As usual I am behind the times when it comes to news. I just recently learned that Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is bringing back Movie Macabre later this month. It is tentatively scheduled to air on the THIS Network cable channel and in regular syndication on September 25th with the first film being Night of the Living Dead, so check your local listings. I remember watching her in first run syndication back when I was in college where she showed some of the strangest horror films ever made, the incomprehensible Devil’s Wedding Night stands out in my memory (I watched the epsode on DVD a few years ago and the film still makes little sense but Elvira’s one liners more than made up for that, her similarly dressed Grammy was a hoot). Having seen a recent picture of her I am amazed, though in her late fifties, she’s like Lynda Carter or Elizabeth Sladen, she appears ageless. Living in Ohio, the Horror Host capital of the country (Ghoulardi, The Ghoul, The Son of Ghoul, Hoolihan and Big Chuck, Big Chuck and Lil’ John, Superhost, Fritz the Nite Owl, Frank and Drac, Dr. Shock, A. Ghastly Ghoul, Dr. Creep, and Dr. Mor B.S. just to name a few from the past and present) horror movie hosting is part of our state’s TV viewing history, it’s just in the blood to stay up late and watch a campy host show scary movies (heck even my parents watched Hoolihan and Big Chuck when I was a kid, and they don’t even like scary movies) so I’m looking extremely forward to the new Movie Macabre, it’ll be like seeing an old friend come home for a visit.
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Well I see Sacha Baron Cohen is coming out with another faux documentary. This time he is doing his character Bruno, a flamboyantly gay Austrian supermodel, and will again chronicle a journey through America. Ummm….yah, I guess. Can’t say I’m all that thrilled, didn’t really get into Borat, so I probably won’t get into Bruno. I don’t really consider Cohen funny, he’’s less a comedian and more of a performance artist, like Andy Kaufman was, only without that sly jokes really on you subtext Kaufman exuded. I wish him luck with his new comedy, but I have my doubts it will score big at the box office. He is putting it out in July amongst some big hitters like Transformers, Harry Potter, and Public Enemies. Of course that could just be good counter programming. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
I’ve been surfing the web looking for any news on the upcoming movie Solomon Kane. The character is one of Robert E. Howard’s less well known creations. In the handful of stories Howard published in the thirties, Kane was a Seventeenth Century Puritan who tracks a murderer from London to Africa, where he encounters witch doctors, vampires, and other nasty supernatural creatures. The movie changes this a bit by having Kane a damned soul fighting evil to atone for his past sins. Originally supposed to have been released in Europe back in March, it is now scheduled for an overseas release in October. No news yet on when a domestic release is scheduled.
