Disappearing Act.

Hello there fiends. So I know what you're probably saying: "Why the hell did you just disappear in the middle of the Candy and Corpses Halloween Strychnine awards?" Yeah, sorry about that. I had hand surgery (twice) to try and repair torn ligaments in my dominant hand and it was just too hard to bring you creeps content without hiring a shady minion typist. Now my hand feels like a semi-useful bag of bones and I can once again type away to my shriveled hearts content.

Anyways, whether you like it or not I am back to shove weird substance into your eye sockets. Wanna watch a Giallo you might have never heard of? How about we watch La Coda della Scorpione aka The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971).

Skeazy wife Lisa finds out that her super rich rich hubby exploded on a plane and left his fortune to her. She travels to Greece to meet her skeazy lover while the insurance company suspects that perhaps a bomb was planted on the rich husband's plane (aka murder). All kinds of twists and turns and murdery hijinks occurs. Who killed who? Why is everyone dying? Where can I get good spanakopita? Who gets to keep all that murder money? Which one of these people has a scorpion tail? Watch and find out.

The Candy and Corpses 2021 Halloween Spooktacular!

Here it is creeps. The Candy and Corpses 2021 Halloween Spooktacular! Spooky shorts, cartoons, trailers, commercials, and a wicked feature presentation. Enjoy and remember these safety tips when trick or treating: Look both ways before crossing the street, make sure to wear a bright reflective costumes with eye holes big enough to see, pray to your demon overlords, and be sure to check your your candy! 

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Date with a Flamethrower, Melty Masks, and This House Is Clean. The Horrors of 1982.

Welcome to 1982 creeps. Usually, I hate remakes. Once in a while there is a remake that actually has something to say or improves on an original film. John Carpenter's The Thing is probably the best remake ever made. In fact it's one of my favorite horror films ever. The original film is awesome but this one's got the scares in spades. So let's talk Halloween. Audiences in '82 went to see Halloween III thinking they were going to get more of Michael Myers killing teens but John Carpenter and co had another thing in mind. Super moody and spooky. Some people don't care for this sequel. I freaking love it. Then you got some wholesome family horror in Poltergeist. I saw it with my mom in the theater when I was a little kid. I was super scared and I loved every second of it. 

 1982

1. The Thing (Directed by John Carpenter)

IMDB plot: A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

2. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace)

IMDB plot: Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.

3. Poltergeist (Directed by Tobe Hooper)

IMDB plot: A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

Bonus film!!! Get out your murder gloves.

Tenebre (Directed by Dario Argento)

IMDB plot: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Dance Dance Execution, Hungry Hungry Hillbillies, and Synchronized Swimming Nazi Zombies. The Horrors of 1977.

We're starting to get into that territory where at least one film from each year happens to also be one of my top ten all time fave horror films ever. So begins my particular peak of horror obsession. These are the films which imprinted their blood-soaked flickering images on my impressionable baby weirdo mind. I was raised by this shit. Suspiria is my favorite foreign horror film hands down. It is also in my top five of all time fave horror films. It is a color-soaked fever dream of a creepy film. Plus the soundtrack by Goblin is my favorite film score period. Have I said the word favorite enough? Plus we got creepy cannibal hill people and underwater undead Nazis on the list. What's scarier than those things? Not much. 

1977

1. Suspiria (Directed by Dario Argento)

IMDB plot: An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

2. The Hills Have Eyes (Directed by Wes Craven)

IMDB plot: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

3. Shock Waves (Directed Ken Wiederhorn)

IMDB plot: Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.

Okay so my third pick was a bit of a curveball but I love watching it. (I don't believe in guilty pleasure, if you like it own it). See you tomorrow creeps for 1978. It's a doozy.