Secret Menu Items At Dracula Castle

 I made some spooky music for the holiday of Halloween. Hope you dig them! 

Unexplained Dearth

I think I made some spooky music maybe.

Doomed Moviethon Incidental Music

I made a tape! For years I have been making spooky and ambient background music for my YouTube channel. I collected all of it together in one sexy tape. I would be most honored if you checked it out in either digital or analog form on the Doomed Moviethon Bandcamp page. I'm not sure if your pets will like this music, but maybe you will!

The Slow Wizard Halloween Special

Recently I talked about how I've started a new YouTube channel for my music projects called The Slow Wizard. For the first ever Halloween Special, I filmed me twiddling some knobs! How is that different from any other episode of The Slow Wizard? That's a fair question! This time I used my Rob Zombie's Halloween II flag as a tablecloth. I can hear your oohs and ahs echoing from your caverns right now. I attempted to make these particular sounds to spookier than normal. Hopefully, I was successful! Before I go I just want to thank all of you who are still following this old blog. You are all amazing folks. Talk to ya later!

The Slow Wizard

Hi there, pals. I have started a new YouTube channel called The Slow Wizard. It's dedicated to my strange sound ventures. A little bit of background: I've been collecting guitar pedals and music gear for many years now and I thought that I needed a new venue to present my tinkering with such things. I'd be honored if you'd check it out and consider subscribing. While it's not exactly movie related, these sounds are directly inspired by the horror and cult film soundtracks I love so much. Season 1 of The Slow Wizard will focus more on guitar playing and guitar pedals while Season 2 will be all about them synths. Anyway, here's the first episode:

Melting Lumberjack

Sometimes people make sounds.This is a fact of life. And sometimes they see a movie depicting an alien abduction and never feel safe again. My pals at Misanthropic Syndicate have let yours truly outwardly stimulate the less than musical ideas I have packed into my head for what I call Melting Lumberjack. But that's just the title track of this miasma of weird. There's a lot of strange inhabiting this oddness. And I am inviting you to partake.

I've been working on this album in earnest for several months now but the title and many of the layers of sounds I use on it were recorded shortly before the pandemic and got shelved so that I could work on other things. I'm really proud of this weird little album and I'm especially grateful to my wife LeEtta for making the cover artwork. Please take a moment to check out her site. It's freakin' cool.

Bonus: There are some dialogue samples from films in Melting Lumberjack from titles like The House by the Cemetery, Don't Look in the Attic, and Grease 2, to name a few.

You can stream or download Melting Lumberjack right here.

Or just check out the teaser trailer:

My Horror Shelfie #9

It's true, the new episode of My Horror Shelfie is finally up! After 10 months and a ridiculous amount of weight gain (thanks, thyroid!), I finally was in the mood to get back into being in front of the camera. The real issue of course is computers. Seriously though, I hate video editing so much. I want to go back to VHS tape to tape editing but mailing you guys a tape every time an episode is finally finished is prohibitively expensive. As a little added bonus, I put all of the background music I've made for the Shelfie series up on Bandcamp. Give it a listen!

Oh and here's episode #8, in case you missed it:

Back in 2009, my buddy Nafa and I decided to start working on Fauxrror 2. Instead of a collection of tracks of fake horror movie scores (like the first Fauxrror), we decided to focus the album to only be about just one fake film. And that's how Laserdead came to be. The information we provided for the production and plot is ridiculously detailed and contradictory (maybe on purpose). And the music is just bizarre. So here it is in all of its strangeness. The album is only a dollar (feel free to pay more, I can't stop you!) and comes with posters like the one you see here and a PDF called A Brief History of Laserdead by yours truly. Proceeds from this will support Doomed Moviethon and Hello! This is the Doomed Show.

Click here for Fauxrror 2!

Been Sickly

Hey gang. I've been out sick from the world lately but fear not, I am recovering. Nothing that a little laparoscopic surgery can't fix! The only thing I've accomplished lately is putting editing this new episode of the Doomed Show. Jeffrey and I talked at length about Monster Dog from 1984 and friend of the show, Markky Karloff, made a cameo appearance. The film stars Alice Cooper and is directed by Mr. Troll 2 himself, Claudio Fragasso. So yeah, it's crazy.

Monster Dog episode link!

GYROJETS - Hallowed Friends Coming Soon!

How I Met Jason Voorhees

Let me set the scene:

It was 1986, I was 9 years old, I was in the hospital, and it was nighttime. In the morning, surgeons would remove my appendix -a procedure which I would wake up in the middle of and flail my arms around like a lunatic- but for the time being, I was watching television while tucked in my bed. Nurses came in repeatedly to check on me, make sure I wasn't eating or drinking anything, and constantly reminding me that I needed to go to sleep soon. For the life of me, I cannot remember what channel or what show I was watching but it may have been MTV or possibly USA's "Night Flight". Suddenly, they announced that there was a new Friday the 13th film in theaters and began to play a music video with clips from the movie.

The song was "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" by Alice Cooper. How much I knew of either Cooper or Jason Voorhees at that time was negligible at best. I hadn't yet had my brain happily poisoned with the first or second Friday the 13th films but their time was coming. So for now I just had this rad and wildly catchy song and rather intriguing clips from the fifth sequel of a franchise that so far -due to my young age- had escaped me. The memory of being tucked under a pile of blankets in an ice cold hospital room and seeing these two monsters for the first time is one that I cherish to this day.

And here is that music video:

No Trespassing

I made a music video for my pals The Prople. Try and guess all the horror film clips!

Hello! This is the Doomed Show Fundraiser October 2016

Hey there, folks! It's come to my attention that podcasts cost money. Damn it to hell. Why was I so naive? Just kidding! I was very proud that I went 5 years without spending a dime on anything other than recording equipment. So yeah, I started actually paying for bandwidth so that we could reach more people like you as well as not get podblocked by running out of storage and stuff. (I should probably coin the phrase "podblocked".)

So here is my grand idea for the first ever Doomed Show fundraiser drive. I have two albums of spooky music here for sale on the newly made Doomed Moviethon Bandcamp. First up is something I made especially for this fundraiser. It's called Alex & The Haunted Ice Cream Factory. It's an album of synthesizer and guitar weirdness that sets the mood for the bizarre plot (yes, the album comes with a plot). The other album for sale is Terror. This was previously a freebee from Goblinhaus if you bought the Fauxrror album. It's my tribute to films like Symptoms, Tomie, Fury of the Wolfman, etc. and features some rad dialog from the films mixed in with some bonkers soundscapes I made with synthesizers I found entirely online. I'm nothing if not resourceful.

Both albums are only $1 apiece but if you'd care to give more to support the show, we'll gladly accept it! Everything I make on these releases goes DIRECTLY to paying for the show's bandwidth and anything left over after that goes to pay for hosting Doomed Moviethon. The next Doomed Show fundraiser will be for some exclusive episodes of the show that'll be for sale and not in the normal feed. More about those later.

Here's the link to the albums!

Horror Movie Punk

Kraig Khaos of the Uncommon Interests podcast is putting out this fine slab of vinyl. He's now taking pre-orders for the record right here! You can also get the limited edition poster here!

FAUXRROR - Out Now On Goblinhaus Records!!

FAUXRROR (pronounced like 'Horror' but with an 'F') is a music project by my friends Nafa Fa'alogo, Zac Tomlinson, and myself. FAUXRROR makes music for horror films that don't exist. From Zombie Hitler to Vampire Ravers to Betsy the Bloody Harlot of the Brooklyn Morgue, we squeeze all the imaginary cult horror film goodness into every track that we can muster. Well gang, I am proud as hell to be telling you right now that Goblinhaus Records has released Fauxrror on CD! As an added bonus when you buy FAUXRROR, you get a free exclusive download of my new album called "Terror", my tribute to real horror movies! You know what that's called? That's called a DOUBLE WHAMMY, y'all! Here come the links:

You can get FAUXRROR here at Goblinhaus Records.

You can read about the fake films (FAUXnopses) and see the poster art (FAUXsters) right here at Doomed Moviethon.

For more spookiness, check out Goblinhaus.com!

"Doomed Moviethon" by The Prople

I managed to get out of the house long enough to see The Prople live! I was able to shoot some video of them and then immediately crawl back under my rock to make them a music video for their song, "Doomed Moviethon". Apparently, it is about Doomed Moviethon! I can't stress enough how honored I am to have a song dedicated to my friggin' website.

More from The Prople right here. Like them on the Faceplace.

Sodomatik Mixtape Volume 1

Sodomatik Extreme Gore Mixtape Volume 1
Running Time: 71 minutes

Sodomatik Extreme Gore Mixtape Volume 1 begins with a dying nun. She’s been stabbed multiple times and she eventually collapses. And we’re off. This collection of gore footage culls clips from Suicide Club to Evil Ed to Death Smiles at Murder to New York Ripper to Nekromantik 2 to the infamous Guinea Pig films, just to name very few. I guarantee you will see some friggin’ insane acts of brutality on this one. There were even times when I really, really wanted to look away. The “best parts” of Douglas Buck’s short film Cutting Moments are so brutal and so truly heart and gut wrenching (even out of context) that I felt my happy thoughts die a very slow death.

This is not for the faint of heart and nor is it for the squeamish. I’ve heard of people making gore compilations before but it never occurred to me to watch one or make one myself. Don’t get me wrong, I get a roller coaster charge from a good gore scene but I still love the rest of the movie surrounding the “money shot”. Atmosphere and weirdness still ride highest on my list of essential parts to a viewing experience and this gore compilation sacrifices those for visceral thrills.

Even though it sounds like I’m wussing out here, I did have a good time with this volume of ghastly and very wet delights. My only complaint is that the first half hour or so has a very interesting* selection of music while the last two thirds sticks with the soundtracks of the original films. I would have preferred to keep the music video vibe. Eventually, I just turned the sound off and listened to Carcass’s Symphonies of Sickness and Entombed’s Clandestine. Once again, death metal saves the day.

*Where else are you going to hear The Postal Service while someone’s head is being bashed into a bloody pulp?

Get more info right here.

The Angry Red Planet

The Angry Red Planet
Directed by Ib Melchior
Released: 1959
Starring Gerald Mohr, Laura Hayden, Jack Kruschen, Les Tremayne
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Studio: MGM



The MR-1, a missing rocket on a mission to the planet Mars, suddenly shows up in Earth's orbit. The military manages to land the rocket safely but it is discovered that only two of the mission's crew have survived their journey. One survivor is Colonel Tom Obannion (played by Gerald Mohr) who is suffering from an unidentifiable space infection. The other is Dr. Iris Ryan (Laura Hayden) but she is in shock from her experiences and cannot immediately relate her experiences. When Iris is ready to talk, we see what occurred on their mission to Mars.



I feel like I'm hijacking someone else's memories. I am not a child of the 1950s so why is Angry Red Planet part of my childhood? The fact is that this schlocky silliness has several great things going for it. The writing is stupid and the performances from the actors are hilarious. However, this film has atmosphere. One wouldn't think that something this cheesy and almost totally devoid of brains would be almost impossible to forget on a visual level. When the team finally gets out of the friggin' ship, they step onto an eerily silent, strangely lit planet brought to life with drawn backdrops and crazy filters.



Okay, The Angry Red Planet does have one major flaw and this is a problem for most sci-fi films of its era. This film takes forever to get to the good stuff. The cornball crap that happens can only distract a viewer for so long. It becomes all too clear that there isn't a whole lot to this movie. It is weird in the way, the story is related in flashback. At first Iris can't talk about what happened then the doctor recommends trying "narco-synthesis" to jog her memory. They go on to say that the story she'll tell won't be what actually happened. It will be distorted by her own memories. What? No, seriously. WHAT? I have no idea where the writers were going with that one.



I stumbled upon The Angry Red Planet sometime in the 80s. It captured my interest despite its slow start and stock footage. (My attention span used to be a whole lot more resilient to this type of junk.) For my kid self, the weird-looking scenes on the surface of Mars were almost unbearably tense. The stylized backdrops of the alien city look like something straight out of a comic book. And who can forget that insane monster? It's a cartoony bat with spider legs! Years later, I would see that very creature on a Misfits album cover.

"You know what I think? That thing up there... it's a flying coffin."

Skyhooks - "Horror Movie"

Enamarado de Frankenstein

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