http://midnightcorey.com A Knife in Your Eye Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:09:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just wanted to post a quick note about some appearances on podcasts that have I've made over the past few weeks. I realized that I haven't talked much about these, so here we go: A Little Dead Podcast » A Little Comic Book Update (for 03 March 2010) My friends at ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/podcast-update/ Years ago, Ozzy Osbourne wrote a song called “Thank God for the Bomb,” and I would have to agree. Even for the simple fact that it gave horror fans something special: THE EMERGENCE OF THE ATOMIC GIANT BUG FILMS! These were some of my favorites. Radiation played a big role in ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/monsters-of-misfitboy-tarantula-1955/ Do you know what was great about horror films back in the ol’ days? There were no battle lines drawn about horror movies. You either liked or disliked them. Horror was horror, and there was no “zombies are better than vampires” or any other BS like that. It was ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/monsters-of-misfitboy-the-giant-claw-1957/ I'm very happy to introduce a new series here on the ol' Midnight Corey blog: Monsters of Misfitboy. If you recall, Misfitboy did a fantastic run of reviews of George Romero's zombie movies, and their sequels and remakes, on the Midnight Podcast. Now he's back, and I'm proud to have ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/introducing-monsters-of-misfitboy/ I watched this movie yesterday, planning on doing an in-depth review. But I really had no idea what I would be subjecting myself to. This movie was so bad that I couldn't finish it, despite the fact that we get 2 kills in the first 5 minutes. I'll give this a ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/splatter-university-1984/ To preface my comments, I have some homework for you. Read this article: FreeDUMB of Speech? . . . which is in response to this article: An Open Letter To Gorezone Magazine. Please take the time to read the article and its comments, and you'll understand why I and a ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/the-wonderful-world-of-horror/ I just wanted to post this to remind you to go over to James Melzer's web site and listen to episode 12 of UNLEASHED, featuring great discussion about new media/free content, an interview with writer Peter Clines, and a review of Candyman (1992) by yours truly. And while you're there, check ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/03/unleashed-episode-12/ Here is something very cool: a review of the Star Wars zombie book Death Troopers by my friend Misfitboy. I appreciate that he took the time to write this up! Enjoy. A LONG, LONG, TIME AGO… IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY . . . George A. Romero and George Lucas ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/02/death-troopers-a-review-by-misfitboy/ Someone recommended the movie Big Man Japan (2007) to me out of the blue. I'd never heard of it, but I was told that I would probably enjoy it. Yesterday I gave it a watch, and it was far from what I expected. The film follows a "common" Japanese man. A ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/02/big-man-japan-2007/ This afternoon I decided to watch a movie I haven't seen since college: Over the Edge (1979). And I forgot how much I love this film. It's about junior high school-age youth whose parents have moved them into a planned community (subdivision) in the middle of nowhere. With nothing to do, ... http://midnightcorey.com/2010/02/over-the-edge/