Win "The Dead Path" at Terror Titans!

In celebration of Halloween (and thanks to the kind folks at Random House, who want to make sure EVERYONE is properly frightened this Fall), I'm giving away a copy of Stephen Irwin's debut novel "The Dead Path" over at my Terror Titans blog.

Click here for all the details. Good luck to all those who enter the drawing.

Mike Esposito dead at 83

Mike Esposito, a comic book artist best known for his exceptional collaborations with fellow artist on "The Amazing Spider-Man" for Marvel Comics and "Wonder Woman" for DC Comics, died Sunday, October 24 at the age of 83.

Esposito was a prolific inker whose career in comics spanned close to four decades. He enhanced the pencils of just about every major artist you'd care mention during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but it was his career-long pairing with Ross Andru that was the most fruitful for both artists. It is one of artdom's legendary pairings, and a case of two styles meshing perfectly to create a spectacular result.

 

31 Nights of Halloween: Week Three

Here's this week's retrospective of Cinema Steve's month-long run-up to Halloween. More chilling images and reviews of fright films to get you in the Halloween spirit...

Movie Reviews
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Alien
The Craving
The Ghost Breakers
Horror Rises from the Tomb
Moon Over Tao
The Mummy (1959)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Fear-filled Phantasms
The Art of Steven Kenny
The Catty Paulette Goddard
Marcos and the Monsters
Saturday Scream Queen: Yvonne Furneaux
Vampirella: The Queen of Halloween

Horror at Home
Japanese Kids Will Stop the Zombie Apocalypse!

For more October monsters and horror,
visit Terror Titans and Shades of Gray!

There's a Samuel L Jackson movie in this!

Crocodile blamed for plane crash in the Congo - msnbc.com


And coming soon to a screen near you....


Crocs on a Plane (2011)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr, Flex Alexander, and Christopher Walken
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

FBI Special Agent Neville Flynn (Jackson) is part of a detail sent to the small African nation of Narongo in order to escort reknowned terrorist Abu Abu (Walken) for trial in the United States. But al-Qaeda agents have managed to smuggle crocodiles onto the plane... crocodiles in duffle-bags designed to break and free them once the plane is in flight over the deepest of the African jungle.

"I want those [bleep] crocodiles off this [bleep] plane, right [bleep] NOW!"

The plane crashes in a crocodile-infested swamp where Neville and his fellow agents (played by Downey and Jovovich) must fight to save themselves and to keep their prisoner from escaping. But the crocodiles are the least of their worries, as al-Qaeda operatives are coming to rescue Abu Abu. Things get even worse when our heroes come upon a tribe of Amazons who have been living in the jungle since the fall of Atlantis and their leader, Queen Tahtahz (Berry) decides Jackson makes the perfect breeding stock. Everyone else will be sacrificed to the crocodile god the Amazons worship.

(Yessir... I could write a Hollywood blockbuster if I felt like it! Or at least an episode of "Law and Order" or "CSI: Crime Scene Investigations"!)

'150 Movies You (Should Die Before You) See' on sale now!

Although the official release date for my book about a bunch of movies to stay away from for a range of different reasons isn't until November, it is already on sale at Amazon.com, at roughly 30% off cover-price!

The Amazon listing even gives you an opportunity to get a real preview of the book by clicking on the cover image with the "Look Inside" label. The Table of Content, index, and a handful of pages can be viewed. Go take a look! And if you decide to pick up a copy, my cats and I thank you! They need kitty litter, and I need a new pair of shoes!






(And I really DO review both the original and remake of "Attack of the Giant Leeches". That is not an error on the ToC. And yes, someone DID remake "Attack of the Giant Leeches". And the remake is WORSE than the original.)

Visions of Vampirella, the Queen of Halloween

The undisputed Queen of Halloween is Vampirella, and few artists have painted her better than Joe Jusko. Click on the Royal Portraits to view larger versions.

Click here to visit Joe Jusko's website. For more images of the Queen of Halloween, click here to visit Shades of Gray.

Zachary Chesser is goin' to the Big House

It looks like Zachary "Abu Talhah" Chesser will have his butt in the air five times a day in honor of a different Mohammed... this one being jail-house rapist Mohammed Jermaine Lincoln, who is serving a 20-year sentence for aggravated sexual assualt while wearing a Sailor Moon costume that left nothing to the imagination. But have no fear, all you other jail-house rapists! Mohammed is not a jealous or possessive man... he will gladly let the entire cell-block wage Jihad on Abu Talhah's ass!

Here's who you need to look out for:

Zachary Chesser will be going away for at least 20 years as punishment for "two counts of communicating threats and soliciting crimes of violence," the charges to which he pled guilty. His whoreish wife--who by some accounts is an even bigger terrorist wanna-be than he is--is currently under indictment, and hopefully she the pair will soon have matching rap sheets.

This article from the Washington Post gives a nice factual summary--while tossing in a couple of stealth editorial comments to continue their effort to make Their Boy Zachery look like a misunderstood puppy that wasn't properly house trained (how else can you explain the quote from some anonymous "childhood friends"?)--but this editorial from Wired gives the sort of indepth information about Zack and his true nature that the Islamophobes at WaPo and elsewhere are probably too frightened to mention.