One Year Later

Danse Macabre Radio is turning one today! As we blast the speakers in a balls-out monster mash, we feel like we have to share a few thoughts to mark the occasion:

a) We fully appreciate all visitors that have stopped by this dark corner of the internet, and yes, we do understand that many of you are more concerned with surviving the night than writing comments on our posts :)

b) If anyone would like to buy us a gift, this is what our wishlist looks like (but pay attention to the Madballs first, hint, hint, nudge, nudge)!


c) The best gift of all, though, must be the leak of the official trailer for the latest Hammer movie! You have no idea how pleased we were when we turned on our PCs this morning and saw the following clip.



So yeah, I suppose that would be it for now. We're a bit more focused on attending to our respected guests (most of them wear very impractical masks!) than on what we are saying but you don't mind, do you? :) If anything else pops up during the rest of this glorious evening, we will most certainly be here to write it down! In the meantime, enjoy your Saturday evening!

Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

As we approach our first birthday party, it's time to remind ourselves of the one true birthday horrorfest: Happy Birthday to Me! Released in the same year as My Bloody Valentine (1981), this film also got heavily hit by the censorship board for the gruesome deaths included and had a twist ending just because the producers felt it needed one. Regarded as cult classic, what particularly stands out about Happy Birthday to Me is how well it sits at the peak of the slasher genre next to the original Friday the 13th and Halloween 2 for pure joy of cutting and dicing while covering the required tropes in the manner of the most gleeful exploitation flicks. Just look at that trailer, ladies and gentlemen! It screams "Rock on!" all the way through and it's no surprise at all that Eli Roth chose it as the basis for his mock trailer Thanksgiving in the Grindhouse project. Now, of course Happy Birthday to Me is neither smart nor revealing in any way except maybe as a sign of the times it was made in, but trust you me: if there's one old school pick you really need for your Saturday night matinee, this must be it. Oh, and one cool trivia I got from the allmighty IMDB:

Most ads and posters for the film carried a photo of a young man about to be orally impaled with a skewer of meat and vegetables, with the slogan "John Will Never Eat Shish Kebab Again." However, there is no character in the movie with this name.

Enjoy!