We’re on our way to the 2nd Annual Sci-Fi Horror Weekend to hawk our wares to the Okies down in Tulsa. Wish us luck!

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In a few short hours, at the “butt-crack of dawn” – Deejay, Jeff, Deej, and myself will be road tripping to Tulsa Oklahoma to attend the Sci-Fi Horror Weekend.

This will be the third convention we’ve gone to this year (after Texas Frightmare Weekend and Flashback Weekend) and I’ll be interested to see what the smaller convention offers. I’m wondering how much different it’ll be. Oh, and we’ll also be attending Nebraskon in Omaha next month

We’ll be seeing Charles Band again, and apparently this time, the Full Moon road show will have all the bells and whistles that did not accompany Flashback Weekend. I want to make sure I get Deejay’s interaction with Joe Bob Briggs on video, because you know it’ll be crazy. I’m also interested in seeing Evil Dead: The Musical and catching the screening of Dark Night of the Scarecrow that I missed in Texas. And what is this “Screampunk Ball” that I keep hearing about? Should be a fun time. Can’t wait.

While there, we will be recording Splattercast #200, probably late at night in our hotel room and posting pics and updates right here on DL. So check back throughout the day tomorrow and Saturday to see what we’re up to.

See you in Tulsa!

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It was only a matter of time until Red Dead Redemption got a zombie DLC pack. I’ve stated many times how stupid and uninteresting I think zombies are, but of course I’m going to plunk down my hard earned money to pick this up. RDR is an incredible game and the dlc content has been really good so far, plus, I gotta admit, that trailer looks rad. It comes out October 26th, just in time for Halloween.

In other sad news, I have decided to not buy Fallout: New Vegas. The internet is abuzz with horror stories of how glitchy and unplayable the game is. So much so that Bethesda has already issued a statement saying that they are working on fixing the problem. Who knows how long that will take considering the red tape it takes to get patches put on XBOX Live. So rather than have a shitty experience right out of the gate, I’m just going to hold off on buying the game until I know the issues have been resolved. Which sucks, because I was REALLY looking forward to playing this game. Ah well. Christmas present here I come!

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Our second attempt at the X-Files season 1 finale – The Erlenmeyer Flask. Join the whole crew as they wrap up the first season and gear up for the second.

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This week you get a rare treat: listening to  Jeff hate on multiple movies in the same show! We delay ourselves as long as possible before trudging through the Pumpkinhead series.

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I’m very excited to announce this. We’ve mentioned it a couple times on the Splattercast but I’m now ready to reveal the full slate of films that we’ll be talking about on the Splattercast next month.

Though we are, primarily, a horror themed podcast, it’s always nice to take a break for a bit and watch stuff outside of our normal comfort zone. I chose to program a Noir month for a couple of reasons. The first being, film noir is awesome. The second being that horror films, specifically the Universal horrors of the 30′s and the Val Lewton budget flicks of the 40′s had a big impact on noir. Many of the artists who worked on those films also went into noir. And you’ll see a lot of overlap in terms of visual style (German Expressionism) and themes (paranoia, self-destructiveness, etc.) that fit right at  home in the horror genre. Murder, duplicity, and death were the name of the game in many noirs, not unlike horror. The supernatural element may be gone in many cases, but the tone and atmosphere is similar in many ways.

We’ll be covering a lot of stuff. Over 20 films from a “genre” (we’ll discuss whether or not noir is a genre unto itself, or just a visual style, or something else entirely) that encompassed over 300 (by some accounts) films and spanned nearly 20 years (1940-59). We’ll be covering everything from the stagey playlike stuffiness of The Maltese Falcon to the revolutionary aesthetic of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil. And we’ll be covering other notable things, such as the pre-code, pre-noir masterpiece I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to fun stuff like the noir inspired Lovecraftian horror flick Cast a Deadly Spell.

It’s going to be a fun month of great movies. After the jump, you can see the full schedule and lineup. I encourage all of you to check out as many of these movies as you can. Many are on Netflix Instant, but all are “required viewing” of one sort or another. And watch along with us, week to week, to see how the classical noir style changes over the course of 20 years. And, of course, send us your feedback and let us know what you think of these movies!

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Cool gallery of some zombiefied Street Fighter characters.

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