It Came From The Man Cave!: May 2013

Everlong Music Monday

Some times a cover comes along and sucks you in. This is really cool version and way way out of left field of the things I have posted in the past.

Darth Vader Gets Down With a Trombone

I think one of the best parts of this video is his family screaming and all the old people looking at them like shut it! Get on with the bingo already! Have fun Happy Monday.

Hall of Famer and Monster Madness In the Man Cave

Sven with True Blood's Janina Gavankar

First and for most I would like to thank Annie, Ked, and Emma for hosting the 2nd annual May Monster Madness its always fun. And thank you for letting me do it again this year. And thanks to all my new followers of my blog and on Twitter. I'm truely greatful.

Svengoolie is a big part of my blog so for my last post I would like to share a clip courtesy of Dave Fuentes of the Terror from beyond the Daves blog with Sven getting his Horror Host Hall of Fame plaque.

Again thanks for stopping by!

Bob

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Disney Scares for Halloween!

While everybody is talking about ABC's fall line up and its big title “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,”
amd “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland,” I feel like everybody missed so really cool news.

Just in time for Halloween, Disney/Pixar will reveal a new tale featuring favorite characters from the “Toy Story” films in a 30-minute special called “Toy Story of Terror” to air on ABC in October.

What starts out as a fun road trip for the “Toy Story” gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate.

The cast of “Toy Story of Terror” includes Tom Hanks as Woody, Tim Allen as Buzz, Joan Cusack as Jessie, Carl Weathers as Combat Carl/Combat Carl Jr., Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants, Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head, Wallace Shawn as Rex and Kristen Schaal as Trixie.

And being that it is Monster Madness thought I would share a few pictures of my favorite villains.

VHS Cover Love for May Monster Madness

I love this cover wish I could find one for my collection.

Yeah now that song is stuck in your head! I have never seen this looks like something to dig for.

Just wanted to add some action into your day.

So I know I have not done to much with VHS Wednesday's in a while I promise I will get to Different Strokes soon. Make sure you are checking out all of the other bloggers as we celebrate May Monster Madness.

This Legend Never Dies

Love the first one was suprised by the second and I can not wait for the third. This looks crazy! Hatchet 3 hits theatres June 14th stars Danielle Harris and Kane Hodder.

Music Monday Groovin' With the Hammer

Going a different route today for Music Monday. Going to get a little groovy for the May Monster Madness Blog hop! This song has been in my head sense Halloween when a few of us swap Music Mix Cd's. Have fun and make sure to check over 50 Blogs doing the hop this week.

Big Hero 6 Winter 2014

Walt Disney Animation Studios has announced "Big Hero 6" for 2014. Big Hero 6 is a superteam straight from the Marvel Comic universe. They first appeared in 1998. Disney has released a 30 second clip that features the unique high-tech city of San Fransokyo. Sorry not a typo its a mush up of Toyko and San Fransisco. Make sure you watch for the nod to Wreck It Ralph in the clip.

The plot of “Big Hero 6″ is described as:

An action comedy adventure about brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion—a robot named Baymax—Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city. Inspired by the Marvel comics of the same name, and featuring comic-book style action and all the heart and humor audiences expect from Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Did you miss the Wreck it Ralph Nod

Happy Mothers Day to all the Princesses

The most evil Dracula of all!

Director: Terence Fisher

Writers: Jimmy Sangster

Stars:

Peter Cushing

Martita Hunt

Yvonne Monlaur

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing is already on his way.

What a great way to kick off Mothers Day Weekend and of course the 2nd annual May Monster Madness blog hop. For those you that did not catch the last few weeks Sven is back. He has been filming new Mail Bag segments.

Also when you check in tonight watch in the opening scenes, the windows on the coach almost all alternate between open and closed from shot to shot. And its not Svensourrond but despite the fact the characters are all wearing winter clothes, in several night scenes crickets and frogs can loudly be heard as if it is summer.

Those of you that are stopping in for May Monster Madness tonights showing of Svengoolie “Brides of Dracula” hits the Me-TV airwaves tonight at 10 pm eastern and pacific, 9 pm central time, and please check your local listings for the runtime in your bitten neck of the woods.For our Chicago viewers, you’ll get another look at Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in “The Raven” on our sister station, WCIU- the U- at 11 am.

Svengoolie saturdays is a weekly post here in the Man Cave.

Make sure you check back tommorow for more May Monster Maddness in the mean time check out what some of the other bloggers have to say.

RIP Ray Harryhausen

Raymond Frederick Harryhausen
Born: Los Angeles 29th June 1920
Died: London 7th May 2013.

The Harryhausen family regret to announce the death of Ray Harryhausen, Visual Effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator. He was a multi-award winner which includes a special Oscar and BAFTA. Ray’s influence on today’s film makers was enormous, with luminaries; Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, George Lucas, John Landis and the UK’s own Nick Park have cited Harryhausen as being the man whose work inspired their own creations.

Harryhausen’s fascination with animated models began when he first saw Willis O’Brien’s creations in KING KONG with his boyhood friend, the author Ray Bradbury in 1933, and he made his first foray into filmmaking in 1935 with home-movies that featured his youthful attempts at model animation. Over the period of the next 46 years, he made some of the genres best known movies – MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949), IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955), 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957), MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961), ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (1966), THER VALLEY OF GWANGI (1969), three films based on the adventures of SINBAD and CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981). He is perhaps best remembered for his extraordinary animation of seven skeletons in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) which took him three months to film.

Harryhausen’s genius was in being able to bring his models alive. Whether they were prehistoric dinosaurs or mythological creatures, in Ray’s hands they were no longer puppets but became instead characters in their own right, just as important as the actors they played against and in most cases even more so.