You know, when we decided to be horror hosts, we knew it would come with its own unique challenges. For one, how do you stand out in a digital world where anyone and everyone with a computer and camera can be a self-claimed host or reviewer? You’ve got everything from talking heads in bedrooms to elaborate green screen productions with some of the zaniest characters emerging from people’s darkest psyches. In the past, horror hosts have been everything from vampires, ghouls, and hillbillies to space travelers and even puppets entertaining fans worldwide with their own zany brand of jokes and criticisms. What had horror fans not seen yet?
We can still remember when we were originally planning on Screaming Soup! being a live action production built in a garage. We were going to take the old school approach with a sad greased face actor playing Deadwest, and Billy would have been a homemade hand puppet. Thank goodness someone slapped us upside the head and reminded us we were artist and should try saving time and money by animating our idea. We researched that suggestion a bit and realized they were on to something. We can’t find any evidence of there ever being a long running animated horror host show. Sure, there are horror hosts with mini-animated adventures like comedy sketches on their primarily live action shows, and the Crypt Keeper even had an animated series for kids, but we couldn’t find a host who was fully conceived for an original cartoon series that poked fun at popular B-movies.
Thus began the thousand mile journey with a single step. Inspired by the quick and simplistic animation style of shows like “Space Ghost: Coast to Coast,” we set out to create a whole world from scratch on paper and the computer. A good 2 years was spent building the essential foundation of the series, doing everything we could while juggling our day jobs and family duties. After drawing, scanning, coloring, and animating hundreds of animation cells for our characters, we then had to teach ourselves how to animate on the computer which resulted in the pilot, Screaming Soup! Deadwest Screams at Deadgirl. We remember how good it felt to finish that first episode and be able to tell we achieved something special. It was even more gratifying to present it to our friends and hear them validate our show’s art and humor.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Until we pick this conversation back up, be sure you’re caught up on the rest of Screaming Soup! Season 2, 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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Howdy there, Scream Freaks! I’m sure you’re anxiously reading through this blog to be in the loop of all the latest Screaming Soup! news going on, but there’s unfortunately not that much to share this week. Don’t get me wrong, we’re busy with bringing you all the fun we can pack into a animated horror show, but there’s not much we can share at the moment without slipping some spoiler alerts!
We can say the show will be much more animated as we post these remaining season 2 episodes. Funny to think we originally set out to simply animate the same frames over and over again to keep production time lean, but we can’t help but push ourselves artistically with every review to see how far we can experiment with such a limitless art form. Especially with the great support from you Scream Freaks out there. You inspire us to want to give you bigger and better adventures and reviews every episode and that’s a great feeling!
But yeah . . . nothing much else to mention than that. Sucks, I know, but not every weekly blog can be a winner I guess. But how about this tid bit – watch for Funnybone in these latest episodes of Screaming Soup! and pay attention to what he’s doing. That might just give you clues to future events about to unfold for the worse at the Howl-Inn!
Other than that, be sure you’re caught up on the rest of Screaming Soup! Season 2, 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.
That’s pretty much it for now, so I’ll see ya’ later Scream Freaks!
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Continuing our graphic celebration inspired by Free Comic Book Day at the beginning of the month, we turn our attention to reviewing a more obscure treasure where horror meets comics in “Cellar Dweller,” a page turning tale where a necronimicon knock-off is used for inspiration creating a comic and results in an awesome looking 80’s monster tearing through all walks of artists! Definitely worth a look see.
You’ll see us rummage through some really strange and unbelievable comics while reviewing this movie, and before you ask, they’re all real! Even the Fright comic with the weird moon butt plug cover. How crazy is that shit? What’s also real and crazy, but in every good way possible, is Bob Burden’s Flaming Carrot comics. Those stories are a great read from an amazingly talented guy who had a lot of influence on us and our brand of humor through the years. We highly recommend picking up back issues of that masterpiece however you can!
To follow up this marvelous sequential creature feature, have a read through our Graphic Headstone archives and check out our interviews with some of today’s comic book talents working on independent horrors to mainstream titles. I’m sure some of them wouldn’t mind saving time with a monster that just created work out of thin air!
Oh, we almost forgot to thank TommyNC2010 for his hilarious rap he did for us as the introduction to this month’s episode. An all around cool guy who can now add Screaming Soup! to along with his other accomplishments such as appearances on MTV and Comedy Central’s Tosh.0. Click HERE to check out his Youtube channel.
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Howdy there, Scream Freaks! We’re still on a comic kick after all the fun we had on Free Comic Book Day, so we thought we’d turn our attention to producing an all new Tribute video to spotlight one of our more favorite comic book heroes, Swamp Thing! Before I was formally introduced to the classic line-up of Universal monsters that were the staples of most horror fans’ childhoods, I was exposed to the exciting world of monsters through DC Comics’ Swamp Thing. He seemed to be everywhere when I was knee high to a grasshopper. He had 2 monster bashing movies, thought provoking comics for a more mature audience, a gimmicky toyline, a cartoon full of colorful characters, and a live action TV series which is the focus of our Tribute.
Only one man has dared to wear a thick rubber suit in sweltering Florida heat for hours at a time, and his name is Dick Durock. He was there with Wes Craven in the beginning, the charmingly campy sequel, and the 72 episode long series on the USA Network from 1990-93. While heavily dubbed and hidden behind the image of other actors playing Swamp Thing in his human form, Dick luckily got to shine in the TV series as a leading man and costume stuntman. Despite the series’ rocky start with it being more reminiscent of the Twilight Zone with Swamp Thing acting as host in the peripherals of stories, the series finally figured things out by season 2 and threw Swamp Thing more in the spotlight. Of course a hero is only as good as his arch nemesis and Swamp Thing’s is the mad genius, Anton Arcane. Stiffly portrayed by Louis Jourdan in the movies, Arcane was now a much livelier and thrilling character played by Mark Lindsay Chapman whose performance is unparalleled! We’re normally against seeing the good guy fight the same bad guy again and again, but we can’t get enough of Dick and Mark battling it out every episode. While Dick was in the previous movies, it was his chemistry with Mark in the series that inspired this Tribute video we’re proud to present now. Hope you enjoy!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on all the latest Screaming Soup! episodes so far for season 2! 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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Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Free Comic Book Day is mere hours away, and we couldn’t be more excited since one of our favorite passtimes is reading horror comics. We just dig losing ourselves in a good scary read chock full of crazy creepy art that’s as wild and horrific as creators want to be. We especially enjoy franchise related comics that help buffer the dead time between horror powerhouse sequels like Freddy and Jason which seem to take longer and longer to film. We’ve collected and read numerous “Tales From the Crypt,” “Swamp Thing,” “Army of Darkness,” “Hellboy,” and have been recently turned onto other popular long running books like “The Goon.” If you’ve kept up with our Twitter, you’ll see we currently read and give our 2 cents on comics like “Puppet Master,” “The Fly: Outbreak,” “Re-Animator,” and “Big Trouble in Little China” which have all been great revivals of cinematic characters we know and love. This is just a great time to be both a comic and horror fan!
To celebrate comics this month, we will be screaming Tribute to an under celebrated monster TV show 5/10/15, and review a graphic horror movie that’s sure to be a winner of an episode 5/20/15. So, be on the look out for those treats heading your way! And if you haven’t checked out our past interviews with horror comic artists and creators, then click HERE to visit our Graphic Headstone page!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on all the latest Screaming Soup! episodes so far for season 2! 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.
That’s pretty much it for now, so I’ll see ya’ later Scream Freaks!
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! So, we’re about 1/3 through the second season already and decided to take a brief break from working on the show to try and build the audience who all this hard work is for. After trials and errors with passing out business cards and posting our content on various social media sites, we learned the web is a beautiful but delicate mistress. It can be a means to a successful end when you find your pleasantly receptive audience, but can dish out a passive aggressive lashing on the turn of a dime for any seemingly offensive transgression.
Luckily, we’ve been met with more positive reactions than anything else, but aren’t above a simple apology to anyone who feels we may have overstepped any boundaries. One of our more successful means of reaching new viewers lately has been the old school method of door to door advertising on Twitter. A couple of offended people have labeled these attempts spamming, but we’re actually combing the horror community for specific people who look/sound like they would enjoy animated monster characters celebrating horror movies and sending them an invitation to check the show out. We’ve been looking at a LOT of people and aren’t keeping a list as we go, so we do apologize to those who may have received an invitation more than once. We’re not being aggressive so much as just ignorant we already invited you. For that we’re sorry. Remember we follow back anyone who follows us on Twitter, and if you’ve subscribed to our Youtube channel, let us know if you have one to and we’ll sub back.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on all the latest Screaming Soup! episodes so far for season 2 and watch for an all new Screaming Soup! review coming Monday 4/20/15 where we’ll scream a rocking tribute to Alice Cooper! 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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Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Wow, this year is flying by so fast we can hardly believe it! In fact, we almost forgot last week was the Mad Monster Party and shot over there in a hurry! Before we knew it, we were elbows deep in a whole slew of talented people and familiar actors. We witnessed the voice of the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) in action, Adam West and Burt Ward (Batman) team up for a dynamic panel discussion, and learned Amanda Bearse (Marcy from “Married With Children”) is the nicest person to talk with. Aside from buying some more horror DVDs to add to the ever growing list of trash to trash, we also met with some exciting artists we hope to interview for future Graphic Headstone blogs.
But why wait until then? Here’s some creative people we’ve run into who have some exemplary work we feel the whole world should be made aware of. From left to right you have 1)Dave Berns, 2) The “Bloke’s Terrible Tomb of Terror” publication, 3) Pizza Party Printing, and 4) Morgan Wilson’s Lux Nova Studio. Just click on the image to visit their Facebook pages and check out their work.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on all the latest Screaming Soup! episodes so far for season 2 and watch for an all new Graphic Violence review coming 4/10/15. 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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Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Yeeeee-haaaa! We got ourselves another excit’n, side-splitt’n episode, and you’re all invited! This time around we got ourselves an up close look at one of the 80’s lesser known stabby stab horrors, “Scarecrows.” With robber commandoes fighting for their lives to escape a cursed farm, this movie’s like “Predator” if you replace the alien with, well . . . scarecrows! Watch and find out just how bad a movie can be no matter how wild and exciting a concept is.
In addition to the review, we also have a new rogue to add to the show, and he’s a real annoying pain in our asses! Read up on Rook, our latest addition to the cast, and check out the newest stills added to our gallery from this episode.
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