59. 5 + 9 = 14. February 14th is Valentine’s Day. My Bloody Valentine was a GREAT horror movie, even if it was essentially ruined by a shitty remake.

This is good. We’re now officially two months away, as today is the first day of September, and we just have to get through this and next month and then all is right with the world.

60. For the movie Gone in 60 Seconds (I’m not telling you whether I liked this one or not), which features actor Timothy Olyphant. Who was in one of my favorite movies of last year, the remake of the George Romero flick The Crazies.

What’s funny about the crazies is that I wrote a quick blurb about it back in April of 2009. Vincent also wrote a quick blurb in January, yet apparently it was the first time he had heard of the movie, which greatly offends me, since this means he obviously doesn’t read my blog posts.

Vincent, if you’re reading this, I’m watching you …

61.  61 = 6_1 = VI_I = VII = 7.  That is some shitty logic I know, but it allows us to talk about Friday the 13th part VII, The New Blood.

Well, actually, it allows me to say that for some reason Vincent really likes this particular Jason film. I’d consider among the worst in the series, although it’s pretty amusing getting to see Jason’s “face”:

Evil on 2 Legs has a great original post where the question is asked, “What kind of greeting cards would Jigsaw have created?”

This birthday card is probably my favorite:

That sounds exactly like something I would send to someone. “Congratulations. You’re still alive”. Pretty brilliant if you ask me.

I don’t really understand what the purpose of this poster is as I can’t read it, but it’s something.  And it’s a neat something.

Click for the full-size version

New Let The Right One In Poster Chills Your Blood [via io9]

64.  For these incredible Commodore 64 game versions of Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Evil Dead.

Cool post from Awkward Family Photos in honor/promotion of the opening of the latest Exorcist film, The Last Exorcism.

The older I get, the more I seem to revert back to childhood tendencies. Mostly in the way I compulsively buy worthless things that just kinda take up space.

So the story goes with trading cards. I’ve always been a big fan of trading cards, collecting sports cards when I was kid. I occasionally dabbled in non-sports cards for movies and TV shows.

I found a local store in Brooklyn called PopFuzz which caters to all of my juvenile needs. They have comics toys, great records and books and movies, and most importantly, shitloads of old trading cards still in the packages. It’s a great store, so if you’re around town, be sure to stop in.

Over the past few weekends I’ve stumbled in and bought mounds of these cards (the store is on my standard Saturday/Sunday morning hangover route to the drug store for energy drinks and snacks) and am excited to report that the cards are as great as ever. I got loads of mostly TV and movie-related ones, like Bill and Ted, Saved By the Bell, Ninja Turtles, YO! MTV Raps, American Gladiator, Rock Stars, In Living Color, among many others.

If nothing else, these cards give me a minute to reflect on the good ‘ole days, when things were simpler. And then I cry a bit, realizing I’ll never see those days again.

Here, I’ll focus on TDD-related ones, mainly the Fright Flicks, Tales From the Crypt, and Gremlins 1/2 cards.

Tales From the Crypt

These were some pretty silly cards. They featured a mix of the crypt keeper saying stupid shit (there’s a theme here), old Tales From the Crypt comic covers, etc.

Even the packaging was cute. There’s a little line “Your friends will die of envy!” if you complete the whole set. And if you don’t buy the collector album, “YOU KNOW KIDDIES … LOTS OF HORRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOUR CRYPT CARDS!”. Anyways, these are still fun, and remind of staying up late during the summer as a kid watching TFTC on HBO.

Fright Flicks

You can imagine that finding these old gems got me more excited than any of the other cards. 1985/1987 vintage (the box contained packs from different years, which is kinda strange).

Firstly, they’ve got great packaging. As you can see above, you have Freddy, the Predator, what I think is Pumpkin Head, and a chick from Fright Night. All poorly drawn.

Secondly, you have excruciatingly painful quips and puns on each of the cards. Here are some choice examples:

“MAN, MY DOGS ARE KILLING ME!” says the dog thing from Ghostbusters. “TRY THE SHRIMP TEMPURA ..” yeah that’s great.

More intelligent things. I do have to say though, the stickers kicked ass. Freddy for president? I’ll put that on my lunchbox or trapper keeper any day of the week.

Aliens, Day of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street 1/2/3, Ghostbusters, Fright Night, the Fly, Vengeance: The Demon (which was what the first Pumpkinhead was called apparently) comprise the films that have cards in this set. All cheesy enough to be worthy of entry in this series.

These are just fun. Also, apparently other people get a kick out of these cards too.

Gremlins

Actually, I’m tired. Gremlins cards were Gremlins cards. They were fun.

We love a good zombie story here at the Devil’s Demons. We also love the internet, and love the fact that small filmmakers have the medium to distribute great works to loads of people fairly easily and inexpensively.

Dead Wait is a web series about a survivalist who’s preparing himself for the end of world, zombie apocalypse, Armageddon, whatever.

The first season was wrapped up earlier this summer, and you can watch all 6 of the episodes here.

It’s a good little watch. It looks like they’re well on their way to getting funding for a 2nd season, which based on the end of the first, should be action packed.

For a good summary of the show, check out this article on tubefilter.

Happy Friday. Go see Piranha 3D this weekend to see people who look like this.