tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post1237599483275955555..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Kind of Face You SLASH!!: Day 13 - The Best-Fed Citizens in Calcuttabill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-11338239370532706012008-10-16T23:16:00.000-04:002008-10-16T23:16:00.000-04:00You might want to also look for MONDO ZOMBIE, edit...You might want to also look for MONDO ZOMBIE, edited by John Skipp - it's basically BOOK OF THE DEAD VOL. 3.<BR/><BR/>Coincidentally, Skipp and Spector broke up their partnership... not sure of the whole story, but supposedly Poppy Brite had some tangential involvement.<BR/><BR/>As for Brite, she tackled REAL horror - a biography of Courtney Love...L. Rob Hubbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11539336724694374785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-9262582933177064502008-10-16T10:57:00.000-04:002008-10-16T10:57:00.000-04:00great post. I loved your description of the Splat...great post. I loved your description of the Splatterpunks. You really don't know what they'll do next ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-57403037436248448082008-10-16T07:28:00.000-04:002008-10-16T07:28:00.000-04:00No, Will, I don't have the second zombie book, tho...No, Will, I don't have the second zombie book, though I know I'll pick it up some day. I may not like splatterpunk, but I do like zombies, after all.<BR/><BR/>Yes, Palanhiuk does definitely sound like he's carrying on the tradition, which is one of the reasons I've never read him. Any writer who brags about how many people he's made vomit at readings (stories I find dubious anyway) doesn't share my priorities.<BR/><BR/>I also agree that Clive Barker is a terrific artist. I like his paintings and sketches more and more as the years go by. And why is the name "Mort Castle" so familiar to me? He sounds like an old-time comedian.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-2022350003793237412008-10-15T23:30:00.000-04:002008-10-15T23:30:00.000-04:00Wow, splatterpunk. I've still got all the book...Wow, splatterpunk. I've still got all the books from its heyday in the late 80s/early 90s, and every now and again I'll reread some of those stories. Still have a soft spot for those old paperbacks, despite the fact that Schow makes me squirm with embarrassment nowadays. Skipp & Spector did their best work anthologizing the zombie books. Brite, who I haven't read in years, has moved on to some sort of New Orleans gastronomic fiction. Clive Barker I think is still oddly <I>under</I>rated for his young adult fiction and his astonishing artwork. Splatterpunk might be long dead, but from everything I've heard about his stuff, Chuck Palanhiuk seems to be an heir. And I suppose what Max Brooks is doing with zombies is the only logical outcome of that sub-genre. Do you have a copy of the second <I>Book of the Dead</I>? "The Old Man and the Dead" by Mort Castle, Romero by way of Hemingway, still holds up, I think.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-76455322239952984122008-10-15T14:43:00.000-04:002008-10-15T14:43:00.000-04:00Well, yes. It's SOP in popular art, I suppose.Well, yes. It's SOP in popular art, I suppose.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-60044651639405236902008-10-15T14:15:00.000-04:002008-10-15T14:15:00.000-04:00but people learned the wrong lessons from themYou'...<I>but people learned the wrong lessons from them</I><BR/><BR/>You've just described all of Hollywood history following blockbuster movies.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-15768494229290464332008-10-15T13:47:00.000-04:002008-10-15T13:47:00.000-04:00When I was a kid, my school would only delay openi...When I was a kid, my school would only delay opening for two hours during a zombie apocalypse. Now they get whole days off. Lame!<BR/><BR/>My theory is, writers like Schow made it because standards were lowered by films. Oddly enough, some of those films were good (like <I>Night of the Living Dead</I> and <I>Texas Chainsaw Massacre</I>), but people learned the wrong lessons from them.<BR/><BR/>This was all going to be part of that essay I was pretending to write a while back. I guess I'm sort of covering all the bases this month, so I'll never finish that, which is probably for the best.bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-87865552506019666222008-10-15T13:37:00.000-04:002008-10-15T13:37:00.000-04:00the zombie apocalypse has been going for some time...<I>the zombie apocalypse has been going for some time</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, those zombie apocalypses can really outstay their welcome. I remember going through the last one, spring of 98, and thinking, "Man this is never gonna end!" <BR/><BR/>That picture of Chow or Schow or whatever is hilarious. What a maroon. I love these pathetic horror jerkwads who think they look deep and menacing. Yeah, whatever Chow, you and Rob Zombie couldn't give the willies to a trembling basket case with post traumatic stress disorder. They'd look at you and think, "Oh I'm fine, cause you're not scary at all." <BR/><BR/>By the way, I've read chat room blather between teenagers at my house - it's more interesting and better written than that excerpt you put up. How did these guys ever make it?Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-44532831434422842532008-10-15T10:36:00.000-04:002008-10-15T10:36:00.000-04:00Well, as a "movement", it's over, but the extreme ...Well, as a "movement", it's over, but the extreme violence that they made popular still hangs around. I'm not clear right now at what level, though, since I currently don't read much modern horror (meaning, horror fiction written within the last ten years or so).bill r.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-33132030678717356372008-10-15T10:33:00.000-04:002008-10-15T10:33:00.000-04:00I love the self-appointed genre names that cliques...I love the self-appointed genre names that cliques name themeselves... "Dogma 95", "Mumblecore", "Splatterpunks".It's no coincidence that these "trends" never seem to survive. (I'm <I>assuming</I> splatterpunk fizzled out since you said only four of them carried the torch...).Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08067136509248849744noreply@blogger.com