Category: Movies

“Chamber of Horrors” with Fear Flasher & Horror Horn

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I remember when I first saw Chamber of Horrors.   It was on television.  I was a kid, like most, who loved monster movies.  The title was enough to suck me in.

“Chamber of Horrors.”

Yeaaah.

“A one-handed madman uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.”

Ok.  Deal me in.

The movie began and we learned that the motion picture contained scenes so terrifying that there would be a “Fear Flasher” and a “Horror Horn” to warn the audience to look away.

Yikes.

The opening scene had Patrick O’Neal force a Reverend to marry him to a corpse!  Wha —  What?!?

Not long after, O’Neal chopped off his own hand to escape the law.  He then returned with a detachable hook and other instruments of pain to exact revenge!

Although Chamber of Horrors  sounds gruesome, keep in mind it was on regular tv.   I loved it.

What kid wouldn’t?

I watched Chamber of Horrors  years later and it was still fun… although not nearly as scary as I remembered it.  I’ve embedded a taste below.

You know, I’ll bet if Chamber of Horrors  was remade it would do good business… and be a lot gorier.

Jerry Gaylord Gets Carter or Barney Ross!

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Jerry Gaylord aka The Franchize returns with his take on Sly from Get Carter.  Stallone purists may say, wait, he’s got the tats of Barney Ross.  Ok, then for you folks, it’s Barney Ross!

Jerry is one of my favorite sketch artists.  He always gives collectors more than they’re expecting and he is just plain good!

I highly recommend Jerry to all sketch collectors. He quickly responds to e-mails, his turnaround time is fast and he packages the art to ensure it arrives safely.

To check out more of Jerry’s art, head here. – Craig

From Wired: Frank Miller is Back (and Not Sorry)

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I’ve been a Frank Miller fan since his days on Daredevil over 30 years ago.  I followed Miller as he created Ronin, Dark Night Returns, Electra, Sin City and more.  In recent years Miller’s output has been sporadic at best.

I was hopeful that with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For  hitting cineplexes around the world that we might see more of Frank Miller’s Sin City yarns.

Since reading Sean Howe’s profile of Miller for Wired: After His Public Downfall, Frank Miller is Back (and Not Sorry), and seeing the accompanying photos [not the one above, it is probably five or six years old] of Frank Miller, I am still hopeful for more comic work from him, but even more importantly I hope that Frank Miller is physically okay.

“I Married a Monster From Outer Space”

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 I was recently thinking about the cult classic I Married a Monster From Outer Space  and wondering why it seldom comes up when folks are talking about monster movies from the 50’s.

As a kid, I Married a Monster From Outer Space  was one of my many favorites.  It still holds up pretty well.

Maybe I Married a Monster From Outer Space  just needs more people talking about it.  So to that end… here’s the original trailer!

Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez on Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

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I thought that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For  was better than the original Sin City  movie, and I liked the original a lot.  The fact that A Dame to Kill For  isn’t tearing it up at the box office doesn’t surprise, but it sure disappoints me.

My hope is that overseas dollars and dvd purchases make it possible for more Sin City  yarns from Miller and Rodriguez.  Scott Huver at CBR. interviewed Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez and it’s obvious they feel the same,

Z-View: “Westworld”

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Ed Neumeier recently introduced Westworld   at the Trailers from Hell site and it reminded me how much I love that movie.

Spoilers lurk below…

Man, I was the right age to love Westworld  when I saw it in a theater when it premiered in 1973.  I loved the concept of a Disney-like park where adults could vacation and live out their fantasies.  Heck, who wouldn’t?  Maybe any age is the right age for that.

Yul Brynner was on-point as the Cowboy killing machine.  James Brolin was the perfect movie-star-leading-man who would save his nerdy buddy [played by Richard Benajmin] and the day.  So when Brolin was gunned down by the gunslinging Brynner and Benjamin was left to make it out on his own, I was shocked.  And hooked.

Westworld  Rating: 4 out of 5