Avatar is no longer the king of the world as the Nicolas Sparks film Dear John made 32 mil compared to Avatars 23 mil. But dont worry as of next week Avatar will break Titanic’s record.
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Chris
Author: Chris
Writer and radio show host in Worcester Ma
Horror Games on the Wii you may have missed
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles–In 2007 we got the Umbrella Chronicles on the Wii. It was a tour thru RE0,1,3 and some missing chapter stuff like what happened after Code Veronica X, how did Ada survive 2, and What Wesker did leading up to part 4. In DSC we get RE2, CVX, and the mission Leon went on with Krauser ( a character from 4) and how their friendship is disolved. It’s one of the best first person shooters on the Wii and really shows what you can do with the Wii remote if you take your time developing the game and don’t rush just to make a buck. The voice actor used for Leon is from part 4 and the Degeneration CGI film. The graphics look fantastic and the story is top-notch in a Resident Evil kinda way we have learned to love.
House of the Dead: Overkill—This game came out last year right around the time RE5 came out and was completely missed by the hard core gaming fan. If you loved Planet Terror the movie directed by Robert Rodriguez during Grindhouse then you love this game. The whole game is just like a Grindhouse movie. It looks all grainy and there’s a voice announcer who over emphasizes everything that happens in the game. The main characters are goofy and swear more often than any other game that I have heard of. The main female character of course looks like a penthouse model and every time she moves her bosom shakes with her. The on rail shooter is top notch and has an ending that you never see coming. People who say there are no good games on the Wii. Really need to check this one out .
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Anime Boston 2010
We have several guests coming on the show soon. One of the biggest would be the conductor from the Video Game orchastra. Some of there voice actors may also becoming on long ways till April so stayed tuned and we will anounce more info as we get it.
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Author Christopher Golden
Tomorow night on Radio of Horror we have Author Christopher Golden. He has written many horror novels. Buffy the Vmpire Fns will remember him as one of the lead writers on the original comic book from Dark Horse a few years ago.
UPDATE CANCELED—-CHRIS GOLDEN IS SICK AND CANNOT MAKE IT TONIGHT.
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Vampire Killers or in the UK Lesbien Vampire Killers
In the same style as Shawn of the Dead, VK is a funny spoof on the over saturated Vampire Genre. This film is a tounge in cheek homage to Hammer films that were also made in the UK. In the film we have two slacker college friends (James Corden &Mathew Horne) that go on a camping trip and happen apon a town that used to be the home of an ancient Vampire Lesbian Queen. Now our two heroes have hooked up with 6 hot collage girls all with loose inhibitions. One of them learns that he is the decendent of an ancient vampire hunter whos wife was turned into a lesbian vampire by the queen. The queen n the movie played by Silvia Colloca also played one of the Drac babes in Vanhellsing. The mvoe is non stop boobies gore blood and drugs and alcohol. The jokes come quick and don’t drag on. They make a point thruout the film when they refer to the vampires they correct themselves and say Lesbian Vampires. The dvd and Blue ray are very disappointing in the fact they have no bonus material. In this day in age when u pay for a dvd it should have good or decent bonus material.
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The House of the Devil
In the late 70s early 80s there was much fear of satanic cults. This is used as the central plot for this film. The film doesn’t use satire or irony to convey the story. It plays straight to be as true as possible to the style of the horror films from that time period. The film is about a young college student named Sam who takes a babysitting job just to find out there is no baby and she is suppose to house sit an elderly woman. Little does she know the couple plan to use her in there satanic rituals. This movie makes so many other horror films made today look like crap. The style and care that went into it is amazing.. The husband played by the great Tom Noonan who has played some of the most vile villains in film. He has this very creepy but gentle way about him., that helps seduce Sam into the role of the baby sitter. The creepiness of the film is carried out thru Sam being alone in the house for so long. This was definitely more scary than what came in the end. The movie is directed by Ti West who has a list of horror films under him ( imdb him but skip Cabin Fever 2). The dvd and Blue have great commentary and the usual behind the scenes stuff. The best thing to look for is it was released on VHS also has an homage to those old horror films from the days of truly creepy cinema.
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Author Joe Schreiber on the show tonight
Joe Schreiber wrote the novel Star Wars Death Troopers. This is the first Star Wars horror novel and its really good. He will be calling in about 12:30 am . We wil talk Star Wars his carear video game toys anything geeky a fellow Star Wars fan should know. Check out his other great horror novel No door No windows, both from Del Ray books.
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Horror/Sci-Fi TV Shows Jan 2010 Part 2
DollHouse: We fans of Joss Whedon have been hit once again by the tragedy of a failed TV Show. Tomorow it goes out with a bang. If you remember the best episode from S1 of the show was the one no one saw. It took place in the future and it was a great ending to the first season. Now we get closure of that story and the official end to the Doll House. Unlike on Fire Fly it just ended. Check out http://www.fox.com/fod/ for more info and to catch up on what was the best sci-fi show on network tv.
Supernatural: Last weeks was a Session 9 kinda episode, with the brothers locked up in the loony bin. This week in a very 13 going on 30 parody Sam switches bodies with a 13-year-old kid and Dean is left to deal with it. its more of the comedy Horror you have come to love from this great CW tv show. It’s a shame this show is ending this year. The actors have it in their contract to go another season but they shouldnt if they are dealing with the end of the world. This is the only really good thing on this channel unless you like Twilight then you’ll the next show on our list.
The Vampire Diaries: The only draw for this wash of a show trying to make some bank on the teen vamp craze is Ian Joseph Somerhalder who played Boone on Lost is in it. Other than that I never even found the books to be that good. you want a good Vamp in love story order HBO watch Tru Blood.
Demons: I really wish the BBC had just named it Van Hellsing so what if there was a movie and an anime show of the same name. This show serves only one real purpose to give us something on BBC to watch til Only Human and Dr.Who return. The characters are very bland and maybe I am being to critical but they just seem like run of the mill teenage Van Hellsing in love story that we have seen so many times before. Now you want a funny tounge in cheek Van Hellsing story, watch American Vampire staring Carmen Electra and ADAM WEST.
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Dead Space
Dead Space was made for fans of films like Event Horizon or Alien in mind. Not since Resident Evil 4, Silant Hill 2, or Siren have I played a game that was true terror. As the main character Isaac you go thru 12 levels of insanity trying to save yourself your crewmates and your gf from the creatures known as NecroMancers. The graphics in the game along with the sound and gameplay are all top-notch. Every time I played this it had to be on a bright Sunday afternoon. The game is that creepy!!!
Now the first game is more like chapter 4 in whats become a 5 part storyline so far. Dead Space has an animated film( which does not look nearly as good as the game but still a decent prequel) a comic and a Wii rail shooter. These all take place before the game on 360 and PS3. What exact order well thats really up to you. The very first moments of the Wii game and the Comic are the beginning then the movie and the rest of the events all seem to mesh to gether. All 6 issues of the first comic are also on the Wii game. Image put out all the comics. The artwork is done by Ben Templesmith the artist and co-creator of 30 Days of Night. So its safe to assume he knows something about Horror. The Wii game is really for the diehard fans but at the same time I never want to her someone say there are no good M rated games on the Wii thats Bull Shit.
Now the 5th part of Dead Space 2 wont be out till 2011. We got our first look in last months Game Informer and the new X-box mag. You take control of Isaak and have to do battle with the Necromancers again. Image announced a tie-in comic again nd maybe another anime film hopefully. So far early screen shots look good. It’s just a shame we have to wait this long till it comes out. In the mean time you have 2 other games and a movie and 7 comics to read (there was a DS E comic also). But go check out Aliens and Event Horizon for an original Horror movie in space story.
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Zelda Rubinstein RIP
RIP: Zelda Rubinstein she wasbest know for the psychic from Poltergeist. Horror Fan everywhere will miss her. She also did a lot of voice work over the years. You might have heard some of it IMDB her to see what you missed from this great performer.
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Actor Doug Jones & Director Anthony DiBlasi on the show tonight
Tonight actor and friend of the show Doug Jones will on to talk about his new book upcoming projects and Legion. Director Anthony DiBlasi will be on afterward to talk about his new movie Dread, based on the short story by Clive Barker.
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Legion or why God hates us
Legion staring Paul Bettany was a complete waste of time of a film the only real good thing in it is that Doug Jones appears as this demented Ice Cream Man in the beginning of the movie. The movie starts off well enuf Denis Quad is one of the only 3 other stars in the film. He owns a beat up old Garage and dinner with his son. Paul character play the Angel Michael. Not sure who did it best him or John Travolta. Anyway so Mike shows up tells some girl who does not look really pregnant that her baby needs to die. But wait I am pretty sure they never say why the baby has to die. Is it the anti christ or is it a demon. It’s just kinda goes down hill from there. The special effects were good the idea that and Angels Halo is a color not a thing around there head is a new twist on how and why Angels are badass. Recently Angels in the past few years were shown as pissed off whiney power hungary pains. Dogma, Supernatural, and several others. I now hear they are making a Legion sequel all I can say is please fix some of the awful plot holes left hanging and do something with the half angel zombies in this movie cuz they were useless the first time around.
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Legion Event tomorow night
Stop by the Entertainment Cinema in Leominster MA tomorow night for a chance to win some Legion prizes. T-shirts and Posters. Doug Jones one of the stars of Legion will be on the show this coming Sunday.
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Arisia 2010
Arisia 2010 has come and gone I would like to thank my good friend Jerome Connor for getting me involved in it last year. I would like to thank Dan Kimmel for getting me on the 2009 film in review panal. Big news from the people who brought u the Sci-Fi Film Festival come the Horror Film Festival. YAHHHHHHHHH
I got to see the Repo the Genetic Opera Play/movie thing that was cool. It was much better than the Buffy musical last year yuck. I got snubed by a friend ut made a great new one. I ran into Chad from Thats Entertainment (my local comic book store) and the free lunch comic guys were great to have dinner with. I got to have Breakfast with Musical guest of honor SJ Tucker and her friend Persis got me a room to sleep in thanks so much. The other two panals I was on were lack luster at best.
BUT THE PARTIES were AWSOME . THey mod was great and it was fun to go to the parties with someone this year last year it was dull as hell. I got to watch two hours of old trailers that was a great flashback to the old days of cnema . It was fun to see SJ Tuckers Concerts those were alot of fun. The second one was the best. Well I hope to return to Arisia next year and to have as much fun as I did this year.
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Horror/Sci-Fi TV Shows Jan 2010
Demons– A new show on BBC America. A teenage learns he is the long-lost great great grandson of Abraham Van Hellsing, and with the help of his god father the blind but immortal Mina Harker he must now take up arms against the forces of darkness. This show would have been call Van Hellsing but we have already got a movie and Anime show with the same name. It’s worth checking out on Sat nights and the theme song is kinda catchy. It will tide you over till Only Human returns this spring.
Superntural-After a month and a half break Sam and Dean return, this time they end of going to a crazy house to fight ghosts but almost go crazy themselves. As I have stated many times if you love horror then you will love this show. The first 4 se This is the last season of the show. Look for vol 3 of the comic coming later this month.
Caprica-The long-awaited prequel to Battle Star Gallactica picks up right where the movie that came out early this year left off. THe show is a little to artsy fartsy for a sci-fi show, I recommend this to only the real die-hard BSG fans. At some point the show is suppose to lead into the Cylon human war.
DollHouse-As we wind down these last few episodes, we at Radio of Horror want so desperately for this show to find hope on another network. The problem is so many networks are having problems with shows of their own. Once upon a time I would have said lets move it to Sci-Fi, but once they became SyFy and got taken over by a corporate bitch who knows what could happen. Joss Whedon stop going to Fox with your hit ideas.