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Twilight: The Doll, Twilight: The Novel, Twilight: The Shopping Spree

TWILIGHT's Rachelle Lefevre goes shopping with MySpace Celebrity

Such vapidity repels like garlic. But, such vapidity is aristocratic like 'dem blood-hording wampyres.

Moychandising!

Osmotic Pressure Perturbs The Lipo-Psychic Membrane

The weather world swirls as the nether world turns.
And, amid the fearsome maelstrom and mammoth thunder, the howling ghost shimmies.

Song: A Ghost Strikes

Raison d'Etre: Halloween, horror, eerie atmosphere, endless chill, dreary caverns, mazy mansions, psychic volleys, awful dreadfuls.

Hopefully: thrills, chills, dance, song, sing, reflect, haunt, dream, fantasize, swirlarize, happy-tize, ever ever ever awesomely daunt the machines the murky merls.

More And More Music For That Eeriest Of Occasions

Give this spookified niche site a try on October 31st.

Halloween 2008 Soundtrack II

This eerie jingle is certain to add a teaspoon of horror to your morning Count Chocula.

Title: Sea Serpent

Can Twitter Contain The Truth?

Roswell on Yahoo, Loch Ness on MySpace, NORAD on Facebook and, now, Quarantine (the 2008 film) on Web 2.0's darling microblogging site, Twitter:

Twitter: Contain The Truth
Only 135 followers as of today?!
That is shameful. Let's amp that up to 1000 by EOW.

Is Twitter still vibrant and viable? Not sure. Haven't been there in a while, but the site should still get some props. Now that I'm thinking of it, maybe it's grown huge since I left, which would be really cool.

Onto the official widget:

The widget: trailers for the game and film as well as sweepstakes entry forms and info.

Onto the official site:

Official Site: Contain The Truth
The hub from which all widgets, trailers, downloads and games may be accessed.
Sweepstakes? Sounds real old school, but prizes are digital camcorders, DVD packs, and video game systems.

Galleries? The photobucket kind. Movie stills.
Promotions? Yes, the aforementioned lotteries and sweepstakes.

Onto the game:

The Game: Quarantine Game
Yes, it's the same website, but it's in Flash, so just head to lower right quadrant and click on Play The Game. It's a pretty cool first person shooter with a mildly interesting mystery to unravel.

Onto the trailer:

The official trailer.

Onto the synopsis:

Cool synopsis with grainy, fuzzy font.

Concluding data:

Race to get the glass, take the walk of no shame, and struggle to reveal the contained truth, but, whatever you do, don't use the product name in the website title!

RIYL: Doom, 28 Days Later, REC, Cloverfield, Night Of The Living Dead, Blair Witch Project, Halo, 30 Days Of Night, overly contrived viral marketing, glossy Flash websites, glittering 21st century horror films.

The Membrane Between Psyche And Body Dissolves In October

Mellow, rugged October, of the harvest moon, of the Bates Motel, though in SoCal, of deserts and prairies, but more of beech maple biomes and darting whippoorwills.

From what archetypal bag of holding sprung the highway trooper? Norman Bates or Frank Booth?

Film: Psycho, which was just aired on TCM.

Top 10 Movie Monsters From Spike.com's CineMassacre

 

CineMassacre - Top 10 - Top 10 Giant Monsters | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

Great list and one error:
The Kraken is from Scandanavian, not Greek, mythology.

Complete fantasy indulgence.

Night Falls On The Vampire City

The eremite pursues the Flashmo Bots, screeching and flailing about. The bots have lost their will and now cower in a grassy corner of the crawling, endless metropolis. The air flutters, the sky flickers, and the midtown park is full of the bat's wings.

Yet always during the endless nights, the berserk recluse hears quicksilver ponds boiling over by the keep. While he flits through the sinuous alleys or the wailing canals, he hears them in his quivering whorls.

iPhone 3G, Darth Vader, Wieden-Kennedy, iced venti soy chai, Godzilla, Engadget, Coheed & Cambria, AOL, and The Hulk: we have not forgotten you!

Screenshot is from The Aeon Flux Film Website.

The Next Lovecraft-Coleridge Combo?

Read Needles & Sins by John Everson

There is definitely powerful imagery combined with static story going on here. Think of Keats' The Eve of St. Agnes and picture it as seen through the opacity of a frosted sangria goblet, under the relentless scrutiny of a dire wolf waiting to pounce, and then you may have something of the weird convolutions and attractions of John Everson and his Dark Arts.

He should podcast these tales with eerie mood music.
Sound new and fresh?

Check out MindWebs and see that it is so 1976, but still vital. You could go back much further, but this science fiction short story audiobook radio show, in tone and in qualia, is a long leap forward from its ancestors. It is the big break.

Cover art by Travis Anthony Soumis