Bruce Campbell - Soup Tycoon

To honor Bruce Campbell's 52nd Birthday (which was yesterday, ooops) Sci-Fi Wire has whipped up some batches of Bruce Campbell's Soup. Okay, so they've actually just whipped up some fake labels for you to print out and put on soup cans at your house. Or as a gag - and waste of ink and photo paper - swing by your local grocer and confuse some housewife who didn't realize the Campbell soup guy's first name was Bruce.

Of course, the Bruce Campbell's soup idea has been around since whenever they made that crazy ass Captain Supermarket poster, but they a pretty spectacular job so it's okay. Plus how can you not like the idea of soups called Gumbo Ho Tep and Bisque o' County Jr?

Honestly, as a total dork, a big BC fan (Bruce Campbell, not the comic strip), a practicing graphic designer, and a guy who saw the poster years ago I'm disappointed in myself for doing these already myself. What was I thinking?!

Turkaor Soundtrack Series Vol. 1

I recently received a comment from a visitor by the name of Turkaor and in this comment Turk left a link for something called Turkaor Soundtrack Series Vol. 1. I'm a pretty curious dude so I checked it out and it's similar to some of my comps, probably more like the soundtrack sharing posts over at Hard Rock/AOR Heaven. I've gotta say, this thing rules. For example:

1. Megadeth - Crush 'em [Universal Soldier The Return]
2. Scorpions - Hit Between the Eyes [Free Jack]
3. Jeff Scott Soto - Renegade [Bad Jim] - Yngwie called, he wants his singer back.
4. Starship - We Dream in Color [Baywatch]
5. Chris Thompson - The Runner [The Philadelphia Experiment]
6. Mike Rutherford - Making a Big Mistake [Against All Odds]
7. Gary Chapman - Brave Hearts [Ernest Goes to Camp]
8. Mark Boals - Restless Heart [White Water Summer]
9. Michael Been - World on Fire [Light Sleeper](Other Version)
10. Alice COoper - I Am The Future [Class of '84]
11. James House - Born to Race [Speed Zone]
12. Steve McClintock - Maybe Love [Jetsons The Movie]
13. Eric Serra - Guns and People [Subway]
14. Melissa Manchester - Thief of Hearts [Thieft of Hearts]
15. Craig Safan - Never Crossed My Mind [The Last Starfighter]
16. Dwight Twilley - Girls [Sexy Shorts]
17. Dreamers - Kids These Days [Spring Break]
18. The Replacements - Bastards of Young [Adventureland]
19. Raymond Lam - Insufficient Love [Moonlight Resonance]
20. Laura Branigan & Joe Esposito - Come Into My Life [Coming to America]
21. Chris Thompson - Blinded by the Light [Florida Lady]
22. Desmond Child & Rouge - The Night Was Not [Times Square]
23. Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night [The Challengers]
24. Frank Carillo & Annie Golden - Waiting for Someone [Prelude to a Kiss]
25. Sara Hichman - Sensitive to Light [Arachnophobia]

See. Turk didn't say if he wanted me to share this or not, but I assume so since he sent me the link, so here is the link:

The Link

Thanks Turk, if you're out there. I - and I'm sure everyone else would love to see several more Soundtrack Series Volumes from you.

Chinese Newspaper - Master of the Flying Chop Suey Bowl or Chair-Fu

At my job, about once a week we receive a shipment of merchandise that comes wrapped in old, wrinkled up Chinese/Japanese/Indian newspapers. I am obsessed with unwrinkling these newspapers written in a language I can't read and thoroughly looking through them. Why? Because sometimes you find something like this:

Please, any Chinese (or Japanese, not quite sure, the characters look pretty similar to me) wang enlargening spam posters, for once I need you. Well, you or any actual legitimate visitors of my site who know the language. Please translate this for me. I need to know why this dude has beaned this lady in the cranium with a hot bowl of chow mein and then chased her downstairs while wielding both a knife and a chair.

The Big Tits Zombie in Pants Tightening 3-D!

Wow, this one is even more ridiculous, wacky and gory than the Robo-Geisha trailer. Well played, The Big Tits Zombie in 3-D. Well played.



The plot:
Rena Jodo (Sola Aoi) is a stripper who just got back from Mexico and she has been offered a gig at a hot spring resort. When she arrives, she finds a deserted country town. There's hardly anyone in the audience at the strip club and all the other strippers, including Ginko (Risa Kasumi), Maria (Mari Sakurai), Nene (Tamayo) and Dana (Io Aikawa) are all bored stiff. They don't know what to do with their time and they are on the verge of fighting each other.

When they decide to go down to the basement of the club to kill time, Maria finds a "Book of the Dead" near "the Well of the Spirit." But who could have imagined the horror and panic that find would bring? Maria's reading of the book out loud has somehow revived the dead and zombies start appearing all over the world attacking
mankind. It's Hell in the real world!

Dana and Nene are bitten by the zombies and they turn into living dead who attack Rena and Ginko. The poor big‐bosomed babes have no choice but to fight against Maria who now rules the zombies and tries to establish a kingdom of zombies. Rena and Ginko have to challenge Maria and the hordes of zombies! And how does the Blue Demon Devil (Minoru Torihada) fit in?

First Robocop, Then Robo Vampire...Now Robo-geisha!

From the makers of Machine Girl and Tokyo Gore Police! Fans of wacky, ridiculous, gory Japanese crap - and possibly people with a lactation fetish should take note. My copy should be here tomorrow. And If you're wondering, I'm a fan of wacky, ridiculous, gory Japanese crap, not the lactating thing. Geisha Chainsaw!

Available now at an Amazon.co.uk near you.

Macabre Movie Poster Madness - The Bloodening Part 2: Lost in New York

This is a bit of a sequel to a post I made on Space Bastard, back when I was still trying to run two blogs at once. A site that might hold a world record for Chinese wang enlargement/other non-wang enlargening medication spam comments. Seriously, this is just from one post.

Levres de Sang (Lips of Blood) - 1975. Directed by Jean Rollin

Blood Orgy of the She-Devils - 1972. Directed by Ted V. Mikels. Also known as Female Plasma Suckers. I didn't think you could top Blood Orgy of the She-Devils for a movie title, but I think Female Plasma Suckers might have done it.

Blood Beach - 1981. Directed by Jeffrey Bloom. This is a fairly awesome Italian poster that I had never seen until I was searching for posters for this post. The immature side of me would like to point out that this poster says both "tit" and "anus" on the upper left corner.

The Bloodeaters (Toxic Zombies) - 1980. Directed by Charles McCrann. I'm not exactly sure how one would eat blood. Drinking it, of course, but eating it? You'd have to make some ice cube blood popsicles, or use it like strawberry sauce on a sundae or something. But then blood isn't really a dessert, I guess it'd fall under the condiment category.

Taste The Blood of Dracula - 1970. Directed by Peter Sasdy. If anyone is interested, I'm considering cleaning this one up and bumper stickerizing it.

I hope you've enjoyed this installment of Macabre Movie Poster Madness. I'm planning on getting back into post more of the stuff I posted at Space Bastard, i.e. Posters, Trailers, Stupid old Ads featuring hockey legends hawking BB guns. You know, for kids.

I. Ron Maiden - Free El Dorado Single Download

I thought the fellow Maidenites that visit my site might be interested in this. The band is offering a free download of a new track called El Dorado from their forthcoming album The Final Frontier. Just head to their official site and click where it says to click. If you're in the US be sure to click the link that says US fans, I couldn't get the other page to load but the US page loaded right away. You'll have to sign up with your email address, but you don't actually have to opt to receive any newsletters or anything like that. I just used my standard junk mail/newletters I signed up for to receive something for free email address.

How To Destroy Angels - Free s/t EP

I thought some of you might want to check this out. How To Destroy Angels is a group formed by Trent Reznor and his wife Mariqueen Maandig and they've released their 1st EP today. You can download it for free from the How To Destroy Angels site.

If you're interested in Lossless files, you can get them, plus an HD video for The Space In Between for $2.

1. The Space in Between (3:34)

2. Parasite (5:04)

3. Fur-Lined (4:00)

4. BBB (3:31)

5. The Believers (5:36)

6. A Drowning (7:02)

The Hands That Threaten Doom - New Comp at Illogical Contraption

A little over a month ago (or 16 posts ago) I put together or "compiled" some music for a compilation called Warning, Murder In Progress for the excellent and prolific Illogical Contraption blog. I've been invited back and my follow up compilation entitled The Hands That Threaten Doom is up now for your downloading pleasure. This compilation consists of songs written about notorious murder committers, and I've put brief details of the evil-doers crimes with each track so everyone knows who everyone is.

Click here to witness - both visually and audibly - the madness.

Last American Virgin

Last American Virgin was director Boaz Davidson's remake of his own Eskimo Limon (aka Lemon Popsicle), a popular Israeli film which spawned 7 (!) sequels.

Last American Virgin is a bit of an oddity, it's a wacky comedy for the entire duration - complete with a fat kid boinking a middle aged hispanic prostitute while a comical song plays on the soundtrack - then in the last few minutes they hit our main character with a devastating emotional groin punch. And then... it just ends, no glimmer of hope for this guy or anything. Sure, it's a more realistic ending - sometimes in life, you're just gonna get screwed and there will be nothing you can do but stand there and take it. I admire the balls it took to end it like that. But, really, who watches a goofy comedy with fat kids nailing middle aged hispanic prostitutes and thinks "man, I hope I'm really bummed out and sad during the last couple of minutes of this thing."?

You want the main guy to start off cool and likable, turn into a jerk going for the hot, but incompatible friend of his equally hot, but more down to earth friend. Then you have him realize he's a jerk, redeem himself, end up with his equally hot, but more down to earth friend. Sorry, I've got Secret Admirer on my mind for some reason. Still, that's the basic formula, it's worked a thousand times without bumming everybody out.

That said, bummer ending or not, American Virgin is a pretty solid movie that I recommend checking out at least once

Rue Morgue Radio Presents Hymns From The House of Horror

"In honour of Rue Morgue's 100th issue, it gives us great pleasure to gift you, Dear Music Lovin' Reader and Web Fiend, this free, downloadable compilation album we've sacrilegiously christened Rue Morgue Radio Presents...Hymns from the House of Horror! Thousands of horror bands have graced the pages and airwaves that emanate from this unholy place over the course of thirteen years, more than 300 radio shows and 100 magazines. We put our misshapen heads together and enticed a handful of the many artists we believe best encapsulate Rue Morgue into giving us exclusive mixes, previously unreleased tracks, obscure rarities and classic cuts for this morbid mixtape, hosted by Rue Morgue Radio's proprietor of perpetual darkness, Tomb Dragomir."

Click here for a download link. Once you've secured the album, I urge you to check out Damn Laser Vampires, Cauldron, and Balzac. The band, not this thing or this John Lovitz looking fucker here.

My name is Lucio Fulci and Windows 7 was my idea?

Ronnie James Dio - July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010

Blabbermouth:

Roller Boogie - Roller Skate or Die

For my contribution to Blair Week, I've chosen to upload the soundtrack to the Roller Boogeying classic Roller Boogie from director Mark Lester (Class of 1984, Firestarter, Commando). I had never seen Roller Boogie before, but for the sake of Blair Week I sat down and checked it out so I'd have a little something to talk about here.

In Roller Boogie, Linda is Terry Barkley, a floutist turned competitive roller disco fanatic who, along with her retardedly hot friend Lana (Kimberly Beck aka Trish Jarvis from Friday the 13th IV) get sucked in the wacky, and kind of stupid world of dancing on roller skates.

Despite being a musical prodigy on her way to Juliard with supremely wealthy parents, all the semi-bi-polar Terry wants to do is skate at the boardwalk. During one of here boardwalk skates Terry catches the eye of Bobby, local Olympic roller skating hopeful (???). After a good deal of effort on Bobby's part the 2 develop a relationship while Bobby trains Terry to skate as his partner in an upcoming roller boogie competition.

Everything is fine for the new couple for about a 20-minute stretch of the movie. Of course, we need some kind of plot to make this an actual movie and that's where rink owner Jammer comes in. Seems Jammer (who would let their kids go to a place owned by a guy called Jammer?) owns the last establishment a group of mobsters need to purchase and demolish before they can build their mall. He refuses to sell, but Jammer, despite being a former roller derby champion, turns into a real pussy when a gun is pointed at his face, so he decides to sell. It's up to the kids to figure out a way to save Jammer's or else they'll have to skate at one of the 20 other roller skating places at Venice Beach in 1979.

Featuring a colorful cast of characters with names like Phones (head, not rotary or pay), J.D. The DJ, and Complete Control Conway Roller Boogie is every bit as corny as it's title would make it seem. However, if you can get through the absurd amount of roller skate themed padding, there's actually a fairly fun late 70's teen comedy here.

Of course, you'd expect a roller skate movie from the 70's to have a pretty bitchin' soundtrack, and this one delivers the bitchin-ness

Hell On Wheels - Cher

Good Girls - Johnnie Coolrock

All For One, One For All - Mavis Vegas Davis

Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions

We Got The Power - Ron Green

Top Jammer - Cheeks

Summer Love - Bob Esty

Takin' Life In My Own Hands - Ron Green

Elektronix (Roller Dancin') - Bob Esty & Cheeks

Cunga - Bob Esty (Instrumental)

Evil Man - Mavis Vegas Davis

Lord Is It Mine - Bob Esty

Rollin' Up A Storm (The Eye Of The Hurricane) - Bob Esty

The Roller Boogie - Bob Esty

Love Fire - Bob Esty & Michele Aller

Bonus Tracks

Git Down (Guitar Groupie) - Cher

Hell on Wheels (12 inch version) - Cher

Night Dancer - Jean Shy

Our colleagues are bringing fresh Linda related content all week long:

Monday May 10:

Lost Video Archive - Savage Streets
Satan's Hope Chest - Chained Heat and Savage Island

Tuesday:
Camp Movie Camp - Grotesque
The Horror Section - Hell Night
Full Moon Reviews - Bailout

Wednesday:
Illogical Contraption gets Repossessed
Lines That Makes Things drops original Linda inspired artwork
Breakfast In the Ruins - Exorcist II

Thursday:
B Movies and Beyond - Summer of Fear
Camp Movie Camp - Nightforce

Friday:
The Manchester Morgue - Roller Boogie
Happy Otter - The Chilling
Ninja Dixon - The Witchery

Saturday:
Lost Video Archive - Born Innocent
Unflinching Eye wraps it up with a look at Linda's fall from grace.

Blair Week Schedule

In collaboration with a selection of the finest film blogs the infranet has to offer The Manchester Morgue is proud to contribute to Blair Week, a six day extravaganza expounding on the virtues of Linda Blair and her legacy of quality motion pictures.

Our colleagues are bringing fresh Linda related content all week long:

Monday May 10:

Lost Video Archive - Savage Streets
Satan's Hope Chest - Chained Heat and Savage Island

Tuesday:
Camp Movie Camp - Grotesque
The Horror Section - Hell Night
Full Moon Reviews - Bailout

Wednesday:
Illogical Contraption gets Repossessed
Lines That Makes Things drops original Linda inspired artwork
Breakfast In the Ruins - Exorcist II

Thursday:
B Movies and Beyond - Summer of Fear
Camp Movie Camp - Nightforce

Friday:
The Manchester Morgue - Roller Boogie
Happy Otter - The Chilling
Ninja Dixon - The Witchery

Saturday:
Lost Video Archive - Born Innocent
Unflinching Eye wraps it up with a look at Linda's fall from grace.

Sure, my post isn't for another 4 days, but I wanted to post this now so everyone can get the most out of this week of Blair related posts.

Frank Frazetta - February 9th, 1928 - May 10th, 2010

Frank Frazetta, whose work frequently graced the cover of Creepy and Eerie (among many other comics), has died at the age of 82. I've been a big Frazetta fan since my uncle gave me a ton of Warren comics when I was about 7 years old, so this is absolutely terrible news.

The full story can be read here:

Machete - Trailer 2010

After 3 years or so, it looks like the rumored Machete film might actually be close to being released. Granted, this is mostly the same as the trailer from the beginning of Grindhouse, but there's plenty of new footage added featuring a fairly star studded cast. Seriously, they've managed to get Steven Seagal, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan, Michelle Rodriquez and Robert Goddamn DeNiro. Pretty impressive for something that was initially done as a joke.

Mad Twists Rock 'n' Roll

The Mad Disco album proved to be super popular (downloads wise at least, not much in the comment department) so here's another Mad album, Mad Twists Rock 'n' Roll, released in 1962.

Your track list:

• (Throwing The) High School Basketball Game
• (She Got A) Nose Job
• Please, Betty Jane (Shave Your Legs!)
• Somebody Else's Dandruff (On My Lover-Baby's Shirt)
• Blind Date (Yaaaaaaahhh!)
• Agnes (The Teenage Russian Spy)
• Let's Do The Pretzel (And End Up Like One!)
• (Even If I Live To Be 22) I'll Always Remember Being Young
• (He Fell In Love With Me) When My Pimples Turned To Dimples
• She's A Serious (Yeah-Yeah!) Teenager In Love
• (All I Have Left Is) My Johnny's Hub Cap
• I Found Her Telephone Number Written On The Boys Bathroom Wall

Madlinks

Brian Posehn - Fart & Wiener Jokes Streaming

Brian Posehn, one of my favorite comedians, has released his second CD entitled Fart & Wiener Jokes. Being the metal dude that he is he is streaming his entire album for free right here.

The album was put out by Relapse Records (their first comedy release?), and is available in an absurd variety of exclusive package deals. I chose this one. Sure it says "fart" and "wiener" on the shirt, something someone with my level of sophistication normally wouldn't wear, but any shirt with an impaled Carrot Top and Peanut on it is okay in my book.

Mummy Came In My Room - A Manchester Morgue Compilation

Here's my latest compilation featuring 19 songs that appeared in various genre films. Some obscure, some not so obscure. I call it Mummy Came In My Room. Thanks to Eugene for inspiring the title.

I've made two covers for this one. The first, using a lovely piece of artwork from the film Wrestling Women vs. The Aztec Mummy. The second, a racy "Adults Only" version with topless hooters and a boogieing down mummy.

The tracklist (Artist - Song Title - Film in which song appears)

• Mike Armstrong - House of the Devil theme - House of the Devil
• Greg Stone - Here in the Darkness - Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama
• I'm A Monster - Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein
• Lectro Shock - Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein
• Carol Browning - Edge of Forever - The Forest
• Cocco - Lay Down My Arms - Kairo (Pulse)
• Keith Mansfield - Summers Coming - Rabid
• The Yellow Monkey - Girlie - Otogiriso aka St. John's Wort
• Gloria Lee - Falling Into You - American Zombie
• I'm a Zombie Too - American Zombie
• Lisa Rypdal - En Spennende Dag For Josefine - Rovdyr (Manhunt)
• Mark Blankfield - Hyde's Got Nothing To Hide - Jekyll & Hyde...Together Again
• World Sinks Except Japan - End Credits (not sure of the title or artist)
• Mama Don't Cry - Your Smile - Marronnier
• Hillbilly Hellcats - Dead Man's Party - Dead & Breakfast
• Suzanne Solari - Saviour - Roller Blade Warriors & Roller Blade
• Tomoyasu Hotei - Save Me - Samurai Fiction
• Harry Manfredini & John Carridi - Slaughter High Theme - Slaughter High
• Kou Nakagawa - High School Murder Case - Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl

Here, in the darkness

Some notes on most of the tracks:

Mike Armstrong - Opening Theme from House of the Devil. For some reason this excellent Cars-inspired track (performed by Ti West's friend Mike Armstrong) is not on the soundtrack release. I've ripped it from the DVD, so this should be one of the few places to find it online.

I'm a Monster & Lectro Shock from Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein. I can't remember the name of the band so I'll just call them Frank & The Steins until someone corrects me.

Carol Browning - Edge of Forever from The Forest. Plays over the end credits of Donald "The Love Butcher" Jones' 1982 cannibal slasher film The Forest.

Cocco - Lay Down My Arms from Kairo. This is an alarmingly upbeat song to end such a downbeat movie with.

Keith Mansfield - Summer's Coming from David Cronenberg's Rabid. Credit to this track goes out to Franco from the HorrorDVDs forum. He found it and posted in online, it's an excellent track that I really wanted to include on this compilation.

Gloria Lee - Falling Into You from American Zombie. Falling Into You doesn't really have anything to do with the movie, I'm thinking Gloria Lee is related to director Grace Lee.

I'm A zombie Too also from American Zombie.It turns out zombies are just a bunch of damn hippies. There are two versions of I'm A Zombie Too in the film. First is an acoustic hippy version during Live Dead and there is also a hot-rockin' version at the beginning of the end credits. Out of boredom, I just roughly edited the two versions together.

Lisa Rypdal - En Spennende Dag For Josefine from Norwegian slasher Rovdyr (Manhunt). Known as Naked: Booby Trap in Japan.

The World Sinks Except Japan - The credits are entirely in Japanese for this one so I'm not sure the artist/title. Any help on this will be appreciated.

Suzanne Solari - Saviour from Roller Blade Warriors. I ripped this from Roller Blade Warriors, but it looks like it's also in another movie called Roller Blade. Somehow they decided this is the official anthem for any Roller Blade themed post-apocalyptic films. Warning on this one, ripped from an .avi file. Not the ideal source for ripping, obviously, but I'm pretty sure Suzanne never put out an album.

Hillbilly Hellcats - Dead Man's Party from Dead & Breakfast. While is shares a title with Oingo Boingo track this is not a cover of that song. Note: this track is tagged as being from Dead & Buried. Ignore that, I wasn't paying attention when I typed that.

Kou Nakagawa - High School Murder Case - Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl. I don't know what's more offensive in this film, the Wrist-Cutters Club or the extreme Ganguro girls with giant lips and bones in their hair.

Harry Manfredini & John Carridi - Theme from Slaughter High. I love Harry, I do, but this song really kind of gives me a headache. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it though.