Welcome to the Goat Cult.

So I was contacted by someone on TwiX killer Bluesky. (follow me: https://bsky.app/profile/corpsecandy.bsky.social ) asking me if I'd be interested in checking out their short film. They told me it was about goat cults and I said "sure, why not. I'd love to check it out." A few messages and a few days later I recieved a DVD in the mail. The film in question is La Cabra by Toruga Productions. Here's the blurb from their youtube page: "Set in 1974, this atmospheric short horror film depicts the story of Laura, a child who has an affinity for goats. As this macabre tale unfolds, we see Laura drawn deep into the forest to commune with the Great Hooved He-Goat.Music by Alicia Fricker, with kind permission of David Amito - Antrum."

I rather enjoyed this under 15 minute short film. I was nicely shot and gives retro folksy spooky vibes. I watched it late at night on my 13" Sony CRT television which I think gave it a more "vintage" feel and I think it would sit nicely with Piers Haggard's 1971 folk horror film The Blood on Satan's Claw. Cults and devils and spooky kids are usually a recipe for good things and La Cabra delivers.

Here's the film in its entirety from Toruga Production youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@Toruga.Productions

https://www.facebook.com/TorugaProductions/

Stephen King's IT - 1990 ABC Televison Premiere

Stephen King's IT premiered on ABC television on November 18th 1990. It scared the hell out of me and made me rightfully distrust clowns. Here in all of it's glory with origianl commercials 

Candy and Corpses TV presents: Stephen King's IT

 

The Night HE Came Home - Halloween (1979) Television Premiere NBC 10/30/81

The night HE came home! I was 7 years old when my family gathered in the downstairs wood paneled rec-room to watch the Halloween tv premiere of Halloween. SHAPED me into who I am today.

 

Want To Watch A Scary Movie?

Will the real Scary Movie please stand up? So... I like to think of myself as a pretty serious horror hound. I mean, I would kill on your horror movie trivia night team. It's not too often that I come across a film that has slipped past me and seems to have laid there forgotten on the long abandoned video store shelves of my mind. A VHS tape with an image that I had seen but never rented laying there covered in rat shit and cobwebs for decades. Over the years I have gorged myself on every scary film that I could get my hands on but life goes by fast and once in a while salient bits of fright fall through the cracks. 

So what happens when someone steals your name and then finds success becoming part of the mind numbing, dumbed down cultural zeitgeist of the coming decade. After all you are a nobody. No-one remembers you and your smallness.  You go from forgotten to nearly non-existent. 

If I ask have you ever seen Scary Movie what if the first thing that pops into your mind. 99 out of 100 people will recall the Scream Ghostface character sticking out his tongue and saying "Wazzzup!". I mean fuck, I would've said the same thing yesterday. Now, I'm not here to shit on those movies (okay a little bit) but those were the beginning of some dark times in horror. I like a good "poop your pants" joke like any other 10 year old would but holy hell this was some stupid shit. A lot of "slip on a banana peel humor" for the masses to lose brain cells with. That said, they are some really funny bits in them, but watch at your own risk. Maybe read a book or something afterwards to cleanse yourself and regain a few brain cells.

(NO SPOILERS, dont worry.) Anyways, Scary Movie (1991) is a total Halloween treat. Weirdo main character Warren is a paranoid, jumpy lil dude played by rad genre actor John Hawks. Him and his buddy (who is a total prick) go on a double date to a rad, rickety house of horrors on Halloween night. So Warren's date shows up (it's a blind date set up by his idiot friend) and she's kinda weird and has giant bangs and likes to steal salt shakers from restaurants. They seem to get along alright I guess except he just stares into space and doesn't talk to her her. Unfortunately her biker gang bad boy ex-boyfriend is there with his bad boy cronies and he's bad and has a knife. I hope nobody gets stabbed.

Meanwhile a mental patient from the local Asylum for the Crimimally Insane has escaped nearby and the local police are trying to hunt him down.  I sure hope he doesn't hide in the house of horrors. So that is the set up. Gore and electrocution and dismemberment and carnys with crazy hair, and little kids with Wolfman dolls, and wandering cows. Yeah, it's a good and weird time.

Thank the gods for independent film labels that dust you off and lovingly restore you to your original glory. AGFA, American Genre Film Archive did just that with a beauty of a blu-ray that's still available at Tomb of Treasure and Diabolik DVD and other weirdo film retailers. I think it's also streaming on TUBI as of posting this right now. Give yourself a Halloween treat and have a watch.

The 2024 Candy and Corpses Strychnine Awards!!!

 

Welcome creeps and fiends. There has been a lot of shit talk on the socials the past few days regarding Variety's Top 100 Horror Films of All Time list. Some of it unfair but most of it completely deserved. Like who the hell puts The Human Centipede 2 anywhere near a top 100 list unless it's a top 100 Human Centipede list? Suspiria at #99, go f**k yourself. How the hell is Black Christmas not even on the list? Now, I'm not mad at Texas Chainsaw Massacre at #1. It is one of the truly scarest films of all time. I'm not mad at The Exorcist, also one of the scariest films of all time. Mostly everything else is so out of whack. Anyways, enough of that normy media nonsense. We're here to give praise to the horrible. 

The Best Misuse of Gardening Shears on a River Raft Award goes to...

Congratulations goes to... The Burning (1981) 

Turns out when you set your summer camp caretaker on fire as a joke things arent going to so well for you. Attention camp counsellers, please keep your fingers and toes inside the raft at all times.

The Candy and Corpses Halloween SPOOKTACULAR V

 Hello my fellow fiends. Another spooky season is upon us and your ghoul over here at Candy and Corpses has gone deep into the depths of Halloween and horrors past to spew another SPOOKTACULAR for your creepy consumption. Behold!!! The Candy and Corpses Halloween SPOOKTACULAR V!!!!!!!

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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Final Girl Friday. JJ Rocks Manhattan.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Vancouver... um I mean Manhattan. AKA Jason Goes Out for a Slice. Okay, so this rowdy outing for our rotting hockey-masked big boy was not his best but people do not give this film enough credit. While it may not be the scariest of the bunch it definitely has enough weirdness and (perhaps unintentional) humor to keep you entertained. I mean, Jason literally punches a guy's head off and kicks a pack of hoodlums in the boombox. My one gripe with the film is that they got the final girl all wrong. Despite having all these murdery visions and whatnot final girl Rennie was kinda boring. She's like a grown-up Tommy Jarvis-lite. I would've preferred guitar wielding rocker chick JJ. Not only does she have great hair she could've wielded her axe (ie: guitar) as a deadly weapon. That would've taken the film to a whole other level.

I Sea Monsters, #Spooky, Haunted Grandma. The Horrors of 2020.

Happy Halloween all you ghosts and goblins. We finally made it. Day 61 of the Candy and Corpses Halloween Horror Countdown. That's my top three films (plus lots of bonus films) a day starting with the year 1960 and up. That's a whole lot of spooky. Yes, this year has been awful and challenging but at least we've have some good fun film scares to drown out the real scares for a minute. We had underwater Cthulhu, zoom meetings gone horribly wrong, and grandma is being creepy again. I hope you all have a safe and spooky Halloween. Eat lots of candy, put on your creepiest costume, and watch lots of scary movies. Until next time! xoxo

2020

1. Underwater (Directed by William Eubank)

IMDB plot: A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

2. Host (Directed by Rob Savage)

IMDB plot: Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.

3. Relic (Directed by Natalie Erika James)

IMDB plot: A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home.

Bonus Films!!! Surprisingly in a year pretty sparse in horror films there were quite a few films I really enjoyed. Native zombie apocalypse and wolf cops galore.

Blood Quantum (Directed by Jeff Barnaby)

IMDB plot: The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Directed by Jim Cummings)

IMDB plot: Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.

Well hell. Here we are. This is the end. For now. xoxo