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Mars Talks Horror & School House Glock
18 July 2009 2:59 AM, PDT
After recently reviewing School House Glock: Extra Credit (read the review here), I felt compelled to interview the man behind the menacing mask - Mars himself. In the following interview Mars gets up-close and personal discussing the controversy that's surrounded him for years, and some of the inspiration he finds within the darkest of genres... horror.
Matt Molgaard (Fangoria): First off, how would you describe School House Glock?
Mars: Well, it’s a horror album with straight up funk behind it. Bay area, west coast funk with some horror. What I did with this album is I took hip hop beats with a well known producer, and did horror on top of that. I made it so everybody can be a horrorcore fan. The beats and the hooks, and it’s catchy, but it still has macabre messages and stalking and murder and crazy stuff - it’s just
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves (Book Review)
18 July 2009 2:29 AM, PDT
Note: This review also appears on our Starlog website.
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves by Tim Lebbon (Dark Horse Books, tpb, 238 pp, $12.95) Just one more book (sitting untouched on my shelf)—and I’ll have read and (so far) enjoyed All of the Hellboy original paperback novels published initially by Pocket Star and now by Dark Horse (the comic’s purveyors). Hellboy is one of my favorite “new” characters of the last two decades—created, written and often illustrated by the fabulous Mike Mignola in a sort of blend of H.P. Lovecraft and Jack Kirby. A Devilish adventurer, Hellboy explores the eerie for the B.P.R.D. (Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense). But you know all that already thanks to the two terrific Hellboy films written and directed by Guillermo del Toro that brought the whole kit and kaboodle (not to mention the mythos) to the screen. The movies,
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no-reply@fangoria.com (DAVID McDONNELL)
Lists of Doom Xviii: Chad Cherry of The Last Vegas
18 July 2009 1:43 AM, PDT
A few months back, a band local to my hometown of Chicago popped up on my radar, and I still don't know how I'd missed them for so long. With a decadent sound reminiscent of Motley Crue and Buckcherry (both of whom they've toured with!) The Last Vegas adds some Windy City-flavor to a a style of rock that sounds right at home on the Sunset Strip of Los Angeles.
Since checking out the April release of their new album Whatever Gets You Off, frontman Chad Cherry and I have been exchanging emails and it turns out he's a 100% certified horror freak and Fango fiend. After a recent exchange in which Chad was flipping through Fangoria #285 while waiting to catch a flight to L.A., it was apparent that it was time for a Tla installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom.
For the uninitiated, Lists is the column where
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no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Dying to attend Jasonpalooza?
17 July 2009 1:48 PM, PDT
Teenagers looking to have some pre-marital sex, underage drinking and illicit substances are urged to avoid The Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center at all costs this Saturday and Sunday. Those activities are frowned upon by a certain homicidal, hockey mask-wearing zombie. That zombie is in town, because The Hollywood Collectors Show will be holding a "Jasonpalooza" featuring seven Jason Voorhees from the unkillable Friday The 13th franchise.
The gruesome guests include Jason #1, Ari Lehman, Warrington Gillette and Steve Dash ("Baghead Jason"), John Hock, Dick Weiand, Tom Morga, Richard Brooker, Ken Kirzinger, and the great Kane Hodder, among other Friday faces.
To show there's no hard feelings between them and their former stalker, Adrienne King and Darcy DeMoss will also be in attendance. (Darcy is also arguably the most impressive kill in the series, when Jason V. slams her head into a wall, leaving her impression on an Rv in Jason Lives!
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
Get stoked and staked on Fangoria Radio tonight!
17 July 2009 1:18 PM, PDT
One of our favorite indie filmmakers joins host Debbie Rochon for tonight’s edition of Fangoria Radio. http://www.fangoria.com/radio On the show (airing on Sirius Xm Stars satellite radio, Sirius channel 108/Xm channel 139, from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Est), Debbie will be joined by her Mulberry Street director Jim Mickle to welcome a scary lineup:
Mickle (pictured) will fill us in on the latest developments regarding his follow-up feature, the Glass Eye Pix flick Stake Land, joined by makeup FX artist Brian Spears, also a contributor to Glass Eye’s upcoming I Sell The Dead and currently lensing Bitter Feast Horror starlet Danielle Harris will continue getting us psyched for Halloween II, Rob Zombie’s return to Haddonfield, and perhaps talk up other future frights like Godkiller and Robert Hall’s web series Fear Clinic Debbie herself will let us know what’s up with her
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
Exclusive Godkiller wallpaper
17 July 2009 1:09 PM, PDT
To celebrate its promotional events for Matt Pizzolo’s “illustrated film” Godkiller at next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, Halo-8 Entertainment is providing Fangoria.com readers with exclusive wallpaper for desktops and iPhones, featuring the character Mulciber (voiced by Lance Henriksen). Jump below the cut to download them both.
Godkiller, which we last reported on here, is adapted by Pizzolo from his and Anna Muckcracker’s postapocalyptic comic, with vocalizations also provided by genre favorites Bill Moseley, Danielle Harris and Tiffany Shepis. Pizzolo, Moseley and Harris will be appearing at Comic-Con to promote Godkiller, along with co-stars Justin Pierre and Nicki Clyne and animator Brian Giberson. Pizzolo, Pierre and Clyne will be signing at the Halo-8 booth (#430) on Saturday, July 25 at 4 p.m. and in the Sails Pavilion room AA1 on Sunday, July 26 at 12 noon; Moseley will also sign at the former and Harris at the latter. Guests from Halo-
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
A Haunting deleted scene from Connecticut DVD
17 July 2009 1:04 PM, PDT
With its unrated DVD of the supernatural hit The Haunting In Connecticut out in stores this week, Lionsgate Home Entertainment sent over one of the deleted scenes from its supplemental package to entice you to pick it up. You can check out the clip below the cut.
The two-disc set comes with a digital copy of the movie and a wealth of extras, including two commentaries by director Peter Cornwell, stars Virginia Madsen and Kyle Gallner et al., featurettes on both the film and the real-life case that inspired it, etc. Haunting is also available on Blu-ray.
no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Twilight Saga: Eclipse casting; a new still from New Moon
17 July 2009 1:01 AM, PDT
The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Business Blog is reporting the first new blood for Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Australian actor Xavier Samuel, previously unknown (before today) to American audiences will play the role of a “newborn vampire” named Riley, a good-looking college student who joins the plot of villain Victoria to murder protagonist Bella (Kristen Stewart). Riley is corrupted by Victoria, for whom he has an inexplicable weakness.
Eclipse will begin lensing under the watchful eyes of David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days Of Night) next month in Vancouver. Next week, TwiHards will get a look at New Moon with a special Comic-Con presentation (details here).
In other Twilight news, The Hollywood Gossip has snagged a new photo of Bella and Jacob, perhaps pondering making whoopee in a car:
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love,
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no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)
We Were Gentlemen – Living Hell (Musick Review)
17 July 2009 12:54 AM, PDT
Virginia road-dogs We Were Gentlemen have just released their first full length CD on Century Media Records entitled Living Hell. This 10 song collection of bone crushing MetalCore madness features ungodly screams combined with heavy guitar riffs and killer cut time beats. This is their first release on a major label, so I would expect to be hearing a lot more from them in the near future. They demonstrate the ability to write good MetalCore and have the drive to rise to the top of their game. Be sure to pick up this CD, as it’s sure to become a classic in a few years.
Tracklist:
1. Deep Blue
3. Cradle Your Filth
4. Illusions
5. Evolve
6. The Insomniac
7. New Blood
8. Annihilative
9. Bed Ridden
10. The Ceremony
For More:
http://www.myspace.com/weweregents
no-reply@fangoria.com (Zoth Ommog)
Back Catalogue #3: Blue Underground
17 July 2009 12:50 AM, PDT
Horror movies really are like monsters. Just when you think they’re dead they reappear out of nowhere despite the passage of time and the vagaries of the marketplace and critics pens. Great ones have the power to lift you up out of the ordinary world and leave you shaking in disgust, fear, or overwhelmed by dread or a sense of displacement. That’s the reason I creep through the vaults of any studio that will let me in. I hadn’t seen any of these Blue Underground titles before and when they told me that five out of six of the titles I had asked to write about were available I was excited to have the chance to check them out.
First up was Anguish by acclaimed art house director Bigas Luna. Besides the Luna pedigree this film also boasted the talents of a young but still instantly recognizable
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no-reply@fangoria.com (David Canfield)
Rapped And Tagged: Mars School House Glock! Extra Credit
17 July 2009 12:45 AM, PDT
These days finding a commercially marketable horrorcore rap album is as likely as finding true love with Elizabeth Banks. It’s just not going to happen. So try and imagine the shock that I endured when I did in fact find one. The surprising gem School House Glock! Extra Credit comes from the emerging California based prospect Mars; A twisted little devil with an affinity for school violence and sick, sadistic romance.
Mad Insanity Records recently released the Mars 8 track Ep School House Glock, but after the album was so well released, Mars returned to the studio to record four new tracks, work on an impressive visual package and re-release Shg labeling it the ‘Extra Credit‘ edition. It was a wise move. The new look is great - rather than a standard CD jacket, we’re treated to a creative 6 panel wallet designed to look like a Mead school notebook
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
Albino Farm DVD art and details
17 July 2009 12:12 AM, PDT
Fango got the word that Mti Home Video has set a September 22 street date for its DVD of the backwoods horror opus Albino Farm. We also got ahold of the specs and the cover art, which you can check out below.
Written and directed by Joe Anderson and Sean McEwen, Albino Farm (which we last reported on here) is about college students terrorized in the Ozark Mountains by a brood of vicious, cave-dwelling half-humans; Tammin Sursok, the WWE’s Chris Jericho, The Howard Stern Show’s Richard Christy and Feast’s Duane Whitaker are among the cast. The movie will be presented in 16x9-enhanced widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound, supplemented with a commentary by Anderson and McEwen and a behind-the-scenes featurette. Msrp is $24.95. Pre-order yours for $17.49 (as of this writing) here.
no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Arsonists Get All The Girls – Portals (Musick Review)
17 July 2009 12:04 AM, PDT
Known as Santa Cruz’ most degenerate six-piece, Arsonists Get All The Girls has just released their latest GrindCore Masterpiece entitled Portals. Fusing blast beats with keyboard madness, Agatg has written 11 tracks of sick and twisted music to whet the appetites of all you grind-aholic Gorehounds who thrive on this brand of insanity.
Arsonists Get All The Girls offer a unique sound that unlike anything heard before, although they claim to draw their inspiration from bands like Despised Icon, Cryptopsy, and Dream Theater. Their musical arsenal if filled with technical guitar riffing, heavy-as-hell break down beats, screamed lyrics, and some of the oddest keyboard sounds ever merged with metal. Imagine listening to your favorite Death Metal CD while playing a Nintendo Video Game, that’s kinda what Agatg sounds like. If you’re into eclectic music with an aggressive edge, definitely check Agatg’s new CD Portals.
Tracklist:
1. Interdimensionary
2. The 42nd
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Zoth Ommog)
Halloween & TCM producers get Violent
16 July 2009 11:50 PM, PDT
Producers Malek Akkad and Andy Gould from Dimension's 2007 Rob Zombie-directed Halloween are teaming up with Jeffrey Allard, the executive producer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and it's prequel for a new indie called The Violent Kind.
The Hollywood Reporter says the film "revolves around a group of young bikers who find themselves tormented by mysterious and gory goings-on in a secluded farmhouse."
The principals summarize the film as centering on a "party (that) quickly turns wild with a typical biker mix of booze, drugs and strippers but shifts into something the likes of nothing they have ever known," including "mysterious figures glimpsed amongst the woods, ominous sounds heard and friends found injured."
Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, known professionally as the Butcher Brothers, are directing from a script they wrote. The pair helmed the cult hit "The Hamiltons," about a group of siblings who turn murderous after their parents are killed,
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no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)
Wumpscut - Bunkertor 7 Re-Sample Edition (Musick Review)
16 July 2009 11:48 PM, PDT
As the summer nights sizzle with electronic fervor and black vinyl melts to metal and circuit boards in clubs across the world, Rudy Ratzinger of Wumpscut continues to bring out new glistening black light gold for fans the world over. In a record anniversary release on July 7th of 2009 marking the Thirteenth year anniversary release of the album, Wumpscut dusts off, resamples and remasters the timeless gem that caught the world’s attention in 1995. The album Bunkertor 7 (Bunker Gate Seven) was released originally in 1995 by Beton Kopf Media, Ratzinger’s self created label, and was later picked up stateside in 1997.
This digitally remastered work of electronic dystopian art is flawlessly restored and preserved with the finest of mortuary luster. From the onset of the creepy “Open Gate” to the prurient “Torn Skin” the album sets a pace for a frighteningly nightmarish yet beautiful album. The close with the anachronistic mix
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Dr. Raven )
Resident Evil: Afterlife set to shoot
16 July 2009 11:26 PM, PDT
Resident Evil: Afterlife (which we last mentioned here) has a start date.
Production Weekly reports via Twitter that the fourth chapter in the cinematic Resident Evil franchise will begin principal photography on September 28th at CineSpace Studios in Toronto.
The 8-week shoot will see star Milla Jovovich (Alice) reunited with writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson (Death Race) who previously helmed the first film in addition to handling writing duties on the series.
IMDb has "rumored" cast set to include Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, My Blood Valentine 3-D) as Leon S. Kennedy, Jason O'Mara (Life On Mars) reprising his role as Albert Wesker, soap actor Austin Peck (Days Of Our Lives, As The World Turns) as Kevin Ryman, with Johnny Messner (Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid) as Chris Redfield. We'll get the full details on confirmed cast when it becomes available.
Look for more on Resident Evil: Afterlife here on Fangoria.
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no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Dope Stars Inc - 21st Century Slave (Musick Review)
16 July 2009 11:20 PM, PDT
Burning up the U.K. charts and set to release their latest set of Industrial cacophony upon the U.S. comes the spunk-charged Italian act Dope Stars Inc. Earlier this year when Metropolis records signed the band, the CD Criminal Intents/Morning Star duo pack was injected virally (and violently) into the American music market creating a septicity of spawning fans. A crepuscular horde of Cyberpunk, Cybergoth, and Rivethead fans that craved fresh new vitriolic licks fresh from Rome. On July 21st Metropolis will release the digital virus once more on its awaiting fans and indeed we are not disappointed in waiting.
The opening track “Omegadrones” rips up with clawed fury to grab and pull listeners to the dance floor. The title track 21st Century Slave, like most great infectious grooves starts slow before pitching in with fevered intensity. “Digitial Warriors” is the anthem track for the internet generation pounding computer keys and combat boots.
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Dr. Raven )
Permuted Press' Season Of Rot!
16 July 2009 11:12 PM, PDT
Fango just got word that Permuted's latest book Season Of Rot is now available and features not one, not two, but five diverse tales of the living dead from zombie fiction master Eric S. Brown!
Full details on the full quintet of terror below the jump!
Season Of Rot: Safe from the walking dead that rule the streets, a band of survivors holes up in a hospital. When their supplies run low, they must either migrate or trust a stranger who promises them salvation-except the stranger isn't who he seems to be, and neither are the dead. The Queen: To escape a plague that has turned most of mankind into ravenous cannibals, a crew of survivors takes refuge at sea. But supplies only last so long, and the crew must face their enemies on land in order to keep themselves alive and afloat. The Wave: When a wave of mysterious
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no-reply@fangoria.com (FANGORIA.com)
Joe Dante gives the Hole story
16 July 2009 12:06 PM, PDT
While speaking on last week’s edition of Fangoria Radio, fave director Joe Dante (pictured) discussed The Hole, the 3-D feature that marks his return to big-screen fright fare after his well-received pair of Masters Of Horror episodes. “I had a great time doing Masters with Mick [Garris],” he said, “because the whole idea was, if we did them on a low budget really quickly, we could do whatever we wanted.
“After doing Looney Tunes, a big-studio movie that took a year and a half and was fairly contentious through its entire making, and then opened to a world that had given up on Bugs Bunny because the cartoons had been off television for like 2 years, I thought, ‘Maybe I should try and do something more independent,’ ” he continued, noting that on Masters, “The content was not an issue. There were no focus groups and no teenagers writing on cards; it
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Director Joseph Ruben returns to The Forgotten
16 July 2009 12:03 PM, PDT
Fango recently had a chance to speak to director Joseph Ruben, whose credits include Dreamscape, The Stepfather, Sleeping With The Enemy and The Good Son, and who revealed his current plans to do his first sequel: a follow-up to his 2004 paranormal thriller The Forgotten. (Spoiler Alert for those going forward who haven’t seen the original.)
Ruben is currently developing the project with screenwriter David Loughery. “I met him years ago on Dreamscape—he wrote the original draft on that—and we’ve been collaborating ever since,” the director tells us. “He did a production rewrite on The Stepfather and contributed a lot on Money Train and The Good Son. We’ve spent the last couple of months working up a script for a Forgotten sequel, which I really like. It’s very lively and very scary, and this one centers on the relationship between a young man and a young woman.
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no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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