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The Vault of Dr. Weirdskull

post #1 of 19
10/12/05 at 4:33am
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A new - and reluctant - new column on the Corner.

Read it here.

Post your feedback, suggestions and cautious praise here!
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post #2 of 19
10/12/05 at 7:03am
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Originally Posted by Dr Wierdskull
Good horror exploits our fears. It's no wonder then that horror and exploitation are two genres that taste great together.
Streeeeetch.

Other than that Dr Wierdskull rules. Crappy vhs IS the only way to watch crappy horror movies. They should release them, complete with crappy 80's trailers, as special edition crappy VHS's for the collectors - the way musicians still release albums on vinyl. It's the way of the future.
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post #3 of 19
10/12/05 at 7:21am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Clarke
Crappy vhs IS the only way to watch crappy horror movies. They should release them, complete with crappy 80's trailers, as special edition crappy VHS's for the collectors.
I was watching Ghoulies 3 on VHS yesterday (don't ask) and I thought much the same thing. The trailers - even the ones for fairly big films - were so quaint and clumsy. There's a definite nostalgic appeal, I think. Especially when movie marketing today is so slick, so clinical and so insidious in the ways it tries to sneak past our defenses.

When we're bombarded with teasers, three or four trailers, viral ad campaigns, demographically targetted memes and other ruthlessly manufactured methods of getting our attention, there's a definite appeal for the days when movie marketing meant a bunch of scenes hastily stuck together with a cheesy voiceover and a hand-drawn poster.
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post #4 of 19
10/12/05 at 8:10am
That reminds me Whitebrain, I'll send you The Unborn this week (complete with Firehead trailer starring Martin Landau) if it's still for that same thing...

Neat column Dr Whatshisface, very neat. Less Evil Dead/Savini retrospectives, more columns about obscure viscera is what we need. And what a way to start. I have to say I've never seen Mother's Day, was it released in the UK, UK people ? I thought it suffered by proxy in the great purge of '83. Eh, it's one I have to catch up on at any rate since all I hear is that it's a great nasty piece of exploitation. Nice !
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post #5 of 19
10/12/05 at 8:30am
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
I was watching Ghoulies 3 on VHS yesterday (don't ask) and I thought much the same thing. The trailers - even the ones for fairly big films - were so quaint and clumsy.
I don't bother with that stuff any more, because it's "so 80's".

PS Wierdskull rulez.
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post #6 of 19
10/12/05 at 8:40am
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Originally Posted by Straxboy - An Anthony Hickox Film
That reminds me Whitebrain, I'll send you The Unborn this week (complete with Firehead trailer starring Martin Landau) if it's still for that same thing...
Completely forgot about that. It's ongoing, so yeah - that would be aces.
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post #7 of 19
10/12/05 at 9:14am
Nice column. While I'm not convinced to watch the film, that has more to do with taste than the writing. Anyway, seems like a great idea, so I vote that it continues. The more variety on the site, the better.
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post #8 of 19
10/12/05 at 9:40am
The film sounds like it would have been crack to a 15 year old me, though I am unconvinced at how gory drinking drano could be.
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post #9 of 19
10/12/05 at 9:47am
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That was a spelling error. He's actually forced to drink Billy Drago.
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post #10 of 19
10/12/05 at 9:53am
Ever see that stuff foam back up a sink drain?

Billy Drago, I mean. It's a sight to behold.
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post #11 of 19
10/12/05 at 11:24am
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Originally Posted by Dan Whitehead
He's actually forced to drink Billy Drago.

Ban this filth.
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post #12 of 19
10/12/05 at 12:57pm
Hmmmmm Dr. Weirdskull - Dan Whitehead. Do you guys eat lunch together? Does one of you wear glasses and the other a spitcurly? Anyway that column was aces!
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post #13 of 19
10/12/05 at 1:20pm
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Not written by me, I guarantee it. Of course, I'm not vouching for the guy's medical credentials but I'm not one for using fake names.
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post #14 of 19
10/13/05 at 9:43am
Columns like this one could go a long way in making the Corner a more regular stop for me. Early VHS horror holds a special spot with me.
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post #15 of 19
10/18/05 at 4:59pm
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Another instalment from the good doctor here: http://www.creature-corner.com/?type=news&id=891

One for fans of the Golden Era, methinks.
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post #16 of 19
10/18/05 at 5:14pm
Wow. Whoever this weirdskull guy is can write!
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post #17 of 19
10/19/05 at 6:48am
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

What a brilliant edition to the corner. These are a joy to read and - much like a 14 year old watching The Adult Channel's Ten Minute freeview - can't come fast enough.
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post #18 of 19
10/19/05 at 6:53am
Weirdskull makes my nipples hard. But not in a gay way.
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post #19 of 19
12/22/05 at 10:18am
I hope that wasn't the last we'll see of Weirdskull.
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