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Wes Craven passed away yesterday, at the age of 76, following a battle with brain cancer. May he rest in peace. Even if I haven’t seen nearly enough of his films, I did enjoy Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994), (which, coincidentally, Syfy aired once more this last Saturday) along with The Serpent And The Rainbow (1988). Deadly Friend was weird, but worth watching once I tracked it down. I loved the opening (Drew Barrymore’s scene) of Scream.

In honor of him, I’ll finally get around to watching one of these: The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Deadly Blessing (1981), or Red Eye (2005).

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Yuletide 2012 Statistics Post.

This is what the Lizard could have looked like in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies.

Behold an Alien facehugger made entirely out of animal bones.

The Phil Coulson Memorial Awards: Comics Alliance’s Best Comics of 2012, Part 5.

Handmade Doctor Who Gallifreyan Collar.

Doctor Who Christmas special ratings surge.

Amazing Spider-Man #700 Steve Ditko Cover Breaks $1200 On eBay.

Japanese Poster For The Cabin In The Woods.

Crash Course: Dario Argento.

Trailers From Hell: Larry Karaszewski on What's The Matter With Helen.

Looking Forward, Looking Back: Creators weigh in on 2012 and 2013, Part 2.

J.M. DeMatteis on the Supernatural DCU and Phantom Stranger.

P:R Redesign: Denis Medri’s Fantasy Deadpool

Interview: Gregg Hurwitz & Ethan Van Sciver on Batman: The Dark Knight.

Stan Lee's Real Life Hobbit One Ring

Oz: The Great And Powerful—Two New Teaser Trailers.

After Elton interviews Colin Morgan and Katie McGrath.

The Evil Dead Wedding Cake.

Has The Roster For The Justice League Movie Been Revealed?

Is Scream 5 The New Ghostbusters 3?

5 Unfinished Comic Series We Want To Come Back.

10 Book Series So Addictive, You Never Want Them To End.

Geekfest Rants, Episode 121: Reboots, Remakes, and Reimaginings.

Greatest Movie Ever Podcast: Johnny Guitar (1954)

Comic Issues #99: Geek Resolution.

BPI Asks UK ISPs To Block More Major Torrent Sites.

31 Days of Horror: A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors/Jacob’s Ladder.

31 Days of Horror: The House of the Devil/Suspiria.

MTV Geek’s Frightful Faves: The Haunting (1963).

Ghosts From A to Z. I’d say it’s very thorough, as Mr. Boogedy actually made the list. The Ghostbusters focused entries are great, especially the ones for Gozer and Vigo.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: From Beyond (1986)

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness—80’s Rerun: Mystics In Bali.

Cinemassacre’s Monster Madness: Fright Night Part 2

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #22: Night of the Living Dead (1990).

Ain’t It Scary Reviews #23: The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)

Longbox of the Damned: MonsterMen (And Other Scary Stories).

Rare Halloween Videos: 1991: Miss Switch Mystery Special

Gift Guide: A Nightmare On Elm Street Slasher Soap.

Monster In My Pocket Trading Cards Review—Part 2.

Evil Dead trailer premieres Wednesday; Teaser for Trailer online.

13 Ghosts of Halloween: Day 4.

Toys: Ghostbusters 31% off on MattyCollector.com—On October 31st Only.

Megan Lara’s Doctor Who Bad Wolf T-Shirt Featuring Rose. Some lovely artwork on that one.

Tigger’s TARDIS T-Shirt.

Full trailer for Iron Man 3.

Watch two clips from Mockingbird Lane.

From Think Geek: Bleeding Skull Candle.

When We First Met—Gotham Police Department Debuts.

Cosplay: Gotham Overrun With Leather, Latex, And Itchy Plants.

12 Alternate Prometheus Posters.

United Cutlery Staff of Gandalf the Grey and Orcrist

Rumor Behind Cartoon Network/DC Nation Fiasco May Be True.

The 10 Best Episodes Of The 1980s Twilight Zone TV Series.

World’s Geekiest Bar Now Open In Paris.

Here’s a scarily life-like sculpture of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.

Fantastic Fangirls Q&A #176: Create a recipe based on a favorite comic book character.

Mark Waid Explores The Grey Area Of Green Hornet.

DC Reveals Cliff Chiang’s Concept Art For Orion.

P:R Approved: Héctor Barros’ Angel.

Marching band turns into a giant DeLorean for their Back to the Future half-time show. They do the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show immediately before that.

The Thing from The Fantastic Four made out of pumpkins is sort of genius.

Why Didn’t HBO or NBC Want The Walking Dead?

15 Best Alternate Endings To Famous Movies. Army of Darkness’ original ending makes the list, along with Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, Clue, Star Trek: Generations, and the 80’s version of Little Shop of Horrors.

Original Dark Shadows Script Pages.

NYCC’s Final Photo Parade.

Memories of Comic Book Gimmicks Resurface.

Bizarro Back Issues: Dracula Fights The Silver Surfer Because of Reasons (1976)

Clark Kent Quits Daily Planet To Become Blogger.

CBS picks up full seasons of Vegas and Elementary.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Backwards Hats.

Rifftrax VOD Sample: Nightmare At Noon.

Vote for what Junk Food Dinner will review for their 400th movie.

Horror Etc Podcast, Episode 271: ‘Sploitation.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 81: Bordello of Blood (1996)

Gweek 072: A History of Halloween.

CleanIT Act Makes SOPA And PIPA Look Tame In Comparison.

Yuletide nominations close today, at 8 PM CST. I’m crossing my fingers, hoping that the Super Dictionary or Ghostbusters pop up before the deadline.

Yuletide, the internet’s biggest Secret Santa fanfiction exchange, turns 10. Plus an interview with Elynross.

Stan Lee’s Rants: Ugly Babies.

Cocktails With Stan Lee, Episode 9 Season 2: Keahu Kahuanui.

Superhero Origins: Hellboy.

Take a peek at the Dracula restoration for the Universal Classic Monsters Set.

The women of the DC Universe, by Peter Nguyen.

Amanda Visell crafts wood idols of Wonder Woman, Thor and more.

First teaser trailer for The Lone Ranger.

Mike Vogel and Nestor Carbonell join the cast of Bates Motel.

Top 10 Star Trek: Voyager Episodes.

Dark Horse Editor Scott Allie Interviews Author Christopher Golden.

Marvel vs. DC At The U.S. Box Office

It’s down to five actresses for the female lead in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Schwartz’ Scary Stories.

Nickelodeon’s TMNT Animated Series Picked Up For Second Season.

Revolution gets a full season pick-up.

The First Look At Deadshot In Arrow.

The AV Club interviews Richard Jenkins.

Inflatable Slimer Lawn Decoration.

Alan Moore, America’s Most Challenged.

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic: Young Justice Season 2.

Five Reasons To Stop Worrying And Look Forward To Red Dwarf X.

Now Playing Podcast: Octopussy (1983).

Comic Issues Podcast #86: Geek Love.

The Forgotten Flix Podcast: The People Under The Stairs (1991)

Jerry Nelson has passed away, at the age of 78, as a result of various health issues. May he rest in peace. He puppeteered numerous Jim Henson puppets in his 47 year career.

Kodak Seeks Exit From Film.

Dimestore Dames spotlights Lyja

Hammer Launches Youtube Channel.

Rob Liefeld Leaves DC Comics.

Ben Abernathy Leaves DC Comics.

This 100 Year Old Mystery Package Will Be Opened Today.

Cancelled Too Soon: The Nine Lives of Chloe King.

Newest poster for Solomon Kane.

Fan trailer for a Captain Planet film.

Universal is remaking Videodrome.

The Blake’s 7 remake is coming to Syfy.

Doctor Who: BBC Worldwide 50th Anniversary Artwork Revealed.

BBC America’s latest Doctor Who trailer.

11th of Hearts T-Shirt.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Billie Piper.

Why The Fades and Doctor Who Confidential were cancelled.

The End Has No End: 10 Unresolved DC Plotlines.

Merlin producers: ‘We needed the show to grow up.’

Robot learns to recognize itself in mirror.

Kurt Busiek wants to know: is it creators or characters that win your money?

Hi-Res photo of Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit.

Cthulhu Wedding Cake.

Your New Fictional Fantastic Birthstone. So with a birthday in August, it goes from peridot to Men In Black’s Miniature Galaxy. Those born in May get to kill Superman with their birthstone.

Wonder Woman and Superman Are A Couple Now Or Well, This Is Stupid.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje joins Thor: The Dark World.

First official pictures from the remake of Carrie.

Supercouples: 10 Powerful Comic Book Romances.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Tickets Will Cost The Same For 48 FPS And 24 FPS.

Superman: Mystery Behind The LL Initials.

Full Moon Announces First Slate Of Newly Remastered Blu-Ray Releases.

Rifftrax Live: Birdemic comes to theaters October 24th.

The Line It Is Drawn #103—Video Game Characters Meet Comic Book Characters.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—That Time Spider-Man’s Parents Turned Out To Be Robots.

How To Read An Old Sci-Fi Book…Without Ruining It.

From Cracked: If The Dark Knight Rises Was 10 Times Shorter And More Honest.

Here’s the cast for the adaptation of The Mortal Instruments.

The Oregon Trail Cake.

80’s X-Girls Fan Art.

Trailers From Hell: Dan Ireland on A Nightmare On Elm Street.

So Stan Lee once posed for a naked centerfold. It happened in 1983. I don’t know (and Comic Beat isn’t sure either) if this is NSFW or not, but he’s covered by a comic and a huge smile. Proceed at your own risk.

The Annotated Crisis On Infinite Earths.

The Best Endings In SF/F Series.

A Triceratops Tractor.

Batmobile Limo.

Three Ways To Make An Improved Rocketeer Movie.

R2-D2 Bender Cosplay.

What’s the shortest time it took you to fall in love with a tv show?

How to tell from a pilot if a tv show is going to be any good.

What’s the oldest gadget you still use? My keyboard is from my first computer in the mid-90’s. I still use a VCR from around the same time. The living room television is over 20 years old.

Hettienne Park joins the cast of Hannibal.

Sherlock—do the three words for series three mean it will be the last?

Mission Log Podcast #3: Charlie X.

Now Playing Podcast: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

John Severin has passed away at the age of 90. May he rest in peace. He worked as both penciler, as well as artist, throughout his years at EC Comics, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics. His work included The Incredible Hulk, Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos, Conan The Barbarian, What The--?!, Mad Magazine, Cracked, as well as many others, and he was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2003.

Kevin Conroy discusses Justice League: Doom.

25 descriptions of the strange beast that won the Westminster Dog Show.

The role of Sherlock Holmes will be played by Jonny Lee Miller, in CBS’ Elementary.

From Newsarama: 10 Hook-Ups On Infinite Earths. My favorite on that list is Booster Gold/Squirrel Girl.

First look at the artwork for Darwyn Cooke’s Watchmen.

Tim Burton’s intro for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Kevin Czap describes his love for Bill Sienkiewicz’s 1980’s run on the New Mutants.

The AV Club discusses The Micronauts. I was only fleetingly familiar with them in the 80’s, thanks to their crossover with the X-Men.

Some new stills from Snow White And The Huntsman.

The international trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man.

For those that are interested, Terror Transmission’s latest podcast discusses everything about the 1979 version of Dracula. The one starring Frank Langella, not Louis Jordan or George Hamilton.

The latest episode of the We Hate Movies podcast discusses Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend.

First look at the home video artwork for the Fright Night remake.

Remembering Jim Henson.

Boom! Studios honors the late Minck Oosterveer.

Obscurus Lupa discusses Big Wolf On Campus. I never knew about it when it aired. Given the time frame of it beginning in 1999, I was graduating high school, entering college, and more interested in Buffy.

Official Merlin season 4 trailer #2.

Prequel for the season finale of Doctor Who.

From Tor: These 5 Writers Should Take A Crack At Doctor Who. I would replace Dan Brown with Terry Pratchett. Just…no to Tina Fey. Replace her with Jane Espsenson.

I watched my first Wes Craven and Stephen King movies yesterday. Salem’s Lot (the original) and The People Under The Stairs. Not scary at all. When it comes to the former, never in my life have I wanted to see an entire town slaughtered by the vampires so badly. With the latter, that one was strange, but I liked it.