Need a reason to go to LTUE? Here’s one: (Hmm… I don’t think of myself as a “horror author” so much as an “author who write a lot of horror,” but I think it’s only a distinction in my own mind…)
Movies Seen Recently: Phantasm IV: Oblivion, Phantasm: Ravager, High Plains Invaders
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) – Despite writer-director Don Coscarelli commenting at the end of the shoot for Phantasm III that he really had no more ideas for the series, this sequel came only four years after the last one (the shortest gap between installments in the series). Of course, that’s enough time for the child…
B-Movie Posters, Direct to You!
Exciting news! I’ve (finally) arranged things so that you can order your favorites of the “B-Movies That Never Were” (I need to come up with a catchy catch-all brand name for them) directly from this website, with print-on-demand order fulfillment from ThePrintful.com. That means that even if you can’t come see me at local events…
Movies Seen Recently: Phantasm III, Finding Dory, 1776
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) – My love affair with Phantasm II has been well documented, so I won’t rehash that here. This installment, released six years after the last one, brings back original actor A. Michael Baldwin as Mike (after having been replaced by James Le Gros in Phantasm II), then promptly…
Movies Seen Recently: The Jungle Book, Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm
The Jungle Book (2016) – As is the Disney M.O. these days, this version of The Jungle Book is a live-action remake of their own 1967 animated feature, which was only only very loosely based on a 25-words-or-less summary of the Rudyard Kipling book. In other words, as far as this 2016 version is concerned,…
New B-Movie Poster: Rage of the Were-Piranha
Ta-dah! I’m behind on uploading these to the print-on-demand services that can give you a physical copy, but at least you know it exists!
The recent unpleasantness.
As has been my habit for the last several presidential elections, I made two graphics in reaction to the two possible outcomes of the election, only one of which ever sees the light of day. (Actually, in 2008, I only set about to make the graphics on Election Night itself, and victory was announced for…
Movies Seen Recently: Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United, Event Horizon, I Am Not a Serial Killer
Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United (2014) – I haven’t seen many of Marvel’s recent direct-to-video animated features, so I can’t say how this compares. I will say that the comic-influenced CGI in which it was produced is probably the best medium for a non-live-action, non-$200-million-blockbuster superhero movie — all of the exaggerations of…
New B-Movie Poster: Circus of the Living Dead
Fresh and new! I’ll have prints of this one, plus all the previous ones, at both Deadman’s Ball and Saturday Art Live.
Halloween Movie Marathon!
Owing to busy schedules (these things happen with a house full of teenagers), our traditional Halloween movie marathon had to be bumped from its normal slot on the Friday before Halloween to the week before that. Fortunately, my kids are all as eager for our marathon as I am, so we find ways to make…