Excerpt from a documentary series on the paranormal. The story behind Robert the Doll, a haunted doll who was the inspiration for the “Child’s Play” film series.
“86 Voltz: The Dead Girl”
Written by Michael Avon Oeming and Brian J.L. Glass
Art and cover by Michael Avon Oeming
2005
A very good although ignored graphic novel that would have made for a good on-going series. It tells the story of a girl reanimated by only 86 Volts of electricity. Thus her name: 86 Volts. She awakens from death with no memories and no voice. She realizes that she is endowed with the ability to generate and manipulate vast amounts of electricity. She will need them, and help from a mysterious spirit guide, to defeat an evil supernatural menace.
The character is literally a blank slate and must find her way through the world of the living. Her origin and powers make her sort of a combination of Frank from Mike Allred’s “Madman” and the Superman villain Livewire (who like her Batman counterpart Harley Quinn crossed over from the animated TV show to the comics and the regular DC comics continuity.).
I hope that Image comics and the creative team revisit this idea and this character. It would make a great companion comic to the likes of “Hellboy”, “Madman” and “The Astounding Wolf-Man” with its mix of super hero tropes and gothic horror elements.
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 49: Carnival of Souls!
An eerie film that influenced such filmmakers as George A. Romero and David Lynch!
After her car falls off the side of a bridge during a drag race, Mary emerges from the river seemingly unharmed and with no memory of how she survived. After she recovers she seems to be stalked by a white faced specter, and she is drawn to an old run down carnival. Mary is slowly drawn into a nightmare world between the living and the dead. Did she really survive the crash?
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
Белый тигр
The White Tiger (Belyy tigr) is a 2012 Russian movie by Karen Shakhnazarov. The story takes place in the end of World War II. The Soviet tanker Ivan Naydenov (Aleksey Vertkov) barely survived a battle with a mysterious ghostly-white German Tiger tank. Even though he suffers 3rd degree burns over 90% his body he miraculously awakens the next day completely healed. He has a link to tanks as if they were living creatures. Now his only goal is to destroy the seemingly supernatural white Tiger.
A great war film with heavy elements of the supernatural. Based on the book “Tankman, or the White Tiger” by Ilya Boyashov which is an homage to Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”
Genre: War
Duration: 104mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaly Kishchenko, Valery Grishko, Vladimir Ilyn, Karl Kranzkowski, Christian Redl
Hauntingly beautiful score by Robert Folk from the 1982 horror film “The Slayer”.
“It did terrible things! And the more I dreamed it, the more real it became! I’ve created it! And I’ll keep on doing it until it no longer needs me to give it life!”
The Opening Theme to “The X-Files”.
Reblog if this scared the hell out of you as a kid… Reblog if it scares the hell out of you still!
UVB-76
I read an article on tumblr on mysterious radio broadcasts that are bouncing around in the ether long after their broadcasters have ceased to exist. It is kind of creepy. The imagination runs wild. Even if it is some transmitter that is running long after it had been forgotten and abandoned.
Some say that it is contact with spies Some say that it is a transmission from people who don’t know they are dead. Or just maybe it comes from people stranded in another dimension.
No matter what it is. The Buzzer keeps on going…
