Howdy there, Scream Freaks! So, it’s about time we posted another video and decided to do another Re-Make Re-Mix this turn. You’ve seen us edit together music videos showing the different interpretations of King Kong, The Blob, and The Thing, but now we present to you . . . 13 Ghosts!
Yessir, we still remember when the remake came out in 2001 with Monk and Shaggy running around that glass house from Solomon Grundy and the naked ghost chick with the big hoo-haws, making it one of our favorite horror films of all time. Always wondered all these years how similar it was to the original and finally had our secret wish answered when we came across a copy of William Castle’s version from 1960 in a pawn shop.
For 1960, the original 13 Ghosts is pretty impressive . . . as far as its concept that is! A family inherits a house haunted by 13 ghosts who were all captured and brought their by the husband’s deceased uncle. To help maneuver around the ghosts, the family is left with a pair of special glasses the uncle built for seeing them. That’s about where the similarities end. The real threat in the original wasn’t the ghosts but the estate lawyer after the uncle’s fortune hidden somewhere in the house. He finds it by the end, but has to kill the family’s son to keep his discovery a secret. The uncle’s protective spirit intervenes, however, killing the lawyer in a bed built for smothering whoever sleeps in it. Yeah, definitely giving points to the remake for cutting its lawyer in half as you’ll see in the video below.
But while the original doesn’t have energetic editing, dynamic performances, bloodshed, over the top set designs, awesome ghosts, color, or boobs, it does have a ghost lion which is pretty damn cool, the cool gimmicky history of seeing the ghosts on the movie screen through special viewers handed out at the theater when it originally ran, and mad respect for even conceiving such a wild idea for a story in 1960. Worth a look see if you like the remake, but I’d only recommend buying the remake for your horror movie collection.
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! Sorry we skipped on last week’s update, but we’ve been screaming the good news about the web’s #1 animated horror host site at some local comic book/horror conventions lately. No, not with our own booth and merch for sell unfortunately. We’re still diligently hoofing it like creative nomads, shaking hands and throwing Screaming Soup! ads wherever people will see them (the best place is in the restroom stalls!).
Not that we’re bitch’n about burnin’ the treads off our boots making endless laps around convention centers and hotels, but it would sure be nicer to have a booth, and we’ve already got the blueprints all prepared! Imagine a convention table covered with a picnic tablecloth with Screaming Soup! poster prints , buttons, magnets, and t-shirts spread out across it. You can get your picture taken with a life-size Deadwest prop at the doors of the Howl-Inn while we play a collection of clips from the show on twin flat screen TVs flanking each side while the theme song plays from hidden speakers. And for those looking for our booth, they just have to look to the ceiling to find the Screaming Soup! air blimp pinpointing our location below. It would be glorious . . .
. . . and expensive which is the only hold-up. But like everything else we work for, it’ll happen sooner or later. Just gotta save up, believe in ourselves, and work for it like everything else we’ve done to make this show happen.
Other than that, be back next week as we post an all new Re-Make Re-Mix for 13 Ghosts, 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! Stop what you’re doin’ and speed read through this blog, because you got yourself an all new Screaming Soup! episode below! Yup, it’s been a long time coming, but we finally got in a review of a Troma film. No, it ain’t Toxic Avenger or Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD or even Cannibal! The Musical. You probably already saw those, and we want you to see more obscure things you don’t already know about that deserves just as much attention. Expand your knowledge is what we’re stressin’ here. In this case, a Belgium classic made for Troma President Lloyd Kaufman himself . . . Rabid Grannies!
This was certainly a great film that actually took us by surprise with how fun it was to watch. There’s gore, humor, distinctive characters, nudity, high body count that includes young’ns but no critters, and a classic setting. And all from some ambitious Troma fans in Belgium who made this because Uncle Lloyd said he’d pick it up for distribution if they did. Certainly a high priority on the list of Troma films you gotta see!
Or at least start with our review below . . .
We also want to give a shout out to Brian Barnes at Your Final Answer for providing an all original song for the end of this review, “Silver Fox.” Brian’s a creative workhorse, and we’ve been watching him produce weekly videos for over a year now without fail, so its all the more impressive he was able to find the time to write and record a song from scratch during his busy schedule. For more of his music, look through his Youtube vids HERE, and be sure to visit his site HERE. The Screaming Soup! Music Video for “Silver Fox” can be watched HERE.
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! You know, being a horror host ain’t the easiest thing in a relationship. Tends to lead to a lot of arguments regardin’ horror entertainment, especially when your soul mate’s a kindred horror fan themselves. Mandy and I killed some time watching the new Cloverfield movie over the weekend, and came out fightin’ over whether or not it was a good movie. Despite falling asleep a time or 2, she declares it a bonafide good time at the movies. Me on the other hand . . .
Personally, I think the biggest mistake was the movie slapping the Cloverfield name on it. Immediately, you’re picturing all the giant alien action from the motion sickness picture of 2008, and that’s all you can think about and wait for. This was an unfortunate disservice to John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead whose acting was phenomenal. Goodman scares us as a doomsday nut who drags Winstead into his underground bunker for safety when it looks like the apocalypse has arrived, and keeps her there for fear of what’s happening outside. Winstead then struggles with whether or not to believe Goodman’s crazy claims since she was knocked out when everything supposedly went down, and if she should plot an escape from her savior/captor. Sounds pretty intense, right?
But all this wonderful tension and suspense is undercut by the fact the movie has Cloverfield in the title, so you already figure there are aliens attacking outside and just wait for Winstead to catch up to what you already know. Which doesn’t happen until the last 10-15 minutes of the movie. That’s right, aliens don’t zip in until the final reel, and would have been a bigger payoff if we didn’t know what to expect with a different title. If sticking with the title was so important, I think I would have given fans more of what they expected, and had aliens try to get in the bunker at the top of the hour, and make it more Winstead fighting Goodman and aliens at the same time. But like I always tell Mandy when she gets defensive, “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone’s got one, and they all stink!” And I’m always pointing out I like killer tomato movies, so I’m not the best one to argue good movies with.
Despite all my critiques of the film, however, Goodman plays a great villain you’d never want to run into, and Winstead is one kick-ass heroine who has to be the fastest think-on-your-feet last girl I’ve seen since You’re Next! It’s funny how much of a difference a title alone made for how much I enjoyed the film.
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! Sorry for not checking in last week, but we’ve been busier than an oil boy at a Hawaiian Tropics competition. Despite our hardships, however, we don’t believe in excuses around here. We know you want results. You want R-Rated Reviews. You want Sequential Slime updates. You want this week’s Howl’n Hottie. You want NEW videos commentin’ on all yer favorite horror movies just so you can tell your fellow gore geeks, “See! He agrees with me!”
Well this week we’re tossing one of our secondary videos your way with a new Graphic Violence review. Child’s Play comics have been popping up every now and again under the radar for the last couple of decades, and it’s almost a shame. Besides movie adaptations, the majority of these comics were new adventures for the little psycho ginger with fresh kill counts, plot developments, and crossovers. I could tell ya more, but then why did I make the video? Just click it below and decide for yourself if my opinion is worth checking out some old comics that sometimes weren’t worthy of the name Chucky!
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! Another week has passed, and we’re still firing on all pistons over here. We’re hustling our asses off to get production started on Screaming Soup! Season 4, taking some art jobs on the side, and working on our secondary vids for the site but did manage to watch some good monster flicks this past week. The one film on everyone’s lips we couldn’t ignore was the period piece about a family of pilgrims protecting their farm from an evil hag in the woods, The Witch.
Much like It Follows last year, this is the over-hyped game changing horror film that’s got every critic under its spell, not to mention 2 thumbs up from the satanic church! I won’t ruin anything for you, but I will say this film isn’t the full course meal of horror I expected. It’s an incredibly acted, superbly shot film that truly captures an authentically creepy look and feel of how shitty it was to live in the 17th century, but it was more tease than in your face fright I prefer to digest.
Focusing more on the breakdown of the family’s bond with games of “Tag, you’re a witch,” there’s very little confrontation between them and the actual villain they seldom acknowledge. This 93 minute ruin-my-Lifetime drama only offers fleeting seconds of horrific visuals I was really looking forward to; 2 scary hag shots , an uncomfortable death, one cool witch trap, a few seconds of what the fuck, a barn full of slaughtered farm animals, an uplifting ending that’s neat at best, and Black Phillip, the most amazing goat on screen next to Billy, who has the most effective scene in the whole shebang.
Sounds pretty negative, I know, but it’s a solid 3/5 film that’s worth a watch. I just wasn’t that pulled into the story, and it didn’t have enough crazy shit in it or family vs monster action for my taste. Really made me want to go back and re-watch Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. I’d recommend this flick to fans of The Shining,The Crucible, and ugly old women who think they can’t get work as actresses, but what do I know? I like killer tomato movies.
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! You’ve been waiting impatiently, threatening bodily harm with bathroom strikes, and begging me like ADD spastic kids with short term memory loss, but it’s finally here! The all spanking new episode of Screaming Soup! brought to you by your favorite animated horror host of the interweb.
This episode, we bring you one of the weirdest, craziest films ever seared into celluloid. The first time we ever heard of this film, we immediately made it our afterlife’s mission to obtain a copy of what was sure to be awesomely bad, charmingly comedic, and a new Thanksgiving tradition.
We set our hopes too high.
This film we’re speaking of is Blood Freak, and it’s a 70’s film about a mutant turkey man killing and drinking the blood of drugged out hippies. Sounds cool, right? But so many things go wrong that just flush it right down the shitter of bad cinema, and we’re all too eager to tell you how. Just watch the vid below and find out!
You’ll also see Buzzkill is still around with his monster misfits holding the best table in the Howl-Inn hostage, instigating one of the biggest bar brawls since our Slime City review! Full animated action, retro arcade machines, and new characters . . . we’re confident this next entry in the Buzzkill’s Revenge saga will not disappoint!
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! So, I think there’s 2 kinds of horror fans in this world. Those who are fans of Godzilla and those who are die-hard fanatics of Godzilla. For instance, if you were the average horror lover who went to see America’s take on the G-man in 1998, you probably walked out of the theater thinking you got your buck’s worth of man vs monster runamuck entertainment. If you were a super fan of Godzilla, you probably tore the theater apart before running out and warning people away from a false god’s promises.
I personally like the ’98 movie, but guess what . . . I like killer tomato movies, so you know you have to take what I say with a spoonful of ketchup! Was it the greatest movie ever? Could my judgment be clouded by fond memories I have of other things happening at about that time? Am I even talking about the right film? No, sure, and most definitely. I like Godzilla, but I couldn’t name every movie or villain blindfolded, meaning I’m not one of the diehards. But as a stand alone film without comparing it to its lineage, I thought the US version was a solid 3/5 for sure.
It had a mega monster clawing through the Big Apple, a killer soundtrack I rank in my top 5, and spun a pretty cool cartoon series that is sure to impress even the harshest Godzilla critics. That’s right, this box-office bomb managed to spawn an animated series before its demise at the hands of the fans and critics, and picks the story right up with Matthew Broderick’s character discovering one surviving baby of Zilla’s, who he takes under his wing to battle every critter the size of a building. Great art, strong characters, and plenty of monster bashing, watch our newest entry in our Re-Animated Review series below, and give the show a chance.
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! Sorry we missed last week’s blog, but things just get caught up in a whirlwind of feverish activity sometimes, and we just plow through to the next week. Which might actually be for the best this time, because we have way more things to report this week!
First off, we’ve got an all new Re-Animated Review coming next week on 2/10/16 that we’re excited about. The only clue we’ll give ya is it’s a cartoon linked to a BIG movie flop from the 90’s. We’ve also been sending invitations to some popular web personalities to be special guests in upcoming Screaming Soup! Season 3 episodes. And possibly the more exciting update for the week, we have all new blogs!
Why is that big news? Everyone from little emo girls to the snoodiest film buff has blogs, so what makes these soooo special?! Well, for starters, its more reviews of all things horror from us to you! We watch horror movies all the time, but can only animate so fast which is why each of our seasons are a mere 10 episodes. We typically focus on lesser known films we think deserve attention, but there’s so many newer films we’d love to share our 2 cents about. This new blog, R-Rated Reviews, will allow us to do just that. Sure, it ain’t as exciting as video, but it quickly gives you our candid thoughts on a film, complete with a 1-5 rating. In the same vein, we also created Sequential Slime, a comic book blog, informing you of what horror comics are on the shelves right now and which are worth reading. You can expect regular updates on Army of Darkness/Evil Dead, Big Trouble in Little China, and Puppet Master in that one.
So, make it a weekly ritual to check these blogs out, let us know what you think, and see you nex week when we reveal the newest monster toon review.
Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest episode, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, 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! Today is the dawn of an all new season, and we’re kicking it off with one of the most disappointing finds we’ve ever had the misfortune of stumbling across, Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars! Putrid polecats, this is one stinker that’s really overlooked when horror fans debate the worst of the worst out there, and we’re happy to bring it to everyone’s attention as something that’s so bad it’s awful! We’re still at a loss why a national hero like Drive-In critic Joe Bob Briggs gave it such high praise with 3/4 stars, but maybe he can tell us one day.
You’ll also notice we got ourselves a story arc happening now with your favorite animated horror host finding himself without his favorite table, and it’s gonna take all season for him to fight for it back from Buzzkill and his monster misfits you may recognize from Robot Monster, It! Conquered the World, and From Hell it Came. As the season progresses, you’ll be shown new corners of the Howl-Inn Grub and Spirits, and even get to see what’s out in the interdimensional Crosslands as the stakes get higher and Deadwest‘s troubles get worse. It’s going to be a blast of a year, and it all starts with Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars below!
Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest episode, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, 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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