Wes Black

Japanese flyer for Beetlejuice

Winona Ryder & Glenn Shadix promote Beetlejuice in Japan

Beetlejuice (1988)

Hadn’t watched this in at least 20 years, totally forgot Dick Cavett was in it.

Happy Halloween! Here is a small treat for you all, a 1964 theatrical 35mm advert asking viewers to Save Free TV against evil, spooky cable & paid TV companies! Featured in the ad are a number of classic monsters, who all deserve a place, especially today! youtu.be/0paCHh3V1P4

Boogie Man, Freddy, and Crypt Keeper cut a pre-match promo at the FMW 7th anniversary show

You must watch at least one FMW or W*NG match featuring bootleg horror icons for Halloween, it’s the rules

hello, sky peoples

John Cassavetes says “and a hell of a lot of sperm” in Incubus.

Incubus (1982)

Canadian horror by a British director that feels Italian, but instead of Goblin the music is courtesy of a pre-Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson.

John Cassavetes looking like hammered shit in Incubus.

Bring back the sweaty, alcoholic town doctor as horror movie protagonist.

pure, unadulterated cinema

Doing the Fonzie double thumbs up while dressed as Donald Duck

Ayyyy

German poster for The Beyond

The Beyond (1981)

I love it when a hell gate opens and the world is slowly reduced to nightmare logic and nasty set pieces.

A skeleton gingerbread cookie

Noroi: The Curse (2005)

Me as Leatherface, bright eyed and smiling, just like in the movie

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Doing a fucked up people in their fucked up house triple feature tonight (The People Under the Stairs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, & Muppets Haunted Mansion)

The People Under the Stairs

What many filmmakers today fail to understand, is that you can have both social commentary and Everett McGill getting punched in the nuts.

I showed this at the Gallery of Modern Art so Maggie Cheung is modern art now.

Cover of Suspiria magazine featuring a mask wearing chainsaw wielding killer.

Suspiria horror magazine.
1988

The cover of Monthly Halloween magazine. It features a young Japanese woman in a green sports jersey being surprised from behind by Freddy Krueger, brandishing his famous knife glove. The background is orange and filled with smoke, and the title of the magazine is printed at the top in white letters with a teal blue outline. Various article descriptions are printed near the outside edges of the cover.

Monthly Halloween Magazine
Issue 75
July 1990

Cover of Monthly Halloween featuring grody hands bursting through a door, looking ho grab a woman wearing pajamas

Cover of Monthly Halloween featuring even grodier hands bursting through a chalkboard to grab a girl

Cover of Suspiria featuring a woman playing the violin while a mummy creeps up behind her

Cover of V-Zone featuring a gnarly crew of monsters

We need more movies & tv that feel like the cover of a Japanese horror magazine from the 80s.

YouTube video by TVTunes Quiz Orson Welles Great Mysteries Intro

You know Orson’s extra dialed in when the cigar never leaves his mouth.

Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Thom Mathews in The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead

How do you follow up the best Romero zombie movie? By watching the best non-Romero zombie movie. I love the performances in this, one of my favorite ensembles ever.

Japanese laserdisc for Dawn of the Dead

Actor Richard France in Dawn of the Dead

Nobody has ever loved anything as much as George Romero loved library music. Special shoutout to the Orson Welles of Pittsburgh, Richard France.

Right around when this was coming out, I was trying to carry a tray of drinks out of a Starbucks, and Megan Fox got the door for me and helped me get them into my car. The lesson: you’re never too hot to help.

At some point I really need to write down the story Frank Stallone told me about the time Joe Spinell was dressed as Dracula and had salami dangling from the ceiling in his apartment.

bring back my stinky boys

spoilers

A Ghoulie erupting from a toilet bowl on someone’s front lawn.

Toilet Ghoulie spotted in the wild

Instantly started singing Dune Buggy (by Oliver Onions).

New word alert: 迷惑ハロウィーン ("meiwaku harouin") -- "troublesome Halloween!" Plural no less. Kinshi da yo!