Schlocktober Update.

For some reason my original schlocktober entry took four days to post. Today I watched number 5. THE Final Destination.

First things first. I hate movie sequels that name themselves the original title and just add The to it. That is THE stupidest thing ever. Secondly, this series was a one-trick pony with the first movie years and years ago. It is the exact same thing every time. Some one has a vision of his gory, over-the-top-death, and saves people. Death comes for them.

After the first one, the whole point is how are they going to kill people now.

This one is true schlock. This one was horrible. I’ve avoided all these Final Destination movies after seeing the second installment. Horror movies work the first time. Sometimes a sequel does just as well, but oftentimes not. Slashers, like Final Destination (although arguably not slashers because the lack of a slasher type killer) have one trick. I don’t care how many times you show that trick over and over, it’s still just one trick.

Update

1. Blacula

2. In Search of the Real Wolfman

3. The 13th Guest

4. House of Wax (1952)

5. THE Final Destination

 

Please if you read this blog. Skip THE Final Destination and any sequels made from the franchise from this point on. It’s the same thing over and over and over and over and over.

 

Darkly,

Vic Kerry

Welcome to Schlocktober.

It’s October, the holy month of all horror writers and fans alike. A tradition I started a few years ago was watching a whole lot of horror films during the month that ends with Halloween. Last year, I tried the feat of 31 movies in 31 days, and failed miserably. This year I’m just shooting for 31 movies. So far I’ve gotten to one. I also that this year, I’m going to view sclock. Forget the good classics. I’m going for the campy, outrageous and plain dumb.

So, I started off with the 1972 classic, Blacula. His bite is out of sight.  Yes indeed. This is blaxpolation at its finest. All the Afros you can throw a stake at, and the greenest Honky vampires you will ever see. To follow up a documentary about the Beast of Geveudan in France. The acting is schlocky. After that an oldy goldy from the 1930s with a white Sambo character called the 13th Guest. I have no idea what it was about I had a hard time following it. I caught the great Vincent Price in House of Wax on AMC. Wonderful Camp.

This Schlocktober

1. Blacula.

2. In Search of the Real Wolfman

3. The 13th Guest

4. House of Wax (1952)

Darkly,

Vic Kerry

Help Wanted: On the Job horror anthology.

I’ve been excited about my story “New Orleans’ Best Beignets” coming out in Help Wanted: On the Job Horror. It’s finally out and I am very very pleased. This book has a great line up of writers that I feel a little bit awed at being in a book with.  Heres the amazon link http://www.amazon.com/HELP-WANTED-Tales–Job-Terror/dp/0615536352/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316549224&sr=1-7.

 

Darkly,

Vic Kerry

Let’s see what a reader from Amazon.com has to say.

I recently had a story come out in Pill Hill Press’ It was a Dark and Stormy Night… anthology. It was book of horror story/movie parodies. I was very proud to have “Pabst Blue Ribbon Moon” appear in this book. The story even got me recognized by the editor Shane McKenzie at WHC 2011 in Austin, TX. Well, he recognized by real name, but when I told him that I was Vic Kerry, he was like, “I loved that story.”

So, being the attention hog that I am, I google my name every now and then. Sometimes I check on anthologies featuring my work on Amazon.com. Today I found a review by a reader.  He had this to say about yours truly (or darkly if you will and even if you won’t) and “Pabst Blue Ribbon Moon.”

 

Vic Kerry’s `Pabst Blue Ribbon Moon’ is redneck humor at its best. Werewolves
aren’t the only thing to fear during a Full Moon.

I’m glad of this review because it was exactly what I was going for.

 

Darkly,

Vic Kerry

Back for an extended period of time.

I’m back to keeping up with this thing again. I’ve been on and off because of many things, but I’m going to try my hardest to keep up to date. I’m not finished with Shakespeare yet, but I will be very soon.

Other things going on.  It’s been a productive summer outside of teaching many classes. I’ve had several stories published and some waiting to be. The most exciting is “New Orleans’ Best Begients” coming out in the Help Wanted anthology. There are a lot of big names in horror in this anthology. I’m excited to be in such company. I’ll post a link to the publisher when it is in print, so that you can rush out and buy it.

I’m back to writing now. I’ve put my novel in progress off for a bit as I work on a novella that has my total attention currently. I have another novella I’m working on as well and a short story I want to get out. Everything is getting its time. Right now the current novella needs to be finished the quickest.

As far as reading, I’m working on Burn, Witch Burn, a classic of horror that most haven’t heard of. I’ll give it a post when I’m done.

I need to get back to actual writing. I’ve only don 117 words of my 1,000 word commitment for today, and it’s 10 pm.

Until next time.

Darkly,

Vic Kerry

Possum H. Puss Lovecraff (February 2007-August 16, 2011).

So my cat came to a bad end yesterday. My father’s dog, who he’d trained to be vicious, busted into my house and killed him, brutally. It happened while I was mowing the grass. I had no idea until I came into the house after finishing up, to horrible mess.

My cat was Possum H. Puss Lovecraff. He loved Lovecraft, beef, and “Love Shack”. He wasn’t the nicest cat in the world but was so full of personality, it was difficult to keep in mind that he was just a cat and not something more. I raised him four weeks up. He ate goat milk at first and ended up in the end weighing almost 20 pounds. He was a beautiful cat with long hair and big blue eyes.

The worst part of it all was that he was my muse in so many ways. I used him to craft the Vic Kerry persona. He was my voice box in so many things, as I gave him monologue. Right now, it is hard to think about writing creatively, and so I using this obituary to state to anyone who reads this that I’m going to be gone for a little while. I know that I’ve been absent a lot this summer, but I’m taking a short hiatus from writing to sort some things out.  I’ll be back though.

And today more than usual.

Darkly,

Vic

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is one of my favorite plays, but I don’t really know why. It had been a while since I read this one. I took interest in it way back in 1999 or 2000 when 10 Things I Hate About You came out. I read it then. Now I will say this, it was not exactly what I remembered.

I had forgotten that is a frame play. Actually it’s a play within a play. The whole story is fictional from the onset. It is performed for a bum that people are playing a practical joke on. I also forgot the blatant spousal abuse in this play. Really this could be called better living through wife beating. The whole way that the Shrew (Katerina) is tamed is by being abused by her husband. It was Shakespeare’s Stepford Wives.  I guess it could be called the Padua Wives or the Merry Wives of Padua.

My attitude changed a little bit toward this play. My alter ego has lived a different life than many. He spent time teaching anger management to the perps of domestic violence, so it changes the way this play is read.

Much like the S&P downgraded America’s credit rating, I’ve downgraded this play to the second tier of enjoyable plays.

Read it anyway.

Darkly (counting the ways I loathe thee)

Vic Kerry