I’ve been loving the hell out of Fallout 3 lately. The reaction is a bit mixed on our forum thread, but this is easily the most fully realized “real” game world I’ve ever played. It’s a blast roaming the wasteland of Washington D.C. and killing super mutants. And the characters are really good, too. For example, one of the earliest decisions you have to make is whether or not to detonate, or disarm, a nuclear bomb sitting in the middle of the town of Megaton. My first reaction was “I’m totally going to blow this place sky high”, and a mysterious dude offered to “take care of me” if I’d do it. But as I made my way around the town and interacted with the various inhabitants, I actually started to like all of them. So I disarmed the nuke and got my own house in the town with lots of perks inside. This game is just amazingly great and any horror fan would really be wise to give it a spin.

Speaking of horror, the Resident Evil 5 demo is out. I’ve downloaded it but haven’t played it yet. I’m a total RE fanboy and I’m unapologetic about it (the games, not the movies which are total shit). I even love the wonky control scheme. Initial reactions on our forum is that the demo is pretty killer. The full game doesn’t release until March but already I’m getting ancy to play. I have a tradition of playing through the RE games with a buddy of mine (Dawson from The Grand Horror ). Where art thou, Jeremy?

Oh, and the Elm Street cast went for like 2 hours last night. I’ve got quite a bit post-production work to do (including a new review by Mitts777) and since I’ve got class all day I won’t be able to get to it until tonight. Because of that, what you won’t hear until later is that next week is the Splattercasts’ Fan Appreciation Episode. We did this once on episode 61 and it is about time we did another one. I’ve got stacks and stacks of dvd’s sitting on my shelf that I’m going to give away. Wanna win one? All you need to do is e-mail us at Splattercast@deadlantern.com with a comment about anything. It can be about the Elm Street franchise. It can tell us why we suck. It can be a message explaining the intricacies of worm hole theory. Whatever you want; we’ll be reading everything we get on the show and you are guaranteed to get something in return. Consider it a late Christmas present from your friends at Deadlantern.com

Oh, and if you are really adventurous and want to leave a voicemail message 206-426-5306 you’ll have the chance to win a shiny, region-free dvd of Jaume Balaguero and Paco Plaza’s Splatcademy Award nominated [●REC]. Again, the voicemail can be about anything, although I will tell you that the funnier the message, the better chance you have to win this swell DVD.

cool, eh?

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T.J. of Avanttrash.com is our resident hipster music guy so he might know more about this then I do. Our friends over at Cult Epics have sent a limited edition copy (only 2500 copies) of the 2-Disc Life After Death DVD  (scroll down the link to see the full specs) and rather than open it up I thought I’d give it away in a contest. Personally, I don’t know a thing about Gitane Demone, but she’s apparently a musician who used to be in some rock band called Christian Death and according to the DVD is “Madonna’s naughtier underground cousin”.

Sound interesting? Well, if you stopped looking at Diora Baird long enough to read this post and you want a free copy of this DVD which also includes a 12 page booklet that will probably answer all of your Demone questions, this is what you need to do…

Visit the Cult Epics website, browse around the different titles (horror, art house, erotica), and e-mail me at splattercast@deadlantern.com with the film you think looks most interesting. I’ll go through all the submissions and select one person who I think picked the raddest sounding flick. Feel free to send along some comments as to why you think I should pick your movie.

That’s it! Just visit their site, take a look around, and then e-mail me a movie you think is interesting. You may get one of only 2500 Gitane Demone “Life After Death” DVD sets. Get to it!

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“Teh Sex” (otherwise known as T.J. of Splattercast fame) and “Care Bear Ghost” (a.k.a Ali from The Grand Horror) have a swell site called avanttrash.com

Did you know they are running a Halloween contest for a swank horror goodie bag, probably stolen by T.J. when he passed some z-grade actor from “Salute Your Shorts” while cruising the streets of Hollywood?

Go visit and see if you can name some of our favorite quotes from various horror movies. And no googling!

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Hey T.J. from The Grand Horror/Avanttrash.com here to hijack Dead Lantern. I’ve come to exploit the joint audience of our sites to give you free shit!

First of all, I’ve seen the Wachowski brothers Speed Racer and have reviewed it on my site (using Dead Lantern’s patented 10 point scale) and will be mirroring it here at Dead Lantern. I know it’s not horror but it may be when MaT gets done with it.

Secondly I should tell you that AvantTrash is a blog/commentary on Pop Culture based in Chicago and Hollywood. It is co-authored by myself and Ali Aguilar, the adorable blood-spitting ghost at the end of The Grand Horror. We strive to bring you breaking bits of all things Music, Art, Fashion, blah, blah, blah. Sound like something your horor-loving minds would be into? Great! Cause I’ve hooked up with Filter Magazine and will be doing a lot more music reviews and will be GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF in exchange for your meager interest!

Well I’m glad I could rob you of 30 seconds of your weekend, sucker.
-T.J. Roe

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I’m pleased to report that the non-contest entries came in quickly and the winners have been chosen. I’m actually taking the first 4 entries rather than the first 3 because a couple of them came in just seconds apart.

I’ll get your “prizes” (I use the term loosely) sent out soon. A few of the DVD cases have chew-marks in them from when my 1-year-old daughter got ahold of them, but I’m sure you guys won’t mind

Thanks!

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Update: Thanks to everyone who entered the non-contest; I’m pleased to report that all of the awful, crappy cool prizes have been spoken for.

I need to give a big shout-out to ArsonCuff, a cool guy who posts on our forum. He sent me a few DVDs that he had reviewed and didn’t need anymore, just as a nice gift. I want to keep the good vibes going, so I’m similarly going to send out some of my stupid, old and crappy DVDs that I don’t watch very often as a gift to you, our loyal readers.

This is a totally easy non-contest. All you have to do is send me an e-mail. I’ll take the first three e-mails that I get and those people will each get a small grab-bag of DVDs.

I don’t want to get you too excited, but there might be a copy of Tango & Cash in the mix.

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