11:55. Almost Midnight...

Click on the pic for one of the best openings of a movie, ever!

Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay...

Oh, and hat tip to Pumpkinrot for finding this lovely tribute to John Carpenter's The Fog.

The Trailer

On the Twenty-FIRST of APRIL

Uncredited Director, Chris "Christmas Ape" Aype, on the set of
"John Carpenter's The Fog."

Midnight 'til One...

The Posters

Happy Birthday, Antonio Bay. From the top of the world, KAB radio.

Ghost Ship Day is Coming!

And I will be there. Will you? Click on the pic for deets.

KA[pe]B Radio on Top of the World

KAB Radio, Antonio Bay. Your night light...

Christmas Money

One of the things on my wish list for Christmas this year was the original soundtrack for the 1980 version of John Carpenter's The Fog. It takes me back to being the teenager who loved slasher films and everything John Carpenter, even though I really was only peripherally aware of his name at the time.

Brand new copies of this soundtrack are hard to find, and horribly overpriced, and even used copies are a bit spendy. Even so, armed with Christmas money, I found a good copy at a good price, and treated myself to a needful thing.

The soundtrack, of course, is pure 80s horror with lots of synthesizer. I still love it, especially since this copy includes the opening monologue by the fantastic John Houseman, and an interview with Jamie Lee Curtis.

It also goes along nicely with my 20th anniversary edition of Halloween, which also qualified as a Merry-Christmas-to-me-gift. This soundtrack features extra tracks, many with dialogue between Donald Pleasence and other characters. If you like sound clips with clear, original dialogue, then this might be a good buy for you.

The Fog Revisited

You know by now that one of my all-time favorite horror movies is the 1980 version of John Carpenter's The Fog. Since I have to be a grown-up today and finish an essay due tomorrow morning, I thought I'd give you a quick post with not only one of my fave flicks, but one of the greatest actors of our time: John Houseman. Man, can that guy tell a story!