If you’ve been following our sister sites vampires.com and zombies.org, you’ve already heard about the LEGLESS CORPSE FILM FESTIVAL that I attended this past weekend (April 23rd and 24th) at the Somerville Playhouse in northern Alabama. I saw some great films, some good ones, and one trainwreck from hell. (More on that one in a…
Month: April 2016
Werewolf-ology
This could be fun. The fictitious organization FVZA, or the Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency, has released some pertinent data concerning werewolves. ‘Cause, fer realz, if you live in a world where zombies and vampires are a problem that must be dealt with, it’s a safe bet you’re gonna have some werewolf issues, too. Haven’t…
Review: BLUEBEARD: THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS (Part One)
In the interest of full disclosure, I will admit upfront that I am tooting my own horn, here. This stage play was written by yours truly, directed by yours truly, and produced by Evil Cheez Productions, my theatre company. We just finished a three-week run, and I am pleased to announce that it was a…
Review: BLUEBEARD: THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS (Part Two)
Most all my original productions these days are staged at The Historic Lowry House in Huntsville, Alabama, an antebellum mansion located in the city’s historic cotton mill area. Before Huntsville became home to NASA and started sending people to the moon, it was a cotton town, with no less than three large mills. Each mill…
Review: BLUEBEARD: THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE RAIS (Part Three)
Gilles de Rais is one of the most fascinating characters in all of history, but it isn’t surprising that so few people have heard of him. Everybody knows about Joan of Arc, even if they can’t tell you when exactly she lived or even in what war she fought or why she was burned at…
The Alabama White Thang
You can read an overview of the White Thang phenomenon at the link below. (They spell it wrong, though. It’s not “thing” but “thang.” This is Alabama, remember.) However, I thought you all might enjoy my own personal story involving the White Thang. I did not see the entity, whether cryptid or specter, myself. Nevertheless,…
It’s just a cake!
Anyone who knows me well, and any regular readers of my ramblings here on this or any of our sister sites, can tell you, Horror and food are two of my favorite things, and of the latter, I adore baked goods in particular. I’ve got a monster sweet tooth from hell, which is a sad…
Calling All Filmmakers! Are You a Horror Hound?
HORRORHOUND WEEKEND is a traveling convention, although you probably knew that already. It gets lots of press coverage. It’s a Rondo Award winner! (See this week’s post over at darkness.com for details on the Rondos, if you don’t recognize THAT name, either. You probably do. Heck, go on over to our sister site, anyway.) Anyway,…
Thrown to the Wolves. (Um, make that “Dog.”)
Seems like a lot of these type stories are cropping up as of late. Killer dog stories, people being mauled by dogs, murderers feeding victims to dogs, etc. Here’s another one for the record books. Newlywed Svetlana Batukova, a 46-year-old Russian woman, murdered her husband, 66-year-old German Horst Hans Hinkles (seriously?) and fed his remains…
Survival Tips for Dealing with Psychopaths
Psychopaths, aka Sociopaths—the latest thinking is that both a biological predisposition as well as certain environmental factors are necessary to create such an individual, and thus the two terms are being used more and more interchangeably—are, for the most part, and despite what the movies and the entertainment industry would have us all believe, NOT…