Remake of the Demons

I love Night of the Demons, Night of the Demons 2 and Monica Keena, so Monica Keena in a Night of the Demons should be okay, right?

Hey, at least it can't be any worse than Night of the Demons 3.

Mary Shelley Overdrive - Learn Karate

I just received a very exciting email from The Manchester Morgue's favorite band Mary Shelley Overdrive. I'll let the email do the talking:

"Here it is ... Learn Karate, a new full-length LP from Mary Shelley Overdrive. This is a FREE compilation of outtakes, demos, interviews and bootleg-quality live recordings. As with our other freebies, you share this music however you want. Post it, e-mail it, stream it, etc.

Learn Karate runs 59 minutes and has 21 tracks. Inside the ZIP bundle is a TXT file with notes on each song, an MP3-file sized cover, a printable cover and a PDF scrapbook of band photos.

This is a grab-bag collection of random songs recorded over the last two years, so expect a disjointed feel. Some of the tracks have less-than-perfect sound quality."

Phelpster says check it out (especially The God In The Bowl, my personal favorite of the bunch), and be sure to share it wherever you see fit:

Now...The World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets Can Be Yours!

1. I Heart Cthulu
2. Spider On The Ceiling
3. Dread Media Interview
4. The Siege and Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle at Weisseria
5. Birmingham Jail
6. Dinner With Drac
7. A Word From Our Sponsor
8. Dread Media Interview #2
9. The God In The Bowl
10. We Heart Music Interview #1
11. Pornstar 80 (Stardust Demo)
12. One Quarter, One Play (8-Bit Kill Screen Version)
13. The Tomb of Dracula
14. We Heart Music Interview #2
15. Zombie Apocalypse Blues
16. Murderworld USA
17. Charlie's Angels (Live)
18. Jack The Ripper (Live)
19. Pornstar 80 (Live)
20. The Devil You Know (Live)
21. Science Fiction Double Feature

Three Dimensions of Pete Walker

I haven't made a poster post in a while, so here are a couple Pete Walker one-sheets, and a couple of Pete Walker ads from some old issues of Fangoria.

The Flesh and Blood Show - With Free Blood-Proof Smock!

Three Dimensions of Greta

House of Whipcord

Schizo

Note the tagline from Schizo; "When the left hand doesn't know who the right hand is killing!". Now that is a tagline. Hilarious.

Hugo Montenegro - Lady in Cement

This is Hugo Montenegro's score from the 1968 Gordon Douglas film Lady in Cement starring Frank Sinatra and Raquel Welch. Douglas had a pretty eclectic directing resume; starting with some Little Rascals films, then onto Zombies on Broadway, Them! (in my opinion, one of the finest of the giant creature pictures), In Like Flint, Slaughter's Big Rip Off, and finishing off his career with Evel biopic Viva Knievel.

1. Lady In Cement (04:07)

2. Jilly's Joint (02:17)

3. Kit (01:46)

4. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (01:28)

5. Yale's Pool Room (03:13)

6. The Shark (03:04)

7. Tony's Theme (01:36)

8. Give Me The Simple Life (01:13)

9. Ruby's Burlesque (03:01)

10. Again (03:04)

11. Sugar Seymour (02:46)

12. Tony's Theme (alternate version) (02:20)

13. Lady In Cement (alternate version) (02:46)

14. Interview with Raquel Welch and Dan Blocker (10:01)

The original cover is above, but I was bored and tried to whip up my own cover for the hell of it. That can be seen below:

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Adam Gorgoni - Candyman 3: Day Of The Dead

This is Adam Gorgoni's score from Candyman 3: Day of the Dead. Directed by Turi Meyer who wrote such gems as Chairman of the Board and Leprechaun 2 (which was apparently called One Wedding and Lots of Funerals on the UK video release - can any Britlanders out there confirm this?)

Bonus points to the composer for having the word "Gorgon" in his name.

01. Main Title (03:19)

02. Flashback/Love Theme (02:09)

03. First Death/Aftermath (03:12)

04. The Hallway (01:46)

05. It Was Him (02:04)

06. Are You OK (00:56)

07. Abuela (02:31)

08. A Brief Romance (02:56)

09. Tamara Dies (01:57)

10. The Warehouse (01:50)

11. The Goths Die (03:09)

12. Finale (05:30)

13. Epilogue (02:13)

Blood is sharper than the blade.

Is it just me or is "Blood is sharper than the blade" the worst tagline ever? I've seen thousands of silly or corny taglines, but this one doesn't even make sense.

Introducing The Manchester Morgue's Completely Optional Donate Button

I'm seeing more and more bloggers putting up their little Paypal Donate buttons, so I thought I might as well give it a shot. This is, of course, entirely optional for anyone. If you're making more money than you need, you like my site and want to throw a couple of dollars towards it, that's great. If not, that's great too.

I'd considered this before, but I felt it seems a bit like begging. Not outright "hey man, do you have any change so I can buy a sandwich" begging, more like "guy playing a saxaphone while collecting donations in his upturned hat" kind of begging. Begging, but with a service attached. But now, with my current job/car situation I have to try and pull in a bit of extra income however I can.

I know, it seems weird to add the donate button now that I haven't had an actual post in about 2 weeks, but rest assured I am ready to get back into action and start posting regularly again, probably starting today.

I'm Not Dead

And neither is the site. Just letting everyone know, I do not plan on stopping the site or anything. The past two weeks or so have been absolute bastards for me. Last week I was hit with another trojan. This time from a fake Facebook email sent by someone who had gotten into my friend's sister's account somehow. Goddamn internet.

Then this week my car bites the dust, which has left me scrambling to find another car. Not a huge deal, unless, like me, you are completely broke. It's been one massive panic attack of a week for me. The stress of this situation has taken at least 5 or 6 years off of my life.

Anyway, hope everyone has an extra ghoulish time tonight. Sorry I don't have any cool Halloween related stuff to post, but I will be back to posting once I get this car situation figured out.

For now, please enjoy this conceptual design from the upcoming remake of Pumpkinhead.*

*Kidding.

Elmer Bernstein - Report to the Commissioner (FLAC)

This is Elmer Bernstein's soundtrack for the 1975 film Report to the Commissioner. Includes cover scans.

In a first for this site, this album is presented in FLAC format. That means great sound quality, but it also means big ass files. Close to 400 MB worth. To those of you opposed to FLAC, I'll work on a 320 MP3 version and get it up tomorrow. But for any of you who can't wait can just download these and, if necessary, convert them quickly and easily using a program like Foobar2000.

Track listing

1. Bo (01:05)

2. Main Title (01:12)

3. Untitled (01:56)

4. 3M1 (01:13)

5. 3M3/4M1 (02:39)

6. Know It (01:44)

7. Big Stick (03:07)

8. No Way Out (02:35)

9. False Time (02:42)

10. Street Walk (02:40)

11. Bo’s Walk (00:55)

12. Times Square Gospel (02:46)

13. Post Time (00:41)

14. Watch And Wait (01:32)

15. Joey’s Chase (03:08)

16. Stick Chase (03:45)

17. Confrontation (00:35)

18. Waiting (00:30)

19. Save Bo (01:22)

20. 12M3 (01:05)

21. 13M1 (00:45)

22. Crawl (02:36)

BONUS TRACKS:

23. Source (Stereo) (03:06)

24. Over The Hump (Stereo) (02:54)

25. 10M1 (Stereo) (02:55)

26. Loving You Gets Better With Time (03:44)

27. Frame Of Mind (02:59)

28. Changes (06:24)

Total Duration: 01:02:35

Credit to the original ripper/uploader.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Episode 508 Operation Double 007

This is Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 508, featuring the Lip-Reading/Hypnotist/Doctor/Spy film Operation Double 007. This "not at all a James Bond ripoff" film stars Sean Connery's brother Neil Connery as...wait for it... Dr. Neil Connery. I didn't think it was legal to play a character named after yourself if you're not playing the character as yourself. Well, outside of a TV show, at least. For example, Drew Carey was called Drew Carey on his show even though the character was not the Drew Carey. But I don't think I've seen this in a movie before.

Still with me? Not only did they get Bond's brother, they even managed to get Miss Moneypenny herself Lois Maxwell on board - as Ms. Maxwell. What the hell? Twice? Really?

The bad news, the movie is, as you'd imagine, pretty awful. The good news, more hot broads than you can count. Sometimes dressed as cats, even, if that does something for you. The producers (and four writers) knew this film was a turd and filled the screen with as many attractive women as they could.

I've made it clear many times that I'm a Mike preferer, but I laughed my ass off at this Joel episode. A lot. This movie, while being a turd, is rather entertaining, and the MST guys seem to have really had a lot of fun with this one. I highly recommend any fan of the show grab this at once.

As an added bonus for this episode, regular visitors of the site will be excited to see both Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai's names in the opening credits of the film.

Now with 100% more Rapidshare links!

Katherine Hepburn is the Shakiest Gun In The West (Megaupload Link)

Remake Crazies

And now, The Crazies has a remake trailer. What is this, the 4th remake of a George Romero film? What's next, Knightriders?

The trailer kinda starts off looking like "Stroke Victims: The Movie" in a couple of scenes but it does end with some decent looking zombie onslaught action, so at least there's that. I'm taking a point off for the completely awkward use of Gary Jules cover of Mad World towards the end. A fine cover, but it does not work at all with the images onscreen. In fact, it works so little with the images onscreen that it kind of makes everyone involved look like a bunch of assholes.

Just One Of The Unleashed

2 posts ago I mentioned Just One of the Guys and Unleashed as soundtracks that were not downloaded in 2 years. Turns out there was a reason. I had the links up on HideURL, which doesn't exist anymore. I had just forgotten to fix the links, but I've fixed them, now and those of you that need them can get Just One Of The Guys and/or Unleashed.

I was sick of seeing the old amateur hour CD cover I had designed for Just One Of The Guys so I also went ahead and finally made a slightly less amateur looking CD cover for it.

House of Hammer/Halls of Horror 21-30

Here is the last of the House of Hammer issues. They eventually changed the title to Halls of Horror, but it's still the same magazine. I realize the covers aren't in order, Blogger uploads pictures so that the first picture in the list is the first to appear on the post. Meaning that it will be at the bottom. I'm too lazy to fix it right, but I doubt anyone will really care much.

Links, you will need both parts:
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A Remake On Elm Street

We have a trailer. Looks pretty decent, some of the shots of Freddy in the shadows are very striking, but I'm not too sure about the one actual face shot we get at the end. He looks almost...cute? Like a burnt muppet or something. I can't quite put my finger on it, but he looks like a cute loveable character I've seen before.

Balls

Some kind of irritating news coming from Rapidshare today.



Right now I've got about 36 GB of stuff, so some stuff is certainly going to get dropped once this policy kicks in. So, be sure to download everything you must have now, and every 80 days or so tell a friend to stop by and download everything I have on the site uploaded to Rapidshare. As some of you have probably noticed, I'm not usually the quickest reuploading guy, I'm usually at work, or laying around the house recovering from getting my ass kicked at work. So if something goes down I might not get around to putting it back up too quickly.

Looking at my links, most of them are still downloaded pretty frequently, so it shouldn't effect this site too much. However, here are a few that have not been downloaded in a year or two:

Unleashed
Abre Los Ojos
Bittersweet Life
Jet Black Berries - Desperate Fire
Just One of the Guys

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Episode 1012 Squirm

I haven't put any Mystery Science Theater up in quite some time, so here is the 12th episode of the final season. This is their take on Jeff Lieberman's Squirm. A tale of a dorky scrawny city boy and his daft scrawny bumpkin girlfriend in a fight against mutant earthworms - occasionally portrayed by spaghetti noodles. There's also a burly mildly retarded Steve Young/Alvin The Chipmunk looking man, who may or may not be a rapist, depending on what part of the movie you're at. Is he dumb and socially awkward, or is he a sex offender with a record? The movie didn't seem to know, why should we?

In addition, we also get a hilarious short called A Case of Spring Fever in which an obnoxious demonic sprite named Coily shows an obnoxious old moron I think was named Joe - because in the 50's everyone was named Joe - just how important springs are to the world. Turns out, without them the world would cease to function.

This was the second to last episode of the show and the riffing is as strong as ever. I could be biased, Mike episodes with crappy 70's-80's horror/monster movies were always my favorite. I think if you liked Boggy Creek II, or A Touch of Satan you should certainly get a kick out of this one. Come for the over the top southern accents, stay for the legendary "worm in my egg cream" scene.

Mr. Beardsley?

Interesting thing about this movie, it being shown on MST really pissed off director Jeff Lieberman. Jeff was apparently displeased with his film being shown on MST because "you can't goof on what's already a goof". I've seen Squirm, and if it was supposed to be intentionally comical - a "goof" if you will - some wires must've gotten crossed somewhere because it's not. Maybe in theory it's funny. Take the "creatures run amok" formula, except instead of a killer shark or a big ass grizzly, what if it were something harmless, like regular sized worms. That can roar for some reason. However the actual movie just seems like a regular fairly dull creature picture that just happens to be funny because it's kinda stupid.

I'm not trying to sound like a dick or anything here. I respect him as a filmmaker - Blue Sunshine, Just Before Dawn and Remote Control are all very entertaining - I'm just saying I didn't think Squirm was a goof. Either way, the movie does have a pretty metal poster.

Henry Gibson - September 21, 1935 - September 17, 2009

Henry Gibson September 21, 1935 - September 17, 2009

There have been a lot of celebrity deaths lately, but this one really got to me. Maybe because I used to watch Henry on Laugh-In with my Grandfather when I was a kid and it's reminding me of him. Or maybe because The 'Burbs was my favorite movie until I was about 11. Probably a combination of the two.

He's one of the few guys who I feel the need to yell out the name of when I see them in a movie. I'm pretty sure I did this in the theater during Wedding Crashers. Him and Udo Kier. Udo wasn't in Wedding Crashers, I mean I yell out his name during movies also.

I think a week-long movie watching marathon tribute dedicated to Henry is in order for us all. Some possible choices:

Blues Brothers
The Halloween That Almost Wasn't
Innerspace
The Long Goodbye
Monster in the Closet
The 'burbs
Wedding Crashers

Mummies, Humanimals and Frankenstein are all inside of the House of Hammer

Okay, another huge break from posting. This one wasn't my fault (entirely). Let me explain.

I've never really been a fan of Megadeth. Dave Mustaine's usually ridiculous vocals always kill the music for me. But their early albums are always on "best thrash album" lists, and I'm a laid back dude, I'm willing to give a band I don't like a second chance. But since I'm not a fan, I thought I'd just download an album or two to see if my opinion had changed. I know, I know, downloading readily available music is bad, but spending money on music you might hate is worse. So I clicked on the first Blogger site I saw, found a couple albums to check out and clicked the link. The site I found it on didn't use one of the major downloading services, but I've always had good luck with not having anything really bad happening to me when downloading. The next thing I know, Bam!

Trojan.

Computer turns itself off. I get the computer back up, run like 4 different anti-virus/anti-malware/etc. programs. I am able to kill most of the problems but this one son of a bitch will. Not. Die. Somehow killing the others off just makes this one stronger. Now I can't get Firefox to open. I can't get Opera to open. I'm stuck using IE, for god's sake. Now none of the anti-virus programs will stay open for more than 5 seconds. Whoever developed this trojan (Dave Mustaine, I'm looking in your direction), good job, you win. You murdered my computer.

The moral of the story, I guess, would be "Don't illegally download music". However, we all know we're going to end up doing it at some time for some reason, so when you must download music steer clear of non-Rapid, Mega, Mediafire, and maybe 4shared links for downloading.

Luckily Nero is somehow unaffected by this, so at least I don't lose all of my files. So, I had to go in, back up a shit-ton of files (I had almost 8GB of Photoshop DVD cover related files alone) and eventually go in there and completely format the hard drive. Damn you Dave Mustaine.

Anyway, I'm back up and running, so here are issues 14-20 of House of Hammer. I believe the cover for issue 14 has the only known painting of a caveman getting hit in the crotch by a dancing tyrannosaurus. So it's got that going for it. Also, issue 18 wins the award for "Worst Werewolf". Drunken Security Guard Werewolf from the 1996 movie Werewolf step aside.

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People have been clamoring for more Mystery Science Theater, so stayed tuned for that. And by the way, the feds have put the kibosh on my Tokyo Gore Police OST post, so sorry to anyone who missed it, but I'm not going to try and post it again.

House of Hammer Magazine 8-13

Here are 6 more issues of House of Hammer Magazine. Featuring comic adaptations of several classics like Plague of the Zombies, Curse of the Werewolf and The Gorgon, among others. I've gotta say I love the many Frankensteins, young and old, featured on the cover of issue 12. That would make for a cool shirt. See:

I'd also love to see an updated painting, featuring everyone to ever play a Frankenstein monster. Blackenstein, Herman Munster, Frank N. Stein from the old Monster Squad show, the Little Person Frankenstein from Full Moon's The Creeps, the Frankenstein that versed Dracula in Dracula vs. Frankenstein... I mean everybody. It would be a pretty huge painting, I think about 600 different guys have portrayed some kind of variation of Frankenstein's monster over the years. If only I could paint....

Get Hammered

They Call Me Dr. Giggles

This is Dark Horse's 2-issue adaptation of the 1992 medical-slasher-comedy Dr. Giggles. Check them out, you'll be in stitches. Ha.

And I just happen to have the perfect music to put on while you read, located here.

Spring Break - Bootleg Commentary Track

A couple weeks ago Anchor Bay released the classic 1982 Sean S. Cunningham comedy Spring Break starring David Knell, Jayne Modean and a dude who looks a lot like Ray Liotta with feathered hair. While AB did a great job on the transfer and everything, they failed to check and see if the cast of Spring Break might be interested in doing a commentary track.

Turns out, yes. Yes they would.

But since nobody from AB bothered to ask them, they've went out and recorded one themselves, guerrilla. "They" being David Knell, Jayne Modean, Perry Lang, Steve Bassett and Jeff Garlin. Yes, Jeff Garlin. He was only in the movie for a minute, (as a guy called Gut Gut) so I think it's pretty awesome that he'd be willing to join in on the commentary.



The asking price is $3.99, and I'll let David Knell explain why you should buy this commentary:


Those interested should click here to check it out. And, don't forget, I do have the soundtrack available to download, if you haven't already.

Maurice Jarre - The Loves of Isadora

This is the soundtrack from the 1968 film The Loves of Isadora (also known as Isadora), the Oscar nominated film based on the life of ballet dancer Isadora Duncan.

1. Main Title (02:02)
Maurice Jarre
2. Bye Bye Blackbird (01:01)
R.Henderson-M.Dixon
3. Symphonie No.7 Beethoven 1st (01:56)
Beethoven;arranged by Anthony Bowles
4. Symphonie No.7 Beethoven 2nd (02:39)
Beethoven;arranged by Anthony Bowles
5. Brahms 1st Symphony (03:15)
Brahms
6. La Belle est en ce Jardin d'amour (00:33)
Trad.
7. J.S.Bach Suite No.4 (01:15)
J.S.Bach
8. Wedding March (00:45)
arranged by Anthony Bowles
9. Chidren Death (02:58)
Maurice Jarre
10. Symphony No.2 in B (01:47)
Borodin
11. Sredi Dalyinya Rovniya (03:00)
arranged by Anthony Bowles
12. Kalyinka (03:03)
arranged by Anthony Bowles
13. Marche Slav (01:44)
Tchaikovsky;arranged by Anthony Bowles
14. Habanera (00:54)
Bizet
15. Isadora Tango (00:49)
Anthony Bowles
16. Playout Isadora (00:26)
Maurice Jarre

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House of Hammer

I want to apologize for the severe lack of updates I've had here lately. Between a lack of much new music to upload, a bad legitimate appreciative reader post/Japanese porno-spam post ratio (about 4 spam comments for 1 real comment) and a general lack of interest in doing...well...just about anything really, it's been hard for me to get around to posting as much as usual. I've felt kind of off for the past couple of months, not quite sure why really, but I'm going to try and snap out of my weird funk and get back into things. I will at least try and get up more than one post a week.

So, here are the first seven (7) issues of The House of Hammer, Hammer Film Production's very own magazine. Part Creepy style comics, part Famous Monsters style articles/movie reviews - all based on Hammer films. Well, mostly, Vinnie Price and Bruce from Jaws both appear on covers later on in the series, so they do mix it up a bit.

These were found on Demonoid, can't remember the name of the uploader/scanner, but obviously huge thanks to them, without whom this post would not be possible.

I actually can't find much info on this series, a lot on the Hammer House of Horror television series, not a lot on the magazine. I did find this page, on a very cool site called Monster Magazines (which is regrettably shutting down soon it seems). I believe I have the entire run, which was 30 issues, if I'm not mistaken. So, leave a comment if you enjoy House of Hammer, and I can get the rest up here soon.

Stop! Hammer Time (Too obvious?)

Bruno Nicolai - Il trono di fuoco

This is Bruno Nicolai's music from the 1970 Jesus Franco film Il trono di fuoco. Released under several alternate titles over the years; Night of the Blood Monster, Throne of the Blood Monster, Trial of the Witches, Witch Killer of Broadmoor... It was released on DVD in the US by Blue Underground with the title The Bloody Judge.

Not my rip, so thanks to the original ripper/uploader.

1. Il Guidice Sanguinario (02:27)

2. Tragico Incantesimo (04:07)

3. Occhi Fiammanti (02:07)

4. Incontro Segreto (03:25)

5. Triste Incontro (02:43)

6. Sangue E Amore (02:00)

7. Giustizia Sia Fatta! (03:17)

8. Uomini Al Bando (00:58)

9. Giorni Di Pioggia (02:33)

10. In Organo Nella Notte (01:47)

11. La Vendetta (02:33)

12. Il Giudice Sanguinario 2 (01:48)

13. Giustizia Sia Fatta! (01:30)

14. Uomini Al Bando 2 (00:57)

15. La Vendetta 2 (01:50)

16. Occhi Fiammanti 2 (01:23)

17. Il Giudice Sanguinario 2 (01:07)

18. Tragico Incantesimo 2 (00:41)

19. Uomini Al Bando 2 (00:24)

20. Sangue E Amore (Palace Dance) (01:33)

21. Il Giudice Sanguinario 2 (00:23)

22. Incontro Segreto 2 (00:34)

23. Occhi Fiammanti 3 (02:45)

24. Uomini Al Bando 3 (00:22)

25. Giustizia Sia Fatta! 3 (01:50)

26. Tragico Incatesimo 3 (00:31)

27. Il Giudice Sanguinario (Fanfare 1) (00:23)

28. Uomini Al Bando 4 (00:41)

29. Occhi Fiammanti 5 (01:39)

30. Il Giudice Sanguinario 4 (00:54)

31. Un Organo Nella Notte 2 (01:02)

32. Il Giudice Sanguinario (Fanfare 2) (00:25)

33. Uomini Al Bando 5 (00:30)

34. Il Giudice Sanguinario 5 (01:47)

35. Emen Hetan (02:01)
written by A. Nohra & B. Nicolai

Horror will hold you helpless!

Jason vs. Leatherface

This is Topps Comics' (you know, the baseball card/stale chewing gum people) 3-issue miniseries Jason vs. Leatherface. In one corner the Chainsawing Cannibal Bubba Sawyer. In the other corner, the Mongloid Marauder Jason Vorhees. Who will survive and what will be left of him? You'll have to read and find out.

Each of the 3 issues features an incredible cover by Simon Bisley with interior art by Jeff Butler. Nancy Collins is credited as the writer. Thanks to the original scanner of these issues for the scanning of these issues.

Sumbitch

For even more Jason and Leatherface fun, be sure to check out some of the fan made stuff on YouTube. Apparently, if you know two tall fat guys, live near the woods and own a hockey mask from the 70s and a chainsaw you can make your very own Jason vs. Leatherface movie.

Ron Goodwin - Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies

This is Ron Goodwin's music from the 1969 Ken Annakin film Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (aka Monte Carlo or Bust!), the sequel to Annakin's Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes.

Thanks to the original ripper/uploader.

1. Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (02:16)
(Sung by Jimmy Durante)
2. Dispatch From Monte to India (02:31)
3. Love Theme (02:07)
4. The Schickel Shamble (01:37)
(Interpolating Deutschland Uber Alles)
5. Xmas It Ain't (01:35)
(Interpolating Jingle Bells)
6. The Italians - Casanova or Malcolm - A Campbell? (01:37)
7. Three Girls From Paree (00:45)
8. The Wily Sir Cuthbert (02:30)
9. Britain Vs. Germany - A Not So Private Affair (05:38)
10. Off to Monte Carlo - Again - Or Bust (03:03)
11. They're Playing Chester's Song (02:55)
12. Dirty Work at the Chalet (02:45)
13. Can This Be the Way to Monte? (03:08)
14. Festival Time in Sicily (01:48)
15. The Last Lap (01:43)
16. Who Gets the Champagne? (03:28)
17. Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (01:32)
(Sung by Jimmy Durante)

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Uncle Buck

This is the soundtrack from John Hughes' 1989 film Uncle Buck, starring John Candy and that chick who plays the better looking mom on Yes, Dear. I was inspired to track down the music while watching it yesterday as part of my week long John Hughes memorial marathon (1 Hughes written and/or directed film a day for seven days). Friday was Weird Science, Saturday was Buck, and today was Ferris. In fact Yello's Oh Yeah from the end credits of Ferris Beuller is currently playing in the background as I write this and driving the shit out of me. Always hated that music.

In my opinion Buck is one of the better of Hughes' films, although I think Buck would've been arrested numerous times during the week he spends with the kids. You can't just go around beating up alcoholic clowns and stuffing duct-taped douchebags in your car trunk, afterall. Believe me, I know.

For some reason, during my latest viewing of Uncle Buck I kept thinking that little Maisy Russell kinda resembled Mike Patton. Anyone else seeing this, or am I an idiot?

Anyway, I found this on a random forum through Google. The site was in Spanish, and since my Spanish vocabulary is at around the 30-40 word limit I'm not sure who to credit for this, but thanks to the original uploader.

Update, this soundtrack was actually originally posted over at The Inferno Music Crypt, and was created by Phaota. So huge thanks to Phaota and The Inferno Music Crypt for ripping/sharing this first.

A lot of people hate this hat. It angers a lot of people, just the sight of it.

Zombieland Red Band Trailer (HQ)

New Red Band trailer for Zombieland. Stick it out to the end to witness the death of Ned Schneebly, on the crapper.

John Hughes - February 18, 1950 - August 6, 2009

A couple of days late with this post, but seeing how the man was responsible for making me laugh approximately 872 times over the past 20 years, I felt I still needed to remember him here, late or not.

Kids Go To The Woods... Kids Get Dead

This was released last month, somehow it slipped by me.

It look like just another modern slasher that's attempting to be a throwback to everyone's favorite slasher decade, the 1980's. What's interesting about Kids Get Dead is the way they've released it. You can purchase the DVD or a digital download here - nothing special there obviously - but they're also touring the movie, doing screenings at various theaters and including a DVD in the ticket price, plus a live performance from a band featured on the soundtrack. Sounds awesome to me. Of course I live nowhere near anywhere cool enough to have any kind of special movie screening. DVD it is for me I guess.

The DVD itself sounds really cool too, from Amazon:

"Do you remember staying up late to watch your favorite horror host on local television? With VHS tape in hand to record all the action (and hopefully not tape over anything important - like your home movies) this nearly forgotten ritual was a mainstay of our youth.

"Kids Go To the Woods... Kids Get Dead" brings back the classic slasher flick - complete with horny teenagers, worthless cops, a crazy war vet and a masked killer. Complete with VHS static, fake commercials and vignettes with horror hostess Candy Adams. It's kind of like a GRINDHOUSE for the cable/VCR generation.

It's Casey's (Leah Rudick) birthday and to celebrate her and her friends are headed to a cabin in the woods for a wild weekend of sex, drugs and partying. A crazed Killer (Joseph Campellone) has other plans for them and it's up to Casey's younger brother Scott (Andrew Waffenschmidt), aided by a mysterious novel that seems to spell out their fate, to find their only hope of survival. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply."

Asei Kobayashi & Micky Yoshino - Hausu (1977)

This is the soundtrack from the truly bizarre 1977 Japanese film Hausu. I was actually set to post the film as well, but I read that Criterion will be releasing it (awesome!) next year, so I don't want to piss those guys off. You can find it on many other sites if you know where to look, if you can't wait until they release it.

1. Main Theme 3:51
2. Buggy Boogie 4:55
3. Hungry House Blues 6:16
4. Eat 3:16
5. Sweet Dreams Of Days Gone By 1:58
6. A Letter In The Past 2:44
7. Cherries Were Made For Eating 3:23
8. Eat Eat 3:55
9. In The Evening Mist 2:28
10. Oriental Melon Man 3:16
11. Eat Eat Eat 0:52
12. Love Theme 5:33

The girls will wake up... when they are hungry.

When the DVD does come out, I urge everyone to check it out. One of the strangest movies I've ever seen, up there with the likes of Dr. Caligari. I do recommend those with epilepsy avoid the movie from the 1:10-1:14 mark because this thing goes from odd to completely apeshit towards the end there. I could see it inducing a seizure or two.

The Graves - Brian Pulido Directs

Brian Pulido (Chaos! Comics) gives movie writing/directing a shot.

Present day. Arizona. Megan and Abby Graves are inseparable sisters that couldn't be less alike. Megan just graduated ASU with a marketing degree. She's a self-assured, naturally attractive rock chick with a black belt that she likes to use. Abby just barely graduated high school. She's a cute, Hot Topic Goth who's caustic and afraid of her own shadow. They share one thing: a life-long obsession with comics and pop culture. Simply put, they are beautiful geeks. In a few days, Megan will start a new job at in New York. To send her off in style, the sisters go on a wild, pop culture bender that includes a trip to uncharted Arizona in search of a kitchy roadside attraction. Instead, Megan and Abby happen on Skull City Mine, a weather-beaten, abandoned mine town converted into a self-guided tour. But Skull City harbors terrible, vexing secrets. It appears to be haunted. Its caretakers are murderous. Victims' souls are ripped from their bodies right before their eyes, and that's only the beginning. When Megan suffers a near mortal wound, Abby must save her sister, but to do so, she must unlock the mystery of Skull City alone. Can Abby defeat the threats of Skull City and rescue Megan or are they doomed like all the other tourists before them?

While I love Bill Moseley and Tony Todd, and the lead girls in this are certainly non-ugly, I'm not too sure about this trailer. It looks like it could be decent enough, but Tony seemed to be hamming it up. A lot. Only one way to find out I guess.

I did get a kick out of the description above using the term "Hot Topic Goth". I'm thinking someone has an exclusive merchandising deal with a certain retailer. And Skull City? Isn't that where King Kong lives?

Brian seems like a really good dude though, so hopefully this works out okay for him. You can check it out at the 4th After Dark Horror Fest coming January 2010.

The Graves - Trailer
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Frédéric Talgorn - Robot Jox

This is the music from Stuart Gordon's 1990 film Robot Jox, composed by one Frédéric Talgorn and performed by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra. That's a pretty fancy group of people to have work on what is essentially Rock 'em, Sock 'em Robots: The Movie.

I would have LOVED if Mystery Science Theater would've gotten ahold of this movie. This is the type of thing Rifftrax should be doing more of, low budget horror and sci-fi made between 1971 and 1993. Sure doing mainstream "real" movies is cool, but I wish they'd mix it up a bit more and do something like this or, say, The Burning once in a while. Of course millions of people own a copy of Fantastic Four (DVD shoppers really bought into that whole "fantastic" thing), whereas maybe 12,000 people even know what Robot Jox is, so I can see why they'd stick with something a lot of people would actually own.

Track listing

1. Overture (03:35)
2. Prologue/The Battlefield (02:44)
3. Achille's Bedroom (01:38)
4. "Open Her Up!" (01:14)
5. "Crash and Burn"/Achilles vs. Alexander (06:57)
6. Achilles Leaves (01:44)
7. Fanfare for Athena/The Jock Strap Bar (03:38)
8. "Hey Jock, Old Buddy" (02:01)
9. The Traitor (01:55)
10. Alexander's Four-Legged Robot (01:09)
11. "That Won't Work"/Achilles to the Rescue (02:47)
12. Space Battle (02:24)
13. Transformation (01:07)
14. The Final Confrontation (02:34)
15. "We Can Both Live!"/End Titles (04:28)

Total Duration: 00:39:55

Part Man. Part Metal.

In Space Bastard news I've decided that as much as I like Space Bastard as a blog name, it's kind of pointless to have 2 sites. Especially being that SB is being update about once a week at this point. So I plan on kind of merging the two together. By that I mean that any stuff I would've posted there I'll just post here instead. I'll keep that site up, but for now I'll just be sticking to posting on this one.

Even More Stuff You Can't Do On Television

To honor the late Les Lye, here are some more episodes of You Can't Do That On Television, as promised. The show that guarantees more vomit jokes per minute than any other show ever made. I've put 5 up this time, not great picture quality, but certainly watchable. I'd love to post more episodes at a time but it takes sooo long to upload files this big, so hopefully a few here and there is cool with everyone. Those of you looking for more be sure to check the torrent sites out there. I go about 6 GBs of YCDTOTV on one of the sites.

The Episodes:

88 - Movies
89 - Fairytales, Myths & Legends
91 - Know-It-Alls
102 - Poverty & Unemployment
108 - Mysteries & Crimes

They're up on Megaupload, and here's a link to the folder
Link to the folder

Things you're going to want to watch for:

The Downside to Discount Plastic Surgery or I Think George Lucas Is Gonna Sue Somebody

Son of Clouseau - Hey, at least this kid's Clouseau isn't as annoying as Steve Martin's

Sir Thomas Crapper - Inventor of the Flush Toilet

Quatrogenarian Wolf

A Diet - will it hurt? Really?

How does this guy keep passing the health inspection?

Death by Smell-O-Rama - This would be funnier if you could see it


Bring Your Creepy English Daughter to Your Shift on You Can't Do That On Television Day

Rectums are no place for needles

Alasdair's T Tee - The Toughest Tee in the World

An Orange Sliming?

Maurizio Vandelli - Madeleine... Anatomia Di Un Incubo

Music from the 1974 Roberto Mauri film "Madeleine... Anatomia Di Un Incubo" ("Madeleine, Study of A Nightmare")

A1 Camille K (3:55)
A2 Dr. Jekyll (2:58)
Performer - Equipe 84
A3 Aria (0:53)
A4 Senza Senso (2:22)
A5 Clinica Fior Di Loto S.p.A (5:05)
Performer - Equipe 84
A6 Split Rock (2:34)
B1 Inseguimento (3:57)
B2 Meglio (3:27)
Performer - Equipe 84
B3 Parentesi (1:00)
B4 Ipnosi (2:37)
B5 Autostop (0:52)
B6 Incubo (3:00)
B7 Madeleine (2:30)

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Les Lye 1924-2009

From CTV Otawa:

"CTV Ottawa legend Les Lye passes away

Actor and broadcaster Les Lye passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84.

Born in Toronto, Lye came to Ottawa after graduating from Lorne Greene's Academy of Radio Arts in 1948.

He joined CFRA Radio, where he served listeners for more than a decade. It was at CFRA, that he worked with Rich Little and they collaborated on a comedy album, 'My Fellow Canadians' - a spoof of the Diefenbaker years.

In 1961, he joined CJOH-TV as a freelance writer and performer. It was here, that he forged a long-lasting partnership with Bill Luxton. Together, they created the popular 'Willy & Floyd,' which ran for more than 20 years. Such personalities as Alanis Morissette, Klea Scott, Bruno Gerussi and Margaret Trudeau would drop by for surprise guest appearances.

Opportunity knocked when producers of 'You Can't Do That on Television' were looking for a versatile actor to play the many adult "foils" for the kids. Lye answered the call and instantly became a household name around the world.

Lye is survived by his wife Johnni, three children Brett, Daralyn and Emily."

I was a huge fan of his when I was a kid since You Can't Do That on Television was on Nickelodeon very often. I'm very sad to see him go, he was always my favorite actor on the show. I'll try and get some more episodes of YCDTOT uploaded in honor of Les. Until then, I do have a few episodes already posted.

Kenji Kawai - Bloody Mallory/Samourais

Kenji Kawai's music from two films from 2002 - Bloody Mallory from France and Samourais from Spain - compiled onto one CD. It's mostly music from Bloody Mallory really, there are only 3 tracks from Samourais, totally about 8 minutes.

1. Opening Chill (02:25)
Bloody Mallory
2. The Curse (01:55)
Bloody Mallory
3. Mallory (00:39)
Bloody Mallory
4. Presbytory (01:19)
Bloody Mallory
5. Morning (01:35)
Bloody Mallory
6. Opium (02:42)
Bloody Mallory
7. Wolvering (06:48)
Bloody Mallory
8. Daze (02:45)
Bloody Mallory
9. Desire (01:30)
Bloody Mallory
10. Harmony (01:45)
Bloody Mallory
11. Fear (02:48)
Bloody Mallory
12. Carmina Belladone (01:00)
Bloody Mallory
13. Into the Darkness (03:00)
Bloody Mallory
14. Holy (00:35)
Bloody Mallory
15. Mischievous (00:28)
Bloody Mallory
16. Dashiky (00:26)
Bloody Mallory
17. Figment (00:52)
Bloody Mallory
18. Agony (02:24)
Bloody Mallory
19. Missing (00:58)
Bloody Mallory
20. Spleen (02:35)
Bloody Mallory
21. Limpopo (00:58)
Bloody Mallory
22. Voodoo (02:55)
Bloody Mallory
23. Intrust (02:40)
Bloody Mallory
24. EOS (01:34)
Bloody Mallory
25. Surprising (01:41)
Bloody Mallory
26. Time to Kill (03:37)
Bloody Mallory
27. No More Pain (03:30)
Bloody Mallory
28. Silent Nightmare (04:15)
Bloody Mallory
29. Revenge of the Dead (01:43)
Bloody Mallory
30. Prepare for the Battle (04:13)
Bloody Mallory
31. Samourais Main Title (05:02)
Samourais
32. Akemi (00:24)
Samourais
33. Project Akemi (00:54)
Samourais
34. Fight of the Samourais (01:32)
Samourais

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Hope you guys enjoy. I've got to go now and shoot an email to VH1 Classic and ask why the hell a Journey/Tesla/Def Leppard concert is on a show called "That METAL Show". I'm very confused right now. So is Eddie Trunk, apparently, he is the host of this alleged "Metal" show after all. Silly bastard.

Big Lots - Cheap Ass DVD Watch Vol. 4

Okay, I swear I don't work for this company. But their deals are getting better and better and I want to make sure the dozens (dozens!) of people who read my non-music sharing* posts can try and get in on these insane prices. I swung by yesterday and stumbled upon their latest assortment, $3 TV Box Sets, sets even better than the ones they had for $6 that I mentioned last week. I spent $45 total (well, $48 after tax) and came home with:

Something like $680 MSRP worth of discs for $45. That was pretty much all I could afford to buy yesterday, but they had a ton more. To name a few:

Adventures of Superman - All seasons
Birdman & Galaxy Trio
Flintstones S1,2,3,4,5 and 6
Jacques Cousteau River Explorations
Josie & The Pussycats
Larry King - Greatest Interviews
Lois & Clark - All Seasons
Murphy Brown
Space Ghost and Dino Boy
Tales From The Crypt S1,2,3,4,5,6 and maybe 7 (sooo glad I bought these for $20-30 a pop when they came out)

Also they have some other box sets with a $10 price point. I didn't find any of these, however a guy on a forum I go to took this picture of the $10 sets:

That NFL set has 40 discs by the way. That's gotta weigh 9 pounds. But, the best deal of all, some are finding this Looney Tunes Collection Volume 1-5 set, list price $325, among the $10 DVD sets.

If you've got a Big Lots! (not sure the exclamation in necessary) nearby, go.

*Speaking of music sharing, I know, I'll get some stuff up later today.

Vampire Tickle Fight - A Manchester Morgue Compilation

Time for another Morgue compilation. I call this one Vampire Tickle Fight. Why? Because. That's why! No, I just really felt the image of Drac and a victim to be looked more like they were engaged in a rather heavy bout of tickle fighting given that both opponents fingers are in each others armpit region - a popular tickling spot. I don't know. Either that or some kind of Amateur Vampire Chiropractory. Dammit, I think I like that better. Balls. Oh well, that doesn't really matter, the music included on the compilation is what's important. And I think you'll all enjoy at least a few of the obscure (and the some not at all obscure) songs on this comp. The tracks that make up this compilation are all songs featured in films, mostly of the horror variety, but a few 80s comedy songs are here as well.

Keep in mind, these tracks all come from a wide variety of sources - CD, LP, DVD, VHS, and maybe even LD rips - so the sound quality is going to vary from track to track. They should all be quite listenable, the only real problem is that some tracks are a lot quieter than others. I ripped some of these myself, found some on torrent sites and random Google searching. Credit and thanks go out to the people responsible for putting the others online.

The tracklist: Artist - Song Title - Film Song Is Featured In

1. Warning
2. Turbonegro - All My Friends Are Dead - Cold Prey
3. Van Stephenson - No Secrets - Secret Admirer
4. Alan Jordan - Mind To Mind - Scanners II: The New Order
5. 2 Tite - Full Moon - Murder Party
6. Terrence Mann - Power of the Night - Critters
7. Shari Belafonte - Get Dead - Midnight Hour
8. The Originals - Supernatural Voodoo Woman - Sugar Hill
9. Paul Sabu - Cassie's Song - Hard Rock Zombies
10. Gene Evaro - Oh What A Love, Oh What A Life - Mirror Mirror
11. Shandi - Living on the Edge - Making The Grade
12. Eric Troyer - This is the Love - The Night Visitor
13. Unknown Artist - Zaniac - Freak Out
14. Nuclear Assault - Something Wicked - Warlock II: The Armageddon
15. The Fontanelles - Kiss Kicker 99 - Hobgoblins
16. Crispin Clover - Ben - Willard
17. Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou - Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II
18. Showaddywaddy - Under The Moon of Love - Lesbian Vampire Killers
19. Calamari Safari - Theme from Poultrygeist - Poultrygeist
20. Detroit's Most Wanted - The Reynold's Rap - Lunatics: A Love Story

And, I've gone through and made little notes on each track below:

Turbonegro - All My Friends Are Dead from Fritt Vilt aka Cold Prey.

Van Stephenson - No Secrets from Secret Admirer. There is a soundtrack to this, but I must be losing my touch because I was unable to track it down. However, this was my favorite track from the movie, so I've included it.

Alan Jordan - Mind to Mind from Scanners 2. I had a lower quality rip of this, so I did this one myself using my R2 Scanners 2 DVD. Great song actually, check it out.

2 Tite - Full Moon from Murder Party. Not my kind of music at all, but dammit all this is a fantastic track from a rather hilarious movie.

Terrence Mann - Power of the Night from Critters. This one is pretty poor quality, but it's nearly impossible to find the full length version, so this is as good as it gets for now. I was surprised it wasn't played over the end credits, that was a hugely popular practice in the 1980s.

Shari Belafonte - Get Dead from Midnight Hour. Currently one of the most valuable Out of Print DVDs around. Starting at $129 on eBay, all the way up to $712 on Amazon. A message to the Amazon seller asking the price of a fully funtioning 1974 Gremlin for a barebones DVD of a TV movie from 1985 - Good luck, fucker!

The Originals - Supernatural Voodoo Woman from Sugar Hill. Fantastic theme song from the Zomblaxploitation classic. Raunchy and soulful, like any blaxploitation theme should be.

Paul Sabu - Cassie's Song from Hard Rock Zombies.Lovely tune, but it would've been more fitting playing over the credits of a movie called Power Ballad Zombies, or Mid-80s Puss Rock Zombies.

Gene Evaro - Oh What A Love, Oh What A Life from Mirror Mirror. Starring my favorite actress named Rainbow, Rainbow Harvest. Rainbow Ching's got nothing on Rainbow Harvest. Thanks to Vinnie for this one.

Shandi - Living on the Edge from Making the Grade, the Judd Nelson comedy from 1984. Anyone have the full soundtrack from this? Limited Edition of 1,500 was put out in 2005, couldn't find it anywhere though.

Eric Troyer - This is the Love from The Night Visitor (1989). Starring a very bearded Elliot Gould. This song, while very catchy seems a little too "wussy" for a movie about demons, hookers and ritual killings.

Zaniac! from Freak Out. Can't remember who this was credited to, fun Maniac-sounding track from the end credits of the film.

Nuclear Assault - Something Wicked from Warlock II: The Armageddon.

The Fontanelles - Kiss Kicker 99 from Hobgoblins. For me, one of the all-time most rewatchable MST episodes is show 907, featuring Hobgoblins. The Fontanelles performance was just one of many high points. The chorus from this poor song (which isn't actually too bad) is misinterpreted by Mike, Tom and Crow as everything from Pig Licker to Lick Kisser to Piss Taker....wait, that last one was mine.

Crispin Glover - Ben from Willard. I'm pretty amazed that I couldn't find this as an MP3 anywhere online. There's a creepy music video for this on the Willard DVD - which is where this rip comes from. Surprised that it wasn't all over the interweb already.

Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou from Prom Night II. Not a fan of Prom Night (boring, fun music though), but Prom Night II and the incredibly comedic Prom Night III are both a blast.

Calimari Safari - Theme from Poultrygeist. Troma's finest hour? In my opinion, yes. At the very least, this has the funniest credits I've ever seen. A sample:

Andrew Monkelban... Wheelchaired Protester (as Andy Monkelban)
Chris Sciuto ... Looks Like a Dick
Elisabeth Sobocinski ... Pretty Young Protester
A.J. Verel ... Mexican with no Greencard
Debbie Rochon ... Famous Actress Hit by Beer
Elske McCain (hey, I've traded DVDs with her) ... Naked Protester
Nick Koenig ... Inside-out Jared / Head Cracked & Brains Scrambled Victim
Joshua Samuel Strauss ... Neckbrace
Keith Godejohn ... Soccer Leg Victim
Verena Jahnke ... Face in Deli Slicer
Ian C. King ... Head Cracker & Brains Scrambler Zombie
Purple Pam Shelby ... Fake Tits Ripped Off
Kevin Barnes ... Fake Tits Eating Zombie
Justin Bivens ... Make a Wish Zombie (as Justin 'Beast' Bivens)
Ryan Mead ... Princess Chicken Zombie
Steven A. Grainger ... Drumstick Victim
Bitte Andersson ... Gives Birth to Egg
Beth Charlesworth ... Afro Zombie
Louie Podlaski ... Spineless Victim
Trevor Black ... Mohawked Zombie
Gregory Paul Smith ... Dead Zombie in the Fry Bin
Charlotte Kaufman ...Dance-off Zombie #1
Sam Anderson ... Dance-off Zombie #2
D.J. Markuson ... Eyes Pecked Out Massacre Victim (uncredited)

Detroit's Most Wanted - The Reynold's Rap from Lunatics: A Love Story. Starring one of my favorite people, the gorgeous and talented Deborah Foreman. Also featuring a manic performance from the great Ted Raimi.

Get Dead

AD Vee has supplied a better quality version of Power of the Night. Get it here. Thanks AD!

If you enjoyed this one, I've got another one in the works I like to call Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Werewolves (patent pending).

Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Black Inferno (Theme from Atlantis Interceptors)

This is Guido & Maurizio De Angelis' Black Inferno, the title track from the Ruggero Deodato film I predatori di Atlantide (aka Atlantis Interceptors, Raiders of Atlantis). Put out by Kangaroo Team Records as a 12" single in 1983, it features the theme as well as an instrumental version of the theme.

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Phelpster's Custom DVD Covers - Volume 5

With all the outrage over Amazon's choices for Night of the Creeps DVD covers (seriously, check everywhere, lots of bitching, I'm starting to feel bad for the designer) I am working on my own cover using one of the much loved original VHS covers. So I thought I'd show it off to get some feedback/ideas. And what better way to do that than another Phelpster's Custom DVD Covers post.

Remember, click on the images to be taken to the full size image on my Deviant Art page.

Up first, the Creeps.

This is actually my third cover for this movie. But I did the others a couple years ago, when I had no idea what I was doing and I'm just not happy with them. Now, I still don't quite know what I'm doing. I do a lot of flying-by-the-seat-of-my-pants winging it when I work. I just start throwing things around on a template and work it out until I like what I see. Really, you should see my layers window. Choas. However, I'm fairly happy with this one so far. I'm not quite done with it yet, but I thought I'd post it just because it's most of the way done.

And, who knows, maybe they'll catch wind of the less than stellar reception of their prposed covers and decide to just use the awesome Whitlow/Lively vs. The Legion of Undead Fratboys art after all. I'm still wondering if Sony will find a way to mention Jason Lively's relation to Blake Lively on the cover somewhere. Little sticker perhaps: "Starring the brother of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively".

Next, Deathdream

The late, the great Bob Clark directed this chilling tale back in 1974. Deathdream and Black Christmas (in my opinion, the finest of the Holiday-themed slasher pictures ever released) in the same year? Holy shit, this guy was on a roll. Anyway, Blue Underground put out a fine DVD release a few years ago, but I found this poster and it blows away the image they chose to use for their DVD. Their cover is pretty cool (despite a fairly garish front image) but his poster is too badass to ignore. Why is this image not on a shirt yet? While I was at it I kinda reworked the back cover as well.

Cannibal Girls

A film Ivan Reitman, Black Christmas star Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy would like to forget. Well, maybe not Levy. He has been in seven American Pie movies, he's a hard dude to embarrass. Note: Ignore the credits on the cover, those are from Eaten Alive which I used when making the Dark Sky template.

The Strangers

I did this cover immediately after seeing this poster on Final Girl way back before the movie even came out. Of course, as usual, the DVD comes out and they go out of their way to avoid using a great original poster image for the DVD cover. If I didn't know any better, I'd say these studios are just fucking with us. Teasing us with a cool poster, then throwing some dude who thinks he's the villain from The Town That Dreaded Sundown on the cover dragging someone by the feet with "UNRATED" splattered across the box.

Sure the UNRATED thing sells and Sack Race there is an imposing enough figure, but I just don't see how that image is better than the gray one-sheet.

Bucket of Blood

Dick Miller - one of many, many people who got their start working with Roger Corman - stars in Corman's 1959 film about talentless, and occasionally murderous artist Walter Paisley. The image I used for the front is from a poster from 1959. I thought it was interesting because the artwork was pretty similar to Daniel Clowes' style.

That's it for now. I do hope I don't come off as snotty when talking negatively about the DVD covers that studios put out. As a practicing designer I know what an absolute bitch it can be to put together a cover, even with pre-existing elements. So I mean no disrespect to any of the lucky individuals out there actually getting paid to make these things.

Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio & Vince Tempera - I Quattro Dell'Apocalisse ( Four of the Apocalypse)

Soundtrack from the 1975 Lucio Fulci directed western I Quattro Dell'Apocalisse, or Four of the Apocalypse. Music by Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio and Vince Tempera. Also featuring a few tracks from the legendary Benjamin Franklin Group. Legendary I say.

1. Movin' On (03:39)
performed by Benjamin Franklin Group
2. Death's Song (02:35)
3. Serene Moments (02:59)
4. Bunny (Let's Stay Together) (03:54)
performed by Benjamin Franklin Group
5. Farewell To The Friends (02:12)
6. On The Traces Of Chaco (01:26)
7. Slow Violence (02:11)
8. Was It All In The Vain (02:33)
performed by Benjamin Franklin Group
9. The Swindler Of The Saloon (02:54)
10. Let Us Pray (02:56)
performed by Benjamin Franklin Group
11. Chaco (01:51)
12. Stubby (You're Down And Out) (03:12)
performed by Benjamin Franklin Group
13. Bunny Love Song (01:21)
14. Reawaken From The Trip (01:32)

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