I for one never thought about what went into the fashion when making a NASA space suit. Sure I’ve thought about the suit as a life capsule one would use to survive. But the word fashion never entered my mind. I wish it had.
The new book, “Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo” by Nicholas de Monchaux talks about NASA’s space suits and how they were designed by underwear seamstresses. Wild stuff.

The Walking Dead Forum is back and this time with a vengeance. The team at the dead forum has updated the site with more dead content and added a new fresh appearance. Looking for the latest Walking Dead News? Want to read a review for last nights episode? Then stumble on over to the Walking Dead Forum and soak up those “brains” with knowledge on AMC’s The Walking Dead.

too bad this poster is better than the film itself.

“In the center of the crowded Philippine capital of Manila, home to more than 11 million people, lies the North Cemetery. The final resting place of several Filipino Presidents, celebrities, and hundreds of thousands of the city’s Catholic dead, the cemetery is also home to a living community of over 2,000 people.”
live with the dead via pdnonline.com

Yeah, I’m not too thrilled about them remaking The Evil Dead either. It was “basically” remade when Sam Raimi shot Evil Dead 2. Anyhow….I guess Hollywood will continue to remake classic after classic.

What we have here is the new logo for the film. It’s a cool logo, as it contains the late 70’s/early 80’s horror-grundge feel. But the look/font/design should have been used for an entirely different and original film. Also….it’s missing “the” in the title. What do you think?

To get into the Halloween spirit, Keith reviews a very underrated and underappreciated Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Why is it underrated? Read on to find out!

“Halloween III: Season of the Witch” is probably one of the most unjustly hated horror films of all time. Most fans of the series refuse to acknowledge the fact that it even exists, simply because it doesn’t feature the masked slasher Michael Myers. Their loss.

The idea behind “Halloween III” probably seemed logical at the time. Michael Myers had been blown up and burnt to a crisp at the end of the previous film, so the producers decided that they would simply continue the series with a new, unrelated horror film under the “Halloween” banner every year. Toxic fanboy reaction and anemic box office returns for “Season of the Witch” quickly showed them the error of their ways and thus all of the “Halloween” films that have followed over the years brought back Mr. Myers in an increasingly silly parade of non-essential sequels. (I mean, seriously, have you seen “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” or “Halloween: Resurrection?” Ugh.) As for “Halloween III,” it may not be a perfect film but Lord knows it’s certainly better than many of the Myers retreads that followed in its wake. Director Tommy Lee Wallace takes the viewer out of the slasher realm entirely and plunges us into an exceedingly dark, sci-fi tinged tale of modern day witchcraft on a global scale, with a plot to kill millions of American children (!) on Halloween. Genre vet Tom Atkins (of “Escape From New York” and “Maniac Cop” fame) leads the cast as Dan Challis, a recently divorced doctor with a penchant for drinking, who is unlucky enough to be on hospital duty when a crazed man is brought into the E.R., clutching a rubber Halloween mask in his fist and repeatedly saying “They’re going to kill us all!” Shortly thereafter, the man (who happens to be placed in the unlucky room number 13) gets his skull crushed by a mysterious, business suited intruder who then blows himself up in the hospital parking lot. When the dead man’s daughter “Ellie” (the attractive Stacey Nelkin)arrives at the hospital and reveals to Challis that the last place he was seen alive was at the Silver Shamrock Halloween mask factory, he agrees to accompany her to the factory and find out if anything sinister is going on.

The Silver Shamrock factory sits in the deceptively happy looking town of Santa Mira, where TV cameras watch your every move and all residents have a 6 PM curfew. Challis and Ellie shack up together at the local motel (shoe-horning in a quick romantic subplot that seems unnecessary at best, but at least we get to see Ellie in lingerie) with some other Silver Shamrock customers, all of whom are of course doomed to meet horrible fates before the movie’s end. Turns out that the owner of the Silver Shamrock company, a charming looking old Irish guy named Cochran (a hilariously sinister turn by Dan O’Herlihy) is an old school Druid who’s planning a Halloween “trick” to end all tricks on the Big Day. All of his company’s masks contain a tiny transmitter that is set to activate (with fatal results) on Halloween night when a child wearing it watches the company-sponsored “Big Giveaway” on television. (By the way, it will be impossible not to get that damned “Silver Shamrock” TV commercial jingle stuck in your head for the next several days after viewing this film.) We get to watch the company “test” one of the masks on a suburban family and the gooey results will be a gorehound’s delight. Needless to say, Atkins must escape from the madman’s clutches and struggle to warn the population before zero hour.

Sure it sounds looney, and it actually is quite a ridiculous plot, but the movie totally sells it. Plot holes abound (was Ellie a robot the entire time? How the hell did Cochran’s company manage to steal a piece of Stonehenge? Are American kids THAT susceptible to TV ads that they’d all wear one of only three different Halloween masks nationwide? How are those snakes and bugs able to spontaneously generate from within the masks?), but the film moves along briskly enough from one shock to the next without giving the viewer much time to worry about it. The ending is likewise one of the bleakest in ’80s horror history.

Say what you want about “Halloween III” but one thing’s for sure, it’s definitely not another run of the mill slasher flick. It’s a nice mix of elements from the creeping paranoid sci-fi/horror flicks of the ’50s (well, hell, Santa Mira was also the setting of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” y’know) and the gory, synthesizer-driven horror flicks of the ’80s (seriously, the score by John Carpenter himself and Alan Howarth is creepy as hell). I can’t help but think that if this film had originally been released as “Season of the Witch” back in 1982, without the “Halloween” tag attached to it, that it would be more fondly remembered by horror geeks today.

Unless you’re one of those hardcore “No Michael Myers, no Halloween” fanboys, “III: Season of the Witch” is worth a look and deserves to be part of your annual Halloween Horror viewing slate.

Brought to you by Keith Abt, the Dollar DVD Guy. He suffers through these movies so YOU don’t have to!

3.5 Headstones out of 5

It’s October and you know what that means…The Walking Dead Season 2 premiere starts up tomorrow!!! I Hope everyone’s watching and make sure you set those DVR’s!

“500 pairs of the 2011 NIKE MAG will be auctioned on eBay with all net proceeds going directly to The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Each day for the duration of the ten-day auction, one hundred and fifty pairs of the 2011 NIKE MAG shoes will be made available via eBay’s Fashion Vault. The auction starts September 8, 2011 a, 8:30PM PST, and will end September 18. Thanks to a previous 50 million dollar match given to the Michael J. Fox Foundation, all donations will be matched, effectively doubling the contributions from the auction.”

“The original NIKE MAG was worn by the Back to the Future character Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, in the year 2015. It came alive, lit up and formed to Marty’s foot. The 2011 NIKE MAG shoe was designed to be a precise replica of the original from Back to the Future Part II. The aesthetic is an exact match, down to the contours of the upper, the glowing LED panel and the electroluminescent NIKE in the strap. The 2011 NIKE MAG illuminates with the pinch of the “ear” of the high top, glowing for five hours per charge.”

Hop in your DeLorean and drive into the future at BTTF.com

What goes great together? Bowling balls and zombies of course! Well, some very clever people knew this and decided to make it a reality. This is what the genius bowling ball designers had to say about their balls….
“We designed special bowling balls together with famous spraygun artist Oliver Paass that look like cut-off heads. For more than three weeks he made detailed 360° layouts that were sprayed on standard bowling balls. In several German bowling alleys we swapped the standard balls for these special ones. Additional black balls referred to the German horror TV channel No.1″
Roll your head over to 13th Street for more info.