So we’ve spent a good 40+ years now with the re-imagining of the vampire. We’ve gone from Stoker’s living corpse who corrupts not just the body, but the soul of his victims, to the suave seducers of the 70s (I’m looking at you Frank Langella) and 80s (yesterday’s The Lost Boys), to the new millennium’s […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – Natural High"And no, I don’t have any idea why a video for the biggest pretty-boy vampire flick of the 80’s consists entirely of a bunch of dancers traveling in a post-apocalyptic cattle truck. I like to imagine it’s supposed to be 25 years later, the vampires have taken over the world and these are some of […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – Lost in the Shadows"How about a little Mad Monster Party? Boris says you’ll like it! Introduction to the Monster, Monster series here.
Read more "Monster, Monster – Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition"Talk about the art of constant reinvention. We’ve seen Alice in the 70s and 80s, here’s a taste of what he was up to during the 1990s. Not the best monster video, but the song has become such a Halloween staple (though generally in bowdlerized versions) that I really couldn’t justify leaving it off the […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – Feed My Frankenstein"A little something for Throwback Thursday. Forgive the terrible picture quality, as far as I can tell this was taken from a live broadcast and only exists on a poor quality kinescope, but there don’t seem to be a lot of contemporary recordings of Sheb Wooley actually performing this and this one was to much […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – Purple People Eater"So Skillet is not the sort of Christian rock that you’re likely to hear at your next praise and worship service (well, maybe Awake and Alive, I don’t actually have any idea, being terminally Anglican and having not attended a modern praise and worship service since roughly 1998). But something I think they do better […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – Monster"Today we learn that half a set of obstetrical forceps is an ineffective weapon when wielded against a half-troll, half-demon from Lapland. So is this the morgue of the hospital from Dark Floors? Because that would actually make a lot of sense. More than the end of that movie did, anyway. Introduction to the Monster, […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – Would You Love a Monsterman?"Probably not the Hell’s Bells you are thinking of. Introduction to the Monster, Monster series here.
Read more "Monster, Monster – Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition"Gotta say it’s really hard to try to keep from featuring Alice more than once a week as his output over the decades has been prolific enough that you could feature him every day for a month without running out of material (Hmm, idea for Halloween 2016, 31 days of Alice Cooper. What do my […]
Read more "Monster, Monster – He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)"You know, far a band who’s bassist’s schtick was heavily influenced by old horror films and specifically by Lon Chaney Sr., KISS had very little horror-themed stuff in the catalog. There’s a better example that we’ll get to eventually, but this 1998 effort off the first (only) album recorded during the brief return of original […]
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