Fangoria Chainsaw Awards

Voting for Fangoria's Chainsaw Awards is now open! They're taking ballots between now and April 10th, the winners to be announced in May. The genre typically doesn't get acknowledged in the mainstream film industry awards, so be sure to show love for your favorites so they can be properly recognized for their accomplishments!

A Recap and Look Forward

This has been one hell of a week for Women in Horror Month! If you haven’t been following all of the events and blog posts and links and everything over on Facebook or Twitter, then your head probably isn’t spinning as much as mine is.

Horror Decor

Finally, something for the Librarian of the Dead who wants her apartment looking like a bloody haunted nightmare ALL year round! ...Which I currently accomplish by a few permanent Halloween decoration installations. Don't judge! I know some of you do it too...

Fangoria is/was holding a contest to win some merchandise from Horror Decor, more information on what they're giving away can be found here.

The Future is Now... -ish!

I haven't posted anything cemetery-related in a while, my mind has been on writing and stories and comics. But in the midst of everything else I came upon this nifty little app thanks to the Death Reference Desk on Twitter:

(from The Future Cemetery Facebook page)

Happy Women in Horror Month!

February 1st is here and that means it's officially WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH!

What does that mean? Well, direct from their website (www.womeninhorrormonth.com):

Every February, Women in Horror Recognition Month (WiHM) assists underrepresented female genre artists in gaining opportunities, exposure, and education through altruistic events, printed material, articles, interviews, and online support.

The short of it: Let's talk about ladies doing amazing things in the horror genre, because they deserve just as much exposure and fans as the guys do.

So, what am I doing to celebrate WiHM? I'm so glad you asked.

New Horror on Netflix as of January 6th

Thanks to instantwatcher.com I discovered some exciting new additions to Netflix's streaming horror collection this month. The full list is after the jump. Not all of them are excitement-worthy, some I hadn't even heard of. Despite the mixed reviews I've seen on V/H/S and the not-so-great things I've heard about THE DEVIL INSIDE, I'm glad I'll get to see them sooner rather than later.

The fact that THE FRIGHTENERS is now streaming makes me a very giddy Librarian of the Dead. It's one of my favorites that I still don't own a personal copy of. I'm also glad to see a few classic 80's slashers included: APRIL FOOL'S DAY, MY BLOODY VALENTINE and SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE. Sounds like the makings of a marathon to me!

Horror Comic Awards

I just discovered this, so forgive the last-minute nature of it all but ComicMonsters.com is taking votes for their Horror Comics Awards over the next couple days. Even if you're not that up to date on your horror comics (like *ahem* ...me) you'll still see some familiar titles like THE WALKING DEAD, LOCKE & KEY and 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. You do need to register for an account in order to vote, a minor hassle but not a huge deal.

Days of the Dead @ Ax Wound Zine Blog!

I've got an article up on Ax Wound Zine's Blog about the evening I spent at Days of the Dead Chicago this past November. It was a fun little horror fest out in the northwest suburbs, my neck of the Chicagoland woods, and they had a great panel with the three leading ladies of ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL. As you may or may not recall, two of the three are horror actresses as well. See the article for more info!

I was very lucky when years ago, I stumbled across Ax Wound and "met" Hannah Neurotica, its founder. The zine focuses on exploring gender, sex and sexuality in the horror genre which was right up my alley. Gender and media studies almost became my unofficial second major in college I loved it so much. Hannah's amazing, and she has some fantastic people working with her that are just as passionate about the genre as she is. I've written for Ax Wound a few times over the years, never as much as I'd have liked to. Even if you don't go to read my piece, check out the website and grab a copy of the zine. If you love horror and want some brain-stimulation it's a must!

Rock 'N' Roll High School Reunion  via Ax Wound Zine Blog

Days of the Dead Chicago

More about Hannah Neurotica

Circus of the Damned

With the overwhelming amount of information the web serves up it's difficult to stay in the know and yet preserve the feeling of surprise at discovering a great new film. Horror can be especially tricky since there are many that never make it to a theater, never get mainstream press, but are still worth pursuing, so you have to seek out that information. Oh, my first-world Librarian of the Dead problems! Weep for me!

It's easy to learn too much about a film, to the point that it affects your reaction to it. I always forget how much damn fun it is be surprised by how good a movie is.

Top 5 Horror 30-Second Bunny Cartoons

I've been a big fan of Angry Alien Productions' "30 Second Bunnies Theatre" for a long time. If you've never seen one before, they boil down movies into a 30 second, bunny-starring cartoon, often with hilarious results. Lucky for me, quite a few of the films they've tackled have been horror movies. In no particular order, my top five are: