Episode #53
Originally aired January 28, 2023.
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Distortions Unlimited, A Halloween Manufacturing Company [Official Website]
Discover Distortions Unlimited, a Halloween manufacturing company and online Halloween store that has been "Making Monsters" since 1978! We take pride in crafting high quality, artistic, and durable animatronics, props, masks, costumes and displays for a variety of customers. Our creations are used by Halloween events, home haunters, theme parks, haunted houses, horror fans, monster lovers, and collectors, just to name a few.
Hidden in an industrial warehouse in Greeley, Colorado. Distortions Unlimited’s owners, Ed and Marsha Edmunds, and their talented crew make monsters. Their quality props, masks and creations have been a mainstay of the dark amusement industry since 1978. Long creative hours are spent in gray-walled offices with brain-eating hunchbacks, wall-scaling zombies and docile 3-foot tall aliens. The working environment looks more like a nightmare factory than a place of business, and was recently featured on the reality show “Making Monsters” that aired on The Travel Channel.
As a child and fan of television shows such as The Outer Limits, The Time Machine and the original Star Trek, Ed enjoyed creating masks and putting on performances as monster characters. Continued experiments with makeup turned his artistic hobby into a true talent at a young age, and among other stage makeup and prop work, he started his mask-making operation, Distortions Unlimited, while still in high school. Through college, Ed developed his company’s products, sculpting a severed finger, molding bloody hands and becoming one of the first in the industry to sculpt cut-off arms. After college, Ed met Marsha Taub, a biology student from the University of Northern Colorado. Sharing a workplace, dedication to a faith in Christ, artistic passion and creative yearning, they became a team – one so strong, they exchanged marriage vows in 1992! From haunted houses and electric chairs to Alien’s homicidal alien queen and Alice Cooper’s Brutal Planet Tour, child-like enthusiasm and imagination has always reigned supreme at the office. With a new focus on cutting edge animations, developing technology and materials for props and molds, there are no worries of creative stagnation, and plans at Distortions are in fact ‘Unlimited.’ For the future, “higher impact” and “more intense” animations are the key phrases. Ed and Marsha now spend their days in a warehouse akin to a cannibal’s buffet. Hands and feet top a line of metal spikes, a row of glassy-eyed zombies peer from behind a rail of severed heads. They are still making monsters, but now they make them by the thousands.
https://distortionsunlimited.com/
The Original Prometheus Script – Alien, The Engineers [Horror Movie Maven]
I loved the new Alien movie, Aliens: Covenant. When I was raving about it at work, my co-worker sent me a pdf of the original script for Prometheus.
He said, “Did you ever read the screenplay that eventually become Prometheus? I think it’s a much better story and ties up quite a few (unnecessary) loose ends.”
He was right. While they kept a lot of elements from the original script, the first version was better. I recommend reading it if you like the Alien franchise. I found a copy of the script online. Reading it is nearly as good as seeing it on the screen.
https://www.horrormoviemaven.com/alien-engineers/
Here's 18 Short Horror Films You Need To See [Horror Habit]
Happy Halloween everyone!! Here is 18 brilliant short horror films to spook up your day.
Why 18 you ask? Because this is the 8th month of the old Roman calendar and the 10th month of the current calendar. BRAINS!
So without further ado, below is my pick of some of the best out there. With a review of 18 words or less, and in no particular order, please enjoy Horror Habit's 2022 Short Horror Film Festival.
https://horrorhabit.blogspot.com/2022/10/happy-halloween-heres-18-short-horror.html
Top 10 Horror Films Of The 2000s [Bounding Into Comics]
The horror film industry was in a bit of transition as the new millennium began. A lot of ground have been covered during the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, and the 2000s represented a chance to try and reinvent the wheel a little bit. The result was a collection of horror films forced to think up ingenious new ways to scare people, while delivering a unique premise at the same time.
It was an era of bold premises and challenges to the format that included a lot of misses. However, there were also a lot of hits that continue to spurn great sequels and franchises to this very day. Some of the best are underrated, while others flew under the radar. The remainders were full-blown hits that entered the public consciousness and became part of pop culture mythos.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/01/27/top-10-horror-films-of-the-2000s/
What Do You Do When Faced with the Unknown [Scare Street]
Let me tell you about a strangely calm night from years ago. It was a new moon, and all my neighbors had gone to bed oddly early. No passing cars, no breeze; even the nocturnal birds were silent.
https://scarestreet.com/new-release-night-terrors-24/
10 of the Best Horror Movie Plot Twists [Horror Fam]
For nearly as long as there have been horror movies, there have been horror movie plot twists! After all, one of reality’s most horrifying aspects is its unpredictability — why wouldn’t creators carry that terror over to film?
While there are thousands of terrifying twists in the horror genre, below are 10 of the best horror movie plot twists from the 1920s to the 2020s!
https://horrorfam.com/horror-movie-plot-twists/
Freak Show Announces 2022 Freaky Award Winners [Horror Vein]
The FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival just completed its 17th edition last weekend in Orlando, Florida. The festival featured some of the best independent horror films from around the world including features and short films. If you haven’t checked out this festival you really need to for it’s diverse lineup of films and hidden horror gems. The list below features the best of the fest!
https://horrorvein.com/freak-show-announces-2022-freaky-award-winners/
Naked Dead Horror Movie Scenes [Horror Land]
As a species we have this weird fascination with both sex and death, which is prevalent in a large majority of horror films. We are vulnerable naked, and so to die in that state is a wretched way to go indeed. If you have ever wondered why there is so much flesh on show in horror films, well apart from the obvious titillation of audience members, it’s also because of the vulnerable position it puts us in. That’s some scary ass stuff right there.
As a genre, Horror already holds a certain expectation on the maturity of its audience, and it’s once we understand this, that the genre can be most rewarding with its careful (and sometimes pathetic) use of nudity to bring a different emotion to the table.
Zombie films push theses boundaries even further, with the stone-dead naked corpses now wandering around with their modesty and life, lost long ago. And that’s what we are looking at in this grisly article. When the dead rise, not all of them are coming up with their clothes on… But it’s up to the directors, producers and screenwriters on just how they handle this delicate element. so, here is our nasty little list, Naked Dead Horror Movie Scenes. Remember… The dead don’t always die in Dolce & Gabbana!
https://www.horror.land/naked-dead-horror-movie-scenes/
The Burning Skeleton in Venice [Moon Mausoleum]
In Cannaregio district in the city of Venice, there is a burning skeleton of a mean man that is cursed to haunt the city around Campo de l’Abazia.
https://moonmausoleum.com/the-burning-skeleton-in-venice/
Victoria’s Lift Podcast [Official Website]
Gallery Of Fear (2012) Movie Review [Nightmare Nook Horror Blog]
Eyes may be the window to the soul but the mouth is its abyss. Art and illustration of the mouth serves as the portal.
The mouth is the hardest part to understand because the mind signals it to speak and we do not know what others are thinking. The mind can signal the mouth to also not let you know what is on the mind. Which is why you cannot fully trust the mouth...
https://nightmarenookhorrorblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/gallery-of-fear-2012.html
Horror Movie Guide, And Now The Screaming Starts [The Horror Section]
The next movie in the Guide was 1973's And Now The Screaming Starts. Now again, like the aforementioned Abbott & Costello movies, I wasn't a big Hammer or Amicus watcher as a kid. My childhood was filled with bloody slashers and animal attack films so these British imports appeared tame by comparison. My only exposure to Amicus before the age of ten was those dope Dr. Who movies. However, after seeing their Tales From The Crypt anthology, I began to appreciate what they had to offer.
http://www.thehorrorsection.com/2023/01/horror-movie-guide-and-now-screaming.html
Welcome to Horror Land [tumblr]
https://www.tumblr.com/welcometo-horrorland
Break (2019) Movie Review [Horror Movie Reviews]
During a winter break time in the Urals, the merry band of about twenty-something people, two girls and three boys made their way to the old funicular and these so these five young adults just wishes that they can have an unforgettable celebration of New Year’s Eve over the top of a mountain and just be happy on New Year.
https://horrormoviesreviews.com/latest/break-2019/
Freeze (2022) Movie Review [Horrific Flicks]
Well, let’s see you make a tale of Arctic terror on a microscopic budget!
Written and directed by Charlie Steeds (Winterskin, Death Ranch), a MetFilm grad with an abiding love of bygone horror tropes, Freeze is a Lovecrafty pastiche of Victorian Era exploration that bravely demands your attention, despite being financed by old soda bottles.
Captain Roland Mortimer (Rory Wilton) charts his warship the HMS Innsmouth (hint) to the North Pole in search of his best friend, William Streiner (Tim Cartwright), a fellow sea captain who disappeared two years before in search of a passage through the ice.
https://horrificflicks.com/2023/01/03/freeze-2022/
The Wolf Below And Above [Creepypasta]
I don’t need to watch to know where the woman has decided to hide. It’s always one of three places, and out of those three it’s usually one specific spot. It’s all so… predictable.
https://www.creepypasta.com/the-wolf-below-and-above/
House of The Dead (1978) Full Movie [Internet Archive]
When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses.
https://archive.org/details/PhantasmagoriaTheater-HouseOfTheDead1978179
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