A sickening Saturday of suffering, featuring Terror from 1958; a Gate from 1987; at least two shambling, rotting Living Dead from 1988;
and Re-Animation from 1985 in all of its full grisly glory!
Joiinnn ussss… from 1.30pm.
With very special appearances from Boards of Canada, Diamanda Galás, Mr Bungle, Helloween, Jacques Brel, The Cramps, Carcass and more!
13:30
We Edit Life (2002)
The first of two showings of the short film by A/V artist People Like Us to bookend today’s hospital-bookstore-acquired haul-of-horror.
13:40
New Year’s Eve with Neil Hamburger
Episode 15 – Fright Night
—“#You auto give me a chance#”—
New Years Eve has never been so spooky! Colorful costumes make this year’s celebration stand out. Featuring some truly horrifying music from various artists who have the decency to remain anonymous.
14:05
Terror From The Year 5,000 (1958)
Starring Ward Costello (Admiral Gregory Quinn in Star Trek TNG), John Stratton (Captain Potter, Quatermass and The Pit and Shockeye, The Two Doctors (1985), amongst many others) and Salome Jens (‘Female Changeling’, Star Trek DS9 and Mae Olinski, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) – scientists experimenting with high-voltage time-tedium barter with people from the far future, fight off Florida men and peeping toms from the year 1958, and all while making all the televisions in the area go wrong.
The screenplay is based (uncredited) on the short story “Bottle Baby” by print/TV/film writer Henry Slesar that was published in the science fiction magazine Fantastic (April 1957). American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with either The Screaming Skull or The Brain Eaters.
15:20
Getting On with James Urbaniak
Episode 21 – ‘Restraint’ by Joseph Scrimshaw
—“…I tied myself to a chair from Ikea and murdered three people. Thanks, Ikea”
In this special Halloween episode, James tries to be a better man and a lesser lycanthrope.
15:50
The Real Ghostbusters
Season 1 Episode 8 – When Halloween Was Forever
Written by J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), the evil spirit of Samhain is released, as usual, from an ancient artifact. Like so much youthful
Al Jourgensen, he wants every day to be Halloween. Can the Ghostbusters stop him in time for it-not-being-Halloween-any-more before it’s too late? Can the preceding sentence be written even more cumbersomely?
16:15
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Season 2 Episode 15 – The Shaving
It’s Halloween at the Aqua Teen Headquarters, and a monster comes down from the attic… to get his mail.
16:30
Home Movies
Season 3 Episode 13 – Coffins and Cradles
The kids are preparing for Halloween, Linda (Brendon’s new stepmother) is preparing to have a baby and Coach McGuirk is preparing to have the romantic night of his life. Despite all this, no one is prepared when things start to go wrong.
16:58
The Gate (1987)
Kids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard. Starring Stephen Dorff in his film debut, and directed by Tibor Takács, this is one of those rare getting-into-the-late-80’s films that relies on physical effects, models, forced perspective etc. for some truly, and horrifyingly, memorable scenes.
18:30
Tim & Eric’s Bedtime Stories
Pilot – Haunted House
Tim, Eric, and Zack (Galifianakis) are informed that they have each inherited $1000 from their late grandfather. However, in order receive it they must all be willing to spend the rest of their lives in a haunted house.
18:55
Baywatch Nights
Season 2 Episode 5 – Circle of Fear
Penned by Dr Crusher’s nemesis (Maurice Hurley), and featuring Buffy villain Ethan Rayne (played by Robin Sacks), this dutch angle-plagued supernatural/scifi/whatever refresh of the unpopular Baywatch spin-off is best described thusly:
“For the second season, facing slipping ratings, which were never as good as the original series, the producers, inspired by the success of The X-Files, decided to switch to a science-fiction format…the new format did not help the series…”.
19:40
Return Of The Living Dead II (1988)
Curious kids unearth the barrels that previously helped revive the dead, which proves the second time’s an undead charm. Starring James Karen and Thom Mathews, this lighthearted zom-com also features Dana Ashbrook (Bobby Brooks, Twin Peaks), Philip Bruns (George Shumway,
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman) and Mitch Pileggi (Ass.Dir.FBI, The X-Files; Shocker).
21:15
Space Dandy
Episode 04 – Sometimes You Can`t Live With Dying, Baby
In this tribute to the films of George A. Romero, Dandy, Meow and QT encounter zombies, zombfies, zomfies, zommmbb, zommmmm, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmrrr, mmmmmmrrranes, mmmmbbrranes, mmbbrrainnsssssssssss
*chomp!*
21:40
Re-Animator ‘Extended Integral Cut’ (1985)
Starring Jeffrey Combs (who has the distinction of portraying nine different characters on four Star Trek television series! Additionally, in
DS9’s “The Dogs of War”, Combs played both Weyoun and Brunt, becoming one of only three Star Trek actors ever to play two unrelated characters in the same episode (the others being Patrick Stewart in “The Defector”, in which he played both Jean-Luc Picard and Michael Williams, and
Brian Markinson in VOY: “Faces”, in which he played both Pete Durst and Sulan).
This bloody, Lovecraftian (actually for once, ugh, kids these days – “get off my cosmically horrible lawn”), comedy-horror follows the work of medical student Herbert West – a pathological oddball with a predeliction for re-animating dead flesh. He and his classmate Dan Cain
(Bruce Abbott) begin to test the serum on dead human bodies, and come in to conflict with Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), who is infatuated with
Cain’s fiancée (Barbara Crampton) and also wants to claim the invention as his own.
(from Wikipedia)
(Makeup effects artist, John) Naulin said that Re-Animator was the bloodiest film he had ever worked on: in the past, he had never used more than a couple of gallons (7.6 liters) of blood on a film, but on Re-Animator he used twelve times as much.
Despite this film’s seasonal presence, remember: The Great Old Ones aren’t just for Halloween, they are ETERNAL!* ia! ia! Cthulhu Ftaghn!
*Cultists’ note: though most Great Old Ones exist outside of space-time, some do not, so YMMV, temporally speaking.
23:35
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Season 1 3 Episode 6 – Boo!
Space Ghost turns to experts for advice on supernatural phenomena such as the disappearance of his phantom cruiser keys.
With Michael Norman & Bill Nye.
23:45
The Venture Bros.
Season 1 Episode 13 – Return to Spider-Skull Island
The first of tonight’s two episodes (and, as some would say, the first real episodes of the series). After returning from an in-costume de-haunting of a movie theatre showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Doc has a medical episode that changes the course of more than just his own life, while Doctor Orpheus nearly loses his blue windbreaker with worry after the boys run away “to become famous lion tamers” while under his care. All while The Mighty Monarch continues to languish in stir.
00:10
The Venture Bros.
Season 2 Episode 1 – Powerless in the Face of Death
After returning from a sabbatical-of-sorts, Doc gets pulled apart getting to know his family, Orpheus tries to find Doc’s family in the first place – and The Monarch seeks escape from captivity while the Guild of Calamitous Intent conspires to ensure he never sees the light of day; headless henchmen numbers 21 & 24 have to learn to hench for themselves.
00:35
Getting On with James Urbaniak
Episode 21 – ‘Restraint’ by Joseph Scrimshaw
In a late repeat of this special Halloween episode, James tries to be a better man and a lesser lycanthrope.
01:00
We Edit Life (2002)
Another late repeat, this time of the short film by A/V artist People Like Us to garnish today’s platter of horror.
01:20 End. OF ALL THINGS! HAIL CTHULHU! HAIL HASTUR! UP THE SHOGGOTHS! STICK IT TO ‘EM, NYARLATHOTEP! SANITY IS FOR LOSERS!*
*Cultists’ note – while sanity is not strictly required for most tasks around the cult headquarters, acolytes are reminded that complete sanity loss can lead to being mistaken for a nice snack for Dagon. So keep your wits about you!
**Cultists’ note: supplemental – after the aforementioned “End of All Things”, if sanity loss is sufficient, strange phenomena may be seen and heard for twenty minutes or so. This is quite normal; do not waste time blocking your ears and do not waste time seeking a sound proofed shelter.