True Horror, Part 3

My 1994 Geo Metro just passed 200,000 miles. It is now officially a zombie-car. If it dies anytime in the next 6 months I am hosed. Without transportation three people will lose their jobs and one of those three will also have to drop out of college.

How's that for scary?

It's like my most fervent dream and greatest nightmare have both been made real

Hayley Mills in the grip of the Tentacle Men.

Originally found here.

True Horror, Part 1

There is the impossible, fantastic, supernatural horror that thrills and excites and then there is the cruel, callous evil of bastards who know better whose actions and lies have real world implications of death, pain, misery and despair.

DDT sprayed from a TIFA (Todd Insecticidal Fog Applicator) around model Kay Heffernon to supposedly demonstrate it won't contaminate her food (a hot dog and coke), Jones Beach, New York. (Photo by George Silk, 1948)

From Google TIME-LIFE archive.

Sheer Horror

You couldn't pull any of this off in the new rebooted Trek universe. Not because it is dated and silly, but because if the Space Hippies took over the new universe cafeteria they'd get the crap beaten out of them on principle and dumped out an airlock into the void.

Beware of the dog that thinks

Baxter (1989).

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Czech New Wave cinema from 1970. Kind of gives a new understanding to the Steve Winwood song. And that flower? Ick.

October: A Month of Horror

Like most blogs October will be focusing on all the spooky things.

While the next Mysta Monday will feature a tale worthy of a Clive Barker tale readers can expect many lazy video posts, some more disturbing than others.

If you really want to be entertained though, go over and see Bully the Little Stuffed Vampire Slayer. He's keeping an eye out for the evil shenanigans of the Riverdale Hellmouth!

Happy Halloween

Drive safe! Lots of children and teens out there on the streets. Tonight of all nights don't be in such a hurry to get to the house/liquor store/bacchanal. For pity's sake, put down the bong long enough to get to your destination in one piece and without leaving a trail of destruction in your wake. I live and work in a college area so I know of what I speak.

Calling All Girls (October 1960).

No Halloween is complete without Hayley Mills!

It's hard to imagine someone so adorable as Hayley Mills being effective in suspense films but word has it that Hello Kitty is a harbinger of all evil, so what do I know? It's a credit to her WILD TALENT that Hayley is versatile enough to totally own any role.

So click the wide, witnessing eyes in the adorable picture above to check out The Horrors of Haley Mills at Horror-Wood!

What is really scary

Monsters and demons are not the real terrors in this world. What is really scary is having fire trucks, police cars and ambulances tear past your car at high speed down your street as you approach your final turn before arriving home.

Want to see something really scary?

Monsters and demons are not the real terrors in this world. It is the gross and icky people that will doom us all.

Spotted in a popular family restaurant in San Diego, September 2009.

Hoay!

Spotted a lack of spell check on a novelty newspaper at one of those seasonal Halloween costume supply outlets that open for about a month using the space of all those failed vacant retail shops in the malls.

What Hath Bernie Wrought?

An apparently never completed art contest from Web Of Horror #3 (April 1970). The contest promised to have a winner revealed in a later issue, but #3 was the final book of the series.

Horror is of course subjective. What some people find terrifying others snooze over. In 1987, there was no greater fear for a parent than having your child attest the Queen of England was a lesbian.