‘Meteor destroys London’ and other predictions from Criswell, the ‘87% accurate’ psychic
Criswell sings! Get it at Norton Records The Amazing Criswell, is perhaps best known today for his role as a sort of omniscient narrator in…
Author: Christopher Bickel
What if John Carpenter had scored ‘The Thing’?
John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror classic The Thing is one of the few films he directed but didn’t score. Venerated Italian composer Ennio Morricone provided…
Finally! The lyrics of The Clash make total sense!
“Complete Control” — It’s The Clash’s fourth best song, featured on the U.S. release of their debut album. The song which is supposedly a “fiery…
The sound effects madman behind the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons
Tregoweth Edmond “Treg” Brown was the genius sound-effects wizard responsible for sound editing the Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons starting in 1936.…
The terrifying rejected ‘Exorcist’ soundtrack the director literally threw out a window
William Friedkin’s 1973 masterpiece, The Exorcist, was a landmark in horror cinema, a cultural phenomenon, and (if adjusting for inflation) the ninth highest-grossing film of…
Tarantula Ghoul: the 1950s Vampira-esque rock n roll singing horror hostess
’50s Portland horror hostess, Tarantula Ghoul Everyone knows about Vampira, the 1950s TV horror movie hostess whose iconic character drew influence from the Morticia character…
‘I like big Bibles and I cannot lie’: The best worst Christian rap song ever
It’s ten years old and has been viewed over three million times, but I’m constantly surprised that whenever I reference this thing in conversation, no…
Slayer’s Tom Araya belting Motley Crue, Priest, and Dio covers in 1983
Watch these sick videos of Slayer’s Tom Araya performing covers of Mötley Crüe, Scorpions, Judas Priest and Dio along with his brother John Araya on…
Divine and friends action figures from John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’
“Mr. Wineberger, Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right out in CLAESS!” Divine’s official social media guru directed my attention, yesterday, to the work…
(Way more than) Everything you always wanted to know about the Nazi Skinhead music scene
Today’s post is about the new book The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement: UK & USA, 1979 – 1993 released last month by Feral House publishing.…