We’s baaaaack w/ Dead West of Screaming Soup…HOW ARE YOU?
SS: Seein’ red after sittin’ through a marathon of Ted V. Mikels movies. Yeesh, that fella loved his gingers!
TIS THE SEASON DONTCHA THINK?
SS: Yup. Costume shops are promotin’ their newest line of slut wear, all our favorite treats have been cross contaminated with pumpkin spice, and everyone feels entitled to press strangers fer a hand out. It’s Halloween!
ANY CONVENTIONS HAPPENING FOR YA?
SS: Sure as wooly boogers snack on their own belly button lint! I’ll be attendin’ Toy Federation’s Retro Toy Con as a special guest once ‘gain, November 22-24 in Greenville, SC. The show has proven to be the go-to event for collectors to hunt down any and all playful plastics from yesteryear and today, and I’ll be pullin’ double duty as the official announcer of the con while hostin’ panels with celebrities from fan favorite franchises like Godzilla, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Spider-Man, Five Nights at Freddy’s, and Star Wars. It’s three days of folks wheelin’ and dealin’ fer their favorite shelf fillers, and Scream Freaks can find me in the thick of it at the Screaming Soup! booth where they can get their picture with me and score a fan club kit full of Screaming Soup! stickers, trading cards, coasters and more!
WHAT’S GOING ON W/ THE KILLER TOMATOES?
SS: The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes brand is on the rise! Since releasin’ Screaming Soup! Presents the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective, my be-all end-all Rondo Award winnin’ documentary on the entire history of the franchise featurin’ exclusive interviews with the cast and crew from all four movies and the cartoon series, the creators of the Killer Tomatoes are plannin’ a major comeback for B movies’ greatest threat from the produce aisle. They started a behind-the-scenes podcast of their previous Killer Tomato films through Olas Media, currently workin’ on producin’ a fifth Killer Tomatoes movie sooner than later, and aimin’ to release all new collectibles they introduced at San Diego Comicon this year. Even better, yer favorite animated horror host is workin’ with a company lookin’ to sell fans life size statues of an all too familiar character from the original toy line. TOMATOES!!!
WHAT’S YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE ASYLUM?
SS: It’s funny to realize how far they’ve come since their heyday trickin’ clueless video store customers into pickin’ their knock-off titles over the real deals with clever word play like Transmorphers and Death Racers foolin’ ‘em outta seein’ Transformers and Death Race. They musta been livin’ on the edge with copyright infringements! They did have an original flick every now and then I’d enjoy like Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter’s Cove and that trilogy of Scarecrow movies, but I’m one of those who became a bigger fan when the Sharknado craze hit Syfy. I’m more excited to watch a movie now when The Asylum logo pops up!
ANY BIG COLLABORATIONS HAPPENING?
SS: Ya mean the one you and I got comin’ up, don’t ya? Yessiree readers, Screaming Soup!’s next crisscross with talent will be with none other than Mojo El Diablo himself! I invited him to my favorite drinkin’ hole the Howl-Inn Grub & Spirits, where he’ll be helpin’ me judge an ear bleedin’ talent show of tone deaf wannabes lookin’ to be the next Phantom of the Opera. It’s all part of an effort to help my amigo Count Ted be all he can be as the newest king of the vampires with a scary as hell gang of monsters behind him. Keep a lookout for that episode durin’ our sixth season where we review a double feature of Phantom of the Paradise and Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge. Don’t miss it!
WHAT’S A BETTER BINGE WATCH IN SHOCTOBER (twilight zone vs tales from the crypt)?
SS: Ya can’t go wrong watchin’ top shelf productions like Tales From the Crypt or any version of the Twilight Zone, but I’d recommend shakin’ things up from the usual tried and true. Other Halloween worthy TV series worth bingin’ fer their abundance of creatures and craziness are Monsters, any of the Channel Zero seasons, Eerie, Indiana, and an original Sci-Fi Channel show called The Chronical with Rena Sofer as a news journalist of the unnatural if ya can find it!
LOCKE AND KEY (your thoughts on stephen king’s son joe hill’s creation)?
SS: Heavy and inventive stuff! Joe’s imagination’s definitely livin’ up to the family name.
ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT STEPHEN KING NAMED HIS SON JOE?
SS: Ya mean like — Joe King? Joe-King . . . JoeKing . . . joking. Huh. Clever.
MONSTER SQUAD OR GOONIES?
SS: Goonies, ‘cause they’re older than ‘em Monster Squad pip squeaks! Who wants to see a buncha bad ass monsters beaten by a liter of snot nosed rug rats. It’s too ridiculous fer me to enjoy!
WHEN YA GONNA REVIEW CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU?
SS: Soon as I kick my boots up to it playin’ on the idiot box.
YOU SEE BEETLEJUICE 2 YET?
SS: I did, and wooo-doggy! Talk ‘bout ten pounds of ideas in a five pound bag! It’s a fun time overall, but the story gets five plots deep at times with long build-ups resolved in the blink of an eye, and I think too much time is spent on real world drama compared to the first movie bein’ 95% afterlife antics thanks to the main characters dyin’ within the first few minutes. I also thought it repeated a smidge too much from the first flick with the unnecessary army of shrunken head employees bein’ my point of nostalgia overkill. Despite all that, however, Keaton brings the house down as the ghost with the most, there’s alotta great world buildin’, and it’s even a Halloween movie to boot! 3/5!
THOUGHTS ON MODERN HORROR?
SS: The nostalgia needle’s been steadily movin’ from the 1980s to the 1990s, and I really wonder how that’s gonna impact today’s horror flicks. The youth of the ‘80s wanted to continue the tradition of slash and splat they enjoyed watchin’ when they became filmmakers in the 2000s, but I don’t know what new directors and writers today are gonna wanna dredge up from the decade of grunge and dial-up internet. The horror genre was all but dead before movies like Scream and Blair Witch gave it the shot in the arm it needed, but those waves of meta storytellin’ and found footage they created never really went away, so I’ll be interestin’ in seein’ what comes full circle this time ‘round like a snake eatin’ its own tail.
ANY LAST WORDS FOR YOUR FANS?
SS: If yer a fan of horror hosts, indie superhero comics, retro video games, and Saturday mornin’ cartoons, then Screaming Soup! is the show for you! Follow me and the rest of my dysfunctional gang of parody monsters like my goat from hell Billy and ghostly girlfriend Mandy as we review horror and sci-fi B movies while on wild weird west misadventures you gotta see to disbelieve. With six seasons and countin’ available to watch, stay up to date with all our latest episodes, bite-size reviews, and appearances at ScreaminSoup.com, home of the web’s #1 animated horror host show! See ya later, Scream Freaks!