“God Hates The Lords of Salem, No one can destroy them”

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Today is the day. The long-awaited Lords of Salem hits a very limited amount of theaters across the country. Cities include: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, DC, Miami, Dallas, Houston, and Detroit. Get your butt in gear and seek it out. We’re pretty stoked about this flick, but many Rob Zombie fans are feeling burned because they don’t have access to the film. We’re making a road trip to the nearest screening tomorrow.


The Lords of Salem stars Sheri Moon Zombie, Rocky Horror alumna Patricia Quinn, Maria Conchita Alonza, Clint Howard, Dee Wallace, Bruce Davison, Jeff Daniel Phillips and is about a Radio DJ in Salem, Massachusetts who begins to experience the supernatural after listening to a mysterious record.

STEELE BLACK SUNDAYWhy are we so excited? One word: Witches. We feel that witches don’t get enough play in popular culture and we’re getting pretty tired of zombies, no offense, Rob. When we try to think of decent witchcraft related horror movies, the list we come up with is pretty small compared to other sub-genres of horror. Dario Argento contributed a lot for witches on film especially in his masterpiece Suspiria. We feel that Halloween 3: Season of the Witch is wholly underrated and highly entertaining and we also enjoyed the 2009 thriller, The House of the Devil which featured one of our favorite genre greats, Mary Woronov. And you can’t forget the unforgettable Black Sunday staring the enchanting and mysterious Barbara Steel. There are several more entries in this list but
still not enough to satisfy us.

Baron Von ShockAll of that being said, we’re fans of Rob Zombie‘s original films, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devils Rejects — we even liked Werewolf Women of the SS which was featured in Grindhouse. Our editor, Dixie Dellamorto, is a hard core fan of White Zombie and has been following Rob Zombie‘s career for years. Everything Rob Zombie does is saturated in horror and camp. He uses Horror Hosts in his movies, comic books, and music video’s and even briefly enjoyed a stint as one himself. He’s supportive of his fans and he loves horror — for that we solute him and we hope to see YOU at the theater this weekend.

From the Wastes come Undying

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Apocalypse WowMeanwhile in the Wasteland, brothers Jared and Greg Butler, have teamed up with A-list FX artists, a prosthetic makeup reality show star, and a small army of post-apocalypse aficionados to launch a crowdfunded movie that will finally turn zombies into heroes.
We had a blast at Wasteland Weekend a few months back and are pretty excited to see what these fine fellows can do to merge two of our favorite things –
Post-Apocalyptic science fiction and Horror.

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Oscar Nominee Greg Butler (visual FX for Harry Potter) and his brother Jared Butler (screenwriter) think it’s high time that zombies had some brains. Their new Kickstarter-funded short film Undying aims to do just that. “The other classic movie monsters like werewolves and vampires eventually got their turn as the hero, and we think the zombie is long overdue” says Jared. “To do it, we’ve put a new spin on the “monster”. Why do they have to be brainless? What if they were exactly like you and me but just couldn’t die?”
The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, where humans have been reduced to their basest instincts and the zombies have become the good guys. Greg notes “I don’t think we’ve seen that before in a straight action movie. The only time the zombies are given any intelligence has been when it’s played for laughs”.
 
The Butlers knew their script was massive in scope, so they’ve turned to some of their industry friends to help make it a reality on a small budget. They brought in Dave Hardberger (VFX camera work on everything from Blade Runner to Lord Of The Rings), McCune Design (legendary model shop where the first Star Wars models and droids were made) and Eric Fox (Friend of Mr. Lobo, horror makeup FX prosthetics expert, and breakout star from this season of SyFy’s Face Off).
 
Despite all the experience in computer FX that’s behind the camera for this project, the brothers have taken a more “practical” approach. “We love practical FX work” says Greg. “Computers are great, but they’re just a tool. We love to mix them in with traditional in-camera techniques. The kind of stuff you don’t see as much anymore. That’s why this movie is going to have miniatures, real desert locations, real flamethrowers, and huge practical sets. There’s nothing quite like the real thing”. There’s usually nothing quite as expensive either. That’s where Wasteland Weekend comes in. Jared co-founded Wasteland Weekend several years ago as a fully-immersive Mad Max-style music and arts festival. Jared notes, “we have full-scale set pieces, drivable post-apocalyptic vehicles, and an army of costumed extras. We know how to build a city in the desert”.
And as for why they’ve decided to crowdfund this project rather than pitch it to Hollywood (Jared has several studio projects in development) – “That was simple” says Jared, “we want to make something that pushes the boundaries of uncompromising, unencumbered, un-focusgrouped filmmaking. For that, you’ve got to break out on your own.”
 
To learn more about the film visit the project’s pitch page here:

We’ve been anti-social for long enough!

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Horror Hosts and Creature Features is slowly but surely integrating into the technological age.

We started out as a print magazine in an age where print was almost un-dead and we were hesitant to embrace social networking — but have finally caught up with the rest of the world.

We’re regular cyber-punks now, seriously we’re just some rainbow dreadlocks and a daft punk album away… perhaps we’re human after all.

In addition to finding our Face-on-the-Book and browsing our etsy, you can now also follow our twits and find our tumblings on this inter-dimensional spiderweb of semi-informational fiction.

Find all of our clickable social networking buttons in the upper right corner of this page!
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Join Science Team!

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Contribute to Science Team: An Independent Feature Length Motion Picture from the mad men behind the modern cult classic, The Taint, and the Special Effects on Return to Class of Nuke ‘em High.
A bastard child of science fiction and horror!

They are Science Team. They need your help. They have lasers.

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Science Team is a national organization whose main purpose is to maintain interstellar peace and protect America from the many alien threats that seek to destroy us.

They need your help to recruit more members to fight alongside them. They must build a super scientific alliance and raise funds to combat a giant sessile alien menace with telepathic powers capable of doing this:

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Science Team must eliminate this evil extraterrestrial threat at all costs. They must proceed with extreme caution. People will die horrible and disgusting deaths. Inner and extraterrestrial demons will be engaged. Cool-looking technology will be used. People’s minds will be blown out of their heads.

Remember to bring your mind protectors.

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Artist’s Rendering of our alien foe.

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Science Team doesn’t know the meaning of “classified”. Like our Facebook and Twitter. Share it with your friends, family, foes, arch enemies and acquaintances. Prop  building, alien creation and costume construction begins in May. Shooting of the film begins in Richmond, VA in June! All are welcome to help out, be promoted and audition. Email us at scienceteammovie@gmail.com. Share, share, share!

Calling all Gorehounds!

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evildeadIf you like blood and guts or if you’re just looking for something to do Sunday afternoon — definitely go see the re-imagining of the immortal horror classic, Evil Dead. Some of the Staff here at Horror Hosts and Creature Features are hardcore fans of the original and were not disappointed by the remake.

If you’re on the fence about this one, just suck it up and support horror at your local cinema, even if you don’t love the film, it’s a great way to show you’re a monster kid! We also saw some trailers for some upcoming flicks, including Carrie, World War Z, and The Conjuring, which all look promising and we’re anticipating Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem later this month. It’s a good time to be a horror fan!

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Horror Hosts in Putrid Print

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SPOTLIGHT ON DRUSILLA, The Lost GhouLunatic         by Dyin‘ Ryan B.

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Ah, yes–Drusilla.

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“Dru-who-lla?”, you may be asking.

Drusilla: the pale and mysterious fourth EC horror host that Time–and even some of the fans–forgot.

In my last article, I talked about how The Vault-Keeper and The Old Witch kind of got the-short-end-of-the-publicity-stick compared to the much more popular Crypt-Keeper. As far as the hosts of the EC comics’ horror magazines went I pretty much said they were the Ringo and Tito of the group. If they got the short end of the stick, however, than poor Drusilla didn’t even get the stick at all.

She was stickless.

Even the most hardcore genre and horror comic fans, that are more than familiar with all three GhouLunatics, might not have any idea who Drusilla is.

It’s pretty simple. In issue #37 of The Vault of Horror (the fourth to last issue of the series, by the way) The Vault-Keeper was suddenly joined by a mysterious “companion“.

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For the three issues that followed Drusilla was always there at V.K.’s side during the opening introduction. She was always silent, always staring. Is she a witch? Is she a vampire? Is she just an ordinary human who happens to be mute and have a fetish for creeps?

Who knows?

EC comics went under after Vault of Horror #40, so there’s no telling what was in store for her character. All that is known is that she was designed and created by artist Johnny Craig who was the artist most responsible for The Vault-Keeper’s signature look. Clearly, when designing her, Craig must have drawn inspiration from Vampira, who was herself a pale, raven-haired hostess who was very popular around the time of Drusilla’s creation.

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Separated at Death? A suicide-by-side comparison of Maila Nurmi and Drucilla.


Nowadays it’s not uncommon on sites such as Facebook and Tumblr to see collages people have made combining images of Vampira, Elvira, Morticia Addams, and Lily Munster. I would propose that Drusilla should also be remembered and included in the same group as those other beautiful, Gothic women.

Apparently I’m not the only one.

As of this articles publication, the website www.graphittidesigns.com is selling an awesome Drusilla t-shirt along with several other GhouLunatic products.

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There is a little hope that Dru may not be completely forgotten, not by everybody. And now you, faithful reader, know about her as well. So, go spread the gospel of Drussila! Tell anyone who will listen all about her and her brief, but memorable appearances in the world of EC Comics. She is an important part of our comic book heritage and she needs to be preserved.

And I’m not talking about formaldehyde.

In the immortal words of the comic book guy, ‘Worst. Convention. Ever.’

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Dave Fuentes, Blogger for Terror from beyond the Daves has decided to stand up and deliver true journalism in a world of fan-ish blogging. Tell the truth and shame the devil. We stand behind him and in doing so are forced to come clean.

This is not about the HorrorHound Convention itself, but our experiences at the Horror Host gathering in 2011. The rest of the HorrorHound convention could be a blast, but we wouldn’t know it…

Horror Hosts and Creature Features Magazine premiered at HorrorHound 2011 – It was a fantastic way to kick off a lifestyle and trade publication for Horror Hosts and the
fans, but ended up being the most disappointing Convention we have ever attended. The organizers all but begged our publisher, Mr. Lobo to be a guest, as he is a notable current horror host.

We felt we had missed something special at the Vampira tribute, but still were unsure if it was going to be a financially viable show — Unlike most everyone else, when we do conventions, it’s a job — not a party. We go to meet fans, sell merchandise, and if we have time have some fun.

Eventually the organizers were able to entice Mr. Lobo with promises of Free table, Lodging, a chance to meet the legendary John Zacherley and a special event they were calling a
“Celebration of a Decade of Cinema Insomnia”

The magazine was on the verge of publication and we thought HorrorHound would be the perfect place to premiere the magazine. We rented a van and took the 10 and a half hour drive to the convention center, once we got there we realized quickly that we there was no hotel room, no Zacherley, hardly any fans, our table was ill-gotten, and The “Celebration of a Decade of Cinema Insomnia” was a last minute disaster, it’s almost as if they weren’t actually expecting us to even show up. The whole horror host gathering seemed like almost nothing was planned and scheduling conflicts caused mass confusion several of the presenters of the awards at the so called Horror Host Hall of Fame didn’t even know who they were supposed to be honoring. The show was depressing. We spent well over $1000 to attend and didn’t make a fraction of it back.

We felt taken advantage of and by the end of the weekend, we felt that all of the hosts were being exploited and generally mistreated — either accidentally or on purpose. All we know is that it didn’t feel right… Which is why we haven’t attended since and have no future plans to return — In fact when we bumped into the organizer several months later at a totally unrelated convention, he asked Mr. Lobo to help present a movie, he declined and we avoided him like the black death for the rest of the weekend. I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but we were still burned.

The positive things we can say about the 2011 show: The premiere of the magazine went well with our peersand we made some great friends at that show(and some comical enemies), strengthened our bond with several of our friends, including Count Gore, Brian Maze, and Borloff, and met Dave Fuentes, who ultimately ended up being one of our favorite people to bump into at conventions.

Dave Fuentes has blown the lid off of this show, so we feel that we can finally tell the truth. Below is Dave‘s account of the 2013 Horror Host Hall of Fame from his website TERROR FROM BEYOND THE DAVES. It is truly a sad state of affairs for both Horror Hosts and the fans that love them. Continue reading →