Herbert West Re-Animated in Action Figure Form

From Figures.com:

Retailer and toy developer Amok Time surprised NYCC attendees with the announcement that they have acquired the license for RE-ANIMATOR. The license includes both the original 1985 film, as well as the 1990 sequel, Bride of Re-Animator. Amok Time will be producing THREE (3) action figures of Herbert West as part of their Monstarz collection. These are being sculpted by talented artist Jean St. Jean and are all scheduled for release in the Fall of 2014. Amok Time wouldn't give specifics on each figure aside that Herbert in the poster above is an obvious choice as one figure. each figure will include accessories and other cool pack-ins (such as the wild flying bat head from "Bride"). Amok Time will be showing at this year's Toy Fair in February and should have some prototypes to show by then. Great news for fans of classic 80's horror!

Waxwork Records Debuts With Richard Band's Re-Animator

Newly formed label Waxwork Records is now taking preorders for their first release, a limited vinyl edition of Richard Band's classic Re-Animator soundtrack. Featuring gorgeous Gary Pullin artwork with Dr. Hill, Dan, Megan and that bastard West. It's some of the best Re-Animator artwork I've seen, we need this on a shirt at once.

RE-ANIMATOR - $25

 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed and conducted by Richard Band.

Mastered for vinyl from original master tapes.

Pressed on 180 gram green vinyl and randomly inserted Glow In The Dark vinyl variants.

Original artwork (Jacket, Inner Sleeve, Poster, and Center Labels) by Ghoulish Gary Pullin.

Liner notes by director Stuart Gordon and composer Richard Band.

18″ x 24″ poster included.

Ships July 30, 2013.

Macabre Movie Poster Madness - American Horror: Japanese Style

I think my favorite country for movie posters just might be Japan. I like posters that are a bit out of the ordinary and Japan can tend to get really out there with their designs. I especially like what they were doing with American horror films in the 70s and 80s. A lot of the time the posters are like very chaotic collages - movie stills, art from other posters for the film, and Japanese characters splattered seemingly randomly around. It's fascinating really, I could look at them for hours.

The Evil Dead. This poster damn near out-kitsches Army of Darkness' Japanese poster. Not nearly as cool as the one for AOD (and really, what could be?), but this thing is still absolutely bananas.

Now a hysterical poster from John Carpenter's Halloween. At first glance, this poster is fairly kick ass. It's simplistic, but very moody and sinister at the same time. But wait! Take a look a Mikey's face. Whoops! I like to imagine this guy was just really blitzed while he was painting this at the last minute, desperate to make a deadline and he just accidentally went a little too "bulgey-eyed puppet man" with his depiction of Michael Myers.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The collage-like design really works quite well here. Like a page from some demented scrapbook that might've been kept on the premises of the Sawyer compound. What all the Japanese stuff would be doing on there, I do not know, but you see what I'm saying.

Re-Animator - A masterful classic, brimming with severed head eroticism. Gotta love the blood splatter to hide Barbara's business. I don't know if that's supposed to be funny, but....

Carrie - I've got no comment on this one, but I figured the post would look odd without something other than the title here.