http://www.ravensbarrow.com Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For all you film festival lovers here's the premier one - the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. This is the one where new horror, scifi, action, and cult movies are shown. This year's world premier movies include Repo! The Genetic Opera, Midnight Meat Train and The Echo (as ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/07/03/the-thursday-weekender-for-july-3rd-2008/ TORONTO, ONTARIO - (July 2/08) Horror author G. Wells Taylor is giving free copies of the popular first book in the Apocalypse Trilogy, When Graveyards Yawn, to all visitors at wildclown.com or gwellstaylor.com to celebrate the upcoming release of the second book in the series, The Forsaken, and to announce ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/07/03/horror-author-breaks-with-traditional-publishing-grind-and-gives-free-book-to-readers/ Ironstock, the big haunter event I mentioned in last week's Weekender, is coming to an end. It looks like 2009 will officially be the last year for it as was announced at the Weasel Ball and confirmed on the Halloween-L email list. Book your rooms now. http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/07/03/the-end-of-ironstock/ Wow - one friggin movie. That's all I could come up with folks. Maybe you know more. July 1, 2008: Dead and Gone [Lions Gate] http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/07/01/if-its-tuesday-it-must-be-new-dvd-day-for-july-1st-2008/ I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but a wee beastie has been gnawing at the edges of my buried subconscious. It's just stuff I think about and not a real or authoritative comment on people. For that I defer to you. So - hang with me won't you ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/06/27/the-friday-outa-my-head-for-june-27th-2008-crazy-or-crazy/ If you're reading this blog then you must be a haunted house and Halloween fan. If you are then unless you live under a monster mud and PVC fake rock built to house hidden speakers and pneumatics you undoubtedly have heard of Ironstock. If not, then read on you n00b. ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/06/26/the-thursday-weekender-for-june-26th-2008-fur-and-thre-whole-days-of-fear-seminars-and-joy/ Here's a quick post for those of you that love computer controlled light shows. Light-O-Rama is in the middle of its annual, and only, sale. You've seen these in beer commercials - remember the house flashing Christmas lights to "Wizards in Winter"? These are how they did it, and yes, ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/06/25/light-o-rama-sale/ Well what do yinz know - people do actually read this frakin' blog. And I can't believe "yinz", "frakin'", and especially "blog" aren't in my spell checker. Be that as it may, I've gotten so many kind words from yinz (just added that - BTW it's Pittsburghese for "you" plural) ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/06/24/holy-shite-in-a-pumpkin/ Here's a real no-frills bare-bones not a link to Amazon in site list. Enjoy. June 24, 2008: The Eye 3 [Lions Gate] Hell To Pay [York] Hell's Ground [TLA Releasing] The Hilarious House of Frightenstein Vol. 1 [First Run] J-ok'el: Curse of the Weeping Woman [Maverick] The Lodge [Monarch] Nobody Loves Alice [Indie-Pictures] Raising Jeffrey Dahmer [Lions Gate] The Serial ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/06/24/if-its-tuesday-it-must-be-new-dvd-day-for-june-24th-2008/ When everyone has a voice then it's all just noise. Nothing could be truer when it comes to the world of Internet blogging, and this blog is no exception. I have come to the end of it I think, due largely to the fact that I have way too many ... http://www.ravensbarrow.com/2008/06/20/the-friday-outa-my-head-for-june-20th-2008-cya/