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Tag Archives: zombies
Teeny Tiny Bat
Halloween has come and gone, and the Great Pumpkin never showed up. Does no one care about sincerity in pumpkin patches anymore? It’s all this commercial farming, I’m sure. Anyway, here are my thoughts on one thing I watched for … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Dreams, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Revisiting Disney, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged art the clown, aunt em, billina, clowns, count dracula, disco, dorothy gale, emerald city, frankenstein, gump, horror, jack pumpkinhead, mombi, mummies, murder, nome king, ozma of oz, princess langwidere, return to oz, terrifier, the halloween that almost wasn't, the marvelous land of oz, the neverending story, the night dracula saved the world, the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, time bandits, transylvania, uncle henry, wheelers, witches, wolfman, yellow brick road, zombies
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Fuzzy Pickles
I started playing EarthBound last week when I found it on the Super NES for Switch application. It probably wasn’t the best timing as the Switch version of Chrono Cross also came out that week, but I’ve been switching back … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cults, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Names, Religion, Technology, Toys, Video Games
Tagged aliens, buzz buzz, charles schulz, eagleland, earthbound, ghosts, hippies, jeff andonuts, maniac mansion, monkeys, mr. belch, ness, nintendo power, onett, robots, threed, zombies
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Time for Terror
Here’s a rundown of all the movies we watched this October (well, except for Halloween Kills), all horror-adjacent, but not necessarily all horror films per se. A lot of them turned out to be horror comedies, which wasn’t really intentional. … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Families, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Muppets, Names, Relationships, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged aliens, amusement parks, bears, bill maher, bride of chucky, buttons and rusty, cemetery man, constance hatchaway, dolls, dolores claiborne, elvira, foxes, george wendt, house ii, jennifer jason leigh, jennifer tilly, jon ratzenberger, kathy bates, kermit the frog, medusa, muppets haunted mansion, pepe the king prawn, puns, rupert everett, starry eyes, stephen king, taraji p. henson, terrorvision, the great gonzo, which witch is which?, zombies
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Far and Few
When I posted about Edward Lear’s Jumblies, I received a comment from Ceridwen Silverhart mentioning Jumbies, creatures from Caribbean folklore. They’re basically evil spirits, and the name varies from one place to another. It’s sometimes spelled as “Jumbies” and other … Continue reading
Posted in African, Authors, Carribean, Edward Lear, Etymology, History, Monsters, Music, Mythology
Tagged bacoo, baku, chooriles, douen, duende, duppies, dutchman jumbies, folklore, ghosts, guyana, jinn, jumbees, jumbies, moko jumbies, moongazer, ole higue, the jumblies, tracey baptiste, trinidad and tobago, vampires, zombies
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Puppets Gonna Fuck You Up
Here are our latest Halloween-related viewings. Two of them involve puppets! Eli Roth’s History of Horror – I can’t say I’ve ever been fond of Roth as a filmmaker, but he does have a lot of knowledge on the subject, … Continue reading
Posted in African, Authors, Egyptian, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Kane Chronicles, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Rick Riordan, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged alf, dan brown, david landis, demonic possession, demons, e.l. james, eli roth, eli roth's history of horror, fifty shades of grey, george romero, ghosts, ghouls, paul fusco, pinhead, puppet master, puppets, rue mcclanahan, shabti, stephenie meyer, the wickedest witch, twilight, vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em, Then Beat ‘Em
Toad Warriors – This episode seems to be a favorite, or at least it is with the guys who host the podcast on Hard Times. I can’t say I disagree, as I tend to like it when Toad takes a … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Donkey Kong, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games
Tagged aliens, bats, beezos, birdo, bob-ombs, captain clump, car land, clare carey, count koopula, david horowitz, do you believe in magic?, donkey kong jr., dracula, e.c. the extra creepy, fight back!, fire flower, frankenstein, goombas, grand koopa canyon, great balls of fire, harry blackstone jr, hercufleas, hercules, igor, jerry lee lewis, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, luigi mario, mad max, magic johnson, magician, mouser, mythis, parrots, pasta, patches, pirates, pirates of koopa, princess peach toadstool, ravioli, robots, spaghetti, spiders, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario odyssey, super mario world, the fire of hercufleas, the marios fight back, the road warrior, thunder birdo, toad, toad warriors, trouters, turtlevania, tweeters, vampires, wereturtles, zombies
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The British Are Coming!
I kind of miss making year-end lists of albums and such, but I really haven’t been listening to a lot of new music recently. There are a few that I’ll probably discuss a bit in a future post, but for … Continue reading
I’m Friends with the Monster
Gil’s All Fright Diner, by A. Lee Martinez – I’d read his Divine Misfortune and thought it was pretty good, so I decided to check out his first novel. It’s a fantasy horror comedy, basically, featuring two good old boys … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Monsters
Tagged a. lee martinez, chloe jacobs, demons, ghouls, gil's all fright diner, goblins, greta and the goblin king, vampires, werewolves, zombies
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