed former US President George W. Bush was involved in the making of the 80’s horror classic The Hitcher (among other R-rated films). Although very interesting, I was dismayed that Mr. Weldon did not provide any references. After much …
Feb 10 2010
Away He GoGoes.
Just found out that Kevin “Sir GoGo Ghastly” Hair retired from The Ghastly Ones. They made the announcement on the site back on January 28th. THE GHASTLY ONES want to extend a ghoulishly warm welcome to our newest member Ryan “Cousin Boris” Watusi who will be pounding the bass guitar in our band from here on …
Nov 17 2009
News ‘n Stuff
Normally, I stick to the “four posts per month” format I developed after GdL returned from its unintended hiatus. But, seeing as how Strange Jason is having a little trouble, I figured I’d change my rules and do an extra post. Come to think of it, Strange Jason and I both doing five posts a …
Nov 10 2009
It comes down to this.
Vampires are the ruling class. Zombies are the working class. Werewolves are the middle class. Zombies, creatures of the dirt, eating flesh and whatever they can. They overwhelm in their masses and are usually depicted as mindless and violent. Their uprising usually demolishes society as it’s known. Think of Zombies as the working-man’s monster, the …
Nov 01 2009
Saint’s Day
We here at the Local don’t have any official religious affiliation. With a lot of spooky imagery of skulls and devils and blood-wrenching sights of destruction and gore, it’s that slippery misconception that just because we’re ghoulish, we’re not spiritual. We might not be. Who knows? It’s not a requirement on the Union application. But …
Oct 24 2009
News to me
Fearnet is showing the unrated director’s cut of Return of the Living Dead 3 both online and on its cable TV service until November 30, 2009. Why is this a big deal? Back in the days of VHS, there were two versions available: the rated version (R) and the gorier unrated version. However, the DVD …
Oct 12 2009
Talk about creepy…
After finding the material for yesterday’s entry, I decided to mess around with Google Books some more. I was hoping to find material on haunted hayrides (especially if there were any books devoted to creating and running one), but what I found was so much more bloggable. You see, I found a page from Guy …
Oct 11 2009
Vampires are Cheap
Growing up, the vampire was the fall-back costume when it was too expensive to be anything else. Both me and my next-door neighbor/best friend would sport the costume two or three times in a row. Ninety-nine cents for a pair of plastic fangs, some leftover white grease paint, the old black plastic cape and a …
Oct 10 2009
The Truth Behind The Exorcist
Thanks to years of documentaries and TV specials, many people are at least vaguely aware that The Exorcist is was based on a true story. But, just as how The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is only loosely based on Ed Gein, the truth about The Exorcist is stranger (and far less exotic) than fiction. The …
Aug 18 2010
They say it starts showing up earlier every coming year….
Man, I feel like it’s Halloween-time already. It’s going to be a long one, folks.