It’s October and what better way to celebrate this month than with these seven pictures inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos?
Tsathoggua Rising by Richard Loung
The Chase by Douglas A. Sirois
Lovecraft by Francesco Francavilla
Cthulhu Rising by Richard Loung
Cthulhu Rises by Silberious
Awakening by Douglas A. Sirois
All Bow Before Mighty Cthulhu by Erin Nicole
(photographed by Erin Nicole)
Welcome to October!
Here’s hoping this month finds you with joy, family, friends, fiends, ghouls, and ghosts!
Have a safe and wonderful Halloween month!
(photographed by Erin Nicole)
We celebrate the 5th year anniversary of the site and as part of our yearly holiday ritual over here at Through the Shattered Lens, I present to all of you readers, visitors and passer-byes the greatest holiday film ever created since forever.
It is a film full of joy and happiness. Of giving and sharing with loved ones that which matters most. This is a film that best describes what Through the Shattered Lens stands for and works towards.
It even has a scene straight out of a Disney classic.
So, from all of us at Through the Shattered Lens….
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!
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It’s difficult to try and celebrate Halloween without at least remembering the classic John Carpenter film of the same name which help give birth to the slasher horror genre. Halloween has become a staple in my horror watching lists. It joins such other classic horror as the Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Craven’s The Serpent and The Rainbow.
Filmed on a tiny budget of $325,000 and released in 1978, Halloween would introduce to the film world one of it’s most iconic horror figures in the Michale Myers. The film’s opening would become famous in it’s own right as it didn’t just give us a look into Michael Myers backstory, but make the film audience become almost active participant in the murder that introduced us to our killer.
This extended introduction scene let’s the audience see through Michael Myers’ eyes as he stalks through the house towards his sister’s room where he commits his first murder. This point of view through the eye holes of Michael’s mask would be repeated several times throughout the film.
In the past, I have always taken the opportunity on Halloween to feature some song or compilation respectful towards the pagan roots of the holiday. Halloween is, after all, a celebration of all those things traditionally taboo in a society which derives its moral perspective from Christianity.
Not this year. In honor of the late, great Dave Brockie, who passed away earlier this year, I offer you the grand finale of the most epic B-side horror-comedy album in the history of heavy metal. On Beyond Hell, GWAR are forced to retreat underground when their fortress in Antarctica is nuked and overrun by a global military task force (“War is All We Know”). They happen to stumble their way into Hell, and decide to spend their time in exile overthrowing Satan and claiming his armies to reconquer Earth. “The One That Will Not Be Named” is their final confrontation with Satan:
We’ve crossed creviced chasms vast,
And endless plains of unshaven ass.
Our time in Hell draws to the last!
We call upon the Master of the Pit:
“Have you got a toilet? I must take a shit!”
“Open your gates, Lord of Hate,”
“Or your front porch is gonna get it!”
“Very well, I’ll use my sword.”
“It’s very good as smashing doors.”
“We call you out!”
“Overrated Overlord!”
The root of all evil and hatred and shame,
So many victims, so many names,
But they are all the same.
“Ereshkigal!”
“Charun!”
“Helel ben-Shachar!”
“Lucifer! Satan! We know who you are!”
He is the one who will not be named
He is the one who will not be blamed
The realm of the sun we have left far behind,
And damned in the darkness we’ve groped with the blind.
Cannot remember time.
“We summon the Lord of Hell”
“So come forth now! I have your smell!”
“Cologne?! Cheap shit, and lots of it!”
He is the one who will not be named
He is the one who will not be blamed
He is the one that is turning the screws
The Lord of the Underworld. Let’s give the Devil his due!
(Lucifer): Welcome, GWAR, to my domain.
It’s nice to be called on by so many names.
What’s this I hear about you kicking my ass?
(In the live show, this is where Oderus fights a guy in an eight or nine foot tall Satan costume and chops his head off, drenching the audience in fake blood.)
He is the one who will not be named
He is the one who will not be blamed
He is the one that is turning the screws
The Lord of the Underworld. Let’s give the Devil his due!
We crossed chasms vast…
and endless ass…
Our time in Hell draws to the last.
The Legions of Hell lay broken and shorn.
The brothers of GWAR have slain through the storm.
The gate, it is riven. The Master is slain.
The fortress of GWAR is now ripe to reclaim.
We wasted Hell in the name of GWAR!
Though we really don’t know where we are…..
Happy Halloween everyone!
Happy Halloween!
Here at the Shattered Lens, we’re all about tradition! And what could be a better tradition than watching Night of the Living Dead on Halloween?
Watch it below and enjoy! And then, after you’ve watched it, be sure to read Arleigh’s excellent review!
Happy Halloween from the Shattered Lens!
Here is today’s special Halloween edition of Lisa Marie’s Favorite Grindhouse and Exploitation Film Trailers! For today’s edition, the Trailer Kitties took a special trip to old Transylvania. Let’s see what they brought back!
1) Dracula (1931)
2) Dracula’s Daughter (1936)
3) Son of Dracula (1943)
4) House of Dracula (1945)
5) Horror of Dracula (1958)
6) Son of Dracula (1973)
What do you think, Trailer Kitty?
Bad trailer kitty!
Halloween’s almost here and it’s time for the Great Pumpkin to bring gifts to all the good boys and girls of the world. Never stop believing, Linus.
