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Hello. How art thou on this day that shall not be named? Here's some non-Hallmark approved supplements from around the Net. Enjoy.

Oculus Rosso.

Being completely entranced by the tech, I've been watching a lot of Oculus Rift gameplay videos on YouTube recently. While watching Kent Oster's playthrough for the VR horror game Doors Of Silence, I came across a delightful little Easter egg. Watch.

You catch it? I love that this game developer (Guiseppe Belfis) threw in an Argento reference here, knowing that only a small percentage of gamers would actually recognize it. I tip my hat to you, sir.

For more info on Doors of Silence, click here.

Indie Darling.

The trailer for indie filmmaker Mickey Keating's newest film, Darling has hit the Web.

This film was a hit at last year's Fantastic Fest, and I definitely dig the vibe. Glass Eye Pix has a pretty good track record with me, so I certainly hope it makes its way up here soon.

The Century Club.

The latest edition of the 100 Hour Film Race wrapped up recently. This is a worldwide short film competition where teams are tasked with writing, shooting and editing a short within 100 hours. The winner was this film from the UK called Remnants.

I also really dug the 4th place finisher from Quebec called Idées noires (Dark Thoughts)

So, that's it for now, but come back on Wednesday because I have such sights to show you!

Acquisitions

I was in Cambridge, Ontario last weekend and no trip to my buddy Schwartz's homestead would be complete without a detour to The Vault where I came away with the following goodies.

The Godsend I've wanted to watch for a while, and I've meant to re-watch Cat People for even longer. Night After Night After Night is a Jack the Ripper movie, so SOLD. I'd never heard of The Devil's Gift, but I took Zack's word that it is surprisingly solid. I'll let you know how it turns out.

I spent most of this evening re-arranging my VHS shelves, so I think an analog reward is in order. What shall it be???

Destroyer!

Last year, I worked on a music video directed by my friends Chris Nash and Shannon Hanmer. It was a long road, but the video below, for The Birthday Massacre track Destroyer, was finally unveiled this week. Enjoy!

Waking up this morning, I saw this video has already started gaining some online traction with a featured post on Bloody Disgusting. I'm glad to see that, as everyone involved worked really hard on this, so it's good to know it is now guaranteed to get into at least several thousand pairs of eyeballs.

You're welcome.

Trailer Tuesdays: Messiah of Evil

In keeping with Women In Horror Month, here's a trailer for 1973's Messiah of Evil, co-directed, co-written and co-produced by Gloria Katz.

Well, that trailer went from zero to sixty and back again right quick. Eveeeeeeeeeeeeeel!

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Hey guys, just throwing up a few goodies before heading off to the only football game I watch every year. However you choose to celebrate the day, have fun!

From A to Zombie.

Here's a cool promotional video for the upcoming enhanced version of the 2015 video game Dying Light entitled The Following featuring the evolution of the zombie.

I feel like they skimmed over the seventies and eighties, but I get that they wanted to focus on all areas of zombie media. There's no denying the make up effects are pretty stellar, though. For more info on The Following, click here.

That's My Kind Of Cartoon.

Lunchmeat unearthed this hilarious news article from 1990 about a family in Kansas who got more than they bargained for when they rented a children's tape for Christmas.

Courtesy of Julian DiLorenzo. Right click to enlarge.

I wonder what horror title that “detective film about decapitation, rape, and sadomasochism” was. 555 perhaps? I guess we'll never know.

This article reminded me of the time at my video store when some teens taped over some of a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Hockey with their own little home video. This would have been amusing if not for all the homophobic and racial slurs throughout. More amusing though was that these brainiacs thought to wear masks in the vid, but not think that all we'd have to do find them was look up the last person to rent the tape. 

For more Lunchmeat, including a telling article about the humble beginnings of Vestron Video, click here.

This is Why I Drive Everywhere.

Lastly, I just wanted to post this short I happened upon during a YouTube crawl. This piece by NY based filmmaker Sion Griffiths is my favourite kind of short film - short and with a great finish. Enjoy!

Oklahoma!

With the bust that was Girls School Screamers, I further perused my shelves of unwatched VHS and came across 1985's shot-on-video title Blood Cult. I'm aware of the format's dubious track record, but I figured, “hey it can't be worse than The Ripper, right?”. I WAS SO WRONG.

A sheriff (Charles Ellis) investigates a series of ritualistic murders on a nearby college campus.

This movie. Jesus. It actually makes titles like 555 and The Ripper (which technically was Oklahoma-based director Christopher Lewis' follow-up to Blood Cult) seem Oscar-worthy by comparison, as those titles not only delivered on the gore, but character interactions were at least mildly amusing. Blood Cult is literally like staring at a wall, or this...

We deal in excitement.

This static shot hangs there for what seems like forever while action takes place off screen. This might have been acceptable, if not for the fact that a little while later, the scene is fully recounted to the fucking sheriff. Like what the hell was the point of that whole scene before? And stuff like this happens every five minutes. The sheriff reads aloud at length from a book about ritualistic murder in between letting anyone within earshot know that he better solve these crimes because an election is coming up. He literally say this more times than there are actual murders in the movie. Apart from that, we get to see the unsexiest couple you've ever seen paw at each other. And don't even get me started on the cafeteria scene...

Today's special... Finger foods!

Suffering through Blood Cult was actually worth it though because at the end of the tape there was a United Home Video trailer reel hosted by Elvira-knock-off Lady Cadaver. I was going to upload it, but then I discovered that YT user Deadpit Radio already did the job for me. Enjoy!

Trailer Tuesdays: Girls School Screamers

I plucked this Troma special off my unwatched VHS shelf and gave it a watch last night.

I was intending to cover this on a future VHS Friday, but it's kind of a bore. It takes over half the movie to get to the first kill, and none of them are as bloody as they should be. A bit of a waste if you ask me. Oh well, onto the next...