My love for all things horror-anthologies keeps chugging along. Just finished watching this documentary on EC Comic’s Tales From The Crypt. A really good film and well worth a look before youtube takes it down (they always take down the best stuff.) I got a lot out of watching this doc. It was a joy to watch horror comic’s history being talked about. Also a thrill to see all that great, old EC horror artwork on screen. I think the biggest thing I learnt from this documentary is I need to start smoking a pipe and wearing my trousers really high. It’s my heritage and I need to start respecting that. Maybe start rocking a bowtie and buzz-cut, too.
Sticking with the horror-anthology theme… Also been tracking down a TV show from the late 90’s called The Hunger. I’d never heard of it, but when I read that a short-story I’d recently been reading by Ramsey Campbell (see my last post) had been adapted into an episode, I decided the hunt was on. I see from wiki it also has a story in it by Poppy Z Brite, who I’m just reading a book by at the moment called Exquisite Corpse. Great book, but I wasn’t expecting as much man-on-man action as this book is choked full of. Between the sword-play (I don’t think there’s been a single female character in it so far), and the graphic depiction of gruesome murders, I’m finding this the toughest going book to read since American Psycho. Add to that the fact that half the characters in it are dieing from HIV… It’s a great page-turner, but damn hard going. It’s like a stomach-punch made of words.
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