TOP 5 WEIRDEST CHRISTMAS EPISODES (What We Watched)

Now we're back on track! Its a new What We Watched more in keeping with the holiday season. So sit back, grab some egg nog, and prepare to hear about my...

TOP 5 WEIRDEST CHRISTMAS EPISODES (Of Shows From My Childhood)

 

BEETLEJUICE (What We Watched)

Though you know you should be wary, What We Watched returns with something scary. Ghostly reviews we turn loose: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice...

BEETLEJUICE

 

BRIMSTONE (What We Watched)

What We Watched triumphantly returns, and all has not been idle at Chasing the Muse central! So this time we take a rare look at a live action, adult series. That's right, folks, its...

BRIMSTONE

 

THE LAUNDRY FILES (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Well, friends, its time for us to finally bring the Summer...I mean SEASONS...of Lovecraft to a close. We've been on a long ride these last 8 episodes, looking at various flicks from Lovecraftian film canon. To close things off, lets take a look at a series of novels, shall we? Thus we present the 9th, and final, installment of our little tale of woe as we crack open...

THE LAUNDRY FILES by Charles Stross

 

DRIVE ANGRY (Better Off Read)

Y'know what? Lovecraft isn't scary enough for Halloween. No, instead we need to take a film that most WOULDN'T consider a horror movie and try to suss out its hellish aspects to reveal the frightfest within. So I present for the approval of the Midnight Society this, the Halloween special (originally aired on Halloween, being posted here, sadly, on November 1st) of Chasing the Muse...

DRIVE ANGRY

 

TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL (Better Off Read)

We take a break from the Summer of Lovecraft to talk about a little horror-comedy film called...

                                            TUCKER & DALE VERSUS EVIL
 

DAGON (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with another film by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna. This time its a fish-tastic feeding frenzy as we take a look at the horrific, unsightly, and down right WEIRD film called...

DAGON

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with a classic film from John Carpenter. This little diddy isn't BASED on one of Lovecraft's stories, but is instead inspired by the whole of them.

This review also has a segment filmed at ConBravo 2012, and features a number of participants and guests. A huge thanks to the folks there; they were incredibly accommodating.
Anyway, this week's review is called:

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

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WITCH HUNT (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with more shenanigans as we take a look at the infamous SEQUEL to last episode's "Cast a Deadly Spell". Replacing Fred Ward with Dennis Hopper, and using Julian Sands and Eric Bogosian as the villains, one must wonder: Does this film rise to the challenge of its predecessor...or should it be tossed on the concrete like a private eye's well smoked cigarette?

(Hint: The answer is that it sucks) Hold onto your hats, kids, this is...

WITCH HUNT

 

CAST A DEADLY SPELL (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

This week I have a movie I've promised to review for a while now. I finally got to it. It has a surprisingly all star cast (Fred Ward, David Warner, Clancy Brown, Julianne Moore, etc.), and is actually a pretty decent film. PLUS the review has a quick cameo from the Nostalgia Critic shot at ConBravo 2012, so everything is pretty awesome there. What movie is this, you ask? Why its...

CAST A DEADLY SPELL

THE DUNWICH HORROR (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

This week, its a direct to TV film for SyFy. And it was directed by everyone's favourite Transmorphers director/writer, Leigh Scott. Oh dear. Deary, deary me. Oh, but Jeffrey Combs is in it. So that's something! Get ready, kids, this is...

THE DUNWICH HORROR

MONSTER BRAWL (Better Off Read)

This is a short review, and it is out of order with the rest of the week...but its about a film that I saw and just *HAD* to talk about. Do you like monster movies? Cheesy B- and Z-grade flicks? Do you like wrestling? Ever wanted to see what would happen if a vampire and a mummy got into a smackdown? Well look no further, my friends, because I have just the movie for you! This is...

MONSTER BRAWL

HP Lovecraft's "NECRONOMICON"

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

We have entered into the "quality" phase off Lovecraft films: The movies that were never made for the big screen. Direct to VHS, direct to TV...oh yeah. So which one did I pick this time? Why, a movie that turns HP Lovecraft into a pulp hero. A film called...

HP LOVECRAFT'S: "NECRONOMICON"

From Beyond (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

We missed a week as I got my schedule synched up with that of stage actor Leeman Kessler, who will be joining the Chasing the Muse team for the next 10 weeks in the role of none other than Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself! But oh, friends...what a movie we have for you today.

It is none other than another acclaimed Lovecraftian adaptation by director Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. That's right, my friends, this week we're looking at...

FROM BEYOND

Review- Re-Animator (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

And thus it begins, The Summer of Lovecraft on Warning! Readers Advisory!. 7 movies and 4 books based on, and adapted from, the works of that master of pulp horror and general douchebaggery, HP Lovecraft. In the weeks to come I will review such seminal works as From Beyond, Necronomicon, Dunwich Horror, Dagon, Cast a Deadly Spell and In the Mouth of Madness. Additionally, I will review all four of Charles Stross' The Laundry novels, chronicling the adventures of British secret agent and tech support guru, Bob Howard, as he faces off against the forces of the Mythos.

But how are we to begin this week? Why, with that least Lovecraftian of Lovecraft films, a little Jeffrey Combs number called...

RE-ANIMATOR

 

Warlock (Better Off Read)

Well, this is unexpected. This is my longest episode yet...probably because I decided to shove in some amusing education and context for the film. With that said, I quite enjoy this movie, and I hope that by watching this review you can understand its manic joys as well.

That film, my friends, is called:

WARLOCK

Clerks: The Animated Series (What We Watched)

Wow, two What We Watched episodes in two weeks! *AMAZING*!

This time, I polled you, the viewers, asking to pick what I was going to review this week. And the answer?

CLERKS: THE ANIMATED SERIES

Snoogins.

GI Joe (What We Watched)

Well, What We Watched returns because the current book review is taking longer than expected. Now, I have a list of weird GI Joe episodes that I want to tell you about, and this week I picked three of the strangest. So here's a little review of that awesome show called...

GI JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO 

(you may commence your singing of "AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!" now)

Vlog- The Raid: Redemption (Better Off Read) (with Heisanevilgenius)

So last week, my buddy Tom (aka Heisanevilgenius) and I went out to see The Raid: Redemption. Then we made a little video about it to share our thoughts. You should DEFINITELY go see...

THE RAID: REDEMPTION

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A Game of Thrones (WRA Ep 39)

I've had a LOT of pressure and requests to review this. It is 100% serious. I'm FINALLY doing it. I'm finally reviewing George RR Martin's...

A GAME OF THRONES

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Better Off Read- WOLF

I've really tried with Better Off Read to pick movies that people might not have heard of, but which are probably worth a watch, even when they're awful. For this week, I tracked down in the $5 bin at HMV my favourite Jack Nicholson film of all time.

...it also gave me an excuse to make a Bravestarr joke. HOW OFTEN DO I GET TO MAKE BRAVESTARR JOKES?!?! So for those of you who might have forgotten about it in the deluge of Nicholson's better known films, allow me to introduce you to:

WOLF

Vlog- The Hunger Games

I went out and saw another movie! Hurray! This time, its a little film you may have heard of called...

THE HUNGER GAMES

Vlog- I, Vampyre (CAiNE Edition)

I'm working on a video for a convention this weekend called CAiNE (Canadian Annual NatIonal Event), which is a Live Action Roleplaying event being held in St. John, New Brunswick. The video itself is an overtop and fictional vampire named "Lord Benedict Bellamorte" bemoaning the state of the vampire in popular culture.

I got bored. So here's a vlog talking about it.

Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time (WRA Episode 38)

While I don't normally review comics, there occasionally comes along a book that I just *HAVE* to look at. In this case, its an Atomic Robo comic. Special thanks to Featherweight both for appearing as, and voicing Robo, but also for the Dr. Dinosaur puppet and the title card. Yaaaay!

ATOMIC ROBO AND THE SHADOW FROM BEYOND TIME

Vlog- John Carter (Better Off Read)

I went and saw John Carter. Here's a vlog review of it...because I think you *SHOULD* see this movie!

JOHN CARTER

The Asylum's PRINCESS OF MARS (Warning! Readers Advisory!) (with Mikey Insanity)

So a week ago there was this little convention in Guelph, Ontario called ConG. Mikey Insanity and I got together to record the 37th episode of Warning! Readers Advisory!. We also had some help from Mhee, Heisanevilgenius, and Featherweight! This, ladies and gentlemen, is...

The Asylum's PRINCESS OF MARS

Vlog- The Lorax

I went and saw the Lorax. Learn from my mistake.

Better Off Read- Curse II: The Bite

In this week's Better Off Read, I revist a horror movie I haven't watched in nearly 20 years. Back in the day, my buddy Mike's brother used to work at a local video store (remember back when we had stores you rented VHS at?), and would let us rent anything we wanted. This was how I got introduced to franchises like Childs Play, Friday the 13th, Critters, Halloween...and today's little diddy! The 1989 in-name-only sequel to the 1987 The Curse, its...

CURSE II: THE BITE

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Better Off Read- Cloak & Dagger

In this week's Better Off Read, I take a trip down Nostalgia Lane and kick the film can of a favoured movie from my childhood. This movie has everything: Spies, video games, roleplaying games, murder, invisible bombers...

And all in glorious 1980s PG rating! Thus I present:

CLOAK & DAGGER

Extreme Ghostbusters (What We Watched)(With Andrew Dickman!)

In What We Watched, I talk about my favourite cartoons of yesteryear, ones you might not have heard of. I school you on them and try to explain their just plain *WEIRD* premises. This time, I team up with Andrew "The Artist" Dickman of Animated Anarchy to review something a little out of my normal range...but oh man, just wait till you're introduce to

EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS

Better Off Read- Trollhunter (with Diamanda Hagan and The Omega Geek)

Hey kids, its Monday! (...errr...Tuesday...its still Monday in Los Angeles, Denver, and Vancouver!) So you know what that means:

ITS TIME FOR ANOTHER MAGFEST CROSSOVER! (YAAAAAAAAY!)

So while I was at MAGFest I got together with a pair of wonderful ladies you might know: Diamanda Hagan and The Omega Geek. We hung out, we drank, and we filmed a review of Norway's contribution to the "found footage" genre of films...

TROLLHUNTER

Vlog- Underworld: Awakening

Hey folks! I ran off to see Underworld: Awakening today...so then I went and made a vlog of it. Spoilers, obviously. Enjoy.

WRA: Lets Read! "The Bumble Beast" by Harriet Grey

A few days after Christmas, I sat down with my girlfriend, Sailor Gallifrey, and set out to read, from cover to cover and in one take, a mystery book donated to me by my logo designer and title card artist, Featherweight.

That book turned out to be The Bumble Beast by Harriet Grey, a novelization of a classic Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers season 1 episode, "The Grumble Bee". Its...its not very good.

So sit back, relax, and watch as we read (and intersperse some episode footage) this novel in a two part take. So without further ado:

WARNING! READERS ADVISORY

Presents

LETS READ!: THE BUMBLE BEAST by Harriet Grey

PART 1

PART 2

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MAGFest X Vlog (Derek the Bard)

Happy New Year, everyone! And...yes, I realize that I haven't had a new episode out since Christmas, but I was taking a break while visiting family over the holidays. And...what's that other thing I did last week...oh that's right *grin*

MAGFEST!!!!

That's right, true believers, I spent 4 glorious days last week relaxing in National Harbour, Maryland with my fellow reviewers and a few thousand other nerds. I filmed two crossovers which you should see in the next few weeks (reviewing Trollhunter with Diamanda Hagan and the Omega Geek, and Extreme Ghostbusters with Andrew Dickman in a special double-length episode of What We Watched). But I also did a lot of photography and a little big of vlogging while I was there.

So sit back, relax, and allow me to immerse you in but a fraction of my MAGFest experience.

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