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Bleeding Kansas is an opportunity for lovers of guts and gore to get together to watch and chat about everything bloody. But, why do we love horror so? 1. It is fun. 2. It is exciting. 3. It terrifies us. 4. It makes us laugh. 5. It touches us. 6. It is fun. 7. It sparks out creativity. 8. It is escape. 9. It is cathartic release. 10. But most of all, IT”S FUN!!! Meetings are every Tuesday @ 6:30 Email: bleedingkansashorrorclub@yahoo.com

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New releases for the week of Sep. 29th (courtesy of Rue Morgue Magazine)

4 Film Favorites: Blade Collection (New Line)
42nd Street Forever: Volume 5 - Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Synapse)
Alien Fear Collection (Mill Creek)
Billy Jack Blu-ray (Image)
Blade Of The Immortal: Volume 1 (Media Blasters)
Bloodwine (R Squared)
Burke and Hare (Redemption)
Casper's Haunted Christmas (Classic Media) - Can't find a cover.
Damnation: Media Pack (Shriek Show) - Whatever this is, it's centered on Shadow: Dead Riot.
The Dark Crystal Blu-ray (Sony)
Daughter Of Darkness (1948 (Redemption)
Decoder (Cobraside)
Dinner With A Vampire (Mya) - Pushed back from 8/25.
Dracula's Fiancee (Redemption) - Pushed back from 8/25.
Erotic Daughters Of Emmanuelle (Halo Park)
Fallen Angels: Director's Cut (Vivendi)
Farm House (Monarch)
Fermat's Room (MPI)
Flesh, TX (Well Go USA)
Godkiller: Walk Among Us #1 (Halo Eight)
The Hanging Woman (Troma)
Hardware: 2 Disc Special Edition (Severin) - Also in blu-ray. Details here.
Haunted Histories Collection Megaset (A&E)
Haunting Of Winchester House (Asylum)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Blu-ray (Dark Sky)
The Hills Run Red (Warner)
The Horror Vault, Vols. 1 & 2 (R Squared) - Two anthologies.
In A Spiral State (Halo Eight)
Island Of The Fishmen (Mya) - Dare we believe?
Italian Sex (Mya) - Pushed back from 8/25.
Labyrinth Blu-ray (Sony)
Lucifera: Demonlover (Mya)
Mafia Connection (Mya)
Monsters Vs. Aliens: Ginormous Double DVD Pack (Dreamworks) - Includes 3D and 2D versions. Also in blu-ray.
Naked and Violent (Mya)
The New York Ripper: Special Edition (Blue Underground) - Also in blu-ray.
Nightmare (MPI)
Nobody Loves Alice: Unrated Director's Cut (Indie Pictures) - Pushed back several times now.
Paranormal State: Demonic Investigations (A&E)
Princess (Tartan)
The Real Ghostbusters: Complete Collection (Time Life) - Wider release.
Screwballs Blu-ray (Severin)
The Sexy Box (Troma) - See cover for details.
The Shortcut (Anchor Bay)
Snakes on a Plane Blu-ray (Warner)
Stepfather II (Synapse)
The Storm Riders: 2 Disc Special Edition (Discotek Media)
Superman Batman: Public Enemies - Special Edition (Warner) - Also in single disc and blu-ray.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Blu-ray (Warner)
Trauma (2004) (First Look) - Steelbook.
Uninvited / Mutant Double Feature (Liberation)
Ultraman: The Complete Series (Mill Creek)
Until Death (Mya)
Uzumaki (Eastern Star)
Zontar: The Thing from Venus/In The Year 2889 (Alpha Video)

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Weekly Discussion - Week 1 - Top Ten Horror Movies

So I haven't finished my research on Maenads and I want to get something up so this is just a copy and paste job of an MSN Article. What I want to know is what you think doesn't belong on this list and what movie scares you the most. These is no date on this article but its about movies that stand the test of time so I assume that is why no newer movies are on the list. I pronise to be less lazy next week and have something more interesting and orginal to discuss next week.

When Norman Bates, dressed as his mother, ripped open Janet Leigh's shower curtain and knifed her to death in "Psycho," horror movies changed. Along with Leigh's blood, classic horror style and romantic figures like Frankenstein and Dracula went right down the shower drain. The veiled sexuality and hidden violence that dominated most classic horror films suddenly were gleefully dragged into the open, for everyone to exploit. For better or worse, style often became as important as substance, and booming box-office numbers proved that horror was serious business. The shifting times created opportunities for filmmakers to innovate, finding new and terrifying ways to scare the pants off audiences.

The mark of a great horror film is whether it sustains its vision of terror through several generations of increasingly desensitized viewers. Does the movie still make you jump or squirm or sweat or scream? The following efforts do all of the above.

10. "Eraserhead" (1977)David Lynch's cult classic is the closest thing to being stuck in a nightmare: Not much makes sense, but you get the feeling that nothing is quite right. Lynch employs dinners that walk off the plate, eerie silences that become deafening and an infant that makes Rosemary's baby seem cute and cuddly. So chilling it's damn near unwatchable.

9. "The Exorcist" (1973)The real terror of "The Exorcist" may not involve Satan and possession, but the helplessness of a parent trying to save a child. Of course, a ton of harrowing special effects and director William Friedkin's somber respect for the supernatural subject matter doesn't hurt either. It's horror for grown-ups.

8. "Halloween" (1978)John Carpenter's film is blamed for the rash of slasher films that destroyed the genre in the '80s, but "Halloween" possesses a style and intensity that most of its copycats lack. From the opening sequence -- when we see through the eyes of little boy Michael Myers as he stalks and murders his sister -- onward, the film relies on suspense rather than sensationalism. Our fear is caused by what might happen rather than actual events, as Carpenter spends a good amount of time in darkness, making us see things that may or may not be there.

7. "Don't Look Now" (1973)Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie head to Venice to forget the tragic accidental death of their child. However, it's impossible to forget when the dead child keeps reappearing. Nicolas Roeg's labyrinthine film is rich in dreamlike atmosphere and works on a purely psychological level: It disorients, frustrates and builds to a horrible climax, reminding that tragedy can never be forgotten ... and neither can this film.

6. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974)A group of annoying teens make a wrong turn on a road trip through Texas and encounter the most dysfunctional family imaginable. It's a teen exploitation flick shot like a documentary. Wonderfully grim, mean and inhumane, director Tobe Hooper's debut doesn't spill much blood, instead opting to giddily, relentlessly torture and chase its audience (much like Leatherface treats his victims) for 80 minutes. It feels like days.

5. "Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984) Before dream-killer Freddy Krueger became a quipping pop-culture reference, he represented the most twisted monster unleashed on the public since Halloween's Michael Myers. Seeking vengeance by slicing and dicing the children of the parents who murdered him, Freddy scared the hell out of Cineplex audiences. His on-screen entrance remains terrifying, as does much of director Wes Craven's surreal, smart and shocking masterpiece.

4. "Suspiria" (1977)"Suspiria" is a full-on sensory assault by Italian horror master Dario Argento, the cinematic equivalent of an anxiety attack. A poor American ballet student arrives in Europe and Argento berates her with weather, grisly murders, a possible coven of witches, his virtuosic camera, and possible the freakiest score ever conceived (by the director himself). The plot barely makes sense, so just let it terrorize you.

3. "Night of the Living Dead" (1968)A group of kids get trapped inside a farm house by an endless stream of flesh-eating zombies. Sounds silly, but director George Romero takes his simple premise and redefines the genre with a shoestring budget. The amount of sadistic gore, the claustrophobic tension, the rising levels of hysteria and an increasingly deflated awareness that a happy ending is impossible make this a nasty classic. There is no hope here, only suffocating terror.

2. Repulsion (1965) Director Roman Polanski did more horror afterward, with "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Tenant," but this -- a menacing, nightmarish profile of one woman's descent into madness -- may be his most realized effort. Catherine Denueve embodies sexual repression as a young woman left alone in her apartment -- and to her deluded fantasies -- for the weekend. The film is nearly silent, creating a mounting mood of dread. Try watching it alone with the lights off and see how long you last.

1. "Psycho" (1960)Alfred Hitchcock's blueprint for contemporary horror: More than just a film, "Psycho" was a cultural slap in the face. Censors wanted to ban it, while screaming audiences couldn't get enough of it. Hitch employs all of his tricks -- shifting audience sympathies, killing off the main character halfway through the film and a ton of macabre humor -- but more importantly he makes the horror internal. Norman Bates isn't a monster in the classic sense; he suggests that the greatest evil can lurk beneath the quietest, most pleasant surface.


Just missed: "The Shining" (1980); "Jaws" (1975); "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991); "Dead Ringers" (1988); "Seconds" (1966); "Audition" (1999)

Friday, September 25, 2009

free passes to Zombieland!!!

i have in my hot little hands 20 free passes for an advanced showing of Zombieland.
it's on wed. at 7:30 at southwind...

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Public domain horror

Please check out archive.org for public domain movies for our first event.
Get back on what you want to watch.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Free Horror Shit!

check out this blog that keeps track of horror contests and prizes.
http://winfreehorrorshit.blogspot.com/

Stephen King to write for fangoria.

A two-part article entitled "What's Scary".
Details at fangoria.
http://www.fangoria.com/home/news/1-latest-news/3978-stephen-king-writes-for-fangoria.html

Sunday, September 20, 2009

DVD releases for September 22nd (courtesy of Rue Morgue Magazine)

Albino Farm (MTI)
Autopsy of the Dead (Zero Day Releasing) - Only Amazon is listing this so far.
Bedtime Ghost Tales (Psycho Junkie)
Beware the Children (Psycho Junkie)
Black Afrodite (Obsession Entertainment)
Carnival of Souls (Legend) - Colorized. Also includes original version and Mike Nelson commentary.
The Chosen One (R Squared)
Clive Barker's Book Of Blood (Lionsgate) - Also in blu-ray.
Edges of Darkness (Anchor Bay)
Evilution (Brink)
Friday The 13th: The Series - The Final Season (Paramount) - A box set of every season will also be released.
Ghost Cat (North American)
Gojira Blu-ray (Classic Media)
Grave Danger (Yellow Ape/Tempe)
The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto (Anchor Bay) - Also in blu-ray.
Hillbilly Cannibal Bloodline (Psycho Junkie)
Hot Fuzz Ultimate Edition Blu-ray (Universal) - Wide Release.
Howling Trilogy Collector's Tin (Timeless Media Group) - Contains 3-5.
Manson Kilmore: The Night Caller of Coal Miners Holler - Part 1 Deadly Secrets (Psycho Junkie)
Manson Kilmore: The Night Caller of Coal Miners Holler - Part 2 (Psycho Junkie)
Messiah of Evil: 35 Anniversary Special Edition (Code Red) - Only three of seven sites are reporting this, but it matches the date on Code Red's blog. Amazon says late October.
MondoPsycho (Psycho Junkie)
The Reincarnation of Isabel (Cheezy Flicks)
Run Run Bunny! (Psycho Junkie)
Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins (Warner) - Also in blu-ray.
Shaun of the Dead Blu-ray (Warner) - Wide release.
Silence Ca Tue! (Brink)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete Second Season (Warner) - Also in blu-ray.
Ultra-Toxic (Psycho Junkie)
Vampire Collection Collector's Tin (Timeless Media) - Includes Dracula and His Vampire Bride, Dracula's Curse, Carnal and The Vampire Night Orgy.
Witchmaster General (Yellow Ape/Tempe)
Zombie Classics Collector's Tin (Timeless Media) - Includes Night of the Living Dead, Revenge of the Zombies, Oasis of the Living Dead and White Zombie.
Zombies of the Stratosphere (Cheezy Flicks)

Friday, September 18, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Christopher Lloyd as an evil Willy Wonka

I haven't found much info besides the trailer. Its called Gobstopper and along with Lloyd it stars Martha MacIsaac (Last House on the Left), Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), Paul Rust (Semi-Pro), Nicky Whelan (Neighbours), Paul Scheer (Human Giant), Wee Man (Jackass) and Little Jon according to slashfilm.com. Slashfilm also states the director to be Eric Appel who apparently wrote for Crank Yankers. I have a link to the fake trailer below. Please comment with your thoughts and any info you find.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06b666ae72/gobstopper-trailer

DVD releases for Sep. 15th (courtesy of Rue Morgue Magazine)

An American Werewolf in London: Full Moon Edition Blu-ray
Army Of Darkness: Screwhead Edition .
Child's Play Blu-ray
Cut Throat
Dark Shadows: The Curse Of The Vampire
Dark Shadows: The Haunting Of Collinwood
Dead Girl: Unrated
Deep Impact Blu-ray
Destination Earth: Alien Invaders
Destination: Outer Space
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Drive-In Madness, Vol. 1: Campy Classics
Fear Itself: Season 1
Friday The 13th: Part VII - The New Blood - Deluxe Edition
Friday The 13th: Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan - Deluxe Edition
Grace
The Hannibal Lecter Collection
House On Haunted Hill Double Feature
It's Alive Collection
John Carpenter: Master Of Fear Collection
King Kong Escapes
King Kong vs. Godzilla
The Lawnmower Man Collection
The Lost Boys Collection
Misery Blu-ray
Monster Force Vol.1
Nude In Dracula's Castle
One Step Beyond: The Official First Season
Phantasm II
Primeval Vol.2
PVC-1
The Rest Stop Collection
Sanctuary Season 1
The Shadow Boxer
Silo Killer 1&2
Speck
Spirits Among Us
Texas Chainsaw Massacre Collection
The Ultimate Force of Four Blu-ray
Van Helsing Blu-ray
Visitor Q
Wes Craven Horror Collection
The Wolfman: Universal Legacy Series
Wrong Turn Blu-ray
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End Blu-ray
Zombie Hunter Rika

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