Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

It Came In Peace

This Saturday morning, let's cartoonically commemorate the whole end of the world madness of 2012 with a cautionary tale.  The animation team at Dice Productions presents: "It Came in Peace":     That's just a hint at their creative genius. Dice Productions has this thing about small things in big places and vice versa. You should also take a gander at their award-winning, touchingly gross full-length feature, All Consuming-Love (Man in a Cat).  
December 21, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

The Cat With Hands by Robert Morgan

Maybe you wouldn't call this a cartoon, but I don't care, because you need to see this. The Cat with Hands (2001) is an awesome short film by award-winning British filmmaker Robert Morgan, mixing live action and animated wax in a very uncanny and disturbing way. Film Threat magazine called it "mandatory viewing for anyone who wants to write a horror movie. Not because of what Robert Morgan does, but because of what he doesn’t do." True. But I'd say what he does accomplish in this film is also just as brilliant. Morgan's latest film is Bobby Yeah (see review…
December 15, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News

Something in Your Ear for Christmas

If you haven't been listening to the 6'+ ('six foot plus') podcast, you've been missing out on some weird, strange and spooky music -- from psychobilly to demented surf to horror spoken word. The latest episode (#45: "The Holidays are Horrible") includes a track from my CD, Audiovile, called "Little Stocking Stuffers" -- and it's neat to hear how well it fits in with the rest of the battery of horrifying holiday beats. Stream it online, or subscribe via iTunes. If you dig it, be sure to check out Audiovile -- download it on iTunes or buy a CD for…
December 14, 2012Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Coming Soon: Diabolique 14

Last month, Diabolique (the magazine of "Horror for the Connoisseur") included my short-short, "Convictions" (an excerpt from 100 Jolts), in their fabulous Christmas horror issue. The magazine looks fantastic on an ipad, and you could get your hands on it immediately if you have one of those -- or you can also subscribe to the print version, which is a finely produced glossy mag out there. It's as good as any Rue Morgue or Fangoria, only with it's own editorial vision that seems to really emphasize the genre more broadly defined, including coverage of hidden gems in film and TV,…
December 14, 2012Posted inArnzen News
Posted inDictionscary

phlegm

Phlegm rhymes with gem, stem, and them...words that sound normal enough. In fact, it wouldn't be such a disgusting word if it weren't for that perfectly placed letter "g" -- that most mucousy of consonants that we can only sound out by constricting the back of our throats. Yet it's also the one letter in the word we do not pronounce -- as if we DARE not pronounce it. For if we ever did, green sputum would gurgle from between our lips like something vile burping up from a sewer drain. It is a perfect word. Perfectly disgusting. It's very…
December 14, 2012Posted inDictionscary