Howdy there, Scream Freaks! It’s Wednesday and that means fresh print just got dumped on the comic racks! If you follow our Sequential Slime blog, you’re already aware of what we’ve been reading and consider the best horror movie related funny books out there right now. We’re still on the fence with the Army of Darkness books, love the Puppet Master comics,and still can’t get over Kurt Russell’s curtain call from comics with the sudden cancelation of Escape From New York and the end of Big Trouble in Little China’s run! But we’re happier than coyotes in a henhouse about the announced crossover between Snake Plissken and Jack Burton!
Anyway, it’s time for another Graphic Violence review, and this time around we picked another lesser known run of licensed rag reads, focusing on the 6 issue mini-series of Little Monsters from NOW comics. Released on the heels of Beetlejuice, Little Monsters is a cult film that’s about a boy named Brian who captures and befriends a monster under his bed named Maurice who introduces Brian to a fantasy world of monsters and magic under the beds of the world. It’s hard to believe this beloved 80s flick isn’t bigger than it is being when it’s so ripe for translating into a successful kids cartoon, but it was simply overlooked for one reason or another.
Lucky for the fans, however, there was one attempt at continuing the adventures of Brian and Maurice, and that was the handful of comics published by NOW comics a few short months after the film’s release in theaters. These comics are alright for the most part, but you’ll need to watch the vid below to get the full run down on what all we liked and despised about them.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! This summer’s truly flyin’ by our sunburnt mugs, but that’s okay, ’cause it means Halloween’s just around the corner! Still a ways off, we know, but we’ve been busting our tailbones to get things shaking around here in time for the most ass kicking shindig of the year.
We’ve already got production underway for Screaming Soup! Season 4 which is easily proving to be the biggest undertaking of our show, and might just blow the horror community up with all the excitement we hope it’ll generate. Don’t want to say too much more about that surprise yet, but all will be revealed in our Halloween episode 10/20/16. We’re also working on fixing our website’s background layout for those few fans experiencing issues, and we’re looking into setting up some donation links through Youtube and Patreon.
The reason we’re looking at receiving donations is because there are a lot of things we wanna see done with our show and characters but are either spread thin workwise or simply lack the revenue to see some things happen. We’ve got plenty of ideas for trading cards, comics, game apps, a convention booth for appearances, etc., but animation takes so much time it’s almost impossible to complete it all as quickly as we’d like to see it done. With donations, however, we can support other artists and commission a lot of that kind of work and get more Screaming Soup! merch in your hands and quickly. Just need to get that up and running, and see where it goes from there!
Heads up next week, because we’ll be posting our next entry in the Graphic Violence review series 8/10/16 and will be taking a look back at the Little Monsters movie and its 6 issue mini-series from Now Comics. Sure to be informative and fun all at the same time!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! What a busy and frustrating week it’s been. First off, our lead animator sprained their wrist connected to their artistic hand and had to lay off the creative stuff a few days. He tried pushing through the pain a day or 2 but ultimately gave in to some needed r & r. He’s back in the saddle and happily animating away now, but he was incredibly depressed not being able to work with our gang of cartoon monsters for most of last week.
To raise morale during his hiatus, we caught up with friends over the weekend, some who asked for all kinds of support. We helped a filmmaker round up a beer slinging audience at an improv show to be extras watching a prison execution scene for a short they’re shooting. Ate the most expensive bland food anyone’s ever put deniro down for at a pretentious hole in the wall shit bar to listen to a partner’s band play. And had to pass on the new Lights Out flick, because everyone wanted to watch the new Star Trek sequel. Star Trek Beyond was good, mind ya, but Lights Out’s getting’ a lot of praise, and we gotta see why!
So, interesting week overall, but we’re firing on all pistons again and prepping the next secondary vid that’ll be posted 8/10/16. We don’t wanna give away what that vid is just yet, but we will say it’ll be another Graphic Violence review!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Down a glass of raw protein and prepare to break a sweat, ’cause we’re going to the gym! Not to shred our bods mind ya, but to recruit the first folk on Frankenhooker’s list of the Crossland’s toughest umbres for helping take back the Howl-Inn from Buzzkill and his monster misfits. Yessir, we introduce a lot of new faces this episode with the arrival of Brainbasher, Roogaroo, and the mountains of might known as the Ticking Time Bombs who prove to be less than cooperative.
The Ticking Time Bombs did help inspire this month’s review at least, a nature gone wrong flick from the ’90s called Ticks. Starring Seth Green, Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Clint “Infested” Howard, this movie pits troubled campers against dopey dope farmers and giant ‘roid raging ticks they accidentally create. Solid teen performances and great special effects, you have to watch why this is easily one of our favorite bug movies below!
Also wanted to let you Scream Freaks know we swung by the theater this past weekend and checked out the new Ghostbusters that’s all but broken the internet. We came out the other side with surprisingly differing opinions and provide 2 different reviews. We have the flash fry review in our weekly R-Rated Reviews page, and provide a more in depth review by Mandy in a new blog HERE. Enjoy!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! In case you didn’t know, the ’80s was a major turning point for youngn’s entertainment. Not only was the toy market being driven by popular cartoons many criticized for being half hour commercials, but the wholesome family image began to slip, giving way to more gruesome forms of fun. There were crazy looking products of bizarre nature like Madballs, Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and most importantly . . . the Garbage Pail Kids!
In response to the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, Topps spoofed the cabbage cult with trading cards that mirrored the creepy dolls in horrifically twisted parodies and became a runaway success with the kiddies. Topps experienced popular responses to macabre cards before with their previous Mars Attacks! and Civil War News card sets back in the day, so they were more than familiar with what kind of dark images youngn’s wanted to see, and pumped out an ass load of them before petering out in the late ’80s.
Decades later, and we’re still enjoying these sick cards! The detailed art, the dark humor, the roster of unforgettable characters, and we still have lightning bolts of joy shoot through us every time we see new merchandise hit the shelves that’s 30 years overdue. And speaking of overdue, nothing was more so than the canceled Garbage Pail Kids cartoon series!
You read right. The same year the less than favorable GPK movie was released, CBS produced a Garbage Pail Kids cartoon series. Before the show could air on its first TV, however, the angry parents of yesteryear believed it would be every bit as despicable as the cards and convinced the CBS execs to give it the axe. Since then, it’s been locked away until receiving a second chance on DVD in the mid-2000s. Like a secret blast from the past, this shamed series is now up for grabs for all GPK fans such as ourselves, and we give it a look in the vid below to see just what all the fuss was about back then. Hope you enjoy it!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Lot of sequels at the movies lately. You’ve got Independence Day: Resurgence, Finding Dori, TMNT: Out of the Shadows, Captain America: Civil War, and (what we went to check out) Conjuring 2. Fresh back from the theater, we thought we’d take some time to shoot the shit on this super-hyped scarefest that’s got everyone talking about heart attacks in the cineplex. There will be spoilers, so read with caution.
First off, Conjuring 2 was good, but not a “Wow!” for us. Mainly because it wasn’t much different from the first one. If you recall, the first movie was about the Warrens, a famous paranormal tag-team couple from the ’70s, helping free a young girl from the possessive grips of an evil spirit. In the sequel, the Warrens have sworn off anymore investigations after their experience in the Amityville house but jump back in the saddle when they hear a girl in London is bullied non-stop by the ghost of old man Wilkins. So, once again we’re watching them save a kid being haunted by an evil force with a lot of the same bells and whistles trying to scare us from the last movie. Possessions, creepy sounds, and shit flying everywhere.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are perfectly cast as the Warrens in these movies. They’re solid performers whose relationship is nothing short of convincing and successfully give you horror heroes worth rooting for. Their chemistry on screen is only boosted by director James Wan’s eye for slick cinematography, a script rich in character, and the perfect rhythm of jump scares the film seems edited to.
Our only beef with this whole thing was the tension being about as thin as a haunted house attraction around Halloween. Based on what happened in the first Conjuring, our gang had already bet nobody was going to die, and it would be more about scare than terror which is exactly what happened. It’s hard to feel worried for anyone when you know it’s all going to end in sunshine and rainbows for everybody at the end.
Even the ghosts were a little disappointing, but it’s not for lack of effort. Old man Wilkin’s ghost was filmed in a very effective way, but didn’t feel like it was pushed enough or in the right ways. Most the time he’s creeping around saying “Boo!,” but when the filmmakers push the envelope and seemingly make him more like a Ghostbusters villain as the morphing Crooked Man who taunts children with nursery rhymes, it was too much distracting CGI that had us thinking of Tim Burton characters from Alice in Wonderland.
There is a second supernatural threat that turns out to be a demon disguised as an evil nun that’s actually manipulating the haunting for its benefit, but this too was good and bad. The filmmakers elevate the sequel by giving us a totally unexpected turn of events when we learn this demon is using old man Wilkin’s ghost as a smokescreen so it could possess the girl, but that twist ends as soon as it starts without any explanation, leaving us hanging with what felt like some bigger plot out of a season of Supernatural. Why did the demon go to such complex lengths to get the girl? Was the demon originally from the Amityville house and attach itself to Lorraine Warren? Why did it bother telling Lorraine its name without being compelled, ultimately handing her its #1 weakness? We have so many questions that aren’t from criticism but interest in something we found to be the most interesting part of the movie they barely went into.
All in all, this isn’t a movie we’re running to tell all our friends to hurry and see, and we definitely don’t think it lives up to all the hype on TV or in the reviews. However, it was well made, and the acting was superb which does rate it higher than your average fright pic. If they had made us feel like anyone could possibly die at anytime and put more thought into the demonic end of this story, it could have been something real special. But we rate it 4/5!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Hot off the heels of the successful Bloodbath & Beyond crossover, we present to you the newest and craziest chapter in the Buzzkill’s Revenge saga yet with your favorite gang of horror hosts reviewing the cult-hit, Frankenhooker!
We can still remember hearing rumors about this schlockbuster long ago, and how excited we were when we finally got to see it in all its shocking glory years later. Many filmmakers have given the Frankenstein story their own creative spin, but only Frank Henenlotter’s version about a crazed electrician re-animating his mowed down girlfriend with hooker body-parts has ever stood out enough to make us want to run and tell all our friends about it. Raunchy, gritty, and full of fun, every horror fan needs Frankenhooker in their collection.
We also have more horrific personalities making guest appearances in this episode and want to give a quick shout out to those folks. Jay from Bloodbath & Beyond is back along with our friend Grim Reaper from Your Final Answer, and we’re lucky enough to share the screen with the Horror Guru and the Horror Addicts who have been very cool to collaborate with. They’re all amazing talents in horror entertainment, so please click their links below to check out their Youtube channels, but make sure to come back here for more servings of Screaming Soup!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Grab an extra dish, ’cause yer gettin’ served up not 1 but 2 reviews of The Stuff! Wipe that confused look off yer face, we ain’t backtracking our own review for a 2nd go ’round. No, sir. We’ve been in talks with the fine folks over at Bloodbath & Beyond, and before you know it, one thing led to another and Wooowee! We got ourselves a bona fide crossover of unprecedented mayhem!
Being the web’s first and only animated horror hosts means a lot of firsts, and this is one of them. Never before have live action horror hosts mixed with fully animated ones, and the result is laugh out loud epic. So epic, this crossover could only be done as a 2-parter with both sets of hosts visiting each other’s sets. Both parts are below, and we would suggest starting with the Screaming Soup! half as part 1, so you get a full understandin’ of what’s happenin’ before switching over to BBB’s half of the crossover.
We give a joyful YEEEHAAAAW! to Bloodbath & Beyond for decidin’ to take this steer by the horns and help make a memorable video we’re sure ya’ll will enjoy. We encourage you to check out more of their vids on their Youtube channel HERE, but come back to us for more helpings of Screaming Soup!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! We can already tell ya, this is going to be a fun month for Screaming Soup! Not only are we going to bring you our favorite review of Season 3 on 6/20/16, but we’re also playing host to several macabre guests we’ve asked to join us for some crossover antics!
We don’t want to spoil the surprise for who these guests are just yet, but the majority of them are other popular horror movie reviewers you more than likely heard of, and they’ll be making cameos in the next episode which takes our gang to the Tailhouse — the Crosslands #1 stripjoint! We push the animation further, give ya plenty of cartoon babes to oogle, review one of the best B-movies of all time, and share the screen with some of the hottest talents in the business. It’s going to be unforgettable.
In the meantime, we are ready to tell you we’ve been hard at work on a crossover special with another team of superstars . . . Bloodbath & Beyond! Yessir, we’ve been talking a lot with these guys lately, and we both came to the obvious conclusion we needed to do a crossover. Live action meets animation, its a true clash of worlds as we step outside our norms, attempting something we’ve never done before. I won’t say how we crossover or what we’re going to review, but it’ll be like a 2-parter with fans needing to watch vids on both our Youtube channels to get the full story. We’re aiming to release that by Friday, 6/10/16.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! It’s not always easy to think of stuff to post in this blog every week, but we happen to be inspired by something one of you said to us recently and wanted to share our thoughts on it. A loyal Scream Freak saw the latest Screaming Soup! episode, told us how much they enjoyed it, but then expressed some frustration that took us by surprise.
In a nutshell, they were baffled at how little of a following we have so far, and are even more perplexed at the low number of views our videos have for something they think is such great quality.
We of course responded to the comment, but wanted to expand on our feelings a little more in the blog here. First and foremost we make Screaming Soup! for fun as artists who are compelled to create, and channel that energy through our love for all things horror and animation. We’ve essentially taken everything we’ve ever enjoyed from comics to toys and videogames and brought all that together in what we think is a cool concept for an entertaining show we regularly invite others to enjoy with us.
Now, most everybody wants to make a living doing what they love, and we’re no different. We dream of the day our labor of love could hit big and elevate us somehow from living paycheck to paycheck to a means of supporting our families comfortably. We want to see Screaming Soup! popular enough to be the next Mystery Science Theater 3000 or Monstervision for the 21st century, achieving a milestone as the first fully animated horror host (that we’re aware of) in history. We’d love to have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles explosion of success and launch a Screaming Soup! brand with Deadwest action figures, Billy plushies, TPMummy Halloween costumes, etc. Of course all that’s heavily dependent on a demanding fan base, and we’re doing our best to get the word out about our show to as many horror fans as we can on a daily basis through Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Channel Awesome, and Youtube crossovers.
But until that boom of life altering success happens, we’re just ambitious artists happy to be making wild, gross, and x-rated horror toons while shooting the shit about movies, and are deeply grateful for the fans we have gained so far who believe in our show and characters as much as we do. Thank you. So, keep your fangs crossed, dream big, but in the meantime . . . have fun!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
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