YAMCoH Club

Good midnight to you and welcome back to the Young American Mystic Cult Of Horrors Club.

It’s Monday! And that means it’s time that “you shall enjoy being horrified to the point of sheer panic” with a new horror trailer culled from the musty, murky depths of the super spooky YouTube.

You guys may not remember his name, but I know you’ve seen his films…director Richard Franklin is the star of the next few YAMCoH Club posts!

Say what you want about sequels to classic films, but PSYCHO II (1983) is a whole hell of a lot better than it deserves to be!

If you’ve seen it before then let’s revisit the shovel scene together…if you haven’t seen it then I strongly advise you to skip this major spoiler of a video:

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Saturday Smackdown 18

Saturday night’s alright for fightin’ here at Spectacular Optical! So let’s get physical with some of my favorite fisticuffs film moments with today’s installment of…

THE SATURDAY SMACKDOWN!!!!

It’s man versus beast today!

But not just any man…it’s Sonny Chiba fighting a bear in KARATE BEARFIGHTER (1975)!

Aunt Petunia’s Favorite Nephew

Well, this was a vague memory from the late 70s….

That’s nerdy Benjy Grimm slamming his magic rings together and chanting, “Thing rings, do your thing!” to transform himself into the Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing!

I can barely remember anything about this cartoon…I remembered the ring bit and that Ben was a  teenager…but I certainly did not remember that it was from a Flintstone‘s cartoon not so cleverly titled, FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE THING.

Quite a few people have blogged about this bizarre Saturday morning cartoon, so just Google that shiz if you want to know more about it.

But if your a real THING fan, head on over to THE MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE EVER-LOVIN’ BLUE-EYED HOMEPAGE to read an issue by issue guide to Marvel Two-in-One, the most awesome Thing team-up comic book ever produced by Marvel Comics from 1973 to 1983.

100% Medically Accurate

HUMAN CENTIPEDE: THE GAME!

(click to play)

“You are Dr. Heiter, a brilliant German surgeon who has gone mad and surgically attached people ass-to-mouth to create the Human Centipede. Unfortunately, your patients are not pleased with being human centipedes and have begun to rebel against you.

Now you must take your trusty rifle and put down these human centipedes like the bad dogs they are. Don’t forget to watch out for the police and collect glasses of water with roofies to slow down the centipedes!

This Centipede game parody is based on the heartwarming, feel good movie of the year for the whole family to enjoy – Human Centipede. We’ve just added a variety of medals to it, including a few secret ones you’ll surely be able to unlock if you make it far enough in the game. Also included is a high scores list for those of you who are skilled enough to gun down plenty o’ those pesky human centipedes to make it into the top ten.

Good luck, Herr Doktor!“

Controls:
Mouse = Move
Left Click = Fire
P = Pause
C = Toggle Cursor

Rereading Stephen King

James Smythe is doing what I’ve thought about doing myself one of these days…rereading all the Stephen King books in chronological order.

I’ve always loved King’s writing and I kept up with his output for decades but then eventually drifted away after a couple of novels I didn’t find to terribly engaging. I bet this series will light a fire under my ass to revisit the stories I enjoyed and maybe even take a chance on some of King’s later novels.

But enough about me let’s get to James’ take on CARRIE!

REREADING STEPHEN KING: WEEK ONE – CARRIE

YAMCoH Club

Good midnight to you and welcome back to the Young American Mystic Cult Of Horrors Club.

It’s Monday! And that means it’s time that “you shall enjoy being horrified to the point of sheer panic” with a new horror trailer culled from the musty, murky depths of the super spooky YouTube.

You guys may not remember his name, but I know you’ve seen his films…director Richard Franklin is the star of the next few YAMCoH Club posts!

Oh man….it’s everyone’s favorite Franklin feature: ROADGAMES (1981)!

Gentlemen, Control Your Puppets Please

io9 had a great post of some creepy VINTAGE VENTRILOQUISM PORTRAITS they found over at a Vintage Ventriloquism Flickr group….

Click on the links above to check ‘em out!

I know when most people think about the troubled relationships between a ventriloquist and his/her dummy they immediately go to  MAGIC, “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” segment of DEAD OF NIGHT, the TALES FROM THE CRYPT episode (with the not so original title of ) “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy“, or even BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL (uh, that’s a link to the whole damn movie on YouTube by the way)….but I always think of the infamous East Coast West Coast ventriloquist beef of the 1990s:

What is it going to take to put an end to all this?

Who Wants Pancakes?

I really just can’t get enough of Kreayshawn…especially now that she’s got this whole “sexy-Eudora” look going on and rapping about my favorite meal of the day.

Say what you want about cultural appropriation and hipster racism, I’m just gonna’ enjoy a stupid song about making money and eating pancakes.

Call me when you’re into having fun again.

Saturday Smackdown 17

Saturday night’s alright for fightin’ here at Spectacular Optical! So let’s get physical with some of my favorite fisticuffs film moments with today’s installment of…

THE SATURDAY SMACKDOWN!!!!

Today’s clip form RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) pretty much sums up how I felt this past week…