Category Archives: Music

Little Ending of Horrors

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Robert Hood

One of my favourite films is, I’m happy to admit, the 1986 musical version of Corman’s 1960 original, Little Shop of Horrors. Love the performances, love the choreography, love the music, love Audrey II in all his increasingly nasty glory. … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival, Giant Monsters, Music, Where's the Film? | 4 Comments

Sexy Cyborg from Another Dimension

Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by Robert Hood

Obsessing (as I am) about robots and cyborgs — being in the middle of writing a short novel titled Robot War Espresso — and having just penned a review of a nerd-fest short film about an obsessed fan, I found … Continue reading →

Posted in Music, Robots | 4 Comments

Gettin’ Attitude With the Ninjaz

Posted on Friday, March 6, 2009 by Robert Hood

AN INTERVIEW WITH SHINOKO OF NINJAZ WITH ATTITUDE by Cat Sparks So one evening in early 2009, I went to the Landsdowne Hotel, Broadway with Kaaron Warren (the horror writer) to see an old friend’s band and catch up with … Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews, Music | 4 Comments

Vincent Price and the Black Widow

Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009 by Robert Hood

The music video below features Vincent Price and Alice Cooper, performing “The Black Widow” from Cooper’s classic album Welcome to My Nightmare. The performance is from a TV Special called “Alice Cooper — The Nightmare” that aired on 25 April … Continue reading →

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Another Loch Ness Monster

Posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Loch Ness Monster (US-2005; short [15 min.]; dir. Benjamin Williams) A terrible encounter with the Loch Ness Monster haunts a woman her entire life. This short, but ambitious-looking film stars Dee Wallace Stone (among others) and won the soundtrack … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Lake Monsters, Music, Mysteries, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Classic Album Cover Riot

Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

This cracks me up, in a surreal Terry Gilliam kind of way! … though, of course, those who (sadly) aren’t familiar with the classic rock album covers concerned probably won’t be as amused. Source: LikeItHateIt via Cat Sparks

Posted in Animation, Music, Pictorial art | 1 Comment

A Bunch of Zombies Sing…

Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

… “Dust in the Wind” [Kansas] — created by Matt Ficner. via Boing Boing

Posted in Music, Weird stuff, Zombies | 2 Comments

New: Robo Rock

Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

And then there’s rock ‘n’ roll, aliens, cybernetic underpants and a giant robot! Robo Rokku [aka Robo Rock] (2007; dir. Taikan Suga) Masaru, a 23-year-old who has a passive attitude toward life in general, professes himself as a “genius odd-job-man” … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Music, Robots, Trailers | 1 Comment

Post-WFC: Durans on Broadway

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by Robert Hood

The theme of World Fantasy Con this year was Ghosts and Revenants, so maybe it was appropriate that on the night following the last day of WFC, I found myself in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in NYC, listening … Continue reading →

Posted in Activity, Concerts, Duran Duran, Music | 1 Comment

Do the Daikaiju Stomp!

Posted on Monday, August 20, 2007 by Robert Hood

Check this out: I recently came across this rare daikaiju soundtrack album in a box of dusty cassettes hidden under a table in a shed out the back of Taped To Death — a seedy secondhand music store in the … Continue reading →

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