Horror Scenes I Love: Dead Alive aka Braindead

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Arleigh

“Party’s over!”

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The latest “Scenes I Love” is from a horror-comedy classic from the early 90’s.

Before Peter Jackson traveled and chronicled Middle-Earth he was a Kiwi filmmaker who dabbled and had fun with low-budget splatstick horror. One such film was the horror-comedy zombie flick Dead Alive aka Braindead. The scene in question happens in the extended climactic third reel of the film and has to go down as the goriest and bloodiest film sequence ever shot.

Watching this clip makes one wonder how Peter Jackson was the same person who made this film and the Tolkien films.

Horror On TV: One Step Beyond 2.5 “Night of the Kill”

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

John Newland is back with yet another “true” story designed to take us One Step Beyond. In this episode, a young boy named Dewey goes missing but then shows back up and says that he’s been hanging out with a Bigfoot-like monster.

This episode first aired on October 20th, 1959.

Artist Profile: Raymond Bayless (1920 — 2004)

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Dazzling Erin

Born in Oakland, California, Raymond Bayless was a self-taught artist who, by the end of his career, had his still-life paintings hanging in the National Air and Space Museum, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He is best known for his fantasy and horror-themed illustrations, many of which writings of H.P. Lovecraft. Bayless also wrote several books on parapsychology.

Horror On The Lens: Night of the Ghouls (dir by Edward D. Wood, Jr.)

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s movie is Ed Wood’s sequel to Bride of the Monsters. In Night of the Ghouls, con man Dr. Alcula (Kenne Duncan) moves into Bela Lugosi’s old mansion and pretends to talk to the dead. What Alcula doesn’t realize is that the house is actually haunted (by Tor Johnson’s Lobo, among others) and real ghosts don’t appreciate pretend ghosts.

What can you say about a film like of Night of the Ghouls? It’s an Ed Wood film, with all that suggests. However, how can you resist a film that starts with Criswell sitting up in his coffin and providing commentary?

The role of Dr. Alcula was originally written for Bela Lugosi. After Lugosi’s death, veteran actor and longtime Wood friend Kenne Duncan got the role instead. Also of note, Wood appears twice in this film. Not only does his picture appear on a wanted poster in the police station but Wood also plays one of the female ghouls.