tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11614753627591265172024-03-19T05:41:46.964+02:00Chamber of HorrorsThe eclectic delights of horror and decadent romanticism...gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-40537856321140198932013-12-03T10:57:00.000+02:002013-12-03T10:57:30.984+02:00Sleepy Hollow is the first of many...
First things first, we are still here and we are not going anywhere, we might have been silent for a while but that is about to change, drastically.
And now to more important things, September and October to me always felt like Christmas, it's the time when most things start and unfortunately, sometimes, others end. So let the games begin and for the kickoff I have something surprising.
morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-48443221148707634342013-05-27T19:58:00.000+03:002013-05-27T19:58:50.337+03:00Hemlock Grove
Let me start by saying, I love Netflix! Not having to wait 3 to 6 months to watch an entire season; seriously, what could be better than that? I would also like to welcome it to the horror family.
Hemlock Grove is a brand new and horror adjacent. I say adjacent because it's not going to give you any scares, but vampires, werewolves and strange creatures are definitely on the menu.
The morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-13177036359601002772012-12-13T13:35:00.000+02:002012-12-13T13:35:28.811+02:00The Eclectic Delights of Interactive Horror
Horror in computer and video games, the titular interactive horror, is unsurprisingly something that can be incredibly effective. Probably has something to do with the medium's ability to suck you in and fully immerse you in its digital worlds I suppose, but you could actually discover this for yourselves wise readers.
Me and Kyttaro Games, you see, have put together an indie gaming bundle gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-72849439440039604722012-11-12T12:08:00.002+02:002012-11-12T12:08:47.238+02:00Park Avenue Hell
In the shadows even the most innocent things can reveal their evil side.
One of the things that caught my eye was the transformation of a simple number, a symbol of good fortune actually in some eastern countries, into the very essence of evil in western ones.
New series quite promising so far playing around with the eon old idea of hell's master on earth. Some have everything, some morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-3702407598943154922012-10-23T12:29:00.000+03:002012-10-23T12:29:45.279+03:00ASYLUM
It's back!
Autumn has come and with it every little pleasure and torture that we've missed; even a couple of new ones!
I know we have been silent for very long, but all that is about to change.
I can't speak for Gnome, but my reason for keeping quiet for so long was because I was impatiently waiting for it to begin. It didn't feel right writing about anything else.
It's here and morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-70805505753519748032012-07-13T15:50:00.000+03:002012-07-13T15:50:01.106+03:00The Shadow Out Of Time Movie
The Shadow Out Of Time by H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most interesting of Loveraft's short stories and one of his incredibly rare works that express political ideas. What's more, it has also been adapted to glorious movie form and you can enjoy the 15 brilliant minutes of the thing above. It's definitely worth your time.gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-27830174622983990812012-07-02T18:39:00.003+03:002012-07-02T18:39:47.750+03:00Top 5 Best Horror Series
This season has come to an end and with it all my hopes of entertainment for the hateful summer to come (as far as TV is concerned of course). So finding myself in dire need of a distraction and in an attempt to prove to our readers that we shall never silence, I venture two sets of top fives with the best and, my personal favorite, the worst horror related TV series of the year!
So I morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-28516745374720529752012-03-15T09:34:00.000+02:002012-03-15T09:34:28.015+02:00The River
This was one of the things I convinced myself not to write about during my dark days. I'm glad I did.
After watching the first episode I certainly wasn't expecting to get carried away by the flood; I pretty much wanted to escape with a handmade raft!
I must admit though that I did change my mind after watching a couple more. I was a bit put off with the all "magic is out there" thing at morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-15036952399903869452012-02-28T15:54:00.000+02:002013-06-07T22:02:53.872+03:00Death Valley and the horrors of horror
There are many side effects to being deprived of actual human contact as well as many days of constant fever. One of those side efects is hating everything new you see or read.
So, after careful consideration I've decided not to post anything I' m not absolutely sure about. (And believe me I've seen a lot these past few days).
I've seen films that deserve a closer look -given my state morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-53980886695657079372012-01-09T13:44:00.005+02:002012-01-09T16:33:21.153+02:00Classics for a New Year
Happily all the X-mas joy is finally gone. Sadly though, the end of the previous year called for the ending of the only thing I actually liked watching. So after the last Christmas episode of the season of my newly favorite American Horror Story I found myself looking for solace.
Nothing could comfort me, no books, no games, nothing. There was nothing left to do but turn to the morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-52960925427807243962011-12-19T15:37:00.002+02:002011-12-19T15:38:25.203+02:00Neil Gaiman's Dark and Festive Poem39 Degrees North Presents: Nicholas Was from 39 Degrees North on Vimeo.
Make that Neil Gaiman's dark, festive and animated poem and you'll have made one more tiny step towards truth. Oh, and do click that play button on the video posted above and enjoy that wonderful thing Morella discovered, for it is indeed a thing of macabre, lyrical and gloriously animated beauty. It might also help make gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-68318042372162246742011-12-07T23:46:00.005+02:002011-12-08T10:16:16.964+02:00American HORROR Story
It took me months to get my hands on it, but now that I have finally done so, I don't think I'll ever let go!
Once I got wind of American Horror Story I was mortified to sit and watch because I was up to here with all those second class series claiming to belong to the horror genre. So it obviously took me too long to decide to actually give it a go.
I wasn't expecting much; actually Imorellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-47530792626735343842011-11-07T20:55:00.001+02:002011-11-07T20:55:21.249+02:00Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
We all grew up listening under our covers, time and time again, to the same bed time stories. Fairy tales about misunderstood monsters, love scorned witches, hungry wolves and all kinds of dark and troubled creatures, and battles between good versus evil in which good always prevailed.
What if not all of those stories were, indeed, stories? What if there was not only a little, but a lot of morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-71120241338522547692011-10-31T09:29:00.001+02:002011-10-31T09:29:23.754+02:00Fuck Vampires!
Discovering quality writers in the vast cyberspaces of, err, cyberspace isn't the easiest of tasks and that, dear readers, is where Chamber of Horrors will come in handy by suggesting you read the excellent Fuck Vampires by Jonas Kyratzes. It's a rare short story that attempts to bring horror into the age of the crisis and writing much more about it would only result in spoilers. All you needgnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-54525151022950602202011-09-19T16:33:00.001+03:002011-09-19T16:33:52.425+03:00They' re back!
How long has it been since you saw a good vampire movie? It's been ages for me! Nothing really seemed to quench my thirst for those adorable bloodthirsty beasts. Besides, what has always been a disappointment was the way vampires had been portrayed those past few years.
Why are they always presented with human emotions?
Why is there always an inner struggle to remain as human as possible?
morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-22811055258508454982011-09-09T11:04:00.000+03:002011-09-09T11:04:42.840+03:00We are not quite dead yet
In fact we can actually post. See the lovely and lovingly animated short movie posted above? It's all the proof one would ever need. And it's all about Lovecraft's horrors too.
gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-76136993272331149712011-07-12T17:43:00.001+03:002011-07-12T17:44:14.019+03:00Remember Friday the 13th?
Lately I've been thinking a lot about when I was younger. Maybe it's the summer, the heat or even overexposure ti the sun always making me feel reminiscent; whatever the reason I found myself thinking about years past. I tried to remember what were the series I used to look forward to watching and then I remembered!
Every Friday night at about 11 o'clock me and my brother would get undermorellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-68967263555808099942011-05-09T15:52:00.000+03:002011-05-09T15:52:08.390+03:00The CubeImagine waking up completely bewildered amongst people you had never set eyes upon till then. Confined in a place that could only be described as a white room similar to nothing you had ever seen, with no doors, no windows, no traces of escape.
No-one seemed important, yet everyone was special in his or her own way. Trying to make sense of it all, trying to comprehend the aim of the game, trying morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-87160752104000746532011-04-29T12:10:00.000+03:002011-04-29T12:10:07.935+03:00Miss Lovecraft teaches Sex Ed
John Cleese's sex ed class in the Meaning of Life remains of course unsurpassed, but the short film posted above does indeed come close. And does go for the rather original Lovecraftian mood too, but I guess I'd better not spoil it for you. All you have to do to watch the truly odd Late Bloomer by Craig McNeill is press the play button. It wont take long dears... gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-21087778731163536812011-03-15T12:43:00.000+02:002011-03-15T12:43:44.098+02:00The Whisperer in the Darkness - a reviewIt's not everyday one gets to attend a worldwide premiere, but it seems the stars were perfectly aligned and I happily got to watch The Whisperer in the Darkness in a way I never expected to: in a proper movie-theater. And yes, I am indeed referring to the brand new, black and white cinematic take one the eponymous, brilliant and quite famous story by H.P. Lovecraft, that the gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-60728512593110595542011-02-24T13:18:00.000+02:002011-02-24T13:18:24.088+02:00The Hammer Studios DocumentaryHammer's very British and very brilliant Hammer Horror movies are, as all of us are quite aware, some of the most iconic and timeless series of scary movies ever produced. So, uhm, I do (for various undisclosable reasons) believe the time to watch a pretty amazing 1987 BBC documentary that traces the history of Hammer Studios has come. Make some tea, bake a couple biscuits, find some spare gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-80215091541599325242011-02-09T14:00:00.000+02:002011-02-09T14:00:37.353+02:00It's all about the musicI have been struggling with the notion of writing about something completely different for weeks now! We have been informing you about books, short stories, films, games, TV series and more, but we have never even mentioned music in this blog. I know you're thinking this is a blog about everything horrid; not about music. Bare with me though.
How many times have we seen a film or a series and morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-40627281402196143462011-01-27T13:38:00.000+02:002011-01-27T13:38:19.417+02:00Divis Mortis and the Zombie ApocalypseDivis Mortis: an interactive survival game is, quite surprisingly, an interactive survival game that gives players a slim chance at surviving the zombie apocalypse. What's more, this being a particularly well written piece of interactive fiction (a text adventure, if you prefer) it actually manages to feel realistic and tense. Divis Mortis is a game without a graphics and thus a game that doesn'tgnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-46664930657194351572011-01-18T13:28:00.000+02:002011-01-18T13:28:28.565+02:00At the Mountains of MadnessAt the Mountains of Madness is one of the rare, yet always magnificent, novellas by H.P. Lovecraft. It was written back in 1931 and is rightly considered among Lovecraft's greatest oeuvres. Set in the Antarctic, the Mountains of Madness is a brilliant tale of cosmic horror, that casts a wild view at archaeology, provides with more than a few ancient horrors and still manages to terrify gnomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03497613771780431048noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1161475362759126517.post-60680935628427351292011-01-05T12:41:00.000+02:002011-01-05T12:41:11.491+02:00A way to say we are sorry...Holidays are finally over. So it’s time we all went back to our lives as before. I know that there was a big promise breaking from our part so this is me trying to make up for it.
We had promised a top ten list about scary Christmas stories that were never posted. Our sincere apologies for that, I just hope that the following piece can make up for it. Since the post was promised to satisfy morellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00612166532636526052noreply@blogger.com5