Saturday, August 24, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Cult Movie Reviews takes a look at CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR
from CULT MOVIE REVIEWS
Superficially the plot is clearly going to put most viewers in mind of The Wicker Man, The Night of the Eagle and Eye of the Devil, all movies dealing with the survival of witchcraft in the modern world. The movie also has a certain amount in common with Hammer’s Dracula AD 1972, with the collision between evil supernatural forces and 1960s/early 1970s youth culture. It also resembles Dracula AD 1972 in obviously having been made by people of the previous generation who view the whole youth culture thing as presaging the end of civilisation as we know it, which it sort of was...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Happy 123rd Birthday HP Lovecraft!
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.[1] Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such, his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Lovecraft is the originator of the Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional magical textbook of rites and forbidden lore.[2] Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his lifetime, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, an award-winning author, Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction".[3] Science fiction and fantasy author Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."[4][5] King has made it clear in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for King's own fascination with horror and the macabre, and was the single largest figure to influence his fiction writing.[6] Lovecraft's stories have been adapted into plays, films and games, such as Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth and id Software's Quake...
Listen to the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast reading of CALL OF CTHULHU
Monday, August 19, 2013
ARMAGIDEON TIME reflects on one of my favorite issues of one of my favorite comics...
While the analogues and semi-analogues of modern heroes were mildly interesting, it was the weird (and often-one note) ancillary Golden Age characters which truly facinated me — from JAS clutch hitters like Hourman and Dr. Fate down to (then) obscurities like T.N.T. or the original Vigilante. It’s an interest which I apparently shared with Roy Thomas, who assembled a group of Golden Age also-rans to serve as the core of All-Star Squadron‘s period ensemble cast...
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