Saturday, October 5, 2013

PSA: Where To Find "Free 2013 Scary Movie Guide Calendar" Countdown To Halloween

Channel Guide Magazine has created a "FREE 2013 Scary Movie Guide Calendar:

It is a 19 page pdf which lists all the movies from A to Z and by day.  
It is free but you have to like them on Facebook.



Friday, October 4, 2013

WFMU'S "The Horror Compilation" (mp3) More Great Creepy Classical Music and Scary Soundtracks - Countdown To Halloween

Want some more creepy classical music and haunted soundtracks? Here is another Halloween favorite.
Here is a link to WFMU's "The Horror": 



The Accuplaylist Key:
"Song Title" NAME OF ARTIST (Title of Release)

"What Have You Done to its Eyes" KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA (Rosemary's Baby)
"The Storm" WOJCIECH KILAR (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
"Passage 1" BLACK PENTECOST (Funeral Winds In Paradise)
"Utrenja" KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (The Shining)
"Requiem: Lacrimosa" MOZART (Two Thousand Years)
"Utter Emptiness of the Dusk Fallen Lake" SAD LEGEND (Sad Legend)
"The Hound of Blackwood Castle" PETER THOMAS (Futuremuzik)
"Heartbreak Hotel" JOHN CALE (Guts)
"Bring Out Your Skeletons" LOL COXHILL (Welfare State)
"Who Will Take Granma" WALTER BRENNAN
"Blood Axis" REIGN ONE FOREVER (Sarabande)

"Parzivol" 1314 (Ad Lucem Per Crucem)
"I Will Survive" ANDREAS AMMER, FM EINHEIT AND OTHERS (Apocalypse Live)
"This Island Earth" DICK JACOBS (Horror Music Classics)
"Vamp" JONATHAN ELIAS (Vampire Circus)
"Music for Strings, Percussoin and Celesta" BELA BARTOK
"The Nightmare" GORDON JENKINS (Seven Dreams)
"Albanian Funeral Chant" ALBANIAN CHOIR (Les Voix du Monde)
"The Dogs Attack" JERRY GOLDSMITH (The Omen)
Balinese Monkey Chant (Les Voix du Monde)
"I Love The Dead" ALICE COOPER (Billion Dollar Babies)
"Vampire Hunters" WOJCIECH KILAR (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
"Der Tanz Der Schatten" THEATRE OF TRAGEDY (Velvet Darkness They Fear)
"Taxi Driver Night Piece for Orchestra" BERNARD HERMANN (Film Scores)
"I'll be With You Always" BARNABAS COLLINS (Dark Shadows)

"De Natura Sonoris" KRZYSTOF PENDERECKI (the Shining)
"Second Hallucination" JOHN CORIGLIANO (Altered States)
"Purposeful Lady Slow Afternoon" ROBERT ASHLEY (Automatic Writing)
"Dreams of Dark Waters" ENDVRA (Elder Signs)
Battling Carmina Buranas
"This is the Law of the Plague" DIAMANDA GALAS (Plague Mass)
"String Quartet" PENDERECKI (Exorcist)
"Danse Macabre" CELTIC FROST (Morbid Tales)
"Alfred Behind Sledge" KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA (The Vampire Killers)
"Du Trefonds Des Tenebres" ELEND (Umburoun)
"Part II - The Story" THE RITES OF EXORCISM
"It Came From Outer Space" DICK JACOBS
"Children of the Night" DANIEL LICHT (Vampire Circus)
"Der Hexer" PETER THOMAS (Futuremuzik)
"Dance of Qulielfi" ENDVRA
"Terl, The Security Director" L RON HUBBARD (Battlefield Earth)

WGUC 90.9 "Tunes From The Crypt" Featuring Creepy Classical Music - Countdown To Halloween

If you are looking for creepy classical music for Halloween, then this site is for you.  http://www.classicalhalloween.com/

All of the playlists are wonderfully creepy and feature scary sound effects and a nightmarish narrator.



Here is the first part of the "Tunes From The Crypt" Playlist.  It has Halloween classics such as Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries and features selections from horror movie soundtracks including  Bernard Hermann's Vertigo Suite and Jerry Goldsmith's The Omen.


"Castle of Frankenstein" #3 (1962) The Forgotten Frankenstein and SubsCryptons Advertisement - Countdown To Halloween





Thursday, October 3, 2013

"In A Dark, Dark Room: An I Can Read Book" by Alvin Schwartz - Welcome To The World of Reading, Children! Countdown To Halloween

Here is an "I Can Read Book" for little kids ages 4 to 8.  It is a gateway horror book for little kids.  The book is written by Alvin Schwartz, author of the popular "Scary Stories" series.  












Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Wild Is the Word For the Munster Koach (All About the Munster's Car) from "Monster World" #4 (1964) Countdown To Halloween







So Long "Bunheads" (ABC Family) and Thanks For the Dueling Tommy Lee Jones Impressions

Who is really surprised that this show about young ballet dancers in a whimsical small town did not get renewed?



Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of this show, was also responsible for "The Gilmore Girls" - a watchable (but not funny) yak fest about a mother and daughter in a whimsical small town.  Like Lorelai Gilmore, the main character of "Bunheads", is a motormouth wiseacre.  Sutton Foster, a talented but chinless performer, was extremely grating but there were stunning dance sequences and interesting stories.

This show featured the funniest moment on television in 2013 - the dueling Tommy Lee Jones impressions. Two teenage boys find out that they are both fans of Hope Springs, the Tommy Lee Jones/Meryl Streep drama about an older married couple who go to couples counseling.  It was so charming that these boys were such fans of an unlikely movie.  What was even more charming was their dueling Tommy Lee Jones impressions. They both get so carried away in the end. I could watch this scene a hundred times.

"Hell, yes. I want it.  You bet your life I want it."