Zombie Attack In Miami!

There were reports on Saturday that a man supposedly high, attacked a homeless man and started eating his face.  The "Zombie Man" Rudy Eugene was drugged up on Bath Salts, went walking along the Causeway while naked in Miami Florida. He pounced on the homeless man, Ronald Poppo and began eating his face. Eugene went onto eating Poppo's face until the police arrived, 18 minutes later.

The police kept yelling at Eugene to get off of the homeless man but he ignored the warnings and continued to eat the rest of his face. The police shot and killed Eugene, all that was left on Poppo's face was his beard and mustache. Eugene is suspected to have been taking a new drug called "bath salts," and although it was not immediately clear if the properties of the drug are linked to the household item of the same name, there have been violent cases involving the drug.

"A common effect of these synthetic products is that they cause psychotic episodes -- anxiety, paranoia, they're all documented effects," Paul Melton, investigator for Florida's Pinellas County Justice Coordination told US News.

"Does it cause someone to eat some one's face, I can't say that ... But it certainly could cause anxiety and delusions that could lead to something like that," he added.

Yikes! Talk about a "holy cow" moment. This lovely event opened up the doors for the discussion of the Zombie Apocalypse. Is this the start of it all? Knowing that there is a drug out there that can basically turn you into a flesh eating Zombie is surreal. What happens if "everyone" gets their hands on this drug? Save yourself or you're going to be eaten. This is why you stay off drugs. I feel bad for Ronald Poppo, he was just minding his own business, catching some Z's then BAM! He gets woken to his face being eaten off. Talk about a major buzz kill.

Ronald is alive recovering in the hospital with severe facial deformities. The nurses should keep their eyes on Ronald cause if he ends up turning into a zombie, we're all doomed.

Jenny Ringo and the Monkey's Paw!

I really should of posted this a long time ago. I'm easily distracted and a space cadet. Huge apologizes are in order to Chris Reagan. I'm soooooo sorry it took me several months to get this posted. Chris is one of my followers, a writer, blogger and a director. He wrote and directed the movie Jenny Ringo and the Monkey's Paw. The movie follows two roommates that stumble along a monkey's paw. This paw isn't like the others, it has special powers. The paw grants you three wishes. Anything you want to wish for, you can with this paw. The only catch is, all your wishes turn bad. It's just like the rabbit's foot. You have it, you have a shot of good luck that can beat death. You lose it, you die.

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, well I won't lose it. Sorry to break it to you, sweet cheeks. Everyone loses it, no matter what. Now Jenny and her roommate Gavin must find a way to destroy the monkey's paw before it's too late. I really did enjoy this movie and I liked the concept. Some parts were a little confusing but once you get more into the movie, it all comes together perfectly. He just finished shooting the second film. Jenny Ringo and the Cabaret from Hell. There is also talk about a third Jenny Ringo film.

Head on over to Chris' blog where you can keep up to date with all of the events of the Jenny Ringo films. You can also check out the official website for Jenny Ringo and sign up for the mailing list. Again, apologizes to Chris that it took FOREVER and a day to post this. Keep up the great work on your films. I know you're going to go far. :)

What An Excellent Day For An Exorcism!!

According to FEARnet, The Exorcist is being remade!! Before everyone starts crying about how they shouldn't remake this movie, this is what you need to know. It's not being remade into a movie, it's being remade into a ten-part TV miniseries. Sean Durkin, writer-director of Martha Marcy May Marlene will be directing this miniseries. Apparently it's suppose to be a more detailed version of William Peter Blatty's original novel.  It's been almost 40 years since The Exorcist, the first horror movie ever to being nominated for The Best Picture Oscar came out.

The film is being backed by Morgan Creek and produced by Roy Lee, the executive producer of films like The Departed and The Ring. Unlike the 1973 film, Durkin's version of The Exorcist shows the events leading up to the actual demonic possession and the after shock of the whole experience. The film isn't being shopped around to any networks for another two weeks but there has already been some calls asking for meetings to talk about picking up the story.

I don't know about all of you but if this movie HAS to be remade, I much rather see it remade into an actual movie instead of a miniseries. I can't see this miniseries picking up or doing well. I find it boring to watch a miniseries about a person being possessed when you only get to see the possession in the last two episodes.  From what I read from FEARnet, it looks like they're not 100% convinced either.

The Loved Ones Trailer & News!

The Loved Ones came out in Australia in 2009. Had screenings at a few U.S. film festivals in 2010. The movie got such amazing reviews, they decided to officially release the movie in the U.S. The only catch, it's being released in a few select cities.  Fear not my little Demons, if the movie isn't showing a screening in your city, you can always request a screening.  Unfortunately for me, I live in a state (Utah) that isn't very well liked or known for having big events going on. Besides having the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah is pretty much snoozeville.

I've always been interested in seeing this film since it's release in the horror industry. The concept of the movie is very well thought out. One review it got says it's Sixteen Candles meet Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If that doesn't draw a crowd to it, I don't know what will. The movie is about a shy, lonely girl named Lola who asked  her crush and fellow classmate, Brent to Prom. He turns her down because he's already going with his girlfriend Holly.

Crushed by the rejection, Lola comes up with the perfect plan for revenge. She's going to have the Prom she's always wanted and nothing is going to stand in her way. Brent's Prom night consists of Pink satin, blood, syringes, power drills and one seriously messed up chick. Sounds like a party to me!

The few select cities that will be showing a screening of The Loved Ones starting June 1st are...

Los Angeles 

New York

San Francisco

Austin

Chicago

Houston

Just one more reason why I need to live in Los Angeles. If your city is not posted, you can always request a screening here. I did, we'll see if it actually happens.

The Loved Ones Trailer:

Cannes Trailer For Maniac Remake!

The new short trailer for the remake of Maniac was released in Cannes this weeks. Bloody-Disgusting was nice enough to post the trailer for everyone to feast their eyes on the remake that everyone is DYING to check out. (along with CARRIE) Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) will be starring as Frank, the serial killer who suffers from hallucinations caused by the abuse from his mother growing up.

In the movie: Elijah is a serial killer who works in a shop that sells antique mannequins. He finds his victims on the internet and stalks them like prey. In his own sick mind he finds revenge towards his mother by killing his victims.

I'm really excited for this movie. I wasn't a big fan of the original but I did love the story line. Joe Spinell did a great job at his performance of Frank. Not a lot of people were happy about the I'm really excited for this movie. I wasn't a big fan of the original but I did love the story line. Joe Spinell did a great job at his performance of Frank. Not a lot of people were happy about the decision of casting Elijah Wood as Frank but I am not one of them. I am a big fan of Elijah Wood. I've loved him ever since his performance as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings. That's over ten years of lovin' baby and going strong!

What are your thoughts on the remake???

Upcoming Film: Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters

It came across my knowledge as I was "stalking" Jeremy Renner's  IMDB profile that he will be staring in the new upcoming Horror-Action-Comedy Hansel & Gretel  Witch Hunters. Jeremy will be playing Hansel and Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia) will be playing Gretel. The story line for the movie is, 15 years later after their traumatizing gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel become a menacing team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world.

If you thought this was going to be another version of the children's story then think again! This movie is going back to the original roots, to where it all began. The Brother's Grimm. Before fairy tales became sugar coated, bubblegum Disney flicks, fairy tales had a much darker outlook on life. The Brother's Grimm shows the horrors of fairy tales rather then Disney showing the happiness side of it.

You take two children who almost got eaten by a witch then ends up killing her out of self defense, you can't be surprised that they grow up to be blood thirsty, revenge seeking adults. The three reasons why I am super excited for this movies goes as follows.

1.) Jeremy Renner stars as Hansel:

It's been said countless times, I LOVE Jeremy Renner. I love him as an actor, I love him as a person. He has so much talent in this business that it's nice to see him FINALLY getting the screen time he deserves. I've became a huge fan of Renner after seeing his performance as Jeffery Dahmer in the 2002 Dahmer. That performance is my favorite performance in the history of movies.

2.) The Movie Takes On The Brother's Grimm Version:

I've always loved horrors movies, I've always loved the darker side of life. Knowing that this movie is taking on the style of The Brother's Grimm makes me so happy you would think I was in the Coca Cola Factory in Las Vegas.   The Disney's fairy tales weren't bad, it's just I much rather see The Brother's Grimm version then Disney's version.  Lets face it, The Brother's Grimm is a trip!

3.) Originality:

What's sad about horror movies nowadays is that there is no originality, just the same old concept.  Instead of trying to come up with a new concept that no one has ever thought of. People would rather do a remake to a cult classic that ends up bombing and murdering the original. Or they make a sequel to a franchise that already has five sequels out.  Because of that, I am super duper excited for this movie. It's not a remake, it's not a sequel. Yes, it's about the children's fairy tale but it's also not the same version. I don't recall seeing a movie about Hansel & Gretel so I think this may be the first one, don't quote me on that though. I am digging the story line of the movie. Hansel & Gretel all grown up, 15 years later after their incident. They're back and they're PISSED! I know this movie is going to be very rad and I can't wait to see it. Midnight showing baby!

The movie is set for a release date in March of 2013. The first trailer of the movie will come out sometime this week or next. Make sure you come back to check out the trailer to see if this is your type of movie.

A Killer Saturday!! Ft. Jeffery Dahmer

Disclaimer:" I am in no way trying to condone or justify the crimes these people have committed. My heart goes out to the families that lost loved ones to these killers. I am not trying to embodied them as a hero or a villain. I am trying to embodied them as a human. These posts are simply here to get a better understanding as to why they could do such awful crimes. Maybe one day we can put an end to this horrific lifestyle."




Out of all the serial killers out there, I've always loved learning about Jeffery Dahmer. I connected with him the most. My heart breaks for this man, I actually feel sympathy for him. Jeffery Dahmer was born on May 21st, 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Jeff was born into a loving home of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer, that shows every one that you don't have to be born into a dysfunctional family to be a killer. Jeffery was a happy kid until the age of 6 when he had to have minor surgery which followed the birth of his brother. The events seemed to have a huge impact on Jeff, he became extremely closed off and lacked self-confidence.

About the same time, a career opportunity came along for his father which ended with the family moving to Ohio. Jeffery's insecurities worsened, by his early teens he was disengaged, tense and had no friends. During his teens, his parents went through a bitter divorce which was Jeff's reasons for his behavior. He admitted that he first had thoughts of murder and necrophilia when he was 14 but it was seeing his parents marriage breakdown right before his eyes was the cause for turning this fantasy into a reality.

Jeffery graduated from high school, in June of 1978. While his family was out of town, he picked up a hitchhiker by the name of Steven Hicks. He went home with Dahmer where they drank beer and had sex. When Hicks tried to leave, Dahmer got upset and killed him by hitting him over the head with a barbell. Dahmer's reason for killing Hicks was, he didn't want him to leave. That right there made me almost cry. Jeffery is so desperate for friends and approval and that he didn't want to be alone so he killed him. He felt the only way he would stay was if he killed him, that way he was still "with" him and he wasn't alone.

To hide the evidence, Jeffery dismembered the corpse of Hicks, packed it in plastic bags and buried them in the woods behind his house. Jeffery just happened to have a pet cemetery located out by his house where he buried Hicks. At the same time of the murder of Hicks, Dahmer's alcohol intake became out of control. He ended up dropping out of Ohio State University after only one term, due to his drunkenness. His father, who is now recently remarried forced Jeffery to join the Army and he was posted to Germany.

His drinking problems got worse which resulted in his discharge from the Army two years later. Dahmer got arrested in October of 1981 for disorderly conduct which made his father send him to live with his Grandmother in Wisconsin. His problems with Alochol didn't seem to get better and his next arrest happened during September of 1986, for masturbating in front of two young boys, resulting in Dahmer receiving a one-year probationary sentence. He would spend his time in gay bars, "hunting" as some people call it for young boys. Usually African-American or Asian. While he was there, he came upon his second victim, Steven Toumi. Nine years apart from his very first killing. They checked into an hotel room where they drank heavily. The next morning, Dahmer claims to have found Steven dead besides him.

Dahmer brought a large suitcase to transport the corpse to his grandmother's basement, where he had sex, and masturbated on it, before dismembering it and disposing the remains in the trash. Over his thirteen year crime spree, Jeffery developed a pattern of murder that persisted throughout the years. He would always find his victims at Gay Bars and lure them home with him with promises of money or sex. Once he achieved that, he would pursue them with alcohol spiked with drugs. He would strangle his victims, have sex with the corpse, masturbate on it, then dismember the corpses and dispose of them. He would usually keep their genitals or skulls as souvenirs. He also liked to take pictures of his victims from different stages of the murder, that way he could recollect each act afterwards and relive the experience.

He found gratification by assembling the skulls and masturbating in front of them. His grandmother grew tired of the late nights and drunkenness, not knowing his other activities, forced him to move out in September of 1988. That wasn't till after he had killed another two victims on the premises. Jeffery had his lucky escape when he was charged for the sexual assault of a thirteen year old Latino boy. Dahmer claimed that he thought the boy was much older and the arrest made him see the errors of his way and it marked a turning point in his life. His defense counsel argued that he needed treatment, not jail time and surprisingly the judge agreed. Handing down a five year probationary sentence, with one year prison sentence on "day release", under which he continued to work at his job, but returned to the prison at night. He was released after ten months, despite Dahmer's father having written to the judge urging that Dahmer be held until he had received appropriate treatment. He spent three months with his grandmother on his release, where he does not appear to have added to his body count, before moving into his own apartment in May 1990.

During the fifteen months that followed, up to the time of his capture, Dahmer's victim count accelerated; twelve more lives were taken using his modus operandi. Necrophilia is generally associated with issues of exercising control over victims. He developed these rituals as he progressed, experimenting with chemical means of disposal, and he also consumed the flesh of his victims. He attempted crude lobotomies, drilling into victim's skulls while they were still alive, injecting them with Muriatic acid to see whether he could extend his control to the living. Most of these victims died instantly, but he claimed that one victim had survived for a number of days in a zombie-like state, with limited motor function.

On May 26, 1991. A woman noticed a young Asian boy running around the street naked. The boy was incoherent and he was bleeding from his rectum. Dahmer explained to the police that he was his 19 year old lover and they had gotten into a fight while they were drinking and he wandered off. Not noticing that the boy had a hole in his head and ignoring the woman and her daughters pleas, the police believed Jeffery's story and drove the boys home. Once home, the police left the boy in Dahmer's care not noticing the strange smell coming from his apartment. If they would of taken a look around they would of found the body of his twelfth victim decomposing in the bedroom and enough photographic evidence to arrest him on the spot. Because of this incident, the police involved with this call have been relieved of duty.

Dahmer's luck finally ran out on July 22, 1991, when two Milwaukee police officers picked up Tracy Edwards, a young African-American, who was wandering the streets with a handcuff dangling from his wrist. They decided to follow up his claims that a "weird dude" had drugged and restrained him, and arrived at Dahmer's apartment, where he calmly offered to get the keys for the handcuffs.

Edwards claimed that the knife Dahmer had threatened him with was in the bedroom and, when the officer went in to corroborate the story, he noticed photographs of dismembered bodies lying around, which included one of a head in the fridge. He shouted to his colleague to restrain Dahmer, who fought back fiercely, but was nevertheless subdued. A subsequent search revealed the head in the fridge, as well as three more in the freezer, and a catalogue of other horrors, including preserved skulls, jars containing genitalia, and an extensive gallery of macabre photographs.

Despite having confessed to the killings during police interrogation, Dahmer initially pleaded not guilty to all charges. However, against the advice of his legal counsel, he changed his plea to guilty by virtue of insanity. His defense then offered every gruesome detail of his behavior, as proof that only someone insane could commit such terrible acts, but the jury chose to believe the prosecutor's assertion that Dahmer was fully aware that his acts were evil, but that he chose to commit them anyway, returning after only five hours deliberation to find him guilty, but sane, on all counts, on February 17, 1992. Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen consecutive life terms, a total of 957 years in prison.

On November 28th, 1994 after only serving two years of his sentence. Jeffery along with another inmate were beaten to death by inmate Christoper Scarver. Jeffery was 34 years old.

Say what you want but I feel bad for the guy. He had a hard life, he didn't have any friends and he didn't feel accepted by everyone else or loved. I sympathize with him because I myself didn't have a great childhood. I have a great family and supportive parents so I didn't lack the love from them. I didn't have any or a lot of friends growing up. I wasn't popular in school and I was teased cause I was an out cast. I was timid and kept to myself. I would spend all my time in my room cut off from the outside world just for the fact that I didn't feel accepted by anyone else. I didn't feel love or have love from anyone besides my family. I felt awkward and alone and singled out. That's how Jeffery was, he was sad and alone. He wanted friends and wanted to be accepted by his fellow peers.

He struggled with trying to deal with his feelings and short comings and trying to find his place in life. He never really found his place. He felt more at "peace" when he was with his victims, he felt that he was finally accepted and that's sad. It's sad that the only way to feel loved or accepted by someone else is when you're with their corpse. It breaks my heart knowing that people go through this and ultimately results to them becoming a killer. I wish Jeffery had more friends in his life, I wish he had more love and I wish he didn't have to feel the pain that he felt. No body knows how he felt and what he was thinking in his mind. No one knows why he felt that he had to kill people. He admitted the reason for his killings but I don't think anyone can fully comprehend the true reason for doing it but him.

People will look at him and see a monster. I look at him and see a sad, lonely man looking for love and acceptance and willing to get it anyway he can.


Be sure to check out the previous posts on A Killer Saturday!!


John Wayne Gacy

Ted Bundy

Ed Gein

Horror Blog Of The Month!!

Hey my little Demons! I wanted to let you all know that I am the new Horror Blog Of The Month over at Maynard Morissey's blog HORROR MOVIE DIARY!! Head on other to the post Horror Blog Of The Month and check out the interview. I want to thank Maynard for being so sweet and featuring me on his blog. I also enjoyed all the rad things he said about me. :D Thank you so much, Maynard!!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new post of A Killer Saturday!! Featuring Jeffery Dahmer

The Avengers = Box Office Gold!!

The Avengers made box office history by shooting to Super Stardom with a whopping $200.3 million for the biggest three-day U.S. weekend ever.  At the same time, the superhero mashup added another $151.5 million from 52 oversees territories this weekend which up the fan base to $441.5 million, giving it a staggering $641.8 million here and oversees in the last 12 days since it's release.

It's no surprise that The Avengers reached that high. I could tell by the trailer and all the movies leading up to the release that it was going to be huge. It's been collecting a fan base since Iron Man in 2008 and it was worth the four years. I didn't get into Iron Man that much but it wasn't bad. I loved Captain America and I'm excited see another movie. I haven't seen The Hulk or Thor but each gave an amazing performance.

It's been said that Hawkeye and Black Widow will most likely get their own spin off movies from The Avengers. I really hope that plan follows through because I am a huge Jeremy Renner fan and I loved his character in the movie. Even though Hawkeye had some great scenes with his bow & arrow, I just wish he had a better character development in the movie. I wish we got to see more of him.

With the fan base of the movie so high, The Avengers beat out last year's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which had held the record for the best opening weekend at $169.1 million. Sorry Harry, there's some new superheros in town and they're taking over.

May Monster Madness Day 7!! Ft. The Boogeyman

Today is the last day of May Monster Madness. Again, I would like to thank Annie Walls for creating this wonderful bloghop. I would also like to thank everyone who stopped by and left a comment. Much appreciated. For the last post of MMM, I wanted to talk about the King of all Monsters. The Boogeyman.

For centuries, the Boogeyman has been know by all. In modern time and ancient folklore. It's been said that the Boogeyman was created and used by adults to scare their children into good behaviour. The Boogeyman is never shown to us, he is left to our imagination which is why we became so afraid of him. Not knowing what he looks like gives us the ability to create our very own mental picture. The one thing everyone has in common of his looks is that he has a monster like appearance.

In the midwestern states of the US, the Boogeyman scratches at the window. In the Pacific Northwest, he may manifest in "green frog". In other places and the most known, the Boogeyman hides under your bed or in your closet. He doesn't even have to be a person or a monster like Frankenstein or Dracula. He can be anything you're afraid of. The one thing that terrifies you and shakes you to the core could be the Boogeyman. The Boogeyman also has another name. FEAR. The Boogeyman is Fear.

Just like what Freddy Krueger says. He is what Nightmares are made of. Pennywise from Stephen King's IT mentioned that he is everything you ever were afraid of. That people, is the Boogeyman. I like to think of the Boogeyman being someone who controls your inner fears. He'll test you and see what you can and can't handle and once he finds an opening, he takes it. There is no escaping the Boogeyman, even if you have conquered your fears. He's still there, waiting.

I'm not a fan of dolls. I won't have them in my house and I won't buy them for my children when I have them. The reason for that is my childhood and present day fear. The Chucky Doll. I remember when I was about 7 years old, I turned on the T.v. and there was Chucky. I couldn't believe what I just saw. I was frozen with fear and didn't know what to do. That started my never ending fear of Chucky. I didn't even see any of the movies till 8 years later. Me and my cousin watched the 3rd Child's Play in 2003 to help me get over my fear of Chucky. It didn't work, I still think it made it worse. I couldn't see a picture of him or people mentioning his name without me freaking out.

                (I was trying to hold down my vomit when I was googling this picture)

One birthday when I was young, my parents bought me a talking doll. She was about the same height as Chucky and you were able to teach her how to pronounce words by kissing her forehead and she would repeat the words you've said. She was creepy and she scared me. She would be on my bed with the rest of my stuffed animals and I wouldn't be able to sleep unless I put a blanket over her so I couldn't see her. I always felt like she was watching me while I slept. Waiting for the perfect time to knife me. Because of my fear of Chucky, I'm creeped out by dolls, Ventriloquist dummies, puppets. Anything with a doll like feature. Chucky is my Boogeyman, the Puppet Master to my fears.

He's in the back of my mind pulling all the strings, finding something that will scare me or at least creep me out. Something can creep me out but it's nothing compared to scaring. Nothing scares me to the point that it makes me cry except for Chucky. He is the only thing that I am deathly afraid of and nothing can scare me like he can.

Who is your Boogeyman???

May Monster Madness Day 6!! Ft. The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure. Instead, his plight becomes known. When he attempts to enlist the aid of former acquaintance, he is betrayed. So Griffin decides to murder his betrayer and begin a "Reign of Terror".

While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, in The Invisible Man Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view.

A mysterious stranger, Griffin, arrives at the local inn of the English village of Iping, West Sussex, during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves, his face hidden entirely by bandages, large goggles and a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively reclusive, irascible, and unfriendly. He demands to be left alone and spends most of his time in his rooms working with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only venturing out at night. He becomes the talk of the village (one of the novel's most charming aspects is its portrayal of small-town life in southern England, which the author knew from first-hand experience).

Meanwhile, a mysterious burglary occurs in the village. Griffin has run out of money and is trying to find a way to pay for his board and lodging. When his landlady demands he pay his bill and quit the premises, he reveals part of his invisibility to her in a fit of pique. An attempt to apprehend the stranger is frustrated when he undresses to take advantage of his invisibility, fights off his would-be captors, and flees to the downs.

There Griffin coerces a tramp, Thomas Marvel, into becoming his assistant. With Marvel, he returns to the village to recover three notebooks that contain his records of his experiments. When Marvel soon attempts to betray the Invisible Man to the police, Griffin chases him to the seaside town of Port Burdock, threatening to kill him.

His furious attempt to avenge his betrayal leads to his being shot. Griffin takes shelter in a nearby house that turns out to belong to Dr. Kemp, a former acquaintance from medical school. To Kemp, he reveals his true identity: the Invisible Man is Griffin, a former medical student who left medicine to devote himself to optics. Griffin recounts how he invented a machine capable of rendering bodies invisible and, on an impulse, performed the procedure on himself.

Griffin burns down the boarding house to cover his tracks, but soon realizes he is ill-equipped to survive in the open. He steals some clothing from a theatrical supply shop and heads to Iping to attempt to reverse the effect. But now that he imagines he can make Kemp his secret confederate, describing his plan to begin a "Reign of Terror" by using his invisibility to terrorize the nation.

Kemp has already denounced Griffin to the local authorities and is on the watch for help to arrive as he listens to this wild proposal. When the authorities arrive at Kemp's house, Griffin fights his way out and the next day leaves a note announcing that Kemp himself will be the first man to be killed in the Reign of Terror. Kemp, a cool-headed character, tries to organize a plan to use himself as bait to trap the Invisible Man, but a note he sends is stolen from his servant by Griffin.

Griffin shoots a policeman who comes to Kemp's aid, then breaks into Kemp's house. Kemp bolts for the town, where the local citizenry come to his aid. Griffin is seized, assaulted, and killed by a mob. The Invisible Man's naked, battered body gradually becomes visible as he dies. In the final chapter, it is revealed that Marvel has secretly kept Griffin's notes.

May Monster Madness Day 5!! Ft. The Creature of the Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes. The film was released in the United States on March 5, 1954.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format (this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980). It was one of the first Universal films filmed in 3-D (the first was It Came from Outer Space, which was released a year before). It is considered a classic of the 1950s, and generated two sequels, Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us. Revenge of the Creature was also filmed and released in 3-D, in hopes of reviving the format.

A geology expedition in the Amazon uncovers fossilized evidence from the Devonian period of a link between land and sea animals in the form of a skeletal hand with webbed fingers. Expedition leader Dr. Carl Maia (Antonio Moreno) visits his friend, Dr. David Reed (Richard Carlson), an ichthyologist who works at a marine biology institute. Reed persuades the institute's financial backer, Dr. Mark Williams (Richard Denning), to fund a return expedition to the Amazon to look for the remainder of the skeleton.

They go aboard a tramp steamer, the Rita, which is captained by a crusty old codger named Lucas (Nestor Paiva). The expedition consists of David, Carl and Mark, as well as Reed's girlfriend, Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams), and another scientist, Dr. Edwin Thompson (Whit Bissell). When they arrive at the camp, they discover that his entire research team has been mysteriously killed while he was away. Lucas suggests it was done by a jaguar, but the others are unsure. In fact, the camp was attacked by a piscine amphibious humanoid, a living member of the same species from which the fossil originated. The creature, curious upon seeing the expedition, investigates the camp site, but when its sudden appearance frightens the members, they attack it, and in response, the enraged creature kills them.

The excavation of the area that Carl found the hand turns up nothing. Mark is ready to give up the search, but David suggests that perhaps thousands of years ago the part of the embankment containing the rest of the skeleton fell into the water and was washed downriver. Lucas says that the tributary empties into a lagoon known as the "Black Lagoon", a paradise from which no one has ever returned. The scientists decide to risk it, unaware that the amphibious "Gill-man" that killed Carl's assistants earlier has been watching them. Taking notice of the beautiful Kay, it follows the Rita all the way downriver to the Black Lagoon. Once the expedition arrives, David and Mark go diving to collect fossils from the lagoon floor. After they return, Kay goes swimming and is stalked underwater by the creature, who then gets briefly caught in one of the ship's draglines. Although it escapes, it leaves behind a claw in the net, revealing its existence to the scientists.

Subsequent encounters with the Gill-man claim the lives of two of Lucas's crew members, before the Gill-man is captured and locked in a cage on board the Rita. It escapes during the night and attacks Edwin, who was guarding it. Kay hits the beast with a lantern; driving it off before it can kill Edwin. Following this incident, David decides they should return to civilization, but as the Rita tries to leave, they find the entrance blocked by fallen logs, courtesy of the escaped Gill-man.

While the others attempt to remove the logs, Mark is mauled to death trying to capture the creature single-handedly underwater. The creature then abducts Kay and takes her to his cavern lair. David, Lucas, and Carl give chase to save her. Kay is rescued and the creature is riddled with bullets before he retreats to the lagoon where his body sinks in the watery depths, presumably dead.

Novelization:

The film was novelized in 1977, in paperback under the pseudonym of "Carl Dreadstone", as part of a short-lived series of books based on the classic Universal horror films. The book was introduced by Ramsey Campbell, but was written by Walter Harris. The novel offers a completely different Gill-man, who in this version of the story is gigantic, almost as big as the Rita herself, weighing in at 30 tons. It is both coldblooded and warmblooded, is a hermaphrodite, and also possesses a long whip-like tail. The gigantic creature is dubbed "AA", for "Advanced Amphibian", by the expedition team members. After slaying most of the team members, destroying a Sikorsky helicopter, and kidnapping Kay more than once, the creature is killed by the crew of a US Navy torpedo boat.

The novel also differs greatly with respect to the human characters. Only David Reed and Kay Lawrence remain the same. Mark Williams is a German named "Bruno Gebhardt", and dies not as a result from drowning but by the monster falling on him. Lucas is named "Jose Goncalves Fonseca de Souza" and is a mostly sympathetic character until his suggestion of throwing the wounded and unconscious Reed to the monster makes an enraged Gebhardt/Williams throw him to the beast instead. Dr. Thompson and Dr. Maia both die grisly deaths, whereas in the movie they survive; Maia is eaten by the monster, and Thompson is impaled on a long tree branch flung at him by the creature like a spear (in an apparent nod to a deleted scene from Revenge of the Creature wherein the Gill-man killed a guard in this fashion).

Legacy:

The movie has an enduring legacy in both media and the general public. A musical based on the movie opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in late June 2009. It has also been widely referenced, in part due to its groundbreaking character, in other media. In fact, many movies featuring monsters put a Gill-man likeness in the background as homage. More directly, the Gill-man appeared in the Robot Chicken episode "Shoe", voiced by Seth Green. He tells a guy that he prefers the lagoon to be called the "African-American Lagoon."

The Monster also appears in "We are a Humble Factory", now voiced by Breckin Meyer, where Count Chocula, FrankenBerry, and BooBerry are angrily mentioned by him, as well Fruity Yummy Mummy and Fruit Brute. The creature decides to make his own cereal called "Creature with the Black Macaroons" because macaroon sounds like lagoon; however, the cereal wasn't successful and when all the cereals were dumped into his lagoon, he says "I should've gone with legumes", as legume also sounds like lagoon. Its likeness was also used for the film The Monster Squad. However, due to licensing issues with Universal, the creature is referred to as "Gill-Man."

Ben Chapman introduced the creature in costume with Abbott and Costello on live television on an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour. Even earlier, in The Seven Year Itch, the film is referenced when Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe come out of a theatre showing Creature from the Black Lagoon. Monroe expresses some sympathy for the creature, saying that it was not really bad and "just wanted to be loved".

The creature has a brief cameo emerging from Lake Springfield on The Simpsons.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was later made into a pinball game, designed by John Trudeau (AKA "Dr. Flash"), and released in 1992 by Midway (under the Bally brand name). This game has a retro 1950s drive-in theme. It also features such 50s classic songs like Rock Around the Clock, Get a Job, and Summertime Blues. Completing side missions in the pinball game causes the screen to display "Universal Presents... Creature from the Black Lagoon", and then requires the player to chase after the monster just like in the film. The game sold 7,841 units.

A series of children's books, written by Mike Thaler and Jared Lee, paradigm the film. Beginning with The Teacher From the Black Lagoon, it continued with The Principal..., The Gym Teacher... and several others.

The Marvel Comics character Triton of the Inhumans is a green water breathing character resembling the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

The DC Comics character Aquaman donned a suit of armor resembling the Creature in the 2005–07 miniseries Justice.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In one song, it ponders the contents of Jack's present: "Perhaps it's the head that I found in the lake".

The film has been immortalized in paleontology circles. When Jenny Clack of the University of Cambridge discovered a fossil amphibian in what was once a fetid swamp, she named it Eucritta melanolimnetes, which is Greek for "the creature from the black lagoon."

Though technically a merman, the character Rikuo in the Darkstalkers game series and his race bear a striking resemblance to the Gill-Man, and perhaps more so than any character in the game, remain very true to the source character, with Rikuo being from an area in Brazil near the Amazon. Even the character's name is a reference to one of the actors who played the creature.

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.

The heavy metal band Iced Earth also did a song about the creature called Dragon's Child on the Horror Show album.

Dave Edmunds did a song called "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series parodied the movie in "The Tomato From The Black Lagoon", where the gang looks for a missing tomato link in the San Zucchini Botanical Gardens and are stalked by an amphibious tomato who goes after Tara, who is also part tomato.

Abe Sapien of Hellboy fame was originally inspired by the film and its titular creature.

Funko released in October 2010 a 7-inch button eyed cuddly monster.

May Monster Madness Day 3!! Ft. Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham van Helsing.

Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the Gothic novel and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations.

The novel is told in epistolary format, as a series of letters, diary entries, ships' log entries, and so forth. The main writers of these items are also the novel's protagonists. The story is occasionally supplemented with newspaper clippings that relate events not directly witnessed by the story's characters.

The tale begins with Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, journeying by train and carriage from England to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle (situated in the Carpathian Mountains on the border of Transylvania, Bukovina and Moldavia). The purpose of his mission is to provide legal support to Dracula for a real estate transaction overseen by Harker's employer, Peter Hawkins, of Exeter in England. At first enticed by Dracula's gracious manner, Harker soon discovers that he has become a prisoner in the castle. He also begins to see disquieting facets of Dracula's nocturnal life. One night while searching for a way out of the castle, and against Dracula's strict admonition not to venture outside his room at night, Harker falls under the spell of three wanton female vampires, "the Sisters." He is saved at the last second by the Count, because he wants to keep Harker alive just long enough to obtain needed legal advice and teachings about England and London (Dracula's planned travel destination was to be among the "teeming millions"). Harker barely escapes from the castle with his life.

Not long afterward, a Russian ship, the Demeter, having weighed anchor at Varna, runs aground on the shores of Whitby, England, during a fierce tempest. All of the crew are missing and presumed dead, and only one body is found, that of the captain tied to the ship's helm. The captain's log is recovered and tells of strange events that had taken place during the ship's journey. These events led to the gradual disappearance of the entire crew apparently owing to a malevolent presence on board the ill-fated ship. An animal described as a large dog is seen on the ship leaping ashore. The ship's cargo is described as silver sand and boxes of "mould", or earth, from Transylvania.


Soon Dracula is tracking Harker's devoted fiancee, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, and her friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy receives three marriage proposals in one day, from Dr. John Seward; Quincey Morris; and the Hon. Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming). Lucy accepts Holmwood's proposal while turning down Seward and Morris, but all remain friends. There is a notable encounter between Dracula and Seward's patient Renfield, an insane man who means to consume insects, spiders, birds, and other creatures — in ascending order of size — in order to absorb their "life force". Renfield acts as a motion sensor, detecting Dracula's proximity and supplying clues accordingly.

Lucy begins to waste away suspiciously. All of her suitors fret, and Seward calls in his old teacher, Professor Abraham Van Helsing from Amsterdam. Van Helsing immediately determines the cause of Lucy's condition but refuses to disclose it, knowing that Seward's faith in him will be shaken if he starts to speak of vampires. Van Helsing tries multiple blood transfusions, but they are clearly losing ground. On a night when Van Helsing must return to Amsterdam (and his message to Seward asking him to watch the Westenra household is accidentally sent to the wrong address), Lucy and her mother are attacked by a wolf. Mrs Westenra, who has a heart condition, dies of fright, and Lucy apparently dies soon after.

Lucy is buried, but soon afterward the newspapers report children being stalked in the night by a "bloofer lady" (as they describe it), i.e. "beautiful lady".[2] Van Helsing, knowing that this means Lucy has become a vampire, confides in Seward, Lord Godalming and Morris. The suitors and Van Helsing track her down, and after a disturbing confrontation between her vampiric self and Arthur, they stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic.

Around the same time, Jonathan Harker arrives home from recuperation in Budapest (where Mina joined and married him after his escape from the castle); he and Mina also join the coalition, who turn their attentions to dealing with Dracula.


After Dracula learns of Van Helsing's and the others' plot against him, he takes revenge by visiting – and feeding from – Mina at least three times. Dracula also feeds Mina his blood, creating a spiritual bond between them to control her. The only way to forestall this is to kill Dracula first. Mina slowly succumbs to the blood of the vampire that flows through her veins, switching back and forth from a state of consciousness to a state of semi-trance during which she is telepathically connected with Dracula. This telepathic connection is established to be two-way, in that the Count can influence Mina, but in doing so betrays to her awareness of his surroundings.

After the group sterilizes all of his lairs in London, Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania, transported in a box with transfer and portage instructions forwarded, pursued by Van Helsing's group, who themselves are aided by Van Helsing hypnotizing Mina and questioning her about the Count. The group splits in three directions. Van Helsing goes to the Count's castle and kills his trio of brides, and shortly afterwards all converge on the Count just at sundown under the shadow of the castle. Harker and Quincey rush to Dracula's box, which is being transported by Gypsies. Harker shears Dracula through the throat with a Kukri while mortally wounded Quincey, slashed by one of the crew, stabs the Count in the heart with a Bowie knife. Dracula crumbles to dust, and Mina is freed from his curse.

The book closes with a note about Mina's and Jonathan's married life and the birth of their first-born son, whom they name after all four members of the party, but refer to only as Quincey in remembrance of their American friend.

May Monster Madness Day 2! Ft The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man is a 1941 American Werewolf Horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as The Wolf Man, featuring Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Béla Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf.

After learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While there, Larry becomes romantically interested in a local girl named Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), who runs an antique shop. As a pretext to converse with her, he purchases a silver-headed walking stick decorated with a wolf. Gwen tells him that it represents a werewolf (which she defines as a man who changes into a wolf "at certain times of the year.")

Throughout the film, various villagers recite a poem, whenever the subject of werewolves comes up:

"Even a man who is pure in heart
and says his prayers by night
may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms
and the autumn moon is bright."


That night, Larry attempts to rescue Gwen's friend Jenny from what he believes to be a sudden attack by a wolf. He kills the beast with his new walking stick, but is bitten in the process. He is told that it was not merely a wolf; but was a werewolf, and that now he will become one. A gypsy fortuneteller named Maleva (Maria Ouspenskaya) reveals to Larry that the animal which bit him was actually her son Bela (Béla Lugosi) in the form of a wolf. Bela had been a werewolf for years and now Larry will be transformed into one as well.

Talbot transforms into a wolf-like creature and stalks the village, first killing the local gravedigger. Talbot retains vague memories of being a werewolf and wanting to kill, and continually struggles to overcome his condition. He is finally bludgeoned to death by his father with his own silver walking stick after attacking Gwen. Sir John Talbot watches in horror as his son transforms back into a human form as the local police arrive on the scene.

The legacy of The Wolf Man:

The Wolf Man is the only Universal monster to be played by the same actor in all his 1940s film appearances. Lon Chaney, Jr. was very proud of this, frequently stating in interviews: "He was my baby".[3] Chaney would go on to play a wolf man (if not the Wolf Man) in very similar makeup in the 1959 Mexican film La Casa del Terror and a famous 1962 episode of TV's Route 66 titled Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing, which also starred Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster. Nearly a decade later, even though he was seriously ill at the time, Chaney managed to conjure up his original energetic gestures while masked in a quasi-wolfish rubber mask for one scene in his last (and most unfortunate) film, 1971's Dracula vs. Frankenstein.

The Wolf Man was not Universal's first werewolf film. It was preceded by Werewolf of London from 1935, starring noted character actor Henry Hull in a quite different and more subtle werewolf makeup. As noted previously, Hull objected to having his face entirely covered in latex and hair, and a less-hirsute, more devilish version was used in the film. The film was not a huge box office success, probably because audiences of the day thought it too similar in many ways to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, for which Fredric March had won an Oscar three years before. Some latter-day critics prefer Jack Pierce's earlier werewolf to Chaney's, which was described in Carlos Clarens's book An Illustrated History of the Horror Film as "... looking like a hirsute Cossack."

The Wolf Man is one of three top-tier Universal Studios monsters without a direct literary source. The others are The Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. In the 1970s, novelizations of the original films were issued as paperback originals as part of a series written by "Carl Dreadstone," a house name pseudonym for a several writers, including British horror writer Ramsey Campbell.

Fantasy/horror author Neil Gaiman uses the "Larry Talbot" character in two selections from his short story collection Smoke and Mirrors. Harlan Ellison's Hugo Award winning "Adrift just off the Islets of Langerhans, latitude 38 degrees, 54' N., longitude 77 degrees, 00' 13' W." uses "Laurence Talbot" as the main character. Heavy metal band Iced Earth's track "Wolf" from the album Horror Show, has the wolf bane poem recited in its main chorus with some added words in between. Similarly, the track "Howl" by Florence + The Machine (from the album Lungs) features a slightly edited version of the poem in the closing verse. Cradle of Filth used the poem as the intro to their track entitled "Queen of Winter, Throned" on the album V Empire. The character of Jon Talbain, a werewolf attempting to overcome his curse in the Darkstalkers game series, bears a resemblance to the character of Larry Talbot in name and in characterization, made doubly so by the fact that the series primary characters are all homages to horror movie archetypes.

The Wolf Man also had an impact on future filmmakers as well. Cult films such as An American Werewolf in London and The Howling drew inspiration from The Wolf Man and made references to the film as well.

May Monster Madness Day 1 Ft. Frankenstein!!

Welcome to the first post of May Monster Madness! I want to thank Annie Walls for hosting this super cool blog hop! Thank you so much for checking out my blog. For MMM, I'll be discussing the famous Universal Monsters. Today's post is dedicated to Frankenstein. Good'ole Frankie! Out of all of the Universal Monsters, Frankenstein is by far my favorite monster. I think it's because of Boris Karloff's portrayal as Frankenstein. Instead of being the cynical, intelligent monster from the book, the Universal Studios version presents a childlike creature who doesn't know his own strength. Typical of me, falling for the lost souls and the misunderstood.

Frankenstein (full title: Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus) is a novel by Mary Shelley, originally published in 1818, with a 1823 reprint without Shelley's involvement and a third edition in 1831, this time with significant edits from the author.

The novel tells the story of a scientist named Victor Frankenstein who unlocks the secrets to creating life, and uses this knowledge to create an artificial man, larger and stronger than most mortals, by means that he declines to describe in his narrative. While he is initially triumphant with his success, he is immediately disgusted by and fearful of his creation (who views him as its father), abandoning it and fleeing.

In his absence, the Creature has many bad run-ins with humanity and becomes fearful and cynical. He learns about humanity by watching a family cottage from afar, but is again driven off when he attempts to offer his friendship. Eventually, the Creature comes to resent his own creator, and decides to come home to seek vengeance against Frankenstein...

The subtitle, A Modern Prometheus, compares Victor Frankenstein to the Greek titan Prometheus, who brought the secret of fire from Mount Olympus to mortal men, reflecting on Frankenstein's spiritual would-be theft of the secret to creating life - but like Prometheus, Frankenstein also came to regret his transgression. Many would say that Frankenstein was the ultimate warning of Science Is Bad, though similar stories were common throughout the industrial revolution. More feminist interpretations point to the attempt to remove feminine influence from the act of creating life, exemplified when Frankenstein destroys the mate that he had agreed to make for the Creature, and the subsequent death of his own fiancee by the Creature's hand.

This novel has been adapted into a minor subgenre of movies and sequels.

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
House of Dracula (1945)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
The Munsters: The design of Herman Munster's makeup was heavily influenced by the Universal films.
Young Frankenstein parodied elements of the first three Universal movies.