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Nerd Lunch Episode 165: Syfy Pitch-nado

Posted in monsters, movies, podcast, pop culture with tags monsters, movies, Nerd Lunch Podcast, pop culture on February 10, 2015 by Paxton

Ladies, gentleman and gentle-monsters, this week we are joined again by show favorite Jon Cross from the After Movie Diner podcast. And this week Jon is here to help us pitch a new monster movie to the Syfy Channel.

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We all start crowd sourcing ideas for monsters, locations and C-List celebrity cast for our monster movie and what we come up with by the end is one of the most amazing monster movies ever conceived of by man. 400 years from now bands will sing songs about our pitch. It’s that good. So hop on the blue steampunk Harley named Babe and check out the latest episode of Nerd Lunch. You’ll be glad that you did.

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria Scream Greats #43 – The Lost Boys (1987)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, nostalgia, pop culture, zombies with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, magazine, magazines, monsters, movies, zombies on October 21, 2014 by Paxton

Here’s Fangoria‘s Scream Greats Poster #43 featuring an image from one of my favorite vampire movies, The Lost Boys. This poster was from Fangoria #68 (1987). Click to see it BIGGER on Flickr.

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria #56 – Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive (1986)

Posted in Frankenstein, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, monsters, movies, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazines, monsters, movies, pop culture, Stephen King, Universal Studios on October 20, 2014 by Paxton

Let’s start off this week, the fourth week of AWESOME-tober-fest, with one of my favorite Fangoria covers of all time, issue #56, featuring the Green Goblin truck from Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive. This issue was on the newsstands in 1986.

Inside this magazine is an interview with King. Plus, they run a contest featuring the awkwardly named The Fango Maximum Overdrive Stephen King Scream Test. The goal was to answer 15 Stephen King book/movie specific questions for lots of cool prizes. I read through these questions. Without resorting to Google, they are actually pretty hard. Several of them can be gleaned from the previous interview, but some of them are really tough questions. Take a gander for yourself.

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria From Beyond articles

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, magazines, movies on October 16, 2014 by Paxton

It’s been Stuart Gordon week this week as I showcase ads and covers pertaining to his movies leading up to tomorrow’s Fangoria Movie Friday review of From Beyond.

Back in the mid 80s, Fangoria was in love with not only Stuart Gordon but his “upcoming project” From Beyond. Hard not to see why as Gordon had just released the cult hit Re-animator (which I reviewed last Halloween) and the magazine was looking for any and all information about his next project. And when it was revealed that the next project would be another Lovecraft adaptation and again star both Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, well, Fangoria’s editors (as well as the collective Fangoria readership) creamed their horror loving jeans in anticipation.

I had no trouble finding at least six articles in my stacks of magazines pertaining to not only the movie From Beyond, but to Stuart Gordon himself as well as his two frequent collaborators, Combs and Crampton. There were also several articles specifically talking about the make-up effects for the movie. But I’ll focus on the main three collaborators with the one-on-one interviews they gave.

Here’s a Stuart Gordon interview from The Bloody Best of Fangoria Vol 6 (1987). I’m not sure from which issue it was reprinted.

Here’s a Barbara Crampton interview from Fangoria #60 (1987).

And finally, a Jeffrey Combs interview from Fangoria #61 (1987).

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria #59 – HP Lovecraft’s From Beyond (1986)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, horror, HP Lovecraft, magazine, magazines, movies on October 15, 2014 by Paxton

I mentioned this week is Stuart Gordon Week.Today’s image is the cover to Fangoria #59 from 1986 featuring a story on Stuart Gordon’s second HP Lovecraft adaptation, From Beyond. Which, as I revealed to you, is going to be my review for Fangoria Movie Friday this week. This particular issue of Fangoria is one of my favorites and sharp eyed readers should notice that this particular issue’s logo should look familiar (hint: you’ll see it again on Friday).

As always, click to see it on Flickr, BIGGER.