Horror
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #273: Baby, You’re a Haunted House
Houses are haunted by what we leave behind in them. For instance, a house I used to live in is haunted by the collection of coolers we accidentally left in the attic. In another instance, a house may be haunted by the giant machine designed to peer into the afterlife and make contact with the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #487: The Changeling
Edwige, my steadfast kangaroo companion, had once again returned to me. She held a a giant key ring in her mouth and dropped it in front me. The key had a horse skull carved at the end of it and I marveled at its craftsmanship. The Revenging Manta stirred again and slowly opened his eyes.… Continue reading
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101 Horror Nights #4
with your host, Dmetri Kakmi The Old Dark House 1932, USA Director: James Whale Cast: Ernest Thiseger, Gloria Stuart, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton It is hard to know where the horror film would be without gay filmmakers. Perhaps not surprisingly, homosexual men have found a home in the codified language of horror, opening new doors, founding surprising… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #453: Night of the Living Dead (1990)
“It’s a zombie! It’s a zombie,” the ski-masked punk yelled as he tried to wrestle free from the clutches of a corpse I had on display in the Museum of Schlock. The other gang members were busily trying to crucify the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, to a wall in the exhibit.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #452: Night of the Living Dead
The ski-masked punk started slicing the neck of the corpse with his free hand. The fingers on his other hand were stuck in the corpse’s mouth due to a supposed muscle spasm triggered in the deceased man. He kept hacking away at the neck to no avail. As he was about to take another slice,… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights #3
with your host, Dmetri Kakmi Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931, USA Director: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Frederick March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Edgar Norton On a recent visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, I stayed in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Georgian terrace. It was grand, to say the least. From my room in the upper reaches of the house… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #450: Road Games
At the same time members of the Goose Lord Gang were trying to crucify the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilant of downtown Orlando, to a wall in the exhibit for Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, a punk in ski mask was taking a closer look at the corpse I had on display in the exhibit. He stuck… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #449: Killer Party
Where was I? Right. A few punks were messing around with a corpse I had on display in my exhibit of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond at the Museum of Schlock. They removed the spikes that attached the corpse to a facsimile of a basement wall. With no more support, the corpse slumped to the ground.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #448: The Vagrant
A group of punks dragged the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orland, into my exhibit of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond. One encphlitic punk whipped the limp body of the Revenging Manta with a chain. Another guy in a ski mask mocked my display of the ungodly warlock Schweick. I had a sign warning customers… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights #2
with your host, Kount Dmetri Kakmi The Phantom of the Opera 1925, USADirector: Rupert JulianCast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry The history of the horror film is the history of the ugly and the deformed. In the outer reaches of the human mind, to be unsightly is to be monstrous and evil. If you are… Continue reading
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