Unless you’re a fan of 50s-era film auteur Edward D. Wood, Jr., you have probably not come across (1955). Wood is best known as the master of schlocky genre films, posthumous recipient of the Golden Turkey Award for Worst Director of All Time, and cult following that developed into an…
Can you name the mad scientist in your town? You can’t? Well Asheville, North Carolina, definitely had a mad scientist, and his name was Bob Moog. Old black and white photos show the man in his youth, hair disheveled, transistors and diodes and wires hanging all around his laboratory. He…
Miss Cakehead, AKA Emma Thomas, heads up Eat Your Heart Out, a UK collective of deliciously devious food artists. Though she does not herself bake, she is instrumental in curating cake events, stunts, and PR activity surrounding creepy cakes and petrified petit fours. Her recent work for the launch…
Sure. We monsters were once almost like you. Just a normal, mild-mannered scientist working on an invention to save the world. But when the experiment went wrong and we developed super powers, for some reason, inexplicable to even us, we got angry and pissed off. Yesterday, we wanted to save…
Because the laboratory just seemed so modest with open flames and bubbling beakers.
Terrorizing innocent people is hard work. They scream, they run, they fight, they often shoot at you. Not all monsters are cut out for that kind of work, and even the best of the best get tired of kidnapping kicking women and running around in the cold and dark. Luckily,…
Who doesn’t like slime? Kids love it, men love it, women love to hate it, even Nickelodeon used to have a show about it. Slime is one of those things that’s both really gross and really awesome – like being able to flip your eyelids inside out. And as connessoirs…
It’s happened to all of us. You’re just lying there in some dark laboratory. A quick inspection reveals that you are nothing but a pile of body parts. . . a hand here, a tongue there, a pile of eyeballs and a few toes. No good monster can terrorize the…
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Featuring movie essays from the Head Monsters of SML and others that explore our love for horror cinema! Published by the Collinsport Historical Society.
