Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 9, 2012, 10:18 am
Thanks to those of you that voted, because House is the winner of the next Viewer Vomit! It wasn't a landslide, but surely those of you that voted have some sort of nostalgia for House because many had strong feelings for it rather than Tokyo Gore Police (maybe the title's just more heart-warming). ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Feb 9, 2012, 9:55 am
I believe both Skarabee and tuSK are Stuart Chalmers, although there is limited information on both projects and this tape does not have a label to give it a synopsis. The cassette is ultra-low budget, coming in a recycled cassette box flipped inside out; the cassette itself is painted with artist n...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 8, 2012, 10:21 am
How timely that a review of TeamWork comes just after the Super Bowl. Bob Robustelli's debut novel features all kinds of football, from the NFL to a Russian league to the EFL in Europe. There's not a ton of playing that happens in the book, but the CIA counterplot that runs alongside establishing a ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 7, 2012, 3:33 pm
This year's Super Bowl had some pretty awful commercials, even worse than last year which had already set the bar pretty low. But I didn't fail to notice a couple nods to horror, even if they were a bit lackluster. First up is the Audi commercial that you see above. Apparently, the only thing this c...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Feb 6, 2012, 10:07 pm
Orca Life is a drone project from Virginia; the email I received from the artist was the first I’d heard of it, but since I see that Orca Life has put out a few more releases on net labels and even a cassette. Sleep is a net release of about ten minutes, split into four tracks that encompass diff...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 6, 2012, 7:09 pm
If you read the synopsis of 2010's Rubber, you'll likely know what to expect - an entire movie of relative insanity, an inane farce about a rogue tire named Robert who sets out on a trek across the desert, stalking a beautiful woman and popping heads with his psychic powers. It's like Scanners met w...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 6, 2012, 12:07 pm
Horror bloggers are a closely-knit sweater of love, kindness, and a shared passion for seeing entrails strewn about pretty landscapes. With that said, most of us are also fans of the classic horror novels and short stories that started the whole entertainment genre. We're talking H.P. Lovecraft, Poe...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 4, 2012, 11:58 am
The Woman in Black is a new breed of Hammer film. It has Harry Potter, nee Daniel Radcliffe. It's rated PG-13. And despite all of those somewhat scary details that might deter folks from seeing the film, it's legitimately a good film. If you've seen the clips and commercials, it might seem as though...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 3, 2012, 11:26 am
Notable DVD releases for the coming Tuesday. Selections are subject to Blu-Ray release as well. The Deadly Spawn: Millenium Edition "Alien creatures invade a small town and a group of four teenagers, plus one little boy, try to escape from them."Day of the Dead 3D "Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Vin...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Feb 3, 2012, 10:52 am
IsoDoping is a tribute to all of those lost during the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown, a raging blend of harsh noise that exhibits the anger and frustration of how that tragedy could have been prevented. It doesn’t expressly say it on K2′s release, but the J-card features grainy pictures of at...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 3, 2012, 8:49 am
The first pairing of After Dark Films with Lionsgate went so well that the company thought they'd try again. The eight-film series (not to be confused with After Dark's other eight-film series, 8 Films to Die For - these aren't quite so deadly) features all original tales created specifically for th...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 2, 2012, 11:03 am
Here's the deal. I often get news and press releases sent to my old MCLA email address, which I rarely check anymore. Sometimes they pile up, and sometime's they'll sit there for a couple weeks before I even know about them. Other news articles I get through my current email address, and that's the ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Feb 1, 2012, 7:34 pm
  Since I didn't hear back from anyone about options for the next Viewer Vomit film club review, I decided to peruse Netflix myself for a couple of options. After some close scrutiny (quickly scanning the lists), I decided to include House from 1986 or Tokyo Gore Police.    Why, you might ask?...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 31, 2012, 11:21 am
  I know that this is ridiculously late, and most of you have already tuned in for this anti-climactic, utterly disappointing finale to a show that couldn't really get much lower in my eyes. If you have, I invite you to join me as we finish up American Horror Story's first season; it will be back ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 30, 2012, 9:44 am
  Thanks to Neato Coolville, the Internet has gained a scan of one of the grooviest Halloween pamphlets from Dunkin Donuts - a step-by-step booklet on how to plan your Halloween party. The estimate on this brochure is that it's circa the '60s or the '70s, so you can bet that the Halloween parties ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 29, 2012, 12:26 pm
There is something about an asylum that draws us to them as a central setting for a horror movie. They house people who are scary; some patients may have murdered people, others might be incomprehensible. And asylums are a dark blight on medical science, with numerous reports of lobotomies and elec...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 28, 2012, 11:38 am
I live in a small town, and sometimes I find myself wishing there was a weird cult group that met at night and cast spells against our neighbors. It would give small-town living some life - imagine looking out the window to see your neighbor, not picking up the paper or snowblowing the driveway or a...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 27, 2012, 12:08 pm
... Blu-Ray release as well. The Thing (2-Disc Combo Pack or separately) "It's not human. ... motel manager, chainsaw wielding triads, and a brutal serial killer. All the while ... fall in love with films again!"2-Headed Shark Attack "Survivors escape to ... notice a health inspector snoopin...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 26, 2012, 3:38 pm
Nocturnal is an elusive ambient wall noise act (ANW), a classification I’m somewhat hesitant to provide but which best describes Nocturnal’s static churnings. Much like the other releases on Slow Death Records, this CD-R is presented with red-shaded, tribal artwork on a white CD-R with four trac...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 26, 2012, 11:12 am
I thought I'd break out my first volume of the Creepy collection that I got for Christmas with a short story from the first issue. All the way back from 1965 comes "Vampires Fly At Dusk", a short that proceeds much as you'd expect - a small superstitious town, a mysterious count, and a lady-friend w...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 25, 2012, 10:34 am
  Let's be honest here - zombie films are notorious for their generic qualities. When's the last time you tuned in to a zombie flick expecting something new or exciting to happen? I know that it's been a while for me, and that's because the genre has become so overloaded with cheap low-budget flic...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 24, 2012, 4:09 pm
  I don't want to hear about a plummeting economy, nor do I want to be reminded of my escalating debt after college that I have to pay back in small increments. Don't even mention the ridiculous gas prices. Our economy is bleak and unrelentingly depressing, and the idea of a future of mass governm...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 23, 2012, 9:22 pm
 Here's a good-looking ad for the Reader's Den comic shop, whereever that's located. Never seen one myself, but in my search for interesting horror ads, I stumbled upon this one. It would've been perfect for Friday the 13th, had I realized that it was Friday the 13th last week. This would be the p...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 22, 2012, 1:58 pm
After almost half a year, Viewer Vomit returns to The Moon is a Dead World for the sixth installment. This time, I'm looking for initial suggestions for the next horror film in the series. The only catch is that the movie must be on Netflix Instant. The reason for this is to make the film more acces...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 22, 2012, 11:06 am
... the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies. It’s also a remarkably ... time. Brace yourself for the horror phenomenon that delivers 'heart-exploding ... a very unique erotic Euro-horror film with a thought-provoking ... overtake them."Fascination "This erotic horror film, set in 1916,...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 21, 2012, 11:45 am
  This is Memory Wave Transmission’s first record review, and thanks to Phage Tapes, it’s certainly an awesome one. Priest In Shit is a harsh noise group featuring Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and Vance Osborne, something like a supergroup of noisicians that often play in their other project ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 20, 2012, 8:53 pm
Deno Sandz, up-and-coming horror fiction novelist and writer of numerous other media, is releasing his new novel Blood Plantation through Amazon. Sandz's novel centers around an entity named the Soul of the Ocean who comes back from decades of eternal rest to seek his vengeance on a bloodline who en...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 19, 2012, 1:30 pm
 A television advertisement for the new ghost flick The Woman in Black caught my eye today. Yes, it is PG-13, which means it might be pared back in terms of gore, but there have been quite a few good haunting films that have received the less-adult rating. Perhaps it's because paranormal movies are...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 19, 2012, 9:00 am
Potier. is Michael Toepfer, a harsh noise act that seems to center around the industrialism of cities and the ugliness of said economic expansion. Potier.’s website states that the act is “Oil City HN”; I’m not sure what exactly that means, but based on the artistry of this cassette and the ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 19, 2012, 9:00 am
I've been watching quite a bit of Ugly Americans lately - namely, the whole first season thanks to its instant streaming on Netflix. Despite my epic promotions for the show last season and the one before, I never really watched more than a couple of episodes of it for journalism's sake; I didn't rea...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 18, 2012, 10:36 pm
Thank you for joining me today. Thanks to an organized effort, the Internet has effectively banded together to strike out against the SOPA and PIPA acts currently being voted on in Congress. Taking part in the blackout was just a small step against governmental intrusions into free speech like this,...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 17, 2012, 3:27 pm
  Brandon X is the owner and operator of Space Idea Tapes, and this is his debut cassette. As a twenty minute noise tape, it’s a nice short start to a noise career, as it gives the listener a small taste of the sound without exhausting the potential. Two side-long tracks are featured on this tap...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 17, 2012, 1:38 pm
There's a lot of news to catch you up on, especially since I've been waiting to compile some of these press releases into a lengthy list of updated material. Here are just some of the exciting things happening in the horror world right now. DC Comics to release more of their "New 52" comics series ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 16, 2012, 7:42 pm
I like this Walgreen's Halloween commercial because of its childish nature, the innocence of its cartoon ghosts that linger around the children on All Hallow's Eve. It reminds me of a time when I was a kid, when I would watch Saturday morning cartoons and get excited over all of the Burger King and ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 15, 2012, 7:45 pm
Notable DVD releases for the coming Tuesday. Selections are subject to Blu-Ray release as well. Cold Sweat "Roman expects to find her in the arms of another man, but when he and a friend finally track her down, there is no lover on the scene, but only a pair of demented old men who keep her locked ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 13, 2012, 6:39 pm
There's a reason why plot ideas like Parents generally end up in a Tales from the Crypt episode rather than a full-length movie. It's because the idea behind parents who are secretly trying to feed their kid human parts can only last so long as a suspenseful yet still mysterious plot point; after a ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 12, 2012, 11:45 pm
For the new year, I'm really looking to update and promote the blog. I've noticed visitors and commenters have been slacking off as of late, and I'd really like to keep this blog afloat but still make it a bit more professional-looking. That's why I'm looking for a graphic artist who can help me wit...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 11, 2012, 8:52 pm
I think that American Horror Story's first season can attest to the fact that when strange things occur during your story, you have to somehow explain it later on. That show had lots of 'splaining to do once the first episode finished its two hour run of multitudinous ghosts, goblins, and freaky old...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 10, 2012, 4:06 pm
With Jefferson Mayday Mayday’s moniker, you’d think the group would be hearkening back to Jefferson Starship, a noisy tribute band to those who “built this city.” Instead, Jefferson Mayday Mayday is full of psychedelia, and if you read their artist biographies, watch their LSD-tripping video...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Jan 10, 2012, 11:30 am
I'm a bit underwhelmed by this Crest ad for Halloween. The simple pumpkin seems forced, like the ad has been hastily put together for the holiday by adding a jack-o-lantern and the Crest writeup without any real marketing scheme. True, the pumpkin features a snaggletooth mouth, but I can think of a ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 6, 2012, 5:02 pm
Pregnant Spore is back on this cassette with five tracks of fast-moving harsh noise, very junky in sound and jumpy in theme. As with much of Rainbow Bridge’s output, the tape comes with a colorful j-card of spattered paint a la Jackson Pollack, with a numbering out of 50. This cassette is really ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 4, 2012, 3:59 pm
  There’s not a whole lot I know about Zombie Bite besides the fact that the artist owns and runs the hilariously named label Northern Lord, which I’d like to believe is a parody of the larger Southern Lord label. Zombie Bite’s cassette The Curse is a very short puke-green foray into harsh n...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Jan 1, 2012, 12:01 pm
Just wanted to log on to say that I wish everyone a happy new year. If you really want to scare yourselves today, head on out to see that atrocious film New Year’s Eve currently playing in theaters. Here’s to another good year of horror!
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Dec 30, 2011, 1:42 pm
  Scrapyard was originally released in 1995 with a limited run on vinyl, and as has been the custom for much of BlackLeather Jesus’ earlier work, the album has been re-released on Phage Tapes with a more attainable number. The disc features all three of the original tracks, with two cuts from Ra...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Dec 25, 2011, 9:48 pm
I’ve got a whole stack of reviews that I’ll be working on this week, and I’ve just received some more review items. Expect a bunch of reviews now that the holiday season is over.
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Dec 14, 2011, 10:57 am
  Who knew that artists whose monikers consisted of only letters and numbers could create such harsh noise? Neither MAAAA nor K2 are new artists to the genre; actually, K2 is one of the prominent figures in harsh noise and cutup junk electronics, and MAAAA follows in those footsteps on this split ...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on Memory Wave Transmission - Dec 6, 2011, 3:52 pm
Worthless Recordings, a newer harsh noise label that has been putting out rounds of stellar releases, features this lengthy single-sided piece from the mysterious drone project Broken Spirit. There’s little information out there about the artist, and Let Me Go is one of two releases so far. It co...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Nov 2, 2011, 7:38 pm
The absence of a House of Mystery Halloween compilation from Vertigo's comic output this year was a disappointment, but combating the hole in my heart is a new variety pack of stories called The Unexpected. This is a new series debuting in December 2011 with a bunch of new one-shot stories collected...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Nov 1, 2011, 2:32 pm
Hope you folks had a good Halloween this year. I'm a bit bummed out that I have to start taking down the Halloween decorations; they've almost become part of the decor of my apartment since they've been up for almost two months now. But all good things must come to an end, or else Halloween wouldn't...
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Ryne Barber posted an article on The Moon is a Dead World - Oct 31, 2011, 12:52 pm
If you've ever watched anime, you probably know the influence that films like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and any Miyazaki film have had on American audiences interested in the unique Japanese art form. Akira is so popular not because it's such a violent mind trip (which it is), but because of its po...
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