October 14, 2007

Fear.net has made the move from reviewing and providing clips of horror movies into making their own. Their first effort, Devil's Trade, is complete, and offered for free online. It tells the tale of a cross made from pieces of a cursed tree, and the effect of the curse on the current owner of the cross. The current project is 30 Days of Night: Blood Trails, a tale of vampires in New Orleans. Episode 6 just recently premiered.

The 1953 animated short film of Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart (YouTube) stars the voices of Stanley Baker and James Mason, and was deemed culturally significant and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the US Library of Congress in 2001. Mikhail Baryshnikov dances with a lovely black-haired incarnation of death, and is ultimately led to his doom by her, in Le Jeune Homme Et La Mort. (YouTube) In a series of short segments, Day Off the Dead explores the romance of a pair of skeletons who fall in love in the afterlife. A little sentimental, a little sweet, a little funny, it's a nicely done stop-animation piece.

posted by Christophine 17 years ago
  • That Baryshnikov piece is what inspired me to take up dancing properly when I were a lass; haven't watched it since the tape wore through on the video. Thank you so much for linking, Christophine.
  • thank you. I just watched The Legend of Hell House last night, and The Devil's Backbone on thursday. I know it's October and all, but man have I been in a horror movie mood!! I'm going to have to spend some time on this site today, but first I have to do some work :P
  • There are some Barishikov pieces I could watch forever, including this one. Mothninja, you are/were a dancer? That makes sense based on the pictures I've seen of you.
  • I finally watched the Devil's Trade. I's a semi-amateur thing, but the script is pretty good and there was no need for CGI, etc. And, having lived in New Jersey, I can tell you that the Devil's Tree does exist.