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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
Child's Play - Part 1
Today is James Bond Day which marks the 50th anniversary of the James Bond film series. To kick off the holiday, we begin our translation of the 007th issue from Zig Zag's James Bond 007 comic book series. Happy James Bond Day!
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
This is the pits.
With the announcement and release of so many Hammer movies and swanky blu-ray collector sets in the UK, I finally decided to bite the bullet and invest in a region free blu-ray player. When payday finally rolled around, I headed over to the Amazon UK website and started placing orders!
The first thing to arrive was a copy of Quatermass and Pit. Unfortunately, my copy did not include the slipcover, which was rather disappointing. I decided to write to Amazon and ask them if they would include it in one of my other orders that hadn't shipped yet. They worst they could do was say no, or so I thought.
The first chap who responded to my email said that after checking with the Fulfillment Team, that Quatermass and the Pit never had a slipcover and to reply to his email and let him know if I wanted to return the movie. Never had a slipcover? That statement is incorrect. If you don't believe me, take a look at the image I found in the blu-ray.com forums above. What's that next to the blu-ray case? It looks like a slipcover to me. If you look at the item page on the Amazon UK website, it's actually a photo of the slipcover.
Needless to say, I replied to let him know that he was incorrect. I pointed out the fact that the image on their website is that of the slipcover and not the blu-ray case. I offered to send the above photo and let them know that the right thing to do would be to change the image on their sales page. Guess what happened? After sending the email, the message was immediately bounced back as undeliverable. This new message contained links to follow in case I needed to contact the customer service team. So I did, once again.
I received a reply the next day and this new person tells me that Quatermass and the Pit doesn't have a slipcover. At least I got this guy to concede that the photo on their sales page was that of the slipcover. He also said that he would be contacting the appropriate department to have the item image corrected. If I can get them to agree that the image they show is that of the slipcover, why won't they admit that the movie has a slipcover? He also apologized for the error in their email programming and assured me that it had been corrected.
A few hours later, I received another email from Amazon UK asking me to take a survey and rate their customer service team. Needless to say, they didn't get a very high score from me. Besides the actual slipcover, the only other thing I wanted was for one of them to acknowledge the fact that the damn movie did come with a slipcover. They may not have any to give to customers anymore, but the bloody damn movie does have a bloody damn slipcover!
Monday, October 1, 2012
Frightening Fiction
Poe's Tales of Terror by Eunice Sudak
Published by Lancer Books in 1962
Thrill to three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous horror stories:
The Black Cat, in which a husband walls up his beautiful wife and her lover.
The Case of M. Valdemar - the body dies, the mind lives through a fantastic medical experiment.
Morella - the terrifying tale of a dead mother's revenge on the husband and daughter who denied her burial.
A James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff Production • Produces and Directed by Roger Corman
The Raven by Eunice Sudak
Published by Lancer Books in 1963
Edgar Allan Poe: The Master
Who was the raven?
What was his diabolical errand?
Could anyone ignore the warning from beyond the grave?
Do you dare to spend one night in Dr. Scarabus' sinister castle?
Will your heart stand the suspense?
Is your stomach strong enough to bear the brutal torture of an innocent young girl?
And what of the wanton, lustful, beauty whose name was Lenore?
The Raven starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff. An American International Picture. Screenplay by Richard Matheson. In color and Panovision.
The Addams Family by Jack Sharkey
Published by Pyramid Books in September 1965 (1st Printing)
Meet the Addams Family
Meet the Addams Family
Gomez - master of the house - and several strange powers.
Morticia - dressed in an attractive shroud, she casts a spell over everyone - and everything - around her.
Pugsley - he took in stray kittens - straight into the dog kennel.
Wednesday - a pigtailed daughter whose close friend is a headless doll.
Uncle Fester - loved to feed the dog - to the crocodile.
Plus Granny, Lurch the Butler, and the family retainer, Thing - gift of a friend who had lent the Addams Family a helping hand.
The Addams Family - America's favorite fearsome family can be seen every week in their top-rated ABC-TV show.
Witchfinder General by Ronald Bassett
Published by Pan Books in 1968
A vivid, colourful and brutal novel - based on the life of Matthew Hopkins, one of the most vicious Englishmen who ever lived.
While Cavaliers and Roundheads are locked in bloody combat, Hopkins - self-appointed Witchfinder General - wages a savage war against the helpless under the pretext they are servants of Satan. Mercilessly he satisfies his appetite for lust and cruelty by spreading a trail of terror through the Eastern Counties. And with every innocent death his purse grew heavier...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Published by Magnum Easy Eye Books in 1968
The Face of Frankenstein...
"The dull yellow eye opened. The creature breathed hard. Convulsively, it moved its arms and legs..."
So, after two year's work, did Victor Frankenstein, a philosophy student, see the results of his fantastic laboratory experiment. He had discovered the secret of giving life to inanimate matter and had created - with its yellow, shriveled skin, watery stare and terrible grin - a monster that would turn his own life into a walking nightmare.
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, when she was only 19 years old, as a simple ghost tale - one, in her own words, "to make the reader dread to look around, to curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart." Its theme, of a man's revenge against a society that rejects him, is still being exploited in novels of today. Frankenstein is also the source of many Hollywood movies. It remains one of the most chilling horror stories of all time.
The Bride of Frankenstein by Carl Dreadstone
Published by Berkley Medallion Books in June 1977
The Monster Was Immortal
Twisting hideously in the flaming ruins of the Mill, it seemed that Baron Henry Frankenstein's creature was finally dying. Yet once created, this life made of corpses was hard to extinguish. And then Professor Praetorius came to Castle Frankenstein. He was brilliant, and completely mad. Why stop at the mere creation of life, he said, when a new world was in the offering?
And what of Elizabeth? Was her love for Henry to be denied in this exploration of evil? Alone in their laboratory, the two scientists fanned the flames of horror, and cared nothing for the cost.
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