Paranormal Activity Geekery!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Collectibles, Horror Films
Greetings and Salutations.
As the holidays close in what better to stumble across than a simple and easy way for me to continue my love affair with my iPhone and horror comics simultaneously! IDW Comics have an iPhone application that allows you to purchase many fabulous titles from their catalog to read on your iPhone. One of which places itself as a continuation of this years hit horror flick Paranormal Activity.
Fearnet featured the iPhone app on its site recently and described it as picking up where the movie finished. We find Katie frothing at the mouth, which is fine by me as I found her highly irritating, I was also quite pleased about how things ended up for her tool of a boyfriend.
“Katie has gone missing. And Dr Johann Averys, an internationally renowned demonologist, is determined to find her! Paranormal Activity didn’t stop on the final frame of the movie- in act, the story is just beginning.”
You can purchase many titles including Paranormal Activity for ninety nine cents (US) or a dollar nineteen (AUS) and subscribe to whole comic series, other titles include Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted, Groom Lake and coming soon Wormwood!!! Hit up iTunes and have a looky!
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Comics, Horror Films
Wake the Dead, a modern take on ‘Shelleyian’ consequences…
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Graphic Novels
Its been a little while since I shared some of my graphic novel readings with you, so to make up for the lack of coverage I bring you a quality title: Wake The Dead by Steve Niles and Chee (yes just Chee, you know like Madonna or Cher).
This graphic novel is a keeper, the cover is textured with the etchings of a human torso, devoid of its skin with titles that hark back to an older style font; similar to that of 50’s cult horror movies. The cut out peep hole gives just enough of a hint to the horrors that lie within.
Niles has taken Shelley’s classic tale of messing with the natural order of life and death and given it a modern twist. The story centers around Victor a spoilt rich kid who fancies himself a ground breaking scientist, he embroils his friends in his bloody endeavors whilst finding time to bonk the local Sheriff’s daughter. However his blind ambition takes him and those around him down a path of tragic ‘Shellyian’ consequences of which Chee illustrates with fine gory detail.
I admit to being a bit of a fan girl when it comes to the work of Steve Niles, however his interpretation of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror tale of science and humanity gone awry is worthy of the original novel.
Ms Harker
Wake The Dead: Single Issue Cover Art
Tags: Horror, Horror Comics, Zombies
Why I love Steve Niles…
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Graphic Novels, Horror Films, Horror Genres
After Ben Templesmith, my second graphic novel love is Steve Niles. He is the creator of the 30 Days of Night graphic novel series, that most of you would know was then developed into a film. He also did a gritty graphic novel interpretation of the horror stalwart ‘The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ by Robert Louis Stevenson entitled ‘Hyde’. His latest film in development according to Dread Central is called ‘Wake the Dead’. It is a modern take on the classic horror novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
However, due to Guillermo Del Toro’s Hobbits taking priority by the creature workshop they both use, the release date for ‘Waking the Dead’ has been delayed to 2012 (dirty little hobbits).
Boo, I say, boooooo.
However there is a ‘Brain Teaser’ trailer that Niles developed last year for ‘Waking the Dead’, which demonstrates my love for his work and perception of the horror genre.
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Comics, Horror Flms
