Horror Movie a Day

Brian watches a horror movie a day, so you don't have to.

Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner!

Let's all wish a very happy 80th to Canada's favorite son, Captain James Tiberius Kirk himself, ladies and gentlemen.... Mr. William Shatner! Here's wishing you another 80 years of gloriously hammy performances, Bill!

English schoolkids sing Iron Maiden's FLIGHT OF ICARUS

As a teenager I was an absolute maniac for Iron Maiden (I'm not proud of this fact) and this video of adorable UK children belting out Flight of Icarus fills me with nostalgia for bye-gone, head-banging days. I still think Iron Maiden is totally underrated as far as silly, Spinal Tap-esque heavy metal bands go.

Geminoid: Your plastic pal who's fun to be with

Science grows ever closer to the day when androids will be indistinguishable from people. Judging by the Geminoid robot, engineers can already successfully simulate that winky, blinky, quietly terrifying crazy man you try to avoid sitting next to on the bus.

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SHATNER SUNDAY: Captain Kirk hails the Discovery crew

Before the Discovery space shuttle returned to Earth for the final time, the crew got a wake-up call from everybody's favorite starman, Captain Kirk himself.

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Blair goes crazy and murders everybody on THE FACTS OF LIFE

I missed this when it was new, but I'm sure it would've traumatized my young self pretty good. Blair Warner gruesomely kills everybody in the Facts of Life Halloween episode, Seven Little Indians. Sometimes it seems like just about every silly sitcom from my childhood had at least one episode where the writers just totally lost their minds.

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The Haunted Mansion "Interactive Queue" at Magic Kingdom Park

The Haunted Mansion is arguably the most awesome attraction at the Disney parks, and now even the line is awesome at the Magic Kingdom Park's mansion.

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The YELLOW SUBMARINE remake isn't happening!

In the wake of Mars Needs Moms' failure at the box office, Robert Zemeckis' planned motion-capture remake of The Yellow Submarine is officially dead. We've all been spared from the ghastly spectacle of dead-eyed, mo-cap android Beatles! To celebrate, let's enjoy this exuberant clip from the original classic.

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MUSIC FROM SPACE: Chris Garneau - DIRTY NIGHT CLOWNS

Prepare to get scared silly by this fantastic, creepy-cute video for Chris Garneau's Dirty Night Clowns. If you didn't already have a phobia of little clown marionettes, you will now.

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The first STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION promo

Here's a fun little relic of a bygone age (1987): the very first promo for Star Trek: The Next Generation, back in the days when it was hard to imagine a new Trek without William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Jeez, everybody in this clip looks so skinny and young. Jonathan Frakes looks like his own nephew.


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When Harry met Gandalf

Beloved geek franchises collide in this clip from the UK comedy TV series Dead Ringers.
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When Cthulhu met Isaac the bartender

Fair warning: this is a very silly clip. Set a course for gibbering madness, your mind on the unspeakable horrors that lurk in the Stygian depths beneath the sea... The Loooovecraft, soon will be making another run!

THE ICE BOOK

The Ice Book from Davy and Kristin McGuire on Vimeo.

Davy and Kristin McGuire have put together a gorgeous little demo reel to stir up interest in their planned theatrical project, The Ice Book. The Ice Book would involve flat sets that open up like pages from a giant pop-up book, supplemented by projected imagery. The video shows a miniature version of what they're planning, and even at that scale it's really breathtaking stuff. Here's hoping they can find a backer soon and make this thing happen.

They have a really interesting behind the scenes page, too.