Hisss… goodnesss… can I be turned?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Creepy Pictures, Horror Films, Horror Genres
Ssssexy Snake Lady
I’m going to come out of the coffin, no closet, no I’m just going to say it… I am not a fan of creature features. I have been getting regular RSS feeds regarding the film Hisss directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch and starring Indian starlet Mallika Sherawat (pow!). So I have been deleting numerous feeds, thinking yawn, snake lady blah blah. However, the snob in my nature noticed that it is showing at Cannes and Bloody Disgusting finally got my attention with a hot, steamy yet creepy trailer. So I may be converted, this film seems to have a sexy edge, yet plays on an ancient mythology within an exotic setting, creature feature and all.
Ms Harker
Tags: Creepy Creatures, Horror, Horror Films
Extra chunky… what too soon?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Life imitates Horror
I heard this on the radio this morning and thought it fit well into my little often used feature of ‘Life Imitates Horror’. Read the below story from the Australian ABC news website:
Man boiled alive in empty soup vat
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A German worker has been boiled alive in an empty industrial-sized soup vat while trying to clean it, newspaper Bild reports.
The 36-year-old, named only as Markus, was scrubbing the two-metre-high pot when the lid accidentally closed, automatically starting the jets of boiling water used to disinfect vegetables.
“For reasons we have still not cleared up, the disinfection process started too soon,” a police spokesman told Bild.
By the time the unfortunate worker was found, he was already dead, Bild reported.
The factory in Luebeck in northern Germany, which employs around 200 people, has been “provisionally closed”, according to its owners, Erasco - a subsidiary of US soup-maker Campbell’s.
Gives new meaning to the ‘extra chunky’ line of soups… what too soon?
Ms Harker
Tags: Life imitates Horror
The Strain, first Manhattan…
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Genres, Horror Reading
“They have always been here… Vampires.
In secret. In darkness.
Waiting. Now their time has come.
In one week Manhattan will be gone.
In one month, the country.
In two months, the world.”
Guillermo Del Toro has teamed up with Chuck Hogan to pen a trilogy of vampire novels, the first of which releases in June entitled ‘The Strain”. Interestingly The Strain Trilogy has its own website, set up to entice readers with blog entries from characters in the novel, tidbit lead in’s to the first book and features reviews from critics but also from the general public. The site is well designed and portrays an urban setting, of which our tale of horror takes place.
Having been eagerly awaiting this book (in desperado fashion pre-ordering it a couple of months ago), I was excited when Dread Central posted a clip (see below) with Del Toro a couple of week ago, discussing his take on the vampire mythology and what fear in horror should invoke.
The first novel is a vampire vs humanity plot, commencing with an investigation of a plane which has landed at JFK airport, in which things have gone pear shaped on board. Enter our protagonist disease control investigator Ephraim Goodweather, who finds that all but four of the passengers on board are dead. All of the deceased have been drained of their blood. The survivors are released into the general population and strangely the corpses of those killed in the tragedy go missing. Similar victims then begin to appear.
Reviews so far a very positive, stating that the novel manages to maintain suspense and horror throughout, giving gritty description of the terror which unfolds. Some critics already tipping this could be the next big horror franchise, dare I smell the blood like metallic scent of a quality vampire film trilogy? With Del Toro at the helm, I can feel my incisors tingling already!
Ms Harker
The Strain-Website
Tags: Horror, Horror Novels, Vampire
