Modern Art Pulls The Cute Out of Horror's Scariest Faces

I love horror fan art. It's always either hilarious or adorable, in this instance it's both! 

 Modern Art's Adam Miconi has reimagined some of the scariest faces in horror, and oh my, are they adorable. Carrie White, Leatherface and Ghostface are just a few, head below to see 'em all! 

Now I just have to pick which one will grace my phone's background...

Jason Voorhees - Back From The Dead Again? New Reboot Coming in 2015

This news can be looked at in a variety of ways, but whichever way you look at it, it's happening. Paramount Pictures has announced yet another reboot to the infamous Friday the 13th franchise, slated for release on March 13, 2015 (the first Friday the 13th of 2015). 

Jason was last seen on the big screen in Marcus Nispel's reboot in 2009. While the critics largely lauded it (then again, who cares what they say), it still scraped in over $90 million world wide. While there is very little known about this new addition, what we do know is that it is not a sequel to the reboot but another reboot itself, and that Paramount is tossing around the idea of a found footage concept for the film. 

As always, we are stuck in the "wait and see" game. 

Angelenos! Spend Your Halloween Season Cozying Up To The Classics on the Big Screen - Courtesy of ArcLight!

Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles and San Diego will be showing a whole slew of classic horror flicks this year, in the weeks leading up to the hallowed day! This is probably always my favorite part of Halloween, getting to see this wonderful films in all of their glory on the big screen, and I have to say, this years selection is already proving to be wonderful. 

Here's the full list for ArcLight's special month long event called ArcLight Presents... Scary Stories. If you're in the LA area I hope to see you there! I bet you'll never guess which one's I'll be attending:   

GHOSTBUSTERS 

Sunday, October 13th at 5:00 PM: Beach Cities, La Jolla and Sherman Oaks locations

FRIDAY THE 13th

Thursday, October 17th at 8:00 PM: La Jolla and Pasadena locations

ARMY OF DARKNESS

 Sunday, October 20th at 8:00 PM: Beach Cities, La Jolla and Pasadena locations

THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY (Hand picked by Eli Roth)

Tuesday, October 22nd at 8:00 PM: Hollywood location

THE EXORCIST

Sunday, October 27th at 8:00 PM: Beach Cities, La Jolla, Pasadena and Sherman Oaks locations 

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S PSYCHO

Monday, October 28th at 8:00 PM: Sherman Oaks location

EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN

Tuesday, October 29th at 8:00 PM: Pasadena location

THE SHINING

Wednesday, October 30th at 8:00 PM: Hollywood and La Jolla locations

You don't wanna miss this so make sure that you get your seats reserved ASAP and see you there! 

- Rg Lovecraft
 

Fellow Angelenos, Come On Out and See the First Four FRIDAY THE 13TH Films on A Big Screen!

You heard that right. In the true tradition of keeping things awesome, Evan Dickson over at Bloody Disgusting will be hosting a Friday the 13th marathon at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. And on what date might this fall on you, you may be asking yourself? Well, Friday, September the 13th of course. 

Tickets are $13 and can be purchase early, here. I will definitely be doing everything within in my power to get there, the event kicks off at 5 PM in the street outside of the theater. There will be food trucks, costume contests (dress up as your favorite franchise character! I've got a mean Pamela Voorhees I've been raring to bust out) and all kinds of nasty fun stuff going on. PLUS there may be a few special guests making the rounds throughout the night.

So come one out and support your local horror scene! It's gonna be groovy.

- Rg Lovecraft

READER REQUEST

NOTE: This post is backdated, and was posted several months ago in response to a request from a Tumblr reader. 

This blog is a few weeks old, so it’s exciting to have people start to take interest in it. I hope to get more of these, I will do as many as I can while still maintaining the post calendar I’ve created for the next couple months.

Now, onto the post, user chibitized made a request:

“I’d like to read your opinion on the Friday the 13th franchise. Which one is your favorite? Least favorite?”

This is one I wasn’t anticipating doing for a while. I was planning on sticking to current and modern film reviews, news and articles and keeping the classics for special occasions such as anniversaries and special edition releases, but I’m excited to dig my teeth into this one because I have a varied opinion on this franchise. 

As you may have seen me mention already, I’m not a huge fan of slasher flicks. There are some that I love but for the most part I lose interest with any franchise. After the 3^rd installment I normally become disenchanted, annoyed and just bored with it. The Friday the 13^th franchise is one of the three holy grails of slasher films. There are three names that come to people’s minds when they think of slasher films, or even horror films in general, and they are Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger and, of course, Jason Voorhees (more commonly known, simply as Jason). Out of the three, Jason is probably my least favorite but that does not mean that I do not find worth in the franchise as a whole. Here are my thoughts: