Review: The Midnight Meat Train
The Midnight Meat Train is about a serial killer prowling New York City’s subway system. Really, though, it’s about how a man deliberately (if naively) pursues a glimpse of hell, and consequently becomes a part of it. In other words, typical Clive Barker stuff. After “Hellraiser,” it’s the second-best adaptation of a Barker story to film. It’s been reworked dramatically by screenwriter Jeff Buhler and director Ryuhei Kitamura, however, and they improve in every way on the source material, which is a rarity for literary adaptations.
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Tweet ThisZombie Harmony finds that special zombie just for you
This is one of those why-didn’t-I-think-of-that sites of pure awesome: a zombie dating service. Technically, you’re not supposed to join unless you’re a zombie, but that doesn’t have to stop you from browsing the zombie singles: lady zombie “luvs2cuddle” enjoys “long, slow, lumbering walks on the beach,” while the guy who calls himself “Need2Feed” relies a little too much on LOL in his profile.
The site is only a single page, which is a little lame–it would have been nice if the joke had gone a little deeper, but it’s clearly just a marketing stunt for the real dating site Mingle. Still, well done!
Photos of meat. Human meat.
The Sterile Eye is a Norwegian medical photographer’s personal blog, and as such the entries cover whatever is on the guy’s mind that day. But among the miscellania are entries where the man posts photos and stills from the videos he shoots, and they’re extremely up close and personal glimpses of the human body.
Cool Halloween decorations from an unlikely source
Look, you don’t have to like her or what she (usually) stands for. The fact is, this woman apparently loves Halloween, and you can find some awesome free clip art and templates on her official website–things like skeleton party invitations and bat silhouettes. My favorite is the exaggerated staircase shadow cutout.
You’ll have to hold your nose and wade past the filthy slaughterhouse floor of “tasteful” ideas to get to the good stuff, but if you’ve got a strong stomach and are willing to dig around a while, you can turn up some pretty awesome ideas and artwork freebies.
Halloween section at MarthaStewart.com
20 horror movie cliches, as told by stick figures
Mark H. Harris, the editor of About.com’s Horror page, has put together a guide to the top 20 horror movie cliches that he finds most annoying. Then he illustrated them with stick figures. Pictured below: the ubiquitous doll heads that litter the killer’s home.
Movie cliche: doll heads littering the killer’s home.
“20 Horror Movie Cliches I Can Do Without” [Horror.About.com]
SNL video: bathroom terror with Ellen Page and Dracula
If you don’t watch SNL, I don’t blame you, but you may have missed this short last year that spoofs the gotcha! moment in horror movies when someone appears out of nowhere in the bathroom mirror.
Note: if the embedded video doesn’t show up below, blame NBC, not my blog, and click here to view the clip on their site.
“Creepshow” death scene happens in real life
Remember how Ed Harris–young, blond, and cute–dies in the first segment of Creepshow? The zombie patriarch pushes a tombstone onto him. It took 25 years for the real world to catch up, but now it’s happened to someone in real life.
A 77-year-old man died Monday night in a cemetery in Buckingham in western Quebec after a tombstone fell on top of him, police say.
Officers said the man had gone to St. Gregoire Cemetery to visit the site where his parents were buried and was digging next to a tombstone when it fell.
“It appears he moved the stone and was digging a hole around the foundation when the concrete block fell on his back,” said Const. Isabelle Poirier.
I feel bad for him, of course, but I can’t stop wondering just what he was doing there. Digging up his parents? Was he planning on burying an item with them? Did he want to take the tombstone away? Was he crazy, or was he doing this late at night because he wanted or needed it to be kept secret?
Most important question, though: did a zombie push the tombstone onto him???
Ed Harris seconds before he goes squish.
“Man dies in Quebec cemetery after tombstone falls on him” [CBCNews.ca]
Ghosts
This beautiful photo was shot by Alexey Titarenko. I love everything about it except for the sneakers. Not the shoes in the lower left corner, which add a satisfying sense of loss and of things left behind, but the repeating ghostly sneakers going up the stairs on the right, which make me feel like this photo was shot in the afterlife right as the Heaven’s Gate gang got dropped off at the Death Intake Center.
3D photo of body caught in mulcher
Most stereoscopic photos on the web are pretty tame, but I came across this morbid shot and wanted to share it. According to the text accompanying it, an elderly homeless man died of natural causes in a dumpster full of paper, which days later was taken to a mulching facility. (If you can’t view parallel 3D images, go here to learn how.)
The operator of the equipment saw what was left of the deceased and stopped the equipment, pinning the remains in the mulcher.
Unfortunately (?) you can’t really tell what’s going on. It looks creepy, no doubt, but it’s hard to decide what’s mechanical and what’s biological in either photo. Instead, it just makes me think of a real-life version of Stephen King’s “The Mangler”. Or, hmm, maybe one of Giger’s aliens climbing through a guillotine? Because that makes sense…
Bloody squirting heart
I don’t know what’s funnier, the idea that this was on display at a black tie affair at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, or the cheery music being played in the background as the costume-shop heart “beats” and squirts blood all over the inside of its plexiglass box.
My favorite part: the end, where the mom and her kid are grinning and staring at it. That’s a cool mom.
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