happy Subverted Pagan harvest Festival everybody!

And in honor of Halloween, I shall indulge in an exercise in pure, unmitigated horror. Today I will share with you one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen, a video which will leave your mind reeling from the utter, incomparable cosmic horror.

You HAVE been warned, gentle audience, now prepare for the worst.

Until this post in the LJ community scans_daily, I had no idea that there WAS a Holmes/Watson shipper community.

I really should thank scans_daily...after I finish washing from my mind yet another murdered bit of my childhood.

Wll, they're planning a stop-motion animated Coraline film.  It's going to be 3-D, something I'm not all that happy about, but on the other hand, the designs are fabulous.   I won't post any pictures of the children or antagonists, since they're enough to give people who hate dolls a complex.  But on the other hand, there IS our plucky heroine:



This looks promising.  Promising enough for me to go see, and deal with the bother of having to wear those stupid glasses.

...to erase the taint of watching "Malibu Express".  And Lord knows I tried.

There was the porn stat mustache (male), the 1980s style artificial knockers, The refugee from the "I Wanna Rock" Video (female, though a good copy of Dee Snyder of Twisted SIster), the 80's female hair (shades of "Let's get Physical- and she did with Mustache), and something that was almost, but not quite completely unlike a plot.  

Note: the women with the large enhanced boobs may have flashed them at every opportunity, but did not actually have sex scenes, for fear of an industrial accident.[

Note: he set of movies we were given were known as the films of Andy Sideris.  Messrs Sideris makes Uwe Boll look like an academy award level producer.  And the scary thing?  There are a dozen films in this series.  This means they made a profit.  GOD DAMNIT, HOW DID THEY MAKE A PROFIT!  WHO THE HELL PAID MONEY FOR THIS!?

We have three more films to go.  We only have a liter of vodka left before we break into  the wine.  And we have only three bottles of wine

God help us.

It must be the season. On the various message boards I've been reading, there's been a lot of talk of what to do to survive a zombie attack, and as it turns out, a lot of people seems to have things pretty much figured out as to what they'll do. I've been reading those plans (or as much of the plans they'll "let the public know"), and have come to one major conclusion:

Never mind the zombies, the biggest threat to civilization will be the people who know just what to do to survive a zombie incursion. I mean, do we REALLY need multiple bunches of psychos homing in on local police stations and shopping malls with the intent of grabbing as many weapons as possible? All with the main intent of fending off OTHER bands of gun-toting anti social types who have short lists of those worthy of restart civilization?

Which makes me wonder: have there been any stories where the zombies are a minor threat, easily dealt with, and the REAL problem is all the people who react to the situation by going all "me and mine ONLY" survivalist? Maybe one where the zombies aren't even a danger, but the people are?

Anyway, in keeping with the season, here's a couple reviews of some cool zombie webcomics:

The Zombie Hunters: set five years after one of those standard "Zombies eat everybody" scenarios, the last remnants of the human race are clustered at aa small arcology. The Zombie Hunters are those people who go outside, to well, get hunted by zombies, mostly. The art is nice, with a somewhat manga-derived linework, and excellent, bright coloring. While there hasn't been much chance to get into the plot, the dialogue is well scripted, and the pace jumps between humor and tension very nicely. So check it out.

Dead Winter: It's a crime drama, it's a slice of life "work sucks" comedy, it's a ROMERO ZOMBIES INVADE comic! This comic is wild- humorous, tense, and at times really surreal (Seriously, hat's with the sword in the dreamscape bit?) It has a nicely long lead-up reminiscent of Shaun of the Dead, and then abruptly we have people having to turn, more or less gracefully, into heroes. (That's probably what the dream stuff is about, come to think of it). And the artwork is brilliant- cartoonish yet expressive, black and white except for rare, important splashes of color, and the whole thing really looks like it could have been done with brushes.

Hey, I don't even like zombie stuff, and I love these comics. Seriously, check them out!

There’s something about abandoned places that trigger my imagination- I feel I have to use them in something, create a story or scenario around them. It’s like the vacancy left by departed people demands to be filled by something artistic.

The ruins described in this website are particularly evocative, in a very, very eerie kind of way. They make demands to me to be used in a game, especially the girls orphanage - it's positively Silent Hill. It's crying out to be the setting of a good horror film- or RPG.

My immediate impulse is to print pictures to use as props- particularily that long-distance picture of it out on the point, and the picture of it looming out of the fog, and use them as props in a World of Darkness or Call of Cthulhu game. I think the players would immediately know what sort of game they would be getting into.