Subject: Horror Films

• Fred Phelps, meet Jay and Silent Bob

  April 6, 2007

• Splatters From Kansas

  June 18, 2008

• Scream 3

  February 10, 2000

• Monster to eat you, most of Kansas

  We love a good horror movie, and the best, most affecting, are often the low-budget ones that come out of nowhere. See the production histories of Night of the Living Dead, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Halloween for further reference on that. This is why we're pulling for Lawrence-based SenoReality Pictures, who've got a movie called Nailbiter that they plan to finish this summer. The teaser trailer is already getting attention from gore hounds across the nation via horror sites li

  January 28, 2009

• None So Vile: The Wrath of Koktopus

  First Gornography, now Koktopus: Local metal acts really excel at turning two words into oneword. "I thought of the name as a joke," says Koktopus singer Fletch. "When we made up our minds that we were gonna roll with it and use it as some sort of mascot, we decided that the Koktopus needed to be a beast that was feared, like the Kraken or Godzilla. It had to be a brutal creature that created chaos and left destruction in its wake, the total opposite of a pussy." (This seems to make sense liter

  March 12, 2009

• Black Christmas

  September 28, 2006

• Adult

  October 12, 2006

• The Parent Trap

  July 12, 2007

• The Unborn

  January 8, 2009

• Spooky Lists

  October 23, 2008

• Baghead

  October 2, 2008

• One of Us

  September 25, 2008

• Terror on a shoestring

  May 8, 2008

• Izmore

  Vital
  (Self-released)

  April 10, 2008

• The Thing (From Another World)

  February 7, 2008

• Rex Turns Ten

  A local retrospective reminds mamas not to let their babies grow up to be Misery Boys.

  December 6, 2007

• You Kill Me

  October 11, 2007

• Splattered

  Will Death Sentence bring life to the revenge genre?

  August 30, 2007

• The Torturer Talks

  Chatting with Hostel Part II writer-director Eli Roth.

  June 14, 2007

• Diamonds in the Rough

  March 22, 2007

• The Spook Lights

  June 29, 2006

• Vampires of Moscow

  June 22, 2006

• Deep-Sixed

  June 1, 2006

• Look Away

  The Hills Have Eyes gets a bloody overhaul but nothing to recommend it.

  March 9, 2006

• Another Look at a Legend

  October 6, 2005

• Flight Risk

  Wes Craven takes a cue from Hitchcock aboard the Red Eye.

  August 18, 2005

• Quelle Horreur!

  The scariest thing about High Tension is the awful dubbing.

  June 9, 2005

• Scary Movies

  Lauren Burdolski livens up class.

  September 23, 2004

• Bus Stop

  Commuting is hell in this documentary.

  July 8, 2004

• The Cramps

  Thursday, May 29, at the Madrid Theatre.

  May 29, 2003

• Voodoo Organist

  Tuesday, June 10, at the Brick.

  June 5, 2003

• Horror in the Heartland

  Ghoul lovers haunt Kansas City at this weekend's World Horror Convention.

  April 17, 2003

• Prom Night Fever

  Kansas City is, like, prom central -- and it's all on film.

  April 3, 2003

• High Stakes

  A new theater company burns with enthusiasm.

  January 16, 2003

• Mr. One-Man Show

  David Cross is funny as hell. So why isn't he laughing?

  November 21, 2002

• Dust and Bones

  An undead Snoop Dogg becomes a horror cliché.

  October 25, 2001

• Hannibal Minus One

  Hopkins without Foster just doesn't equate.

  February 8, 2001

• Misery Missing

  On Figure 8, Elliott Smith becomes a one-man Fab Four.

  November 2, 2000

• The sick sense

  Scary Movie

  July 6, 2000

• Psycho killer

  Squeaky-clean '80s star Huey Lewis tries to keep blood off his hands by asking to be removed from the American Psycho soundtrack.

  April 20, 2000

• American Psycho

  April 20, 2000

• The redemption of Bret Easton Ellis

  A decade ago, the American Psycho author was vilified. Now, he could launch a franchise.

  April 13, 2000

• Here on Earth

  March 30, 2000

• Around Hear

  March 23, 2000

• The Ninth Gate

  March 16, 2000

• Macabre Cinema

  October 15, 2009

• Download Wayward Blog's Halloween Mix, Part Four

  Halloween is my favorite time of year. I spend ages obsessing over costumes, Halloween Spirit makes its appearance, and I get to hit up every store in town for spooky Halloween decorations (or, as we refer to them in our household, "decorations"). The best part of this holiday for me, however, is the music. I have have scads of music that relates to Halloween, and for the past few years, I used my radio program, Sunglasses After Dark, to showcase it. Well, that ended when I graduated, so I was

  October 23, 2009

• Kansas City the Horror Movie

  My colleague, Casey Lyons, told me about this trailer for an upcoming horror movie set in Kansas City. The plot is familiar. An idealistic couple played by Nikki and Dennis Dupont move here only to have their dreams destroyed and sink into despair and mediocrity. Happy Halloween, folks!

  October 30, 2009

• Now you have plans for the weekend

  Thank you Record Bar, for pepper-infused vodka. ​You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved.Weird things always happen on Friday the 13th. So you might as well embrace the spookiness and get to Californos for its Haunted Bar. Scary movies are promised at the Westport haunt for the freaky evening that kicks off at 10 p.m. If you're still figuring out what to serve for Thanksgiving, Off the Vine Design & Cellar can help with a Thank

  November 13, 2009