Get Your Kill Face On Rides Again!

The Iago of Kill Faces.

Her Kill Face is strangely passive yet her pitchfork speaks volumes.

Sometimes nothing beats a cool hand crazy-as-fuck Italian broad who lives in a cave.

It's-only-a-mask my hole, this Kill Face is imabikisou!

"I must kill you quickly, mon cher, as I'm appearing in seven other movies today!"

"Stop looking at my bow tie, goddamnit' and gaze upon my Kill Face!"

The creepy over-application of cold cream is just the frosting on this Kill Face cake.

An ace Kill Face pulls focus from unsightly male pattern baldness.

"I will kill you, dear, and then, revitalized by your blood, I will go antiquing."

This Kill Face killed your masta!

A classic combo: a cold-eyed Kill Face and a hare trigger.

Should your Kill Face fail, just fire up the McCullough. Respect follows.

Hey, bub, I said "Kill Face" not "Toxic Spill Face"!

Who goes there? #2

Mind you, a chin isn't much to go on... but this one belongs to the face of a performer you've probably seen in a few horror movies. Can you name this person? As ever, additional visual cues to follow, if need be.

Ian W. Hill of Collision Works guessed "Rondo Hatton?" A grotesquely over-sized "no" to you, sir!

While Craig Blamer of The Old Dark House hazarded "John Hoyt"...

Tim Lucas and Adam Ross of DVD Panache both guessed correctly: "Peter Cushing!"

Good game, lads!

It's Arbogast Day!

... according to Unkle Lancifer at Kindertrauma, anyway. Apparently, Arbogast Day always falls squarely on the day after Mother's Day, so if you don't like Mondays ("tell me why!") then it's not going to be your kind of day. But for the curious, the open minded and the easily bored, Happy Me Day!

Fun facts about Arbogast:

Never shot or stabbed but has tasted the sting of a Mexican bullwhip.
Drinks coffee, black.
Doesn't care for seafood.
Toast gives him the hiccups.
Wears size 14 sneakers.
Has loved 7 women legally and 1 illegally.
As a child pronounced NOSFERATU as "Nostrafusa."
Childhood nickname: Boy Wonder.
First movie seen: MARY POPPINS.
Last movie seen: [REC].
Liked better: MARY POPPINS.
Excerpt from 4th grade report card: "The monster nonsense persists."

Oh, and check out the ones that Unkle Lancifer and Aunt John might have saved.

Happy Mothers Day

I suppose a lot of other bloggers will post a picture from MOMMIE DEAREST or STRAIT-JACKET or FRIDAY THE 13TH or even MOTHER'S DAY and have their ironic laugh on this holiday... but for my part I'd like to honor the mothers in horror films and real life who are good and true, plucky and brave, inquisitive and resourceful, whether their journeys turned out happy or tragic. However they may have disappointed us in later years with their neuroses or their politics or their multiple marriages, they did grow us, literally, in their bodies... they carried us, they sustained us and protected us, like proper heroines, and that's considerably more than most of us will ever do for anybody. So take a moment out of your busy day to tell your Mom you love her... or if you can't tell her, then show her somehow. And if you can't tell or show her, then just whisper the words and let the wind carry your love where it needs to be.

It is now time, damen und herren...

... to learn German.

The first and no doubt last biography of NOSFERATU star Max Schreck is due out later this year... albeit in German only, so brush up on your Sprechen Sie Deutsch. According to early reviews, the book is light on his work in the one film for which he is known worldwide but is otherwise rich in detail about the strange and rather lonely life of a civil servant's son turned busy stage actor. Schreck appeared in over 800 theatrical productions and a couple dozen films (RASPUTINS LIEBESABENTEUER, DER TUNNEL) but, at the time of his death from a heart attack at the age of 56 he was a forgotten man and his final resting place an unmarked grave in Berlin. Seventeen years after his death, Le surréalisme au cinéma author Adonis Kyrou cracked wise that Schreck was probably an actual vampire and a myth was born.

Who goes there? #1

You think you know someone until you get very close to them. Can you identify this horror icon? New clues providing more of the puzzle will be added throughout the day... and the next, if need be.

Fox of Tractor Facts asks "Simone Simone?" Fox, you must be crazy!

Tim Lucas of Video WatchBlog posited "Margaret Sheridan from THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD." Tim, you're cold, baby, very cold!

Kimberly Lindbergs of Cinebeats guessed "Soledad Miranda?" Kimberly, it jess plain ain't her!

Tim Lucas rebounds: "Now I can see her; it's Janet Leigh from PSYCHO."

And Tim is correct. Shower him with praise!

The one she would have saved

Tenebrous Kate, over to Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire, has offered her highly unorthodox take on our ongoing game "The one you might have saved."

I think we just might have a McFarland book on our hands!

Addendum: Steve Biodrowski at Cinefantastique has contributed a butcher's dozen (which is to say 15) victims, human and animal, he might have saved if things had been different.