Mulberry St. Rat Attack

Here's a movie that will make you look at rats a whole lot differently. "Mulberry St." was a movie in the After Dark Horrorfest II series. That series is up to 4 now I think. Good series. Something about this movie in particular got me interested since it's got mutants. I like mutants and zombies. This one has a new angle. The rats in the sewers are infecting people and turning them into rat-people. They're like some hybrid monster after they transform. The way they describe is as devolving into rats. No doubt if rats were as big as people they would be mad as Hell and hungry. Rat-people are no different. They infect the city rather quickly and soon the dreaded quarantine goes up. Most of the time in movies we can guess that the military doesn't want anyone getting out of a quarantine. It makes you wonder if that's what they would really do. Would they simply issue a "kill everyone" order? I know in "Resident Evil" they were all left behind to rot. They had to get out their own way or perish. Rats are disgusting to begin with, unless they're pets from a petstore, and overgrown rat-people is not a pretty picture. You don't want to be in a quarantined city full or rat-people looking for fresh meat unless you got some explosives. The thing about rats is they travel in packs. That means if you see one then there's gonna be an invasion coming around the corner!

Guest Commentator FLESHCRAWL says: "There ain't enough room in this town for both zombies and rat-people!"

Cybertron Recycles Itself

The transformer home planet of Cybertron was home to all the transformers good and bad. Once they all got along. They were created to protect the universe by a mysterious force in another galaxy. The same force inside the allspark was once floating around in space. An energy with its own intelligence. Then the autobots and decepticons rose to oppose each other. Almost as if machines were made to live, they took on a life of their own. The great thing about Cybertron was that nothing got wasted. Energy gets reused and materials get recycled. If only humans were that way. I can't even believe that we only thought of recycling recently in human life. It should have been put into effect a long time ago so that nobody would be looking down on it now. People think it's a waste of time and that is unbelievable. That shows you what conditioning can do though. It does set an example for us in some way. In movies you always see aliens or robots doing what we should be doing. They never have problems with waste materials or population problems. All we do is worry about consumerism and let war thin out the herd. Or plagues. Or disease. Or economy. Money is the root of all evil when we live in a world driven by consumerism. We could not survive without it. Yet I still look at examples like the one I've given here and wonder what we could do differently. Deep down this cannibalistic culture is a conspiracy that we like.

Guest Commentator TOUGH GUY says: "Something tells me I'm probably wanted on this planet too. Gotta run!"

Get Crossed Or Get Out

What could be worse than a zombie? How about a crazy person? Yeah! This comic "Crossed" is about some strain of some kind of infection that turns people into crazy people with huge crosses in the form of welts down the middle of their faces. They're so crazy in fact that they put zombies to shame. Crazy is the new zombie. I've seen this sort of theme before in "Infected", a book by Scott Sigler. It's a sick comic though. They're easily insane enough to compete with anything out there. They may be the craziest crazies out there quite possibly. As for what causes it, you'll have to read it to try to figure that out. The adult themes in this comic cover the gamut. I read about a part where a woman gets forced to do things sexually even. A pic I saw showed them throwing people out of an airplane. This would truly be one of the most horrifying things I could imagine going through. Does it go global? In "28 Days Later" they had a rage virus right? Yeah, so this is a similar idea but this is very over the top. It might give you a reason to stock up on guns and get some target practice I suppose. I'm sure this kind of thing could be real but thankfully it's only in a comic because I love the comic, but if something like that happened in real life then we'd have comics about nice, kind things. It's sure to be a winner from this cover. You gotta admit that guy looks really insane. I wish I thought of this really. So what would it take for it be a T.V. show or movie? Attention like "The Walking Dead".

Guest Commentator THE EVIL SCHOOLGIRL says: "I think I've been crossed. I've been on a killing spree for 3 days!"

VERSUS GIRL #63 - Goddess Like

Here's a hot vixen. Alexandra Daddario is the female star of "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" alongside the male star, Percy Jackson - not his real name. She plays Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. So two demi-gods have no powers and go to high school except they get kicked out and go to demi-god camp. This girls isn't really 16 or 17 like she is in the movie but nobody cares. She's older but sure fit the part well. They say there was a different movie with another version of the female star in some other country and this one is the American busty version. Nothing wrong with that! Alexandra is set to be in a horror movie soon called "Bereavement" that looks pretty good. They say it's a new horror classic. We'll see. I hope so for her sake. She's got a lot of T.V. work in her past "Damages", "The Sopranos", "Law & Order", etc. She's also in "Hall Pass". Now we know she got noticed. Yup, the girl's got skills to pay the bills. I like her eyes a lot for some reason. They're different. Along with the rest of her of course. She doesn't really have any real big movies behind her so that would make Percy Jackson her first really bigtime movie. If I got this right she was 16 when she started in "All My Children" and now she's playing a 16 year old with a nice figure. That works for us I'd say. Funny how this casting trend has taken place lately with stars that aren't the same age as their parts. Maybe there's a shortage of teens out there, lol! Who cares. I'll be happy with this. She's part goddess so that would explain why she's so alluring.

Guest Commentator HARVESTER OF SORROW says: "A god's daughter to wed a devil would be very nice indeed. She will be mine!"

Fear Of Synthetic Meat

Versus Science #81. Some things are going to get weird in the future. They say in 2050 we might be eating synthetic meat made in labs in petri dishes to solve the global food crisis. That might save people from starving but it won't save the world population from increasing in number. It's sort of adding to the problem. This way we have more hurdles to overcome. We'll have to find a way to get people to live on the moon or Mars just to get people off of Earth! For some reason I just can't imagine liking synthetic meat more than the real thing. Could it possibly be any better? It just sounds like a scientific way to make things when natural is usually better. That's science for ya. Always trying to find the "scientific" way to do things that never really replaces anything. If it could be better than real meat that would be a real shock. The other shock is how it doesn't come in animal shapes. It comes in weird "Soylent Green" type packages in square shapes or odd stringy bands of meat. They grow this stuff in large quantities in vats. I'm opposed to most medicines being better than natural cures so this is something I would have to research. What's next? cloning human meat? What if it is human meat but we wouldn't recognize it in odd shapes and strings? You wouldn't be able to tell if it was like some ground beef-looking stuff. Ground human?

Guest Commentator FLESHCRAWL says: "Ground human sounds tasty. I'd eat it!"

The Human Dragon Mystery

If you believe in dragons then you would understand what I'm thinking. Humans have been fire eating for many, many years and it all reminds me of dragons. If a man can find a way to shoot fire from his mouth without being burnt then it stands to reason that a dragon could too. Some theories are that a dragon could ignite the chemicals when they leave the mouth only and that they would have special organs for creating the gasses needed for the fire. It's really a possibility when you think about it. In movies like "Reign Of Fire" they said dragons could have wiped out the dinosaurs. If they did exist that would sure be true. I don't doubt that they could have but they would've been a much more advanced creature than a dinosaur. If that were a reality that would be a superior species wiping out the inferior one. Now how did people get started fire eating? I wonder if it could have been as a weapon of some kind. Then as time went by they could have evolved it into entertainment. You have to admit that would make a great weapon. What I'm wondering is if a person could ever be like a dragon. A dragon man if you will. I don't see why not. That's more of an "X-Files" kind of thing though. What would you do with a gift like that anways? What if fire eating was depicting what a dragon did! Maybe they knew it.

QUEEN OF BLASPHEMY says: "Dragons like to take women into their harem like Jabba The Hut!"

God Of Fire Punished Pompeii

For some reason I find myself fascinated by what happened in Pompeii in 79 AD. This Roman city in Italy can be toured. They uncovered the city from beneath 9 feet of ash and pumice. Mount Vesuvius was a very large volcano to be living next to. Back then they probably didn't fear volcanoes. I wouldn't either if it weren't for Mount St. Helens. showing us what a volcano can do. Well imagine that but a lot worse! What happened in Pompeii was frightening. The wealthy of Rome would go to Pompeii as a haven for the upper class. Were they punished on the same day they were celebrating the god of fire? Ironic coincidence there, or was it myth come true? Upper class don't deserve punishment but that depends on how they got there. Rome was a decadent city indeed. But for all it's depravity it was a hugely big turn of evolution for man to create a modern city. It was the city of modern men at the time. I can't get over how the ash and pumice completely preserved the people in their tracks! That would have to be the equivalent of molten rock solidifying extremely quickly after leaving the hellish heat within the confines of the volcano. It just shocks me that we've never heard of such an occurence happening before after a volcano eruption. Mount St. Helens spewed out tons of ash but nothing got solidified. And back then they would never know what to think of men turned to stone. They would think it punishment surely. I wonder if Mount Vesuvius would be considered a Caldera?

Guest Commentator BLUE FIEND says: "It's a good thing my executioner got solidified in molten rock!"

Splatterhouse The Grotesque

Versus Game #61. Some games never get old. I loved this new "Splatterhouse" for the PS3" and "Xbox 360". Both versions are nice. A lot of critics out there will be the naysayers but I think this was a really cool remake. It has 12 phases, which doesn't seem like a lot, but it does split into 27 parts so maybe that's decent. I do think it should have even more levels. Hell they should give it a ton. Like 100 levels. That's what the first "Bomberman" had and this game would rock with that many levels. But then again, that would equate to a lot of end bosses. I love end bosses! There are a lot of parts that seem to pay homage to the original 1988 arcade classic, like side scrolling fights. The rest reminds me a bit of "Painkiller" for the first Xbox. That game rocked. It was practically endless. It too also had a heavy metal soundtrack. I love the soundtrack in this game. Gets me amped. The gore is way up there and while it may not seem the most insane you can always play it at the hardest setting. That's what I do. I play every game on hard mode now. That's what you do when you're a veteran gamer badass. As far as remaking this game goes I think it does it justice. Some say it's not that hard while others say it's really hard. But remember, it has to be harder than the original by far. We're all just spoiled brats that don't realize how good we are at games. It could always be harder but then that defeats the purpose of the difficulty settings. Video games are supposed to be like arcade games so it's plenty long enough. True fans of the first game should froth at the mouth.

Guest Commentator BLOOD MISTRESS says: "Yay, more blood! Blood is good!"

Red Moon Revelations

Someone has seen one before. We all have. A red moon is a thing of mystical mystery to many and an explainable phenomenon to others. They say it's caused by dust and particles in the air from pollution. Well, if you know anything about what they say about the rapture and the red moon then you know that there might be more to this. They also say in the bible that rivers would run red and it turns out there's a poisonous algae from rust that turns rivers red. They also mention locusts, which ironically would hatch quicker if the world got hotter from global warming. Is it really a coincidence that pollution turns out to cause a red moon? It could also be caused by light refraction when the sun doesn't set properly, but what does that mean? I don't think there are any coincidences with these visions honestly. Even if you don't read the bible one can understand how a self fulfilling prophecy works. They say rivers run red and a red moon rises and locusts will come and what do we do? We pollute the world and it all just coincidentally happens to come true? Not to mention more natural disasters. This doesn't mean we're going to die in 2012 or anything but it does mean that maybe the bible is supposed to serve more as a warning. It's all cryptic but if we try to see the message is clearly there. Another theory is that it could be a vampire moon, or Satanic moon, or werewolf moon, all of which seem out of the realm of reality.It's also a symbol of madness.

Guest Commentator THE GRAVEROBBER says: "Red moons have a way of driving people batty!"

Atlantis Lives On

Ever wonder about whether Atlantis was real? You see it in movies and even animation movies. People are obsessed with it yet there's no real premise for for where this fantasy came from. It originated from stories by Plato in ancient Greece but there are many other theories from other countries. They say that it might be a certain island called Thera but for true believers this would not be accepted. When other countries are coming up with theories too it makes you wonder if Atlantis was even a Greek city at all. Maybe it's true name was different and maybe it was near a different country. Maybe it was in the middle of the ocean as an island that no longer exists. The reason this sort of mystery might be valid is because of the possible meaning behind Atlantis. What if there was something to hide? A huge treasure? Something more? What if it was a metaphor for something? That too is also a theory floating around out there. For some reason Atlantis thrills us even now and people will keep looking for it. What if it was an alien colony? That's just a random theory I'm throwing out. You never know what it could've been. Some even hypothesize the death of certain species of creatures may have died with it. This may be the reason why some people become archeologists in the first place. Place your bets now folks! This pic is from an underwater mausoleum built to house a body off the coast of Miami. You can bury your dead in underwater style now! Sure looks like some fabled city to me.

Guest Commentator FATHER DIABOLICAL says: "Some things are not meant to be found! Damn you to Hell!"

Dawn Of Ashes And Devastation

Versus Music #51. The cover to this CD embodies a grand vision of an apocalypse, so naturally I gravitated towards it. It turns out I really liked the band. "Dawn Of Ashes" is their name. The artwork is excellent so kudos to them. There are a lot of people trying to pin down what kind of sound these guys are but I think it's obvious that they're black metal. They've added elements of deathcore, which some people don't like, but they don't sound deathcore. They sound black deathcore. I don't mind deathcore as a term since it simply means more heavy hooks added to the mix instead of pure deathmetal drone. Nothing wrong with either to me. They started out as an aggrotech/ harsh EBM band and morphed into a black metal band from Hell. The guitar work on here is seriously good. It's like they took a long break and learned how to play just like the "Beastie Boys" did, or "Bill & Ted". What's really cool is how they seem to have made black metal even harsher. I love the buzzsaw sound of traditional black metal like earlier "Gorgoroth" but they've added a heaviness to it that makes it brutal. Some say they sound like other bands but I really don't think they sound like anything else out there that I've heard. So I give them props for creating a new beast. It's amazing to see a band able to change so much and really learn how to scare you. Nice burning baby.

Guest Commentator THE LUSTY NUN says: "Black Deathcore really turns me on!"

They Really Were LOST

Looking back on "LOST" I was thinking about what really went down. We know what happened but there might be more to it. I wrote a previous article on this subject already but this goes more in depth. A plane flew over the island and got torn in two by magnetism. Right there there's a huge giveaway of what happened but you would never know it until much later. In fact, it seems the whole island was made to distort magnetism, even the underground bunker. This bunker housed an area where Desmond inserted a key and totally distorted everything. Even time was out of sync. The island was invisible to the naked eye of anybody that passed by it due to this magnetism as well. Now think about how everyone survived the plane crash. That's not even possible. Right there is another big giveaway. It's been known that magnetic forces could do many things from erasing a hard drive to time travel. It could also distort light which would make an island invisible. Now remember when they blew up the A-bomb? That would unleash such a huge amount of radioactive magnetism that it would be capable of damn near anything. And notice they weren't dead afterwards! This is the third big giveaway. So far they've died like 3 times by my count. The magnetism kept copies of them like a hard drive. This is why they were o.k. on the island. They did leave the island but something came back with them. It was radioactive after all. They died the second that plane hit the beach. This explains the cloud monster as well.

Guest Commentator BONE COLLECTOR says: "It was me. I made the plane crash! Sorry bout' that!"

The Sun May Die Someday

You might want to be prepared for many things in this life but what will matter the most? Will it be stocking up on guns in case there's anarchy? Will it be candles in case the power goes out? Will it be canned food in case the supermarket is closed? I say we should be thinking about the death of our star known as the sun. It may not happen for a few more million years but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be prepared right? With all the crazy shows on SyFy depicting disasters that could happen to Earth you never really know what could be coming for us. Something could "knock out" the sun so to speak and we would be left in total darkness, just like Alaska is half of the year. It is in my professional opinion that we think about maybe how we would adapt to darkness. I can't really imagine it myself because then we'd all be using torches or something like in the dark ages. It would suck to have no T.V. honestly. This makes me wonder what happened at the end of the movie "Escape From New York" where Snake Pliskin shuts off the world's electricity via satellite. In that movie the world was a real s**thole to begin with and then you add that. Sounds bad, real bad. Some people wouldn't mind at all because it would mean equality. No jobs. No upper class. No consumerism. That's a bit much to me. Stock up now.

Guest Commentator CHROMESHINE says: "Luckily I have infra-red to hunt you pesky humans in such situations!"

Team Satan Goes Mainstream

It might just be a trend but it seems that Satan, lord of the underworld, has become mainstream more so than a few years ago. I see bands hailing Satan and whether they worship the devil or not is really irrelevant. What they appear to be doing is simply using the image of Satan to portray rebelliousness and the desire to do whatever they want. You know the saying: "Do what thou wilt". Yeah, so now it's being used to make bands look like hellraisers. Even the bands that sing about Satan and worshipping him are really just glorifying the idea of having fun most of the time. I like some of those bands like "Morbid Angel" or "Danzig". There are a few true hardcore Satanists out there but if they were real Satanists they'd be doing things most people would not be o.k. with like sacrificing people or drinking blood or something else. And most of those bands are not going to be that messed up in the head. It's really just a way for the devil to make himself look harmless and try to spread senseless anarchy for no other reason than to do what thou wilt, if you follow Christianity. But since a lot of bands aren't singing about anarchy it just turns out to come across more like a very watered down version of evil. So watered down in fact that it makes wearing shirts that say "Team Satan" on them look fun and not evil. That's where the line gets drawn. Do you have to rebel against everything to have fun? No. To raise Hell, yes. Look for Team Satan shirts and you'll find em', lol!

Guest Commentator THE DARK PRINCE says: "People are too busy believing in Satan to believe in vampires, hahaha!"

Evolutionary Distortion

Versus Science #80. Another mad theory brought to you by none other than DEATHZ HEAD. I thought about something that really struck me as an odd possibility. There are strange phenomena that they try very hard to keep hush hush that some of us may have picked up on. One such phenomena is how radiation could make you grow animal parts. Of course nobody would believe this since nobody's ever heard of it happening, but that's the way they want it. And you hear things here and there about how we share 98% of the same DNA as this plant or this animal so what if we were all really just the same animal? I think it's quite a reality. Back when every animal was just a bacteria in the sea there was nothing. Eventually some of those cell pools started splitting under extreme heat and turned into different animals. We all come from the same origins if you go back far enough. Here you see a Tyrannosaurus Rex compared to a human. I think if you keep looking at the picture long enough you could see how a T-Rex could be a human if mutated badly enough. They say it's a bird evolution starting backwards but what if birds, humans, everything was basically all the same? It's like when an egg chooses to be male or female, well couldn't the same happen on a DNA level, like choosing to be human or animal from the start long ago?

Guest Commentator SPUN BETTY says: "That is officially the most insane thing I've ever heard!"

Zombies Hate Robots

This comic is right up my alley. "ZVR" is the name. That's short for Zombies Vs. Robots. Interesting name huh? Yeah I thought so too. It doesn't make sense until you get to find out what it's about. If you don't know what the plot is then you'd be thinking "Robots aren't alive and neither are zombies" but there's more to it. You see, the robots are in fact trying to save humanity from a zombie threat. Why this happens could be one of 1,000 different reasons. Are the robots sentient beings? Do they have a master? Why help humans? If the humans put them up to it then that's a smart idea really. Why fight the zombie apocalypse on your own when you can have a robot body guard I always say! It makes sense in a world where we now use remote control airplanes to shoot missiles at enemies. Someday I imagine even tanks will be remote control. Can you imagine the money that would go into just one though? What a sad thing it would be to see one get destroyed. Robots that could protect us from random enemies is a really good idea though. I like that much better than a lot of ideas. Now if they're controlled by us that could be good or bad. Just set it to annihilate anything it its path and that should work. Then have the choice to go manual if need be. This comic is the kind of direction things are going in now.

Guest Commentator FLESHCRAWL says: "Zombies should totally win this one!"

Darkness Creeping Out Of Your Skull

Versus Book #60. This book "Darkness Creeping" is a cool collection of 20 short stories. Although the cover doesn't give anything away it's targeting the teen demographic. I like the cover a lot I must say. When I was younger I used to read anthologies of horror stories and that's when I realized that short stories have a lot of worth. You can read them faster when you know one story lasts only 15 pages or so. That way you pace yourself and read a story a day in your spare time. The subject matter in these stories is really varied and there's no one theme. You can expect to find a really good mix of ideas that seem creepy enough to me. The story about time travel where a guy gets his own skull sent to him should creep you out a bit. Writing for teens usually means making the stories less graphic than those hardcore horror stories but that doesn't mean that the content is compromised. You can do a lot with the creepiness factor to make up for loads of gore. It's all about the twisted imagination. This collection displays just that. I'm not usually into teen horror, whatever that is, but this book is quite accessible to all ages. I wouldn't even really call it teen horror myself. It's more just imaginative horror. A lot of horror authors famous and not don't go hardcore with their writing. It's more about being thought provoking and making you raise an eyebrow. I would buy this book just for the cover though. Cool name too. Check it out.

BLOOD MISTRESS says: "Blood red is my favorite color!"