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Trailer: Iron Sky (2012)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST

Check out the trailer for Iron Sky, which will make its theatrical debut this year. The synopsis for the film is:

Towards the end of World War II the Nazi scientists made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late '45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side of the Moon. This base was to build a powerful invasion fleet and return to take over the Earth once the time was right.
Now it's 2018, and it's the time for the first American Moon landing since the 70′s. Meanwhile the Nazi invasion, that has been over 70 years in the making, is on its way, and the world is goose-stepping towards its doom. The three main characters of the story are Renate Richter (Julia Dietze), Klaus Adler (Götz Otto), and James Washington (Christopher Kirby).

Photos from "Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies"

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:00:00 PST

Friend of the show and future Zombie Mob family member Bill Oberst Jr. shared the following photos with me from "Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies". The premise of the film is "[w]hile the Civil War rages on, President Abraham Lincoln must undertake an even more daunting task; Destroying the Confederate Undead".

Look for more as it becomes available, but for now feast your eyes on the following great shots:


Bill Oberst Jr. as Abraham Lincoln

Perry Foster as a Confederate Zombie

Trailer: Gotham City Imposters

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:00 PST

Check out the trailer for Gotham City Imposters, which was released this week for Xbox Live and Playstation Network.

Episode 139.1: A Little Comic Book Update (for 08 February 2012)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:41:00 PST

McPierce read:
* Fear Itself: The Fearless #8 (of 12)
* Action Comics #6
* Betrayal Of The Planet of The Apes #4 (of 4)
* Green Arrow #6
* iZombie #22

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What Is "The Mark Of The Spider-man"?

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:33:00 PST

This website has surfaced, as a follow-up to the trailer released yesterday.

Screen capture of http://www.markofthespider-man.com/

What are the static boxes going to hold? How often and soon will we learn between now and when the film opens on 03 July 2012.

New Trailer For "The Amazing Spider-man"

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST

Check out this exciting, new trailer! We get to see a lot more of Spider-man in action. More of his relationship with Gwen Stacy and her father. And we get some glimpses of the Lizard!

The film opens on 03 July 2012.

New Wallpapers On "The Amazing Spider-man" Official Website

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST

New photos are posted on the site. Click here to check them out!

Weekend Comic Book Update (for 06 February 2012)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST

American Vampire #23 (Death Race, Part Two Of Four)

We learn a little more about Travis and his upbringing as he and Skinner Sweet play a game of chicken while racing towards a cliff's edge.

Again, Scott Snyder delivers a great story with interesting and compelling characters in the American Vampire lore. Set in the 50s, this current story arch has a James Dean enemy to the vampires who is tracking down Sweet specifically.

Though I think, for me at least, that having Skinner as the villain again is starting to feel like the television series "Heroes" with Sylar. We have a great premise for building up a stable of bad guys. So why not go after someone else or else develop a new big bad? I loved the American Indian vampire in the cave from the last story, and would love to see more of them explored.

Green Lantern: New Guardians #5 (The Orrery)

The events in this issue all take place prior to Red Lanterns #3.

We have the return of the extra-dimensional beings from Final Crisis. And Kyle Rayner leads the team of lanterns from each of the other corps into the vortex.

A nice development story. We learn a little bit more about a few of the lanterns. We go back inside the Orrery from Final Crisis and find some species kept in world-sized containers. And we learn that Larfleeze isn't very popular there either.

I especially love the artwork of Tyler Kirkham. But I'm not too thrilled with the return of multi-dimensional beings. I think it's too early in the New 52 to bring such elements back that can be way too confusing.

Justice League #5 (Justice League Part Five)

The newly, though loosely, formed League take their first steps towards fighting their newly revealed foe, Darkseid. Superman gets his ass whipped, Flash tries to save the Man of Steel, and Batman takes off his cowl.

All in all a great, action filled issue. Though I'm still a little confused as to why the Batman ditches his cape and cowl to go after Darkseid's minions when they take Superman away.

Jim Lee's artwork is incredible, as always. And his full page image of Apokalypse was more than stunning. I love his characters and the fluidity in their motion.

The Bunnyman (2009)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:23:00 PST

Review by Benjamin Pierce.

Bunnyman starts out with some bloodied chick hiding in a small crate. Since she is apparently awful at playing hide and seek, she jumps out of her hiding place and starts running/stumbling through a junkyard. She finds a new hiding place, the uncovered back of a truck, which is littered with human bones.
    The truck starts moving, and the chick finds some relief. It then zips over to six teenagers in a Toyota breaking several safety laws(no seatbelts, feet up, four people in the back seat). Going at about 50mph down a backroad presumably in Nevada, they find themselves behind the truck with the bloodied chick in it.
    They go around it, but the truck goes around them. After 15 minutes of roadrage between the two vehicles attempting to go around eachother, the teens finally pull over to apologize. The truck pulls over behind them, and they shove one of their chicks out to go apologize. She walks over and starts saying 'sorry', but the truck driver just revs the engine. She cannot see who is driving because the windows are dirty and tinted.
    When she attempts to open the door, whomever is driving smacks her with the door and shuts it. She goes back to the car, and they decide to wait it out. After a bit, the truck finally pulls out and drives away. The teens continue on their way, wherever that may be, along the road. As they drive down it going about sixty, the truck appears again and the teens swerve off the road and into a bush.
    The car stutters and the engine breaks, incapacitating the car. One of the teens gets out and goes under the car to see the problem, when the truck appears once more. It hits their bumper, and then drives off. When one of the teens gets out to retrieve the dude fixing the car, they find him crushed underneath of the car, from when the truck hit them.
    The 5 spooked teens leave the car and start walking along the highway. They see a path, and decide to take it. When they walk up the path, they find a bunch of human bones in bags tied to branches in the trees. They find is a wooden house with some dirty redneck perched in a rocking chair on the second floor balcony. The teens ask to use their phone, and when he refuses, they attempt to bribe him with 100$.

    The redneck then asks for one of the chicks, and is a real perv about it. When they flip him off and start walking away, he pulls out a shotgun and tells them to scram. He fires a round in the air, and they speed up, walking into the forest.
    It then goes to the Bunnyman, who goes to the back of the truck and takes out the bloodied chick. He attaches a metal chain to her, and ties on part of it to a tree, and one part of it to the truck's bumper. He then floors the truck, and rips her in half.
    By nightfall, a teenage boy and girl are loading a body into the trunk of their car when they see the 5 teens walking up the highway. They ask for a ride, but the girl refuses, and tells them there is a cabin up the road that can stay in, and that they will be back in twenty minutes.
    It then fast forwards to daylight, where the teens are just waking up a little ways off the road in some grass. They get up and start looking for the cabin, wondering where the 2 teens were that were going to pick them up. One of the teen chicks starts bitching about their dead friend, and runs off into the forest. Her boyfriend chases after her, only to find her looking over a rock at a person in a rabbit costume picking at a bloody hunk of meat with a butterknife.
    She goes around the rock and discovers the Bunnyman surrounded with dead bodies, and that he has a chainsaw. Her boyfriend startles her, and she tells him to be quiet. When she turns back around, the Bunnyman is standing there with a chainsaw in hand. Her boyfriend runs away, and the Bunnyman throws the chick onto a rock behind him. Instead of chasing him, he cuts up her with a chainsaw.
    The dude sprints to the cabin, and the other 3 teenagers follow him. They try to cover the windows in the cabin, but the Bunnyman comes to the side door. They pull up a mattress to cover it, but the Bunnyman uses his chainsaw to start cutting through it. They then pulled the mattress down, ripping the chainsaw out of his hand. The Bunnyman calls it quits and walks away, and they continue to try to board up the place.
    One of the teens gets punched in the face by the Bunnyman through the window, and she falls over, unconscious. The other three teens make a run for it, but one of them gets separated. The separated one tries to hide under the cabin, but the Bunnyman finds him, and proceeds to kill him with a chainsaw.
    The unconscious teen wakes up to find herself strapped to a table, with the Bunnyman preparing tools and some Igor thing helping him. The Bunnyman turns on some classical music, and then shoots her several times with a nail gun. The Bunnyman then plucks out some of her teeth, and finishes her off with a chainsaw.
    It then goes over to the other two teens, a chick and her boyfriend, who are hiding a littleways outside the cabin. They decide to go back to help their friend, unknowing that she is already dead. They go in, find she is dead, and hide in a closet. The Bunnyman, the Igor thing, and the chick from the car back in the nightfall segment(whats up with that?) come in and feast on cooked human remains. The chick from the car tells the Bunnyman to take off the mask, saying, "We already went over this!".
    The two teens try to make a run for it, but they get knocked out by the Bunnyman. They wake up, with the dude tied to a table, and the chick getting ready to be tortured. The dude manages to cut his binds, punch the chick from the car in the face, and save his girlfriend. He picks up a chainsaw(Apparently they are everywhere), and kills the chick from the car. They grab a pair of keys, drop the chainsaw, and run to a red pickup truck. They escape with it, and start driving down the road.
    Then the truck from the beginning starts following them, with the Bunnyman in the driver's seat. They realize that they can't outrun him, and they pull over. The dude says he has a plan, and he brings the chick's limp body out. He tells the Bunnyman that she's dead, and asks, "Are you happy now? Everyone is dead!". The dude tells the Bunnyman that he doesn't have anything to fight him with, and he is giving up the chick. He backs off and the Bunnyman emerges, confused, and takes the chick.
    When the Bunnyman places the chick in the passenger's seat, and gets into the truck. The chick gets up, and stabs the Bunnyman several times in the head with a pair of scissors. The Bunnyman falls out of the truck, and the dude gets in. They drive away, finally away from that hellhole.
    It ends with the Bunnyman walking into the sunset through the terrain.
    The movie was definitely B rated, with 'OK' acting, bad voice dubs, and definitely not enough blood or gore to be a scary horror movie.
Borrow it, if your into B movies or like the urban legend. Otherwise, don't bother.

Beware (2011) - Trailer 2

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST

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Episode 139: Nature Vs. Nerd-ture

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:14:00 PST

This week McPierce reviews "Killer By Nature", Mike Zombie tells us about "Oasis Of The Dead" and Misfitboy gets us In The Zone with "The Grave" and "Showdown With Rance McGrew".

[05:02] Intro
[05:56] Nerd News
[11:44] The Grave
[17:42] Showdown With Rance McGrew
[23:46] Oasis Of The Dead
[35:38] Killer By Nature
[47:38] Outro

Killer By Nature (2010)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWOjGIIxL8A
Website: http://www.mtivideo.com/TitleView.aspx?TITLE_ID=623

Oasis Of The Dead (1981)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USzOWDS52cs

The Grave (Season 3, Episode 72)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grave_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29

Showdown With Rance McGrew (Season 3, Episode 85)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showdown_with_Rance_McGrew

NERD NEWS:

3D glasses for "The Avengers":
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169387-3d-glasses-for-marvels-the-avengers-revealed

Could the villain in "Iron Man 3" be The Sub-mariner?
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=53714

Matthew Vaughn has signed on for the "X-Men: First Class" sequel:
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/20th-century-fox-production-president-emma-watts-reups-through-2015/

Stephen Amell is cast as Oliver Queen in "Arrow":
http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/stephen-amell-is-green-arrow-lands-title-role-in-cw-drama-pilot-arrow/

DC to publish new comics in the Watchmen universe:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169445-dc-entertainment-officially-announces-before-watchmen

"Rex, Zombie Killer" pits man's best friend, and a gorilla, against the undead:
http://www.rexzombiekiller.com/

Tom Savini is running for Governor...of The Walking Dead:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/exclusive-tom-savini-talks-the-theatre-bizarre

John Hawkes is NOT playing The Governor:
http://www.thewrap.com/tv/column-post/walking-dead-governor-john-hawkes-35025

Shiloh Fernandez to star in "The Evil Dead" remake:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118049667

Jane Levy also joins the cast of "The Evil Dead":
http://www.deadline.com/2012/02/jane-levy-is-new-star-of-evil-dead-remake/

Nick Schenk to pen the screenplay for "Robocop":
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169439-nick-schenk-to-draft-robocop

"Gotham City Imposters" gets a release date:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169449-gotham-city-impostors-release-date-announced

"Crossfire: Europe" pits heroes against infected mutants:
https://www.facebook.com/Crossfireeurope

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Full Moon Reveals Bombshell

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 PST

Check her out here.

She'll make her debut appearance in the upcoming "Puppet Master X: Axis of Evil".

Episode 138.1: A Little Comic Book Update (for 01 February 2012)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:12:00 PST

BillyKlu read:
* All Star Western #5
* Batman and Robin #5
* Superboy #5
* Wonder Woman #5

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Free Kindle Book: "The Devil Gave Me A Gun" by Steve Wands and Keith Latch

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:07:00 PST

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Suicide. Sometimes, it’s the only way out. Sometimes, it’s only a trap.

The Devil works in mysterious ways. Just how mysterious, a young man finds out after doing the unthinkable.

Now, unsure if he’s blessed with a curse or cursed with a blessing, he exists between the living and the undead.

As the full power of darkness is realized in a simple inanimate object, he tries to make sense of the horror that is now his life...but evil has other plans.

Watch the first three minutes of "Nebraska" (The Walking Dead, season 2 episode 8)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:00:00 PST

The episode airs on 12 February 2012. Check local listings for times.

Review: Rex, Zombie Killer (#0 and #1)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:01:00 PST

If you enjoyed Beasts Of Burden, and if you love zombies, then I have just the comic for you. The people at Big Dog Ink have a new title, available in April but which you can start ordering shortly, called Rex, Zombie Killer.

The premise is this: shortly after the zombie apocalypse a band of former pets get together in order to survive. There's Rex, our titular character, who is a hyper-intelligent golden retriever. He's joined by Buttercup, a corgi who is the heart of the group, Brutus, a tough American bull terrier, and Snowball, a cat who...welll...is a cat; i.e., she's only concerned with having her needs met.

Oh, and there's Kenji. The 800 lb gorilla in the room.

No, seriously, he's an 800 lb gorilla in the room.

But, unlike what you would expect, Kenji isn't the angry, violent and dangerous animal you. Instead, he's docile as well as intelligent, having been raised and taught sign language by Dr. Jones.

When we first meet Kenji, he's forced to kill Dr. Jones when, after being zombified, she attacks him after he's released by the others. And he continues to reluctantly end the undead's existence as the team keeps on the move in order to avoid become infected.

In this world, the animals as well as the people can become infected by the zombie virus. Then they come back as "rotters", as the main characters refer to them. In the zero issue we're first told about Rascal, who bit one of the rotters and then become one themselves.

The animals are more capable as well. And in issue #1 we're introduced to how special Rex is. And it's that, coupled with Kenji's ability to communicate via sign language, that are going to be some of the keys to their survival. Because they have to get out of the city and find Rex's care taker. His human.

This story is a fresh and very interesting take on the zombie genre. We're getting to see things from a perspective completely separate from the human experience. All the while we're watching a team with similar human foibles and contensions trying to survive. Weaknesses they share with the humans of whom they're not exactly fond.

And it's for those fresh takes on the genre that I happily recommend this title.

Free Kindle Book: "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:05:00 PST

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A naive young Englishman travels to Transylvania to do business with a client, Count Dracula. After showing his true and terrifying colors, Dracula boards a ship for England in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest. Told in a series of news reports from eyewitness observers to writers of personal diaries, this has a ring of believability that counterbalances nicely with Dracula's too-macabre-to-be-true exploits. An array of voices from talented actors makes for interesting variety. The generous use of sound effects, from train whistles to creaking doors, adds further atmosphere. Lovers of mysteries and horror will find rousing entertainment in this version of a classic tale.

Weekend Comic Book Update (for 29 January 2012)

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:00:00 PST

Fear Itself: The Fearless #7 (of 12)
Wolverine and Crossbones face off over a hammer.
Someone betrays the Avengers.
Valkyrie gets a second chance at immortality.
Sin finds a new ally....or does she?

The art was great, very beautifully done and the flow was nice. In particular I loved the image of Wolverine as he guts Crossbones. There's nothing more pleasurable than when Logan can cut loose (pun intended) and be an animal. The exchange between him and Crossbones over whether a healing factor makes one lazy or whether guys who have to brag about their not having powers was fun.

The betrayal should have been expected by the Avengers, in my opinion. After all, the one doing it is someone you probably shouldn't have trusted in the first place.

The Amazing Spider-man #677 (Devil And The Details Part 1 of 2)
Black Cat is arrested for the theft of a scientist's holographic projector.
Spider-man is convinced she's innocent, so he contacts Daredevil to give him some legal advice.

I like the artwork. A little rough on facial features, but her Spider-man is very expressive. The overall story had the element of fun that's always made Spider-man a title to read, while keeping Peter Parker's bad luck a component of the story.

The team-up betwen Daredevil and Spider-man is one I find enjoyable as well. Including Spidey's lack of tact when trying to contact Daredevil while in his (barely kept) secret identity! Their little pieces of friendship, the competitiveness (who else would race from the top of the Chrysler building to the ground in a game of super-hero chicken?) and their playoff of abilities made the issue enjoyable.

Daredevil #8 (Devil And The Details Part 2 of 2)
Black Cat attacked Daredevil and Spider-man, thinking it was Spidey who turned her in.
Spider-man realizes he's being framed as well.
So together with Daredevil, they go in search of the real thief.

Remember what I said above about the relationship between Spider-man and Daredevil? It's about to get VERY complicated.

We find out who framed who, what their ultimate goal is, and that not everybody is on the up and up on this adventure.

Foggy has his own problem to deal with when, due to ground settling at several cemeteries, he's forced to exhume the ground where Matt's father, Jack Murdock, is current buried and makes a discovery that won't sit well with Matt.

Kano's art is again on point. The story flowed well here for another well done issue of Daredevil.

Episode 138: Nerds! Nerds! Nerds!

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:15:00 PST

This week, Mike Zombie and McPierce team up to do a review of 1984's classic comedy "The Revenge Of The Nerds".

We also official kick off our scientifically defined and tested rating system called "The Berdinski Scale".

[0:03:25] Intro
[0:04:07] Nerd News
[0:19:46] Revenge Of The Nerds
[2:05:51] Outro

NERD NEWS:

Kevin Feige shoots down rumors of Skrulls in "The Avengers:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169301-marvels-kevin-feige-on-the-enemy-the-avengers-will-face

Spider-man rumored to be making a cameo in "The Avengers":
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01/22/secret-avengers-cameo-revealed-there-marvel-hero-making-an-appearance/

Liam Neeson confirms he was in "The Dark Knight Rises":
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169319-liam-neeson-confirms-hes-filmed-a-scene-for-the-dark-knight-rises

Marvel is planning a movie about Nick Fury:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32974

Jon Bernthal is not long for the world of "The Walking Dead":
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118048982

"The Crow" out of legal woods:
http://www.flickdaily.com/news/the-crow-remake-takes-off-after-producers-settle-legal-row/

"The Crow" remake hires a director and a writer:
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/169331-jesse-wigutow-to-draft-the-crow

Lily Collins is out of "The Evil Dead":
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-evil-dead-remake-loses-lily-collins

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Why The Bloody Face?

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 PST


The cast of "Being Human"

When Being Human first started last year, I had downloaded the first episode to my iPod to watch.

Then I never got around to watching it.

This past week I caught part of a marathon of episodes before the second season started and realized I'd missed a chance to get on board from the start. So I've been getting caught up on Season 1 so that I can start watching the Season 2 episodes on my DVR.

Now, in episode 3 of season 1, there's a story that has Aidan, the vampire, being discovered by the child of one of his past victims. The child, now an adult and a policeman in Boston, saw the man who killed his father and has obsessed over it ever since. And when he sees Aidan, the man who killed his father, the man snaps.

At one point Aidan and the man face off in an alley and Aidan gets impaled on a piece of rebar sticking out of some concrete. And to heal, Aidan takes some blood pints and, in an extremely messy way, eats them.

That's the question: why are vampires such sloppy eaters? Why is it in movies and on television that a vampire can't seem to eat without getting it on his face, his shirt, all over his hands?

And, afterward, do writers really think that some soap and water is all that's needed to clean up? Just walk over to the sink in the mens room, grab a paper towel and some soap, and you're good to go? No smell of iron and copper?

You might say, "Well, when you bite into someone's throat, the blood's going to spurt out. So there's no way to avoid the blood spray getting on your face or clothes."

Sure you can! The vampires always have their mouths over the bite. So to get blood spray, they'd have to bite and then back off. Seems pretty wasteful to me, letting the only sustenance you can consume go to waste like that.

In the case I just saw, Aidan was feeding from pint bags of blood. So there's no arterial spray to get it all over his face. Instead he was just being as sloppy as a 2 year old with a bowl of ice cream. And then to just backhandedly wipe it away and go to the sink is just silly.

Yeah, I know, it's a visual cue to tell us that vampires have a savage aspect to their beings. But it's silly.

It's also a case of going over the top. It used to be a vampire would have a trickle of blood from the corner of his or her mouth. Then it was both corners. Then it was blood under the chin. Now it's escalated to practically showering in the blood spray.

I remember in "30 Days Of Night" (which I reviewed back in episode 8) how the vampires seemed to take a bite and then let the rest of the blood go off like a NASCAR winner with a bottle of champagne.

Writers need to dial it back a bit, because the biggest power a vampire has is their ability to be discrete. To blend in with the crowd since, unlike other monsters, they look the most human.

And anybody who's had blood all over them like that is going to SMELL.

And you're not going to blend in if you smell like an abattoir. So, given that alone, I would expect the vampires to be much neater about their consumption. No waste. No smell. Nothing to clean up (since you really can't get blood out of anything). If you live for centuries, you ought to learn to be a little more careful about things like that.

Episode 137.1 - Comic book update for 25 January 2012.

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:44:00 PST

McPierce read:
* Planet Of The Apes #10
* Superior #7
* Star Trek #5
* Green Lantern Corps #5
* Batman #5
* Halo: Fall Of Reach - Invasion #1 (of 4)

BillyKlu read:
* Lord Of The Jungle #1

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Free Kindle Book: "Bad Ass Zombie Road Trip" by Tonia Brown

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:37:00 PST

Jonah has seven days to find his best friend’s soul, or lose his own, dragging a zombie across the country with a stripper who has an agenda of her own, while being pursued for a crime he didn’t commit...

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Free Kindle Book: "First Time Dead" by David Minyard and Chantel Brown

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Full Moon Horror Drops The Bomb!

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:11:00 PST


Bomshell, the next evil puppet

Full Moon Horror has an announcement and great special going on this week!

The announcement: there's a new evil puppet, named "Bombshell", who will debut in the upcoming "Puppet Master X: Axis Rising".

In celebration of Bombshell they're making the full "Puppet Master" series available for a low price.

But it's only for this week! (23 January through 30 January 2012)

You can get the whole series for only $45!

They also have special prices for Blu Ray and DVD remasters for "Puppet Master" (which I reviewed back in episode 103) and also "Puppet Master: Axis of Evil".

To get your copy, just click here.

And in just a few days we'll show you Bombshell herself! Then, in February and March we'll have two more puppets to show you before the film itself becomes available.

Cloverfield on Blu Ray: Does it still have the easter eggs?

alittledead@gmail.com (Darryl L. Pierce) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:00:00 PST

Yep, it certainly does!

I had a copy on DVD after it was first released and found them all. But after losing it (I loaned it to someone and don't remember who and never got it back) I bought a Blu Ray copy to replace it. And when I watched it in high def for the first time (which was awesome) I then went to verify that the easter eggs were still there.

Also, not an easter egg per se, but did you notice that in the opening sequence there's a quick flash of the Dharma Initiative logo in the bottom right corner of the screen? Specifically, the Pearl Station logo is displayed.

Go to chapter selection for 13-16, then press up to highlight it. After sitting on that for 77 seconds a new chapter selection comes up for chapter 17.

This contains "Supplemental Files" which include additional videos collected by the DOD:

#USGX-8810-B467-144VD: Videos recorded by Jami Lascano (the cute chick who can be seen passed out on the during Rob's going away part) to her boyfriend Teddy, who was in Japan at the time.

Only video 2, 5, 9 and 11 are playable. In the last one, when she's very hyper, she mentions going to Lily's part (the one for Rob).

#USGX-8810-B467-34VD: If you select the right-most oval on the Slusho screen then you'll see a very Japanese commercial for Slusho.

In scene selections, select scene 10 and click up twice. You'll see a red X appear. Select it and you can see the pre-CGI effects version of the tun scene. It includes giant Xs on the actors to represent where the parasites are going to be placed in the final product.
Go to languages, select "Spanish" for subtitles and then click right. You'll see a big red helicopter appear. Selecting that takes you to a video of the cast and crew having fun saying "Rack 'em and pack 'em, we're phantoms in 15!"