Splattercast #112 is up. As mentioned in the episode, here’s the link to Left Field Cinema’s essay Misunderstood Modern Cinema: Alien 3. The LFC author makes a pretty empassioned defense of Alien 3, a nice contrast to some of the more negative views on A3 that we expressed on the Splattercast.
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Just thought I’d break a minor piece of news: The 2nd Annual Splatcademy Awards will take place Monday, February 23rd. Last year’s show went over like gangbusters, and I really want to make this year even bigger and better than the last. We’ll have the nominees out in the next couple of weeks. Until then, keep posting great performances/movies/scenes etc. in the forum so we make sure we don’t overlook anything!
The February Splattercast episodes have been announced: Fan Appreciation cast, Tales from the Darkside cast, The Witchcraft Series Movie Marathon, and of course, the best awards show around, the Splatcademy Awards! It’s gonna be a fun month, I think.
Splattercast 112 should be posted on Podomatic shortly. It’s uploaded, just going through podomatics processing stuff. Jeff will probably upload it to the DL site later tonight.
Be on the look out for a random fun goodie in the next couple days. It will be posted here on Dead Lantern. I think this goodie will be worth it, so keep checking back. You never know when it might appear…
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With Special Guest Ronin of The Sleepy Cast
coming soon…
We start off the New Year with a 2 hour marathon epic of a Splattercast all about the Alien franchise. Special guest Ronin from The Sleepy Cast schools us on all sorts of trivia and fun back stories as we gush about Aliens and then get very angry about Alien Resurrection.
Also, a very special shoutout goes out to Mitts777 who calls in and leaves an in depth analysis of this past year in horror as well as another kick ass review, this time of Eden Lake. Also, Tangent calls in and helps us figure out just what the hell post-apocalyptic horror is.
We hope you enjoy this mega sized episode of The Splattercast!
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Fangoria has announced the resucitation of Gorezone. I have a bunch of old Gorezone issues in a box in my closet somewhere. On one hand, this is cool news as Fangoria (or Starlog or whoever publishes it nowadays) must be doing well enough to warrant a second monthly rag (makes you wonder how well Rue Morgue is doing?). On the other hand, I don’t buy Fangoria because of the ridiculous cover price so I doubt I’ll ever pick up a Gorezone other than maybe the novelty of the first issue relaunch.
What do you guys think? Good, Bad, Indifferent?
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Blood Eaters a.k.a Toxic Zombies (1980) d. Charles McCrann
I’m getting psyched up for Blood Harvest 
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I’m about ready to head out and finally see The Day the Earth Stood Still. I’ve read that it sucks, but it’s the kind of movie that demands to be seen on a big screen so I want to catch it before it’s gone.
I’ve been doing some Splatcademy Awards viewing today. Splinter is definitely a film that works for me. It’s sorta like The Ruins, only in a gas station.
Look for a post in the coming days about some stuff happening on Deadlantern.com in the near future. We’ll try to make this year better than the last.
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Hope you had a great New Year’s Eve! Me, I just hung out at home and drank some cheap champagne. The Mrs. wanted to watch a movie and she chose Uwe Boll’s Postal, of all things. It’s available on Netflix instant viewing so we watched it via the Xbox. Here’s the Netflix link.
I must say, we had a blast with this movie. It’s just a lot of goofy fun and I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Happy new year, everbody!
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Ronin, Borp, Monaga, and I finally completed “Dead Air” at about 7:50 a.m. this morning (Borp actually breaked briefly for lunch in Sweden 
) after beginning at 10 pm last night.
Final game stats…
It took 9 hours and 48 minutes to complete with over 8,000 total zombies killed. This campaign was a nightmare.
But we DID it. My only regret is that all of you couldn’t hear the man love that took place once we got inside that goddamn airplane and the credits began to roll. I am so damn exhausted.
now, all that is left is “Blood Harvest” and that damned cornfield…
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We did episode 111 live on blogtalkradio last night. To listen to it, click here.
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Earlier this evening (and deep into the morning) Steve, Borp, and I defeated No Mercy and Death Toll on expert.
It was crazy fun and a bit maddening at times but there is such sweet satisfaction that I can hardly contain my excitement. On the No Mercy map, Deejay played most of the time with us but decided to bail out about 20 minutes before we ended up beating the finale. That map ended up taking about 3.5 hours.
We had Ronin from the Sleepy Cast helping us much of the way on Death Toll before he had to drop out for some zzzzz’s. Even though we got stuck with dumbass Louis as our NPC partner, Steve, Borp, and I ended up crushing Death Toll in about 2.5 hours. That doesn’t even count the fact that we played another campaign on advanced sandwiched in between our Expert shenanigans.
It was a long night. But a fruitful one. We had great fun. I’m looking forward to crushing the Dead Air and Blood Harvest maps on expert next. Poor Deejay and Ronin dropped off before they could get the super snazzy cool achievements we scored for being so awesome. Ah well, at least we got em!
Now, time to go get some donuts….
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Just a reminder, the show will be coming to you live from blogtalkradio. 10pm central time. You can call in and tell us how much we suck.
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From all of us at DeadLantern.com to all of you out there in internetland, we wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! If you’re travelling, please be safe out there and please give your mom a big, wet tongue-kiss from us!
Update: Splattercast #110 has been uploaded both here on our site and also at the pod-o-matic page. Gather your family around the fire and listen to it together!
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Also check out these convenient product links for items that we talked about on this episode </consumer whore>
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Last weeks Splattercast #109 on Post-Apocalyptic horror had apocalyptic sound problems (my bad); but a large part of the cast was spent trying to give a concise definition of post apocalyptic horror. I’m not sure we managed to do so but Gawker media sci-fi site iO9.com today has an article about Christmas going on during a breakdown of society …which at this point should be a reality by next year!
via iO9: ‘Have Yourself a Post-Apocalyptic Chrstmas.’
Enjoy!
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I’m not tech savvy enough to be able to take a screenshot of the weather channel website right now…
but it is currently -11 degrees here in Lincoln, Nebraska.
-11.
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