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It seems that a company out there has trademarked “Re-Animator” and is fighting comic book companies from publishing anything having to do with the term.  This company, known as Re_Animator LLC, trademarked the term in 2005, several years after the movies came out, and many decades after the original stories.

It may seem crazy to Re-Animator fans to think that a company that had nothing to do with the classic films could actually claim ownership of the “Re-Animator” brand and threaten to stop anyone else from creating comics, films or merchandise with the word ‘reanimator’ or ‘re-animator’ in it- even the actual producer of the films that created the brand—but in this wacky world that is exactly what has happened.

My personal thoughts on this?  ”Wow.  This goes beyond stupid.  To take something that has been around for so long, trademark it, then go after companies that produced products well before the trademark that should never have been given in the first place for sheer stupidity.  I’m going to trademark Dorian Grey… or shoe…  From now on youhave to wear foot apparel products!”

And you know what else?

Re-Animator Re-Animator Re-Animator Re-Animator Re-Animator Re-Animator Re-Animator Re-Animator!

Read more about the stupidity at IO9

What do William Shatner, Quantum Physics, Frosty the Snowman, and Cthulhu have in common?  Not much save for the film in which Mr. Shatner will be voicing Santa in a world where an attempt to take his picture has screwed with the time/space continuum and has brought about the potential end of the world.

What kind of entities? Think “Frosty meets Cthulhu,”

Is there really anything more that can be said to describe just how awesome this sounds?  I doubt it.  Maybe.  Read more at the MTV MovieBlog.

Those of you who read my posts regularly, will probably have guessed that I love Guillermo Del Toro’s work.   He’s awesome.  Seriously.  So when I saw this bit of news about Del Toro making a Frankenstein movie, you know I immediately had to jump to linking it here, as it made me happy like a little school boy.

“I’m not doing ‘Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.’ I’m doing an adventure story that involves the creature. I cannot say much, but it’s not the central creation story, I’m not worried about that. The fact is I’ve been dreaming of doing a ‘Frankenstein’ movie since I was a child. The one thing I can promise is, compared to Kenneth Branagh, I will not appear shirtless in the movie!” 

Read more at Movies.ie

The fine people behind “The Scaryfiers” adventure audio dramas have put out another adventure, “For King and Country”, their third so far, for all of us to purchase and enjoy.  I bought and most thouroughly enjoyed “The Nazad Conspiracy” and “The Devil of Denge Marsh”, and I’m certain, that I will enjoy “For King and Country” just the same. 

‘Sir’ Harry Price, self-proclaimed ghost detective, has built a machine. His previous experiment - to turn a goat into a man - may have ended ignominiously, but now Harry plans to capture the spirits of the dead with his Price Ghost Captivator™. If he can make it work, that is.

Meanwhile, Londoners are being killed, in especially gruesome fashion, with their own electrical appliances. But most puzzling of all is the Faraday Murderer’s habit of leaving cryptic messages in 17th century English at the scene - cryptic messages that mention a certain Harry Price…

Age-old forces are stirring… The dead will rise… The Crown will fall. Can Lionheart and Dunning save King and Country?

If you havn’t checked out “The Scaryfiers” just yet, head over to Cosmic Hobo Productions and listen to the trailers!

For King and Country!

It looks like Guillermo Del Toro has signed on to write a trilogy of vampire novels with crime authoe Chuck Hogan.  Also of interesting note is hish signing a four picture deal.  To quote BBC UK:

There are plans to remake Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.

BBC UK

WildClaw Theatre, Chicago’s only horror-centric theatre company, proudly announces DEATHSCRIBE: Ten Minutes of Terror Radio Play Festival, Monday October 6th, 8:00pm at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave, Chicago IL.

More details at HorrorYearBook

ComicBookResources, ever the amazing site for comic related news, has posted an official press release announcing the hard cover version of Joe Hill’s “Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft”.  We’re looking at 152 pages of hardcover goodness, illustrated by the same artist who did Clive Barker’s “The Great and Secret Show”, for only $24.99, set to be released on October 1.

ComicBookResources has much more details.

Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs make a great pair in the movie industry.  At least I seem to think so.  They do a great job creating entertaining movies together, but it looks like Combs has turned down playing a part in Gordon’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing at the Doorstep”.

Stuart was like, ‘Yeah, I know, being in bed with beautiful women all day, it sounds tough, and I went, ‘You know, Stuart, actually, it is. I’m married, and I don’t wanna do that.’ It’s not part of my world. It was just too much, it was like, ‘And then they’re writhing, and then they’re humping some more, and then they build to a climax, and then they climax, and sweat…” I wish him all the best with that one, but not every project’s right for me.  

~Combs

You can read Comb’s thoughts over at Arrow in the Head News.