The Mal Thursday Show: Halloween Special 2013

Direct from the haunted realm of Austin, Texas, Mal Thursday presents an expanded, remastered, and reanimated edition of The Mal Thursday Show Halloween Special, combining the 2011, 2010, and 2007 episode with 30% new footage focusing on a couple of Halloween-themed comps, "Mondo Zombie Boogaloo" on Yep Roc and "Garage Monsters," part of the GaragePunk Hideout series. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.

 Playlist:
LOS STRAITJACKETS: Theme from 'Halloween'
SHOUTING THOMAS & THE TORMENTS: Dead Man Slide
BIG VINNIE & THE CATTLE THIEVES: Got Me a Monster
THE APOLLOS: It's a Monster
SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS:
The Tingler's Blues/Goo Goo Muck
THE FLESHTONES: The Haunted Hipster/I Was a Teenage Zombie
THE BLUE GIANT ZETA PUPPIES: The Wild Ride of Ichabod Crane
HEINZ & THE WILD BOYS: Big Fat Spider
THE SHARKS: Dracula's Daughter
SCREAMING LORD SUTCH: Jack the Ripper
THEE HEADCOATS: The Strangler of Boston Town
THE BUGS: Strangler in the Night/Albert, Albert
LOS STRAITJACKETS: Theme from 'Young Frankenstein'
ORVIN YOES: The Vampire
THE BOMBORAS: A Fistful of Terror
THE SEEDS: Evil Hoodoo
MANFRED MANN: Hubble, Bubble (Toil and Trouble)
Q65: I Got Nightmares
THE SKUNKS: You Scare Me
THE TEXREYS: Ghoul a Go-Go
THE MALARIANS: No
THE BORN LOSERS: Werewolves on Wheels
LOU REED: Halloween Parade
DEAD KENNEDYS: Halloween
THE SHAGGS: It's Halloween
THE (MOTHERFUCKING) BROWNS: Scream for Halloween
LOS STRAITJACKETS: Theme from 'The Munsters'
ZACHERLE: Happy Halloween
LON CHANEY JR.: The Maddest Story Ever Told (Theme from 'Spider Baby')
THE FUZZTONES: Happy Halloween
THE SWINGIN' NECKBREAKERS: No Costume, No Candy
CAPTAIN CLEGG & THE NIGHT CREATURES: Zombie a Go Go
THE TOMBSTONES: Black Cat
THE OUTSIDERS: Haunted by Your Love
THE MOONTREKKERS: Night of the Vampire
ROKY ERICKSON & THE ALIENS: Creature with the Atom Brain
THE CRAMPS: Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon
RONNIE COOK & THE GAYLADS: Goo Goo Muck
THE FRANTICS: Werewolf
SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS: Werewolf
THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Werewolves of London
ROUND ROBIN: I'm the Wolf Man
BO DIDDLEY: Bo Meets the Monster
THE HOLLYWOOD FLAMES: Frankenstein's Den
THE NEW YORK DOLLS: Frankenstein
ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN: Coolest Little Monster
THE KINGSMEN: Haunted Castle
THE ROCKIN' CONTINENTALS: Count Dracula
THE SONICS: The Witch
THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE: You Must Be a Witch
THE CIRCUS: Burn, Witch, Burn
THE MOVE: Night of Fear
THE LAST WORD: Sleepy Hollow
THE CORDS: Ghost Power

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'Texas Chainsaw' Man: My Interview with Tobe Hooper

'Texas Chainsaw' man: Director Tobe Hooper on Leatherface, 'Lifeforce,' and more

Austin native Tobe Hooper is best known for writing and directing one of the most influential horror movies ever made, 1974's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." In conjunction with the release of "Texas Chainsaw 3D," the latest entry in the controversial franchise, Hooper sat down with the Austin Classic Movies Examiner to discuss the new film, his career, and his beginnings as a filmmaker in the late '60s.

"I was in Austin, making a lot of TV commercials, PSAs, documentaries. We had a little company called Film House, about five of us. We could even do post-production, although we had to get the 16-millimeter film developed in Dallas or over at channel seven. We did Farrah Fawcett's first professional work...We made a film called 'Eggshells' [a restored version screened at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival], a true hippie film, from the sandals up! It was about the beginning and end of a subculture."

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was banned in several countries upon its release. England banned the film for 23 years. The visceral terror evoked by the movie comes not from explicit gore and violence, but from Hooper's use of POV, the power of suggestion, and his creation of an all-encompassing atmosphere of dread. In the wake of the Newtown school massacre, film violence has once again become a hot-button issue. Hooper is not sold on the connection between screen violence and the violence endemic in American society: "I don't know how to respond. It's all a part of the same thing. The dark side of human nature...I don't think a horror movie is going to inspire a copycat, certainly not one running around with a chainsaw..."

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J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner on Facebook, Twitter

The movie column is back.

J.M. Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner now has a page on Facebook for fans and friends of the column to post about their favorite movies and upcoming classic film happenings in Austin.

In addition to linking the latest review and features from the Austin Classic Movies Examiner, the Facebook page will also feature evergreens from the first three years of the columnm including the "Greatest Hits" series (Natalie Wood's Greatest Hits, Marlon Brando's Greatest Hits, Martin Scorcese's Greatest Hits, etc.).

The regular screenings of rare 35mm prints at the Alamo Drafthouse and the Paramount Theatre's classic film series will continue to drive the column's Austin-centric approach.

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To follow the A.C.M.E. on Twitter, subscribe to the posts of his rock n' roll alter ego Mal Thursday (twitter.com/#malthursday). The latest episode of The Mal Thursday Show podcast, "The Ballad of Mal Thursday, Pt. 5" is currently available free on iTunes and on GaragePunk Pirate Radio.

Recommended reading:

• Scenes from a Marriage on the Rocks: Two for the Road (1967)
• Lady in a Rage: David Cronenberg's 'The Brood' (1979)
• Cannibalism, Savagery, and Unconditional Love: Jack Hill's Spider Baby (1968)
• To Put Out or Not to Put Out: The Young Lovers (1964)
• Ken Russell's Greatest Hits
• Dennis Hopper's Greatest Hits
• Paul Newman's Greatest Hits
• The Greatest Biker Movies Ever Made
• The Greatest Horror Movies of the '60s
• Made in Texas: Giant (1956)
• Angry Young Bastard: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1961)
• Fun and Games with George and Martha: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Don't Look Back, Ollie: I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (1967)
• Natalie Wood's Greatest Hits

Bastards of Horror!

This week, I've been doing a series called "Bastards of Horror" for my Austin Classic Movies column, dedicated to the many sequels and knock-offs that followed in the wake of Universal Pictures' early '30s horror classics. These pieces were all adapted from scripts I wrote for my old TV show "Surreal Cinema," so there are a lot more jokes than in my usual reviews. Click on titles and/or images below to read the columns:

Bastards of Horror: Son of Frankenstein (1939) vs. Son of Dracula (1943)

Bastards of Horror II: House of Frankenstein (1944) vs. House of Dracula (1945)

Bastards of Horror III: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)

Bastards of Horror IV: The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) vs. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

More from JM Dobies, Austin Classic Movies Examiner

Ann-Margret's Greatest Hits

Decadenza Italiano: Antonioni's L'Avventura (1960)

Hassle at the Castle: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Blaxploitation classics at the Alamo: J.D.'s Revenge (1976) and Black Caesar (1973)

Amadeus (Director's Cut)

Double Feature Midnight Movies at the Spider House February 2010

"Garbo Laughs!": Ninotchka (1939)

Jack Nicholson's Greatest Hits

To Put Out or Not to Put Out: The Young Lovers (1964)

Magnum Fascist: Dirty Harry

Angry Young Bastard: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Tuesday Weld's Greatest Hits

Teenage Pygmalion: Lord Love a Duck

Racing for Nowhere: Monte Hellman's Two Lane Blacktop

I, Horror Host

Here are a couple of excerpts from my run as host of Surreal Cinema on good 'ol Channel 22 in NE Florida, under my nom de screen, Michael West. I'd love to do a variation on this show here in Austin. Anyway, here's a taste of my former gig as a TV horror host: