Needless to say, but October was a very busy month over here at the old Other Side.
Watching horror movies, blogging about old school, new school and horror brings in some traffic.
I made 53 posts this month which resulted in 9,494 visits. Of that, 1,315 came directly to this site (with 82.21 % of those being unique), and 5,585 from referring sites.
So, to thank those referring sites, here they are. See what they are doing also!
edenstudiosdiscussionboards.yuku.com (Eden's board)
underdarkgazette.blogspot.com
unknownzine.blogspot.com
bxblackrazor.blogspot.com
dungeonsndigressions.blogspot.com
daddygrognard.blogspot.com
gothridgemanor.blogspot.com
theoreticalgm.blogspot.com
thebookofworlds.blogspot.com
sorcerersskull.blogspot.com
cyclopeatron.blogspot.com
asshatpaladins.blogspot.com
Thanks for sending so much traffic my way!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Something New!
I have recently been inspired and might have something new here in a bit.
No details yet other than I am excited and hope to have something soon.
No details yet other than I am excited and hope to have something soon.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
October Movie Reviews: Final Tally
Here we go!
31 movies with 20 new, never before seen.
Not too bad.
October Movie Reviews: Lovecraft Film Fest
Last ones. This last round are some Lovecraft movies. Pity poor Lovecraft, his books are so good and so scary; but the movie adaptations are usually so bad. There are some exceptions.
Dagon (2001)
Loosely based on "The Shadows Over Insmouth" it moves the action to Spain. Here the EoD is slicing up humans to make "costumes" for the fish mutants. It has gore, it has sub-par acting and most of the story is preserved but the overall effect is a bit sub-par. It was an enjoyable little flick, but certainly more of the Lovecraft frame of mind (ie. how many and who survives) than what you normally see in Hollywood films. It has it's problems to be sure, but it is one of the better adaptations.
Beyond The Dunwich Horror (2008)
This direct to Sci-Fi Channel movie (with an unrated version out there) is Dean Stockwell's second chance at doing The Dunwich Horror (the first was 1970). This one is more Hollywood and it shows. In a bad way. Only barley recognizable as Lovecraft's tale it does have some nice special effects, Yog-Sothoth looks pretty cool. But there is this whole drug-dream sequences with Abdul Alhazred and his harem of naked girls (I am not 100% sure that Lovecraft ever actually had any women in his stories). There is a starting scene that is more "Exorcist" or even the movie version of "Constantine" than Lovecraft. In the end this is weak movie, despite Dean Stockwell playing Henry Armitage and Lovecraft regular Jeffry Combs playing Wilbur Whateley. In fact both are completely misused here to let some D-List actors have all the screen time. I guess that is how they paid for those special effects.
I'll tally up my movies later.
Dagon (2001)
Loosely based on "The Shadows Over Insmouth" it moves the action to Spain. Here the EoD is slicing up humans to make "costumes" for the fish mutants. It has gore, it has sub-par acting and most of the story is preserved but the overall effect is a bit sub-par. It was an enjoyable little flick, but certainly more of the Lovecraft frame of mind (ie. how many and who survives) than what you normally see in Hollywood films. It has it's problems to be sure, but it is one of the better adaptations.
Beyond The Dunwich Horror (2008)
This direct to Sci-Fi Channel movie (with an unrated version out there) is Dean Stockwell's second chance at doing The Dunwich Horror (the first was 1970). This one is more Hollywood and it shows. In a bad way. Only barley recognizable as Lovecraft's tale it does have some nice special effects, Yog-Sothoth looks pretty cool. But there is this whole drug-dream sequences with Abdul Alhazred and his harem of naked girls (I am not 100% sure that Lovecraft ever actually had any women in his stories). There is a starting scene that is more "Exorcist" or even the movie version of "Constantine" than Lovecraft. In the end this is weak movie, despite Dean Stockwell playing Henry Armitage and Lovecraft regular Jeffry Combs playing Wilbur Whateley. In fact both are completely misused here to let some D-List actors have all the screen time. I guess that is how they paid for those special effects.
I'll tally up my movies later.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
D&D4 Halloween Previews
Wizards has some previews up for some new Essentials products that have a distinct Halloween flair.
First, the classic Universal monsters, Frankenstein's Monster (Flesh Golem), Dracula (Master Vampire) and the Wolf-man (infected lycanthrope).
http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ex/20101029b
And the new Warlocks, Hexblades are up. Looks like they might be beefing up their combat a bit.
http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ex/20101029#71432
People are already talking about them a lot too.
Points of Light, http://daegames.blogspot.com/2010/10/meet-hexblade.html and
RPG.Net, http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=544671
Can't wait to see the full writeup on these since Warlocks are my favorite 4e Class.
Happy Halloween.
First, the classic Universal monsters, Frankenstein's Monster (Flesh Golem), Dracula (Master Vampire) and the Wolf-man (infected lycanthrope).
http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ex/20101029b
And the new Warlocks, Hexblades are up. Looks like they might be beefing up their combat a bit.
http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ex/20101029#71432
People are already talking about them a lot too.
Points of Light, http://daegames.blogspot.com/2010/10/meet-hexblade.html and
RPG.Net, http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=544671
Can't wait to see the full writeup on these since Warlocks are my favorite 4e Class.
Happy Halloween.
October Movie Reviews: Round up
Rounding up some more movies I saw over the last week or so. The biggest issue is not watching the movies, but finding the time to blog about them. I also I like to watch a lot of the Halloween related Discovery and History channels shows and I didn't do that this much this year.
The Plague of the Zombies (1965)
Hammer does zombies. Interesting take really. The zombies are sorta incidental. The big bad here is our voodoo master raising up the corpses of the dead to ... go to work mining. Sure, it actually makes sense really. Perfect workers, they don't need to be paid, they will work overtime and if poisonous gas hits the mine they keep on going.
And he would have gotten away with it to if it weren't for those meddling kids-err adults.
Entertaining flick but something that I have long suspected hit me. I am not a big fan of zombie flicks. Sure I like Romero and the Dead movies. But as a whole zombies are not really a sub-genre of horror I care much about.
The Covenant (2006)
Saw this cheap at Target, so I picked it up. Not bad, not good either. Think "The Craft" only with dudes. Five families with magic have lived in this town since Puritan times now the next gen is ready for their powers (even if using magic ages them rapidly). Of the five only four families are left till new guy comes to town. Wanna guess who he is and what he wants? The movie had some good chances to break cliché and many times it looks like it will, but instead it just goes right into it. Well at least it was cheap.
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
My expectations for this one had been pretty low. I had re-watched Hammer's Frankenstien recently (but didn't review it since I had seen it before) and it was ok. This movie was something altogether different. Dr. Baron Von Frankenstein is at it again and again in the form of Peter Cushing. This time he revives a young woman who committed suicide. And just because he can, he put the soul of her wrongfully murdered fiancée into her body. The new woman then goes on a killing spree, killing the men that wrongfully accused her, er him, and got him executed in the first place.
Interesting flick because of the whole metaphysical aspects. Plus Cushing was fantastic in this, I got so used to seeing him as one Van Helsing or another that seeing this side of his acting really was great. And lets be honest here, if you are going to go through the effort to create a woman out of the materials you have at hand, you can do a lot worse than Susan Denberg.
Will have to see what I can catch tonight.
Not sure where my count is now. Will have to add them up later.
The Plague of the Zombies (1965)
Hammer does zombies. Interesting take really. The zombies are sorta incidental. The big bad here is our voodoo master raising up the corpses of the dead to ... go to work mining. Sure, it actually makes sense really. Perfect workers, they don't need to be paid, they will work overtime and if poisonous gas hits the mine they keep on going.
And he would have gotten away with it to if it weren't for those meddling kids-err adults.
Entertaining flick but something that I have long suspected hit me. I am not a big fan of zombie flicks. Sure I like Romero and the Dead movies. But as a whole zombies are not really a sub-genre of horror I care much about.
The Covenant (2006)
Saw this cheap at Target, so I picked it up. Not bad, not good either. Think "The Craft" only with dudes. Five families with magic have lived in this town since Puritan times now the next gen is ready for their powers (even if using magic ages them rapidly). Of the five only four families are left till new guy comes to town. Wanna guess who he is and what he wants? The movie had some good chances to break cliché and many times it looks like it will, but instead it just goes right into it. Well at least it was cheap.
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Interesting flick because of the whole metaphysical aspects. Plus Cushing was fantastic in this, I got so used to seeing him as one Van Helsing or another that seeing this side of his acting really was great. And lets be honest here, if you are going to go through the effort to create a woman out of the materials you have at hand, you can do a lot worse than Susan Denberg.
Will have to see what I can catch tonight.
Not sure where my count is now. Will have to add them up later.
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