June 27th, 2010 by Explodey Jo
I don’t work for Valve, honest. But they are having yet another awesome sale, which includes a lot of great cheap horror games. Recently Steam has been made available on the Mac, should any gamers actually own one.
Sale currently includes Left 4 Dead 2 at £6.80 (about $10), and Killing Floor at £7.49 ($11), both for PC (always looking for humans to play these with). Deals are changing each day so check out the latest at http://store.steampowered.com/ . Sale goes on until 4th July
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May 4th, 2010 by Explodey Jo
Not horror related in the slightest, but I thought I would share a fantastic deal for PC gamers. The Humble Indie Bundle is 5 PC games (good ones too! World of Goo and Gish are excellent), and you can pay as much or as little as you like. Profits are donated to charity. There are 7 days left to take advantage.
Check it out
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March 25th, 2010 by Explodey Jo
December 29th, 2009 by Explodey Jo
I’d love to wear this to the cinema when the remake is released 
Costume on Ebay
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December 16th, 2009 by Jeff
I’ve been spending some time with Shock Festival, the DVD companion to the book of the same name by Stephen Romano. This 3-disc set is nuts, there’s just so much to check out. I’m almost ashamed to admit that I haven’t read the book, which came out last year. I’ll have to get a copy soon.
But back to the DVD: it’s got two feature-length vintage trailer marathons. One is horror-themed and the other is a more general compilation of exploitation flicks. My favorites so far are Gone With The Pope (definitely want to see that movie) and Banana Monster. They don’t make trailers like they used to! In addition, there is a collection of new fictional trailers based on some of the films from the Shock Festival book.
The set also includes a disc that’s full of mp3 sound files of original radio spots for genre flicks from the 70s and 80s. It’s a really neat idea and I like to see these sorts of value-adds included with DVDs. The packaging is also great, everything is full-color, including the attractive printing on the discs and there’s a cool retro-styled mini poster in the box.
The DVD set doesn’t come out until February 2010, but the book is available now.
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December 5th, 2009 by Jeff
Independent author Cameron Pierce sent along some information about his new book, The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz. With a title like that, how can you go wrong? Here’s the press release info…
It’s Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by Bizarro author Cameron Pierce.
In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children from the neighboring world of Kidland. Prisoners 999 and 1001 are conjoined twin brothers forced to endure the sadistic tortures of these ass-shaped monsters. To survive, they must eat kid skin and work all day constructing bicycles and sex dolls out of dead children.
While the Ass Goblins become drunk on cider made from fermented children, the twins plot their escape. But it won’t be easy. They must overcome toilet toads, cockrats, ass dolls, and the surgical experiments that are slowly mutating them into goblin-child hybrids.
Forget everything you know about Auschwitz…you’re about to be Shit Slaughtered.
Praise for The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz:
“Who needs Ass Goblins when you have Jon Voight?”
- Jeremy Robert Johnson, Pushcart-nominated author of Angel Dust Apocalypse
“Truly disgusting! A fascinating mix of William Burroughs, David Cronenberg, and Lenny Bruce if you were to take all three and drop them into a blender. Cameron Pierce is a writer with a truly warped imagination.”
– Keith J. Crocker, director of Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69 and The Bloody Ape
“A must read.”
- The Horror Fiction Review
Available at Amazon.com
About the Author: Cameron Pierce is the author of Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden (Eraserhead Press, 2008) and the creator of Meat Magick, a squid-smashing performance series. Visit him online at meatmagick.wordpress.com.
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November 13th, 2009 by Jeff
I’ve recently had the opportunity to read through Hammer Glamour, a new book by Marcus Hearn. This book is a real treat, it’s full of wonderful photographs of gorgeous women – what’s not to love? On a recent episode of the Splattercast we were discussing leading ladies of the past versus the starlets of today and we all agreed that there’s something special about those scream queens of yesteryear. The holiday shopping season is coming up and I’d wager that any red-blooded horror fan on your list would be thrilled to receive a copy of Hammer Glamour in his stocking. It’s classy, it’s sexy and some of these photos will just knock your socks off.
Over fifty years ago, with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein and Christopher Lee in Dracula, Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood and barely restrained cleavage in glorious colour, mixing sex and horror with a style and panache that made the small British company world famous.
Bursting at the seams with rare and previously unpublished photographs from Hammer’s archive and private collections worldwide, and featuring many new interviews, Hammer Glamour is a lavish, full colour celebration of Hammer’s female stars, including Ingrid Pitt, Martine Beswick, Caroline Munro, Barbara Shelley, Joanna Lumley, Nastassja Kinski, and of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in One Million Years B. C.?)
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June 25th, 2009 by Jeff
This is kind of messed up. A new Star Wars toy that lets you move shit around with your brainwaves. Think twice before you give this to your kid, especially if you’ve let him watch Scanners.
Utilizing advanced dry neural sensor technology, the Star Wars: The Force Trainer headset reads and interprets your brainwaves. As you concentrate, beta waves are generated. This information is translated in the headset into a digital signal and sent to the training tower, causing the training remote to rise and fall. The more you concentrate, the more you control the remote sphere. Advance through 15 levels of training, from Padawan to Jedi Master. With exclusive Star Wars sound effects, this headset will prove that the Force is with you!
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