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Midnight Meat Train teaser posterThose of you who know me personally are aware of how deeply my love of Clive Barker‘s work runs. When a well worn copy of the first Book of Blood found its way into my hands at the tender age of thirteen, I immediately devoured it and was forever changed. Much in the same way Lovecraft and Poe attacked the horror genre from their entirely unique perspectives, Barker had not only changed the rules, but literally (<--hey lookie, proper use of the term literally) rewrote the template for modern horror. After reading the insanely sick introduction to the Books, in which a fake psychic finds himself at the mercy of an all-too-real malevolent spirit who proceeds to etch the anthology’s stories onto his very flesh, literally making him the book of blood… Oh yes, I was hooked!

I then proceeded to read the first story from the Books of Blood, Midnight Meat Train, while on a NYC subway train on the way to school. Meat Train turned out to be about a fella who winds up at the end of a NYC subway line and accidentally discovers a secret underworld of barbaric murderers and monsters. And here I sat on a NYC train, one stop from the end of the line. Freaked much? Uh, yeah.

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DVD Review: Felix the Cat – Golden Anniversary Edition
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Groovespook   |  

Felix the Cat - Golden Anniversary EditionRighteo!!!! It’s Felix the cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat.

Now I’m not 60, but I remember Felix the Cat reruns from Saturday morning cartoon time “Down Under” in Australia, back in the 80s, so I was thrilled to have a sneak preview of this DVD. For anyone like me that wants to have all of their tele-visual childhood experiences on DVD to relive at any moment, to abuse as wondrous escapes from the harshness of an adult life (am I sharing too much?), this is a great buy.

The Golden Anniversary Edition DVD of Felix the Cat has all 31 episodes from the 1958-59 TV series, plus an AWESOME short film made in 1920 that is tagged as the precursor to Felix — you totally HAVE to see this. It is taking all my strength not to give away the ending of this old cartoon. My goodness. It will surely make your eyes pop out of your skull! I cannot imagine what went through the writer’s head, other than how utterly miserable their own life must have been, perhaps? You decide.

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Comic Review: Jesus Hates Zombies — Those Slack Jaw Blues TPB
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Ryan Midnight   |  

Jesus Hates Zombies - Those Slack Jaw BluesJesus Hates Zombies: Those Slack-Jaw Blues TPB
Created by Stephen Lindsay
Artist: Various
Independent Horizon
Cover Price: $17; Available Now

A zombie plague has overtaken Earth, and the situation has become so dire that God feels he must step in and once again send his only son to Earth to save the souls of those that remain alive. Jesus’ goal is to find a church where a group of survivors are boarded up and are the key to saving the human race. Unfortunately, there are two catches. First, God is unable to locate the specific church due to the evil clouding Earth, and so Jesus must travel the globe until he finds it. Second, since Jesus’ powers on Earth are fueled by faith and belief, and with so few left alive to believe, Jesus is essentially a mortal.

Now on Earth, and armed with a trusty baseball bat, Jesus wanders from town to town, and city to city, looking for this one specific church. He encounters hundreds of zombies, which he dispatches with ease, and deals with worse in the form of those that are still human and driven insane by the walking dead. Along the way, Jesus picks up an unlikely sidekick — a “Bub” style zombie who has retained some slight speech abilities and recognizes Jesus for the savior that he is.

Blasphemy hasn’t been this fun since Willem Dafoe donned the crown of thorns! Pouring from the demented mind of Stephen Lindsay, and assisted by co-writer Michael Bartolotta and a score of artists, this is not Billy Graham’s or Jimmy Swaggert’s Jesus. Our hero here has no time to turn the other cheek, relishes in being able to take aggression out on some zombies, smokes more cigarettes than the Marlboro Man, and isn’t afraid to take his own name in vain. God also gets a rather interesting makeover, as an overweight cigar-chomping gangster-type, who hangs out at Heaven’s Spa, home of the famous “Godly Touch Massage.”

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DVD Review: 1408
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WordSlinger   |  

1408 movie poster
Haunted hotel rooms are commonplace. Google your hometown and the topic and you’re bound to come up with at least one nearby. Usually the back-story involves a visitor or hotel employee who met their unfortunate end on the premises. But that’s nothing compared to the Dolphin’s room 1408. 1408 is the mother of all haunted hotel rooms, having claimed more than 50 “victims,” and looking for more when skeptical and emotionally burnt-out writer Michael Enslin (John Cusack) checks in. Only Stephen King could concoct such a notion, though it is Swedish director Mikael HÃ¥fström who brought the story to the big screen.

The two-disc collection’s edition DVD features two very entertaining adaptations of King’s short story. Cusack is in rare form, showing a wide range of emotions and largely carries the film on his own (and he would have to, considering he is alone for a majority of it). The room itself, however, becomes a vivid character thanks to the quality work of set producers. The limited use of CGI is refreshing, and HÃ¥fström’s vision stays true to the feel of King’s work: one of constant mental unease.

The DVD case includes a debatable quote rating the film as one of the best King adaptations since The Shining. (King himself was unhappy with Kubrick’s film, which itself, is not a very faithful adaptation of the book. I would personally rank The Shawshank Redemption as the best King adaptation.) However, King’s short stories haven proven more successful as films than his novels and 1408 continues this pattern. The changes to the original story are negligible, and a strong performance by Cusack keeps things interesting.

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Tech Review: Apple Keyboard ’08 Edition
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Sherab Zangpo   |  

New Apple Keyboard 2008 EditionI set out happily on my morning mission to the local Apple store with the intention of coming home with a shiny new-brushed aluminum (one of my VERY favorite aesthetics, BTW), Apple Bluetooth keyboards. Sadly, my happy thoughts of bringing home my new little friend (minus the number pad AND the forward delete button… a personal peeve of mine!) were dashed. They weren’t in stock. I went from the Apple store in the local mall to a CompUSA only to be told the same thing, though the words were slightly different. At the Apple store I inquired about the new Apple Bluetooth keyboard and I was handed a card and instructed to call in a week and “check up to see if they were delivered yet.” At CompUSA, however, the resident Mac-geek informed me that they “hadn’t shipped out to anyone,” and “I don’t know what’s wrong with Apple, people have been asking quite often about that item.”

Well, I was a bit bummed. But after reading the absolutely glowing reviews on the Apple site about the new wired and non-wired alike, and since the keys on one of my keyboards were starting to stick quite a bit, I decided to go for the Apple wired, extended keypad (109 keys, I believe… I’d sit and count them, but…).

Now I know why this keyboard had nothing but positive reviews!

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