Picture by Jim Wilsom NY Times

WIL said: “I stayed behind to help drink all the wine that was going to burn. When I woke up the next day, hungover and lying next to some paint cans and a propane tank, I realized I better get my crippled ass out of there,” he continued “the ash was so heavy I could barely see, but I was able to rescue a box of wine, loot some cigarettes and make it to safety. It was really sad to see Big Sur burn because now I have no place to live.”

Horror Yearbook is temporarily back on schedule, but still may experience some updating difficulties for the next few weeks.

So no cool horror movie, or TV show, but just some stupid cars! Although you never know, they did give those lame cavemen their own TV show, maybe the Faceless people will get one also!

Spike: After the Fall is a four-part series beginning next month, and it tells the tale of what happened in the intervening months since that alleyway cataclsym. Along for the ride in this series are Illyria, who has a tendency to revert back to Fred at inopportune times, as well as Angel’s Dragon, and a new cast of characters as well. Most importantly, the series introduces a character who will come to be see as Spike’s arch-nemesis. Even more than Angel, we mean.

Presiding over the series will be Angel: After the Fall writer Brian Lynch and artist Franco Urru, who provides two special first-issue Spike covers offered in a 50/50 ratio—one featuring Spike’s human face, one in all its vamped-out fury! Aussie art team The Sharp Brothers offer a special “grindhouse”-inspired incentive cover, too!

About the overall “After the Fall” arc, writer Lynch said “Joss laid the groundwork with me, a very specific outline, and now I’m carrying it out. He did the heavy-lifting in the beginning, and now I’m the spokesman, I’m the mouthpiece.”

“I cannot express how great this is coming out. I didn’t want to dilute Angel: After the Fall or the previous Urru/Lynch Spike tales,” he continued, “so we didn’t plan this until we saw whether or not it would work. It worked. It works soooo well. This is gonna be goooood. All the hell! None of the Angels!”

Spike: After the Fall #1 will be in stores on July 16, as will the first hardcover collection of Angel: After the Fall.

30 Brain Hammer approved upcoming horror dvd releases:

BLOODY MOON (special edition): Severin

August 5:

HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS 20th Anniversary Edition (special edition): Retromedia/Infinity

THE ASPHYX: Shriek Show/Media Blasters
CAT IN THE BRAIN (special edition): Grindhouse
FORCED ENTRY (1975; special edition): Code Red/BCI
GANG WARS (a.k.a. DEVIL’S EXPRESS; special edition): Code Red/BCI
THE KINDRED (special edition): Synapse
MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH (special edition): Cult Epics
MAUSOLEUM (special edition): Deimos/BCI Eclipse
THE MUTILATOR (special edition): Code Red/BCI
MY NAME IS BRUCE (special edition): Image
NIGHTMARE (1981; special edition): Code Red/BCI
PIECES (special edition): Grindhouse
THE REDEEMER (special edition): Code Red/BCI
ROB ZOMBIE’S EL SUPERBEASTO (special edition): Weinstein Co./Genius
SILENT SCREAM (special edition): Code Red/BCI
SPASMS (special edition): Code Red/BCI
THOU SHALT NOT KILL…EXCEPT (new special edition): Synapse

KEEP THE BLOOD FLOWING!!!

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor opens on August 1st.

Synopsis:

The blockbuster global “Mummy” franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.” Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). And this time, the O’Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.

Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) to spend eternity in suspended animation, China’s ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O’Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents.

As the monarch roars back to life, our heroes find his quest for world domination has only intensified over the millennia. Striding the Far East with unimaginable supernatural powers, the Emperor Mummy will rouse his legion as an unstoppable, otherworldly force…unless the O’Connells can stop him first.

You’ve probably seen the TV promos where John Waters introduces love and murder vignettes on CourtTV. So are these Real Tales From Darkside any good? The show is just as cheesy as you could hope from the guy who made Divine eat dog shit in Pink Flamingos.

Honest to god, the series opens with a lovely married couple. The wife turns to her new husband and says, “Now that we’re married I need you to be completely honest with me – Do I look fat in this dress?” As if a size 8 actress playing “plus size” wasn’t insulting enough, the lady has to be that fucking down on herself to ask such a stupid question while standing on an altar? The cheese continues with Walters catching the bouquet like the diva he is. If it were anyone else, I probably wouldn’t tolerate this lunacy.

The majority of the male and female characters are played as stereotypes. The women are little more than boring housewives or sluts that fuck their way in and out of murder schemes. Considering these stories are based on real people that most likely have serious psychological disorders, going a tad deeper with the source material should have been easy. But some episodes are directed by a guy who spent a good deal of his career working on tacky day soaps like The Bold and The Beautiful. ‘Nuff said.

All the episodes are schmaltzy- like a guy getting hit by a flying kid while plotting a murder (!) or Jehovah Witnesses conveniently showing up to annoy the fuck out of a wife after a killing. The Strip Club Murders upped the ante with the involvement of a lesbian tryst. (SPOILER ALERT) But The Clown Case was by far the best episode with its bizarre inclusion of a clown lover who…winds up being an alternate personality for a delusional housewife.

Episodes like the May-December romance are fun because the situation is already laughable. But the episodes dealing with real love, lost dreams, and broken families are just downright depressing and the goofy manner in which they are handled just seems irresponsible. A husband telling his devoted wife, “I will set the house on fire with you in it” practically gave me a panic attack.

Episode Listings and my drunken ratings:

The Clown Case - Best episode and features perverted clown sex!
The Strip Club Murder - Lesbian strippers and a douchebag extraordinaire
The Airplane Murder - Stupid old man gets punk’d from beyond the grave
Funeral Parlor Murder - Uhhh, “plus size” lady kept fat by nutty husband
Time Capsule Murder - Mildly depressing about a loser husband
Storage Unit Murder – Very depressing about – guess what? – a loser husband
Car Keys Murder – Slutty McSlut turned in by her slutty male slut
The Bog Murder - (I passed out and missed this…)
The In-Law Murders - (I passed out and missed this…)
The Pond Scum Murder - (I passed out and missed this…)
The Beauty Queen Murder - (I passed out and missed this…)
A Christmas Murder - I passed out, but this sounds awesome…
Murder Mystery Weekend - I passed out, but this sounds awesome…

DVD Extras: Interviews with Hanes, Waters, and two executive producers. “New introductions” by Waters for each episode. There’s also a nice tri-fold case holding the DVDs with a 16 page glossy booklet featuring summaries of all 13 episodes.

Bottom Line: A decent watch on late night TV, but not worth buying the DVD to watch all of these episodes back to back. Well, maybe when you are drunk.

Rating: 7/10

The latest episode of Satan’s Screener: Unborn Sins is about abortion, but mainly it’s a cheesey mess that is fun to dance to.

Watch the video below!

Directed by Elliott Eddie

Tagline: Some Secrets Have A Life Of Their Own

Synopsis: The spirit of an aborted child comes to life to take revenge on those responsible for its death.

Moronic Mark accidentially sold his soul to Satan, while drunkenly filling out applications to job postings on the internet. Now he has to watch and review the worst movies ever made and post up the results in his little webshow called “Satan’s Screener.”

We reported earlier that a random faceless couple has been popping up at events like Elton John’s white ball and Wimbledon, but who are they?

Well according to an e-mail that appeared in my mailbox, we will be able to find out on July 21st. If you follow this link to Facelesspeople.com you will see a clock counting down the days until the “True Character Will Emerge In”…

You can probably thank the success of Cloverfield for this, and I repeat; hopefully this if for some cool upcoming horror movie, and not some stupid cologne ad.

Screw the woods and people’s homes, Governor Schwarzenegger… Save my Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs instead!

I just got word that we are being evacuated due to the California fires, and Horror Yearbook may be shut down for the next few days. We will be back as soon as possible and our Message Board will still be open, in case you want to leave us sweet messages and words of encouragement.

To answer a few of your questions:

No I do not own anything of value unless you count Lindsay Lohan CDs and The Puppet Master box set as valuable.

No we did not have anything to do with the fires, lightning caused them. I swear!

Yes I was disappointed to find out that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not really an action hero who is going to swoop in and save me.

Why did I vote for him?

Oh yeah because I thought it was funny.

Here is something different, these faceless people have been popping up all over England the past few days. They have been spotted at Elton John’s white ball, the Harrod’s sale and Wimbledon. I have no idea if they are real or not, but it is more likely they’re part of some viral marketing campaign.

Is it a new horror movie? X-Files perhaps, or even better something we have not heard of? I hope so because they look pretty cool, reminds me of Jacob’s Ladder.

With our luck it is probably for some dumb British comedy.

If you know who the faceless people are, drop us a line and give us the scoop!

See more pictures here.

After years of talking about it, watching the music videos, multiple screenings across the country and a whole lot of buzz, Troma’s Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is finally coming to DVD on October 28th. This is a must have for all Troma fans, and you need to start hounding Netflix, Blockbuster and your local video store to carry it.

Click the link to find out why Poultrygeist: Is the Political Zombie Movie to Beat, and should be bigger than George Romero’s Diary of the Dead.

There are what seems like thousands of small horror films on My Space trying to get our attention, but we are all too busy looking at slutty girls to pay attention to them all. So I had this great idea where I would randomly pick a horror film from My Space and publish what information I could about it. Of course I never did it, but its never to late to start. So if you are sick and tired of waiting forever, for a thousand pictures, videos and songs to load, only to find out it was for some shitty looking horror film, fret no longer! HYB is doing the boring work for you, so you can have more time to chase jail bait.

Also these are just random horror movies I pull off our page, so you can take them or leave them, we’re not saying that they are necessarily good or bad, just that they exist.

It Came From My Space

Here is the poster and synopsis for Prey to God, they do not have much info on their page, which makes me think they are not finished filming it yet. However while I was doing a little digging, I found out that our old friend Monique Dupree is producing the film. Watch the hilarious video below, where she struggles to promote the film the only way Dupree can, she even does math!!

Synopsis:

Five teenage friends head out for the time of their lives on a camping trip in the middle of nowhere. However, Their fun filled trip turns into terror when one from them disappears and they stumble upon a house deep in the woods which is owned by a family with a dark and horrible secret. The friends must fight for their very lives before they fall prey to the twisted family who has a desire to purify the sinners and an even darker design for human flesh.

http://www.myspace.com/prey2god

Also if you’re not already our friend on My Space, send us a request http://www.myspace.com/horroryearbook1980

If you could not stomach Hostel or The Devil’s Rejects then you better stay away from new underground films like Amateur Porn Star Killer (1, 2 and 3) The Hood Has Eyez and now director Mariano Peralta’s Snuff 102. These films make so-called “torture porn” look like Disney films.

Mariano Peralta’s latest film was brought to my attention on our message board, and it looks like another film trying to cash in on the old urban legend of the snuff film. It premiered at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2007, and looks like it was released on DVD sometime earlier this year, so it may be old news. However I figured a few of our readers may like to know about it, so here you go.

Here is the official website www.snuff102.com, you may need this to enter:

User: snuffconsumer
Password: 102

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES:

Uncut and Uncensored Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen Version
Spanish audio
Optional English subtitles
Photo Gallery
Victim’s Profiles

Description found on Mar del Plata International Film Festival Website:

“In an empty room, three women are being cruelly and ruthlessly tortured. In another time and place, a woman interviews a film critic about the violence of images and its real meaning. Strange facts begin to relate both situations in a hidden manner. The director tells he came up with this story at the waiting-room of a public hospital while standing in line for hours to get an appointment. ‘I had the feeling that we were all merely numbers and that nobody had any real entity; we were just that… numbers.’ Long-awaited come-back of Tetard troupe whose previous movie, Super Mondo Trasho: Unleashed!Snuff 102 promises to be even more scandalous in its combination of extreme violence and low budget. Unsuited for people with a heart condition.”

If this is your kind of thing then do not forget to check out Amateur Porn Star Killer 2 and Amateur Porn Star Killer 3-D