It’s Always On and Always Watching

movies_2001_a_space_odyssey_hal_9000_desktop_1280x800_wallpaper-320681

Source

This is going to be some real talk about some real-life horror we all live with.

My first video game console was a hand-me-down Atari 2600, which was pawned off to me when my cousins heard about the NES. I had never played a video game in my life and my initial reaction was what you might expect:

“This is the future.”

(more…)

Wednesday Weirdness

Weird

Weird (4)

Good evening everyone! Man, have I been busy. If you are a friend on Facebook or follow on Twitter you may have seen a hint of the project I’ve taken on recently. Needless to say it’s the most ambitious Scarydad project so far! It’s also very time consuming. Because it’s taking up so much of my time and current estimates are at least another week before it’s done, I’m going to post it in three parts. I’ll begin when I finish the first part. Paint takes a really long time to dry sometimes.

In the meantime enjoy your weekly dose of weirdness!

SD

(more…)

Interview with Alex Gianinni, Author of the Gothic Children’s Book: Sarah Faire and the House at the End of the World

Sarah Faire One

 

Back when Victoria interviewed Amber at Southern Gothica, you may have noticed the picture of the bear and the book. The bear is a character in a Gothic childrens’ book entitled Sarah Faire and the House at the End of the World. Now, I didn’t realize this when I was posting pics for that article. I just thought it looked cool. Well, Amber put me in touch with Alex, and he and I chatted about Sarah Faire.

(more…)

No Post Tonight. Doing Stuff.

Hello there. This post is meant to inform you that there will not be a post tonight. This is because I am busy making things to inspire, and amaze you and I can’t be two places at once. I know some of you cannot survive a Monday evening without a new post from Scarydad, so that’s why I made this post explaining the lack of a post.

I don’t want you to die. Yet.

 

I hope you understand.

Reel Scary: How The Conjuring Raises the Bar for American Horror

Conjuring_poster

(Source)

Good afternoon Minions!

Today we have another guest post from our good friend London McGuire! Enjoy!

After watching a great deal of horror movies over the years, my standards for a truly frightening film have been raised considerably. It becomes second nature to dismiss all of Hollywood’s attempts in the genre as meaningless reboots and blood-drenched farces. Perhaps that is why it seems impossible not to take notice of the few films which tell an original story worth hearing, that utilize the best elements of classic horror and are actually scary.

(more…)

First signs of Halloween

Blurry like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. But I assure you it's real!
Blurry like the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. But I assure you it’s real!

I was in a Walgreens today and saw the first signs of eventual October. I don’t think you people realize how happy this makes me. It means several things.

First, that I’m that much closer to the end of another deadly summer of sweating and heat and murderous hatred for the world and everything in it.

Halloween DecorationsSecond, that frickin’ HALLOWEEN is looming and that means projects and parties and scary movies and dark beers and cigars and caramel apples and candy and costumes and makeup and renaissance festivals and turkey legs and outdoor concerts and pumpkins and pumpkin spiced coffee and pumpkin pie and new season of Walking Dead and the scents of latex and paint and plywood and Charlie Brown and Jack o’ Lanterns and ghosts and goblins and witches and devils and so much more!

Third, that I’m that much closer to meeting my little Spawn of Scarydad Part 2!!!

It’s going to be an awesome season. Projects will resume shortly!!!

How “Collectors” have ruined collecting stuff

One Saturday morning in the very early eighties, I was watching cartoons and eating Honey Nut Cheerios. It was still dark outside and my parents and sister weren’t up yet and this commercial came on and changed my life:

At some point I believe I had just about every MOTU figure and vehicle there was to get and I had duplicates of some of them. Later on it was Gi-Joe, Thundercats, Super Powers, Transformers, and then Rambo. (I already had a bunch of Star Wars stuff.)

(more…)

Superman

http://youtu.be/15mCXhELNzM

Well, I guess the new Man of Steel movie was pretty good. Or so I’ve heard. Unfortunately I don’t get out to the movies very often these days. It’s something I doubt I’ll be able to remedy any time soon as I’m about to double up on my no time for movie watchingness. It’s a rough life.

Long before MoS came out the net was a flutter with discussions about Superman and how they were going to make him cool again. They had their gritty Batman, true, but Batman is just one guy to be taking on The Avengers (as a team and as individuals), the X-Men, and Spiderman.

profile-I-m-the-Juggernaut-Bitch-025_21649
Pictured: Marvel Studios

Just what was Warner going to do to make Supes compelling? I haven’t seen the movie so I’m not sure but from the looks of it, I guess they came up with “angsty.” And it’s a big hit and everyone seems happy with it all so I suppose that’s that.

Except it’s not that. What’s going to happen is that they’re going to have to find a way to keep him interesting now to keep the franchise going and to do that someone is going to have to get creative. And what’s the best way to develop a godlike character that’s completely invincible and has an incorruptible morality? (more…)