HELP BRING ESSENTIAL HAMMER BLU-RAYS TO THE STATES!

Our official librarian and good friend, Eric gave us the info on this yesterday.

To say the very least, we're stoked.

We've sent out the message on Twitter, but in case you haven't seen it, Diabolique Magazine has started a petition on their website to bring some of our favorite Hammer films to the United States on Blu-Ray.

We've talked about these titles repeatedly on the show and as it turns out, Warner Bros. seems to be the cause for us not getting the films on Blu-Ray over here.

Bummer.

Well, maybe this is our chance to do something about it. Please click  here to sign the petition. Last time I checked, the petition had a total of 2,046 signatures on a goal of 10,000. Not too bad considering it's only been up a couple of days. Yesterday when I checked there were about 1,700. After signing the petition, make sure you scroll down to read a pretty great article by Bruce G. Hallenbeck on why these movies are so important to the genre.

As a side note, we were pretty excited to get a re-tweet and an actual response from Hammer films simply stating, "@ProfCushing Good show, old chap!" Where we really wish we could take the credit for starting the petition itself, we can't and won't pretend to. It's all on Bruce G. Hallenbeck and the crew at Diabolique. That being said, we'll do our very best to get the word out to support Diabolique and Bruce in this noble endeavor.

We hope you'll do the same.

WELLINGTON!

EPISODE 20: DAMN IT, FRANCO!

Episode 20 has posted. If you haven't downloaded it yet, it's available here. And you know what? It's free too! That's right–all the bullshit, all the love, all the reviews and the Franco hatred you can stand in a two hour episode. All for $0.00. Or €0.00. Or £0.00. Or even 元0.00 for our dedicated listeners in Taipei. 

One editor's note that I'll need to bring to your attention–we talk briefly about Max Deacon's new novel , The Wolf Girl during the first part of the show. As it turns out, there was a problem with email and we only received the last third of the book that Max sent. There are actually about 27 chapters in The Wolf Girl and it's not a "novella" as Jim stated during the episode. Luckily, Jim only made it through the first part of the book and nothing was spoiled. Well, not too much anyway. 

We're looking forward to reading the entire novel and reviewing it for you soon. 

Our film choices for episode 21: 

Ryan's pick:

The Hands of the Ripper (1971) 

Jim's pick:

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Hey, how about that Macabre Minute on 20? You like Franco? Naschy? Let us know! We'll gladly read your thoughts on episode 21.


WELLINGTON! 

ENLIGHTENED!

We recently heard from our new pal, Des on the proper pronunciation of the names Gough and Pleasence. Gough is pronounced like "cough". Pleasence sounds just as it reads– like "Pleasant".

Our apologies for being dunces. We should have figured that out long before we started throwing out names. 

I'm sure we'll mispronounce many more. Thanks for the correction, Des. Much appreciated! 

WELLINGTON! 

EPISODE 19: SCARS OF DRACULA & LUST FOR A VAMPIRE

Hello Everyone!

I apologize for not posting anything on the blog for well over a month. I was extremely busy during the holidays and fell very, very ill right after. We should be back on track now with episode 19.

This episode is a whopping two hours! Ryan had watched a whole bunch of  movies heading into this episode and we wanted to talk a bit about each of them. We didn't even get to talk about music at all this time and still topped the two hour mark.

House by the Cemetery

During this episode, we discuss Lust for a Vampire and Scars of Dracula (our film choices from episode 18) to close the book on vampire movies for a while. We also discuss Ryan's new curiosity with Spanish horror films with the request for listeners and lovers of Spanish horror to write in with their thoughts.

We introduce Death Waltz Recording Co. and their incredible vinyl soundtracks to horror movies like Twins of Evil and Halloween. Beautiful vinyl and cover art! Our local record shop is an exclusive retailer of their merchandise. I wish I still had a tape deck in my car so I could listen to the Halloween soundtrack on tape.

Halloween II



Let the Right One In 

During the Macabre Minute, we list our top 5 favorite "haunting" movies and categorize haunted house films. Feel free to let us know what your favorite haunting films are as well.

Our films for next time are a little difficult to get a hold of. If you'd like to email or DM us on Twitter we'll be happy to help you get a hold of copies of these films.



Jim's pick:



The Skull (1965)

Ryan's pick:

The Curse of the Crimson Altar or The Crimson Cult (1968)



 

 WELLINGTON!

EPISODE 17: THE HALLOWEEN EPISODE (DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS & THE ASPHYX)

Hey! We're pretty damn proud of ourselves. We said we were going to post an episode on Halloween and we did it. Hooray and straight to hell with all the bastards that doubted us!

What exactly makes the Halloween episode different from our other episodes? Timing. That's all. Just timing. Everything else is the same. We talk about horror films and stuff and it's fun. We love this podcast and you should too.

We start out NOT talking about any books or music. We just head straight into the horrors with a bunch of movies that we've watched over the past few weeks. Ryan drops a bomb on everyone by admitting that he's just seen a classic for the first time in the past month. Jim babbles on about Fred Dekker movies that no one cares about, and there's some other fun stuff.

We eventually get to The Asphyx and Dracula: Prince of Darkness. Both great films, we thought, but John Weiners says otherwise with a scathing email about how bad he hates one of them.

For the Macabre Minute, we set up two heavyweight, classic horror films; Universal's classic The Mummy vs. Hammer's version of the same title. Who will win? Listen and find out!













Download Episode 17 HERE.

Films for next month:

The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)

 

 

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

Happy Halloween!


WELLINGTON!

TOO MUCH HORROR BUSINESS: THE KIRK HAMMETT COLLECTION

Metallica has become a very polarizing band. Once considered the absolute thrash band, they have now become the ensign for every meat-head in the country. The days of Pushead artwork on a Zorlac deck are gone and have been replaced by a cliché love of hot rod culture. Creeping Death passed the torch to St. Anger.

Still, there are those that don't agree with me. Plenty of people still love the music that Metallica is turning out and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. As for me, it's Blackened or nothing. The soundtrack to hell will be Fuel. I don't mean the cool hell either. I mean eternal torment.

Either way, Metallica will always hold a special place in every metal-head's heart and we are no exception. When Ryan's boss sent him a recent video that Kirk Hammett put out about his horror collection and new book, we were both very excited. We've known about Hammett's obsession with horror for a while, but we didn't know too much about his collection until we read the announcement about his new book, Too Much Horror Business: The Kirk Hammett Collection.

I'm pretty excited to get my own copy. From what I've seen, it looks like Hammett is in almost every picture in the book. I'm more interested in his collection than seeing him posing with statues of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, but I think it'll still be a fun book to look at. Of all the dudes in Metallica, Hammett bugs me the least anyway. If it were Ulrich, the deal would be off.

EPISODE 16: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT & THE VAMPIRE LOVERS

Episode 16 marks the return of Professor Cushing's Crypt of the Macabre!

To start off, we're very excited to discuss news of Jeff Dixon's new TV horror series. Read more about it over on his blog. Jeff's blog is also a lot of fun during October because he lists daily recommendations of horror films you should check out.




As normal, we discuss everything we've been reading, listening to, and watching, but there's a little more chit-chat with this episode due to our 2 month hiatus. We rate Quatermass and the Pit and The Vampire Lovers, then move on to The Macabre Minute with discussion on a few more films from Ryan.


Our films for next time:

Jim:

The Asphyx (1972)

 

Ryan:

Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

 

 

 

 

WELLINGTON!