Dark waters and delicious ones too

Well the Dark Waters movie that we aired on Creature Feature was indeed the shark film. Figures. I should have known, I suppose, as that fits right in with the rest of the films in that particular package they have license to right now.

My friend Jeano clued me in to something super cool recently - Hammer Studios is producing their own line of beers!

Label for 'Curse of Frankenstein' beer, by the Buxton Brewery Company Limited.

According to their website:

The Buxton Brewery Company Limited has signed a contract with Coolabi, which represents Hammer Films licensing worldwide, to produce three Hammer-themed beers for the European market.

Coffin Ale, a very pale ale, Dracula's Desire, a deep, blood-red bitter, and the very strong, full-bodied IPA Curse of Frankenstein will be available in bottles and on draught from September. Each will have a label or beer pump clip illustrated with a classic film poster image from the library of Hammer films.

Man that is awesome!! I must have these! Hopefully we'll be able to find them somewhere over here in America, otherwise I'll have to try and place an order.

Here is the official press release:
http://www.hammerfilms.com/news/hammer-house-of-beer

This is where orders can be placed later this year...
http://www.hammerhouseofbeer.com/

Weekend roundup

This post is kind of a catchup post of what's happening lately in the Gangrene world.

First off, my show for this weekend is the Italian horror film Dark Waters.

Now here's the catch - I didn't get to preview this one before we aired it - it wasn't in at the station yet and I only had the title to go by, and my program director didn't know for sure which Dark Waters it is. SO I'm HOPING it is the 1993 Mariano Baino film, because there is a trailer on youtube for some crappy shark movie of the same name.


Guess I'll find out tomorrow when it airs - Ought to be interesting!!!


Speaking of sharks I've been on a bit of a shark kick lately. I am currently reading JAWS, which I've never read before. GREAT book!!


Since I was reading the novel, I thought I'd go back and watch the movies. I haven't seen the sequels in years and was curious to see where the took the franchise. The first one is awesome, a true classic and probably Speilberg's best movie. The second one is pretty good, the third has it's moments, and the fourth is awful. but I made it through them all and survived - yahhh!

My band is recording this month. We're going to try and have a complete cd ready by time for the Hootenanny next month. I'll keep you ghouls posted.

I'll be appearing at the Paranormal Scare Fest in Murfreesboro TN later this month. I'll be there sat Aug 28th and am looking forward to meeting some fellow horror hosts I've not had the pleasure of meeting in person yet, especially Marlena Midnight, Robin Graves and their crew. I've spoken with them all on the internet and they are a friendly and talented bunch of folks - they do good work so look them up!!


And I also want to announce I'll be writing for Scary Monsters Magazine regularly for now on, and the premiere article is running in the next issue - #76, the Sept/Oct issue. Woo hoo - just in time for Halloween. This article is an interview with John Agar II, son of the late great John Agar the noted Sci-fi actor. john contacted me last year to thank me for all the kind words I had said about his dad and his work over the years in print and video - I'm a big fan and that apparently showed through in some of my work. The fact he took time to write and tell me thanks REALLY made my day, and we struck up a correspondence and I eventually interviewed him, and the result turned out really great. He discusses his father, growing up son of a famous b movie actor, and more.



So that's it for this time. Gonna go watch the Legend of Boggy Creek - I just got it in the mail from Netflix!

STAY MAD!!