Night Gallery

As a wedding gift to ourselves, Pumpkinrot and I bought the first season of Night Gallery on DVD. We've both seen every episode, but it's nice to occasionally put in a disc and rediscover them together.

I always wanted paintings from the show to hang on my walls. Never tried to copy one for myself, but one of these days I just might.

Paintings from Night Gallery:



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Best Movie Poster of 2009? So Far...Yes.

I so dig this poster for the upcoming Ti West film The House of the Devil. Unfortunately I couldn't find a larger pic.


Ti West also wrote and directed The Roost.

Ode To Haunted Houses

I love haunted house stories. They are my all time favorite of the horror genre, in literature and in film. The dark wood, the creaking stairs, the dust, the stale air of the attic, the long hallways....pure heaven to me. The quiet, subtle moments are what I love most. The idea that a house is a living being with feelings and intentions is one that is ever intriguing, as well as the notion that a house can replay and echo the horrors that happen within them over and over. In a haunted house time stops, and the connection (and safety) to the outside world is lost. For some reason I find that comforting. Perhaps it's the timelessness of it, or because the rules of the world no longer apply, or because it is a final destination and there is no more work to be done. I don't know.

There are many haunted houses that I revisit often: The Shining (novel & film), The Haunting (the 1963 film), The Legend Of Hell House (novel & film), The Haunting of Hill House (novel by Shirley Jackson), The Haunting of Julia (novel & film), and others that I will remember after I publish this post.

I've a new one to add to the list - a short story that appeared in Weird Tales Magazine. It's "Renovations" by Matthew Pridham. You can read the story here.

Screencap from The Legend Of Hell House.


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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Pumpkinrot and I spend alot of time talking about and watching horror movies. One of the most enjoyable things we do is revisit movies that scared us when we were kids - the movies that, later that night when it was time to go to bed, transformed the closet door cracked open in the dark to a chasm filled with horrible monsters and the 2 feet on the floor next to the bed a "no foot" zone. It's often a challenge to find these movies (and sometimes hard to remember the titles), but once in a while we track them down. Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark was a made for TV movie that Pumpkinrot remembers. We managed to find it on YouTube.

I'm into any movie whose description begins, "A couple moves into an old mansion..."

It was so much fun to watch.

Screencap from the film.


I'm totally going hide a little demon doll in the medicine cabinet for Rot to find.


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The Night No One Came Home

Sure wish I owned these beauties.



From here.
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