Vinyl Records Spotlight: THE VVITCH

Recently picked up the sound track to The VVitch the 2015 Horror movie that some may argue as being incredibly frightful others say boring as hell. I think its more the former.

The movie does have some pacing issues but this score really shows how great the film can be. The haunting ending with the Black Mass of Witches Coven is hypnotic and amazing. Composer Mark Korven and the Elememt Choir do a great job. They really make the music flow and feel likes its coming from the century the movie takes place in. Turn down the light or turn them off and out this soundtrack on and you will get a chill down your spine like never before.

The record it self is plain black with the Devil in his goat form on the inside. This also came with a digital soundtrack of the movie.

Sabrina and the truth about Witches

Tonight on the show for our Halloween episode we have Jessica Dwyer editor and writer on the show and Beverly from Wicked Cronic  ( the sponsor of this show ) to talk about the new NEtflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Based on the Archie Horror Comic. We will be talking about the show vs the comic as well as some thought on how the representation of witches by Hollywood is still as ridiculous today as it was years ago. We will also be playing some Witchy music and more as this is our HALLOWEEN episode tonight.

Filmmakers, Writers, and Salem

On the show tonight Alexia Anastasio talking about woman in film making and her Ginger Documentary then Jess-O-Lantern and I talk about the upcoming TV show American Gods and its creator Neil Gaiman, as well as chatting about SANDMAN, CORALINE, and more. Then I will have a chat with the head of the Salem Con after wards a neat convention happening in SALEM MA next weekend.

http://www.mghparanormal.com/

“From Comics to Screen – Marvel’s Darkhold” on YouTube

It’s as if Marvel/Disney woke up and Dai we own allllllll this horror and supernatural stuff and we are not making any money on it. Maybe they will print a copy of the Darkhold  we can buy. 

The Witch of Plum Hollow

I was originally going to do a post about the history of witches in Canada, but due to the fact that witchcraft in Canada is basically nonexistent, I’ll just tell you all about the one witch I could find information on!

Elizabeth Jane Barnes(or “Mother Barnes”) was born in Cork, Ireland some time between 1744 and 1800, nobody is really positive on the exact year.

What makes Elizabeth Barnes so special? She was apparently clairvoyant. She was known to have used her gift to solve mysteries, including a murder. Who needs Nancy Drew or Scooby Doo when you have Elizabeth Barnes, right? She was also apparently able to locate hidden treasure.

Elizabeth also used her gift to tell fortunes in her one room log cabin(which is still standing today.) She was very well known for this. People would travel hundreds of miles for her services, some would offer her large sums of money. She would never accept anything more than her standard rate of twenty-five cents though. One of her most noteworthy clients is rumored to have been Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. Elizabeth Barnes believed she got her gift from being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter.

She was married twice. First to Sergeant Robert Harrison. They met in Ireland then emigrated to Cobourg, Ontario, where they eloped and had one son, Robert Harrison Jr. Unfortunately Robert died shortly after his son was born. About four years after that Elizabeth married her second husband David Barnes and settled near Plum Hollow. Her and David had ten children together, however a few of them died, leaving them with about eight children in total. After a few years together, David left her to be a shoemaker in Smith Falls, taking one of their sons with him… what a dick! He’s lucky child support didn’t exist back then! However, his absence resulted in Elizabeth using her gift to tell fourtunes so she could provide for her children, so I guess it all worked out in the end.

Now, like her year of birth, nobody actually knows when Elizabeth died, but she reportedly died when she was in her early nineties. She rests in an unmarked grave in Sheldon’s Corners, Ontario.

Shadows in Salem and a NEW co-Host

On the show tonight the team behind Shadows in Salem a new collection of Short stories about one of the spookiest towns in America. We will also be debuting our new co-host tonight from Canada Wednesday, stay tuned for more information about her as the night goes on.
Music tonight will be ladies choice from both Amber Dawn Moore and Wednesday
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Buffy: The High School Years—Glutton for Punishment

From Dark Horse Comics we return to Buffy the Vampire in high school. Which for a lot of people is HELL

Now lets hope they don’t retcon Buffy the current comic does not need to be retconed in any way. That would be veyr dumb.

With anticipation building for Eisner Award–winning author Faith Erin Hicks’s Buffy: The High School Years—Freaks & Geeks, Dark Horse Comics announces the next installment in the young adult series this fall with Kel McDonald and Yishan Li’s Buffy: The High School Years—Glutton for Punishment.

Set during Season 1 of the television series and executive produced by Joss Whedon, Glutton for Punishment continues the humor and excitement as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her friends navigate the tumultuous balance of being both high schoolers and monster fighters.

“McDonald has a real affection for magical-world building,” says io9 of author Kel McDonald (Misfits of Avalon), who is returning to the Whedonverse to bring more monsters and high-school high jinks into the life of teenage Buffy!

When Buffy and Xander sign up for home ec, assuming it will be an extra-credit cakewalk, they aren’t aware that the teacher is a ravenous tiger demon in disguise. The demon’s unquenchable appetite has him kidnapping his top students and forcing them to cook for him, and when Xander claims some store-bought treats are his own creations, he becomes the demon’s next victim! It’s not enough that Buffy has to keep her grades up, but she also has to rescue her friends and fellow students—and give the tiger demon his just desserts!

Buffy: The High School Years—Glutton for Punishment is in stores October 19, 2016

THE UNDEAD ARE A JOKE

My first novel is finally complete. I started on this book back in 2012, and it’s finally completed.Why did it take so long to get here. Being lazy really can stop your book. Don’t be lazy get off your fat ass and publish your book. DON’T DELAY!!

Depression really put a stop to this book and procrastinating and other things. This book does end on a cliff hanger so there will be more books. I hope the next book will be out by next year.

Its about a vampire video game developer. He is on quest to get his new game developed in time for the big gaming convention contest. All the while dealing with a murder mystery and the supernatural forces around him.

Cover Model is Sarah Michelle

The book is only 1.99 a download on any e reading device you own

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/304782

 

New Tarot Kickstarter

Broadsword comics has a new Kickstarter up that you can help go fund now.

A full cards featuring art by Jim Balent from his Tarot Witch of the Black Rose comics on every card. Many great perks to choose from 20-1000$$ to help the campaign.

Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose a Deck of Cards for Dealing and other fun games.

For more information check out the link above?

www.jimbalent.com

A Gothic Wizard and Andy Noir

Tonight on the show we have Rev Peter the Gothic Wizard on the show with us. He will be talking with us about some interesting facts concerning tarot card readings and Vampires and other things that go bump in the night. Returning to the show tonight is Andy Noir an awesome horror actress we had on back in 2012.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1584582/

We also will be playing for the first time on vinyl the sound track to ARMY OF DARKNESS.

 

http://www.gothicwizard.com/

Happy Zombie Day

Tonight on the show we celebrate the return of Jesus the best way we know how with the creator and found of twilight Creations. They are best known for making the Zombie board game series.
http://www.twilightcreationsinc.com/en/boardgames/zombies.html
Then we have Jennifer Lynn Waren on the show with us from American Horror Story Coven, Creature and Ultraviolet http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2367311/
We will also play the music from GOBLIN and my cool new Batman record

Bayonetta

Sega in 2010 launched what would become the female equivalent of Devil May Cry. A Gothic action adventure beat em up with horror roots and insane over the top game play.

Bayonetta was a huge success on the Xbox 360 and PS 3 and has returned for Bayonetta 2 on the Nintendo WiiU. As of this writing B2 has garnered more positive reviews than a lot of the games on the WiiU. Surprising as its a Sega game on a Nintendo console. Please understand that joke. Bayonetta goes to hell and heaven to resurrect a friend who falls in battle. No longer on a quest to find her forgotten memories she and her friends from the previous game like the photographer Luca and the bartender at the Gates of Hell forge forward with weird powers and a more story driven narrative. She once again has a kid sidekick this time a young boy named Loki….a trickster….hmmmm.

Packed with it is the original game on a separate disk.
Bayonetta is as adult and wickedly funny as she was before, the game is a hard core M rating with semi nudity in every scene and Bayonetta yelling FUCK YOU when she hits an enemy, Princess Zelda, Peach and Toadstool would never be written so charming. Samus is the closet thing I would say to match Bayonetta attitude but that’s still not on the same level of mature content.
The game play is so insane its more fun to die and let yo replay the level so you can capture what is going on in the game. Button mashing has become a video game staples thanks to the God of War series. You go too the Gates of Hell bar to level up and get new over the top combos.

Sega is unapologetic in the way she handles her sexuality.  (To promote the game they teamed up with Playboy Playmate Pamela Horton to cosplay as the character both clothed and nude.)
She has many crotch shots and twists her body in ways that would make a porn star proud. Its funny the first game came out right after a certain presidential candidate from Alaska was running for VP. Also the porno of Sarah Palin mixed with Tina Feys portrayal of her on Saturday Night Live, I think had some influence on her design …..but I may be wrong. This game series may offend some people but this is not for every one. Many critics praise the game for being fun and do point out the over the top sexual nature if it.
Anita Sarkeesian as usual hated the series
She said and I quote “Everything about Bayonetta design is for the pleasure of straight male games, I’m disappointed no one has covered her outrages over sexualized attitude.” Anita GAY WOMAN love this series too, I was happy to meet them at Pax East this year. She really attacked the series and once again finds nothing positive to say about it. Japanese based game company made a game like an anime character is no surprise. I enjoyed the game more than Lollypop Chainsaw which I didn’t like and thought was a terrible game.

Leigh Alexander of Gamasutra said “I really like Bayonetta personally feminism doesn’t mean woman’s bodies are bad. It upsets me when I’m told covering my body is what I should be live in.”

Those are two female industry experts on the series. For me its fun and a great game series to play.

Recently there was a Bayonetta Anime movie from Funimation released.

http://www.funimation.com/shows/bayonetta-bloody-fate/home

Bloody Fire it’s the story from the first game animated from the developers of Afro Samurai. The movie is available on blu-ray only but comes with a DVD.  If your in the Boston Area this weekend the company that makes this movie Funimation will be set up at the annual Anime Boston Event.
Helena Taylor voices Bayonetta in both games and the anime movie. Her sharp tongue, mixed with her British accent give the personality needed for this type of character.
We waited almost five years between games, I hope we don’t have to wait another five for the sequel.

Happy New Year with over 40,00 visitors and counting

We at Radio of Horror would like to thank every one we has joined our blog we now have 306 subscribers and over 40,000 visitors we hit the goal I wanted to hit as of New Years Day. Thanks to every one who has supported this show since it started in October 2007. The blog was starter in July 2009. Keep telling every one about Radio of Horror on 91.3 FM Wcuw in Worcester MA.
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch

For those who don’t know Archie has had a foot in the Horror industry for half a year now with the hugely popular After life with Archie where a Zombie Apocolypse comes to Riverdale. Partly caused by Sabrina resurrecting Jugheads dog.

Now we all know the tv show staring Melisa Joan Hart but it was actually based on an Archie Comic Book character who first appeared in Archie’s Madhouse #22 October 1962.
Now we have the Chilling Adventure of Sabrina.
In this we learn the new darker origin of one of the most popular witches around. Story and art by Roberto Aguirre-Sarcasm and Robert Hack.

This is a new gothic twisted origin of the witch from Riverdale. The comic is monthly and will contain a back classic Sabrina story so you get a little more for your buck evry month. Sabrina has been in hot demand since Afterlife with Archie started. Check out the perfect comic for Halloween.

Horror Conventions and more

Tonight on the show BUZ DANGER Walawick talks to us about Scream Factory and I talk to Kevin Barbaree about ROCK AND SHOCK which is next weekend
We also play the music from Monster House and talk about the renewal of Under the Dome, WHAT THE FUCK ???
We also talk about Sleepy Hollow and ABC of Death 2 and Dracula Untold. Also the return of the Walking Dead and Supernatural and the end of The Strain S1.

http://www.rockandshock.com

The Dead,The Trolls, and The Wolves

Tonight on the show we have the Ford Brothers from the DEAD 2 INDIA and the star of their movie as well. We also have the director of Autumn Blood on the show with us. Well talk about the new movies Box Trolls, and Halloween Grave, and Werewolf Rising. Well play the music from Halloween 2 in honor of the new Box set that came out this past Tuesday

Movie Review: Innocence (2014)

Pam Reviews this new kinda crappy kinda of ok witchy vampire movie

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(No Spoilers)This movie, officially released on 9/5, is much better than I thought it would be.

I know that’s vague.

This is a film for the Twilight, Vampire Academy, Beautiful Creatures crowd. And it starts out similarly to many other YA novels and flicks with a Plain Jane (in this case the “Jane” is Beckett Warner played by the adorable Sophie Curtis), a family tragedy (fridged parents everywhere!) and a move. It’s even raining in the first scene -there was no way not to think of Forks! 

As the movie progresses, Beckett remains reserved- logical for a teen who just experienced tragedy, but instead of being angsty and laying around in the grass; she makes friends with the snarky Jen (Sarah Sutherland, yes she is Kiefer’s daughter) and cute skater boy, Tobey (Graham Phillips). Beckett has friends! A girl who is a friend! She doesn’t just have haters…

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Salem & Transylvania

The next TWO Halloweens in a row are going to be something special and unique. This HALLOWEEN I will be in Salem the home of true Horror in New England. I have lived in Ma most of my life and never done that. I have gone to Salem several times but never on Halloween. Day before I will be seeing Jeffrey Combs one man play Never More.

Next year I will take the Drac Tours and head to Romania to spend a week at DRACULA’S castle. It’s an expensive trip that will take some time to save up for.