Happy Friday the 13th, Mutants! The weekend is upon us! It’s time to get out that Friday the 13th DVD and Blu ray collection and celebrate the day with a selection of greatest slasher hits. Cabin In The Woods hits theaters today and the Mutantville Players are headed back to the Evans City Cemetery this Sunday for another day on the set of Muticia’s Movie Morgue!
There’s so much going on that there’s little time to discuss. We’ve given you some cool content this week from Geo’s discussion on film lingo to Brento’s comparison of Horrorhound and Fangoria to Streebo’s Top Ten Horror Reference Books and we even gave you a nice little blooper reel from the set of the Movie Morgue. Look for Family Fiend, Indigo Child and Respawner to finally hit IMDb this week in the wake of the Tales From Mutantville premiere at Mad Monster Party! No other indie film company gives you the content and value that you find at Mutantville. We’re not called MVP for nothing.
There’s last minute prep to be done so we’re going to have to leave you with a selection of Mutant TV and a smile. Happy Friday the 13th! Keep your friends close and your machete closer!
An American Werewolf In London (1980) cover art from weirdposters.blogspot.com.
Thank Muticia it’s Fridayyyyyyyy!!!
Welcome back for a holiday edition of Fridays With MVP! Streebo here with you to give you a quick update on the land of MVP and all things Mutantville.com. The Mutantville Players have been very busy as we’ve been racing get several projects through the final phases of post-production to beat festival deadlines and our own goal for the DVD release dates. Busy times are good times.
RETROFANTASMA RETURNS WITH AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON & DEATH SHIP!!!
Streebo is off to the Carolina Theatre tonight for Retrofantasma as they feature a double bill of An American Werewolf In London and Death Ship in glorious 35mm. There will be blood and beer and MVP will be on hand as we donate a good copy of BLOODY BEST OF FANGORIA to tonight’s door prizes. Check out the trailers below.
An American Werewolf In London (1981) – Trailer
(Get the rest of your weekend update after the leap!)
It’s FRIDAYYYYY!!! Another work week is behind us and a weekend full of potential lies in the road before us! Before you head out the door for a three day celebration of Bacchanalian proportions, MVP has your movie, TV and horror news to set you on the right path. It’s been a busy week for MVP as we finalized the sound mix for Scarecrow At Midnight, designed a graphic t-shirt for Family Fiend and moved that much closer to completing the digital FX for Indigo Child.
Sad news came to the world last Thursday as master storyteller Gene Colan passed away. MVP honored his memory by featuring his work on Collector’s Corner as well as Scary Movie Saturday. Look for Gene to be featured on Collector’s Corner again next week with a special look at his work on Tomb of Dracula.
MVP SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
The BIG news is that the premiere Mutantville Player – Matthew Ewald – has been added to the guest list to the Fright Night Film Fest on July 22 – 24th! Fans will know Matthew not only as the star of Galidor but also as the man behind the mask of “Sawbones” in Scarecrow At Midnight as well as the man beneath the collar of Fr.Connor McClennan in Indigo Child. The multi-talented actor/author will be in attendance to promote his book – Human Nature – as well as Tales From Mutantville and the Plan 9 remake. Buy your tickets now to what is sure to be the best convention of the summer!
It’s John Carpenter night this month as the Carolina Theatre in Durham kicks off the new season of Retrofantasma with a bang! That’s right, this Friday, Retrofantasma will play a killer double feature of John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness and Dark Star! Long time Carpenter fans know that Dark Star was Carpenter’s feature film directorial debut and Prince of Darkness is the second in his “Apocalypse Trilogy” which started with John Carpenter’s The Thing and concluded with In The Mouth of Madness.
It’s also worth noting that there are always great door prizes given away at Retrofantasma and this week Mutantville.com is donating a vintage copy of Fangoria #69 featuring John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness right on the cover! So come join the fun this Friday as these classic Carpenter films play in 35mm. Grab your beer and popcorn and kick back for a night of organized chaos at Retrofantasma.
You still have time to submit your questions for Streebo’s upcoming Q&A session. Every question earns the entrant a chance to win some vintage Fangoria issues! That’s right – three lucky winners will win some classic Fangoria issues. Up for grabs are Fangoria #10 with Scanners, Fangoria #100 with A Nightmare on Elm Street, and issues featuring Evil Dead II, John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness and A Nightmare On Elm Street part 3: Dream Warriors! Don’t miss out – submit your questions now and win a piece of horror fan history.
Rumors are swirling that long running magazine Fangoria is no more. They’ve struggled noticeable under financial restraints over the past few years. No official word has come from Fangoria as yet – but one can only hope that they manage to survive this storm and continue bringing horror and fantasy coverage to the fans. Here at Mutantville.com, the Mutantville Players have decided to celebrate everything Fangoria has brought us over the years. Join us for another unboxing Fangoria episode as Streebo opens a recent purchase of vintage Fangoria from eBay.
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The guys at Horrorbid.com have commented on the speculated end of Fangoria.com and Fangoria magazine. There are no hard facts out there – only specualtion – but one can hope that the seminal horror magazine has not closed it’s doors forever. Stay tuned to Mutantville.com for another Fangoria Unboxing video to celebrate the horror goodness that Fangoria has brought us over the years.
Click the link below to read the full article at Horrorbid.
From Fangoria.com: If you want to talk about badass crap, you really can’t do a hell of a lot worse than the horror genre. Whether it’s crazy Eastern Europeans with slicked-back hair and overly developed canine teeth chomping down on the necks of scantily clad maidens or demented, murderous psychopaths running around in body armor made from human skin and carving X’s into the chest cavities of wayward coeds with gasoline-powered gardening implements, horror never seems to disappoint when it comes to violent homicide or paint-bombing dungeon walls with a thick coat of crimson substances. Therefore, in an effort to promote my new book BADASS: A RELENTLESS ONSLAUGHT OF THE TOUGHEST WARLORDS, VIKINGS, SAMURAI, PIRATES, GUNSLINGERS, AND MILITARY COMMANDERS TO EVER LIVE (in which I talk about such real-life badasses as the notorious Vlad the Impaler; see the trailer here), I will attempt to discuss some of the toughest heroes and villains the genre has to offer.
Now, I would never for a moment presume to try and dictate a definitive list of anything horror-related to a fan base as rabid as FANGORIA’s, so please allow me a brief caveat before I get too much further along in this process. I will say only that these are among my own personal favorites, and in no way an attempt to quantify or rank horror-movie badasses in any order other than chronologically. In the presumably likely event that you disagree with my decisions, I strongly encourage you guys to utilize the comments section below to express how brain-crushingly unfathomable it is that I didn’t include your favorite movie, character, fictional person, artificial construct, clothing article or food product on this list.
Abraham Van Helsing (DRACULA, 1897)
badassesofhorror1vanhelsingThese days, it seems like you can’t chuck a crucifix into a crowded room without accidentally impaling some crappy vampire-centric romantic comedy/drama about a dark, brooding, impeccably dressed blood-chugging metro douchebag flitting about in the woods with his whiny high-school girlfriend and talking about forbidden love ad nauseum, until pretty much everyone watching wants to barf up whatever is left of their rapidly shriveling brain cells. Well, back in the day (and by “the day,” of course I mean the late 19th century), everybody just thought vampires were complete bastards good for only one thing: getting pointy wooden stakes rammed through their chests at high velocity by Abraham Van Effing Van Helsing. This grizzled, hardass old Dutch physician/cryptozoologist/crazy occult genius dedicated his long and single-purposed life to training his mind and his body in the fine art of murdering the undead with extreme prejudice all the way up their cadaverous asses, and he was so good as his job that nowadays, his name is pretty much synonymous with stomping vampires’ balls into a thick marinara-like sauce smelling faintly of garlic and failure.
A certified Fango Fiend and winner of a 2006 FANGORIA CHAINSAW AWARD for his “Killer Film”, THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, Rob Zombie has built an impressive career in multiple creative mediums.
Now, with his second visit to Haddonfield set to arrive in U.S. theaters this Friday, FANGORIA takes a look at the music and cinema of Rob Zombie, from White Zombie to HALLOWEEN II.
