What DO YOU Want?

The Son of Madblood Wants To Know!


In honor of this country's recent horror-thon of Decision 2010, The Son of Madblood is now holding our own Horror Elections. Did you forget to vote last Tuesday? Did you vote only to see your hopes dashed as a tidal wave of red flooded across the country? Well kids, here's your chance to ease the guilt or wipe away the tears: The Son of Madblood Horror Election Poll 2010 is here - a second chance to vote and everyone's a winner! Who are the candidates? YOU decide. Who picks the winners? MAJORITY RULES! How does it work? Better than the new scan-your-own ballots we had to deal with at the polls...


Yes, The Son of Madblood wants to know what YOU like! Just send us a list of your favorite Horror Movies - simple as that! Even simpler than that: send as many or few titles as you like - trying, at least, to keep your list as close to 20 or under as you can. Some may find limiting themselves to 20 to be a task in itself (The Son of Madblood sure did - and you can see the results of that task HERE in his own Nominations). Others of you might feel coming up with 20 titles to be a bit of work. We say: "Work - schmerk!" Just do what you like, what you feel comfortable with - if you want to write something about your choices - feel free! If not - still feel free! Freedom's just another word... The ball is in your court.. So SHOOT, already! (As in: shoot your list on over to us at: thesonofmadblood@gmail.com ) Don't tarry!


And - to make it even easier on you, even simpler than simpler than that: the order your list is in DOESN'T MATTER! We'll give Brain the task of compiling the Nominations and tallying the results. Every movie on every list is a winner! They'll all be ranked according to how many Nominations they get from each list sent in. Get your Nominations in by Thanksgiving and we'll put the results up here on the Mad-blog for all to see or ignore as per usual. And we'll be doing something special with it all come the Next Episode of The Son of Madblood (tentatively scheduled for Saturday November 27th as our Post-Thanksgiving Celebration Show). And you never know - one of YOUR Nominations may just end up being our featured movie on the Next Episode.. or the Next Episode after that or the Next Episode after that.. ad infinitum.. ad nauseum...

To get you kids all excited - you can check out The Son of Madblood's own Nominations HERE. Exciting! We know you are - we can feel it... or, maybe that's just gas...

no..definitely..excitement...

So - get involved, kids.. It's your duty in this new era of The Son of Madblood! It'll be like we're all working together...it'll be, like.. INSPIRATIONAL... The Son of Madblood feels inspiration in the air and perspiration in the armpit! In fact, this whole idea for The Son of Madblood Horror Election Poll 2010 was inspired by (or just plain ripped-off from) The Son of Madblood's personal favorite internet read: that wizard of a wordsmith, Stacie Ponder of Final Girl fame and her own SHOCKtober 2010 Countdown!


Vigilant readers of these Son of Madblood missives may have heard mention before of her in these pages and most certainly will, again because... well.. because... you know... you know...Ok, ok, OK, already! The days of being subtle have gone the way of the days of wine and roses - The Son of Madblood is back on the bottle and can, finally, drunkenly admit his complete and utter smitteness with Final Girl! No - he's not smitten with her utters! Just.. just.. read her and see for yourself. Read her and weep! The Son of Madblood does everyday and well into the night. Both the reading and the weeping. She's like the father he never knew (yes, that great man of Science, Madblood Sr.) or the Girlfriend he never had... never had... never, ever had... a Girlfriend... ever...


The Son of Madblood - ever the putz and always lagging behind the times - didn't get it together to participate in the Final Girl SHOCKtober round-up so we've decided to do our own, albeit a much smaller version for this rinky-dink operation of ours. After all - just look: 1 "Follower", we've got. Just 1! The Loneliest Number! It'll never do! C'mon, kids - we're reaching out to YOU, to all fans of The Son of Madblood, to all future fans, to all BFFs - it's TLA time! So get your lists IN! Vote while the votin's good!


And don't forget to check back on the Mad-blog for more on the upcoming Next Big Episode of The Son of Madblood... If you DARE!

PS: It looks like The Son of Madblood - still ever the putz and still always lagging behind the times - has done it again: this time he's missed his chance to get in on the Final Girl Film Club edition of Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse. And he had it all ready. The putz. Well, kids - you can still see it HERE.

Goodnight, gang - and thanks for turning us on..

Oh NO!

The Doctor is in distress! It's the 3 Year Anniversary of The Son of Madblood and something's missing:

NO Sexy Psychic! NO Saucy Skeleton! NO Naughty Nanny! Oh NO!

MIAAers...

Minerva, Bones Malone, The Nanny and only time will tell which other beloved ranks of The Son of Madblood Gang won't be gracing the boards at Madblood Manorette this Saturday Night, October 23rd! Confusion has reared it's so-often-seen-on-our-show ugly head: it appears that some of our Gang thought we were celebrating our 3 Year Anniversary in style with a cast party at Ninja New York! Sure - it was discussed - but budgetary considerations were not deemed by the staff to be favorable for such an extravagance. Looks like someone didn't get the memo. Unfortunately a few of the Gang went and made reservations - and everyone knows you can't back out of a reservation when Ninjas are involved!


Besides - 'tis not the good Doctor's style or want to celebrate in exclusivity! No! We at The Son of Madblood bring the Celebration to YOU! And - to show our appreciation of you, our fans, and your continued support of our, however meager, attempts to entertain you - we have assembled - not only what may be our BEST SHOW YET - but a Son of Madblood's Famous Mad-Raffle bunch of prizes you'll be clawing to get your claws on! Return of The Living Dead exclusive photos! ROTLD pin-backs! Not only the searing soundtrack from ROTLD - but the soundtrack to ROTLD Part II, as well! Featuring Anthrax! With 2, count em', 2 - Robert Palmer hits!

Don't miss the hits! Anthrax raps!

Will our absent friends be missed? Of course they will. Greatly missed. Can we even begin to celebrate our 3 Years of toil and turmoil without them? You betcha! But - never fear - at least The Son of Madblood, himself, is here! So is Igor! Nurse Scratchit! And, sorry to say, Brain, too... And - par usual - all manner of Madblood's friends will be dropping by the Manorette - some you may know, others you've only heard tale of - whispered about in the hushed tones of slight embarrassment...

Who is this siwy wabbit?

Find this out and MORE on the next Episode of The Son of Madblood! This Saturday, October 23rd at 8pm on no channel!
If you DARE!

The Return of The Son of Madblood!

(en Francais: LE RETOUR DU FILS DE SANGFROU!)

That's right, kids - The Son of Madblood is back from the grave and ready to RAVE!

Get ready to chuckle it up again! Or upchuck again...

As the days grow shorter and the chill of Fall creeps into the air many people suffer from what we Doctors (and many REAL Doctors) call Seasonal Depression. Well - it's time to stop your crying because The Son of Madblood has just the prescription to cure your woes: you can come suffer through our Brand New Episode, instead! And relief is just around the corner so come get your fix on Saturday October 23rd at Madblood Manorette! Oh, woe you don't!

Yes - it's been a loooong not-so-hot Summer and The Son of Madblood Gang has been completely AWOL through it all... Where the hairy and the Hendersons heck have they been? What shenanigans have they been up to? Were they thrown in jail for disturbing the peace or stealing cigarettes? Did The Son of Madblood become a priest? Or - have they been spending this whole time cooking up the BEST EPISODE EVER for your enjoyment? Sorry - that last one's a "no"....

Wasted time...

Yes - it seems like YEARS since the walls of Madblood Manorette has echoed with the sound of our faithful audiences' laughter... Always and forever, you say? Well, years and years and years, at least. And how many years does that add up to? Count 'em. Years and years and years. That's right - it's a fact: it's been 3 YEARS, now, that The Son of Madblood has been filling the Manorette with echoes... It's about time we got some actual laughter up in there! 3 YEARS of our flailing attempts at Entertainment. 3 Years of Lights, Camera and Inaction. 3 Years that that special Son of Madblood mix of mayhem we euphemistically call our "show" has been dismaying our always baffled and often sparse audiences. That's right, kids -it all adds up to The Son of Madblood's 3 Year Anniversary Special! Yes - it's our Leather Anniversary - and, boy, do we look leathery after 3 years of doing this!

The ravages of time...

But, this time around, kids - the Gang at Madblood Manorette can positively guarantee the LAUGHS. Because this time, kids - The Son of Madblood is presenting the comic-horror zombie masterpiece de resistance that is Return of the Living Dead! Aka: ROTLD! Or - en Francais:

So much more provocative en Francais!

Scuz! Trash! Suicide! All apt descriptions of an evening spent watching The Son of Madblood. But - no! These are really the names of but a few of the colorful characters you'll find in Return of the Living Dead!

Just me and the boys...

Punks! Zombies! Zombie Punks! Clu Gulager! Don Calfa! And TARMAN!

Let's dance!

Written and directed by The Son of Madblood fave, Dan O'Bannon, of Dark Star, Alien, Dead & Buried, Lifeforce, Screamers and Total Recall fame (just to name a few) - this movie has more BRAINS than ever witnessed on a witless Episode of The Son of Madblood! Yes - brains and boogie to burn with a soundtrack featuring Rocky Erickson, The Cramps, T.S.O.L., The Flesheaters, The Damned, Tall Boys and 45 Grave! A soundtrack that has all the earmarks of a great Mad-Raffle Prize... Feelin' lucky?

It's time to smile again!

That's right, kids - The Son of Madblood is back to boggle your brains once again - so put your money where our mouth is and your derriere in a chair at Madblood Manorette (please not the other way around) on October 23rd and help us celebrate our BIG 3 Year Anniversary! If you DARE!

Trash dares - to get BARE!

Oh - but, like some jazz - it's free - so you can forget that part about the money... Just check out Zooroonies, here, for some more money-saving tips regarding ROTLD:

Actually.. actually..actually.. Wait! Do the zombies TALK?

And at Zooroonies' suggestion - we will spare you the aforementioned so-called "absolutely ridiculous" trailer... And you're right, Zooroonies - don't be fooled! Whatever you've seen or heard - THIS Episode of The Son of Madblood aims to please! Well, yes - we ALWAYS aim - but now we've got glasses! So, until showtime - goodnight, gang - and thanks for turning us on...

April Showers...

ARE GOLDEN!

Yes - it's that time of year again, kids.. Time to kick off another golden Season of The Son of Madblood! It's been a long time coming, granted - and we know you're probably about ready to take ANYTHING, however meager, we can force down your eager gullets - but, boy, have we got SOMETHING for YOU!

Something OLD - old, familiar faces like Bones Malone! Brain! Igor! Minnie! The Jewish Shark Landlord! It's time to reconnect!
Something NEW - new cast members like Tooth-Pac Shak-hare! What? The Touchy Traveling Salesman! Who? The Son of Madblood keeps it fresh!
Something BORROWED - as in: most of the jokes...per usual... But - that's what you're here for!
Something BLUE - The Son of Madblood will be blue - if you don't come to our All-New-Season-Premier on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28th at 8pm (Eastern Time)! And we don't mean his balls.. do we? Or, maybe - just maybe - this will be the blue-est show we've ever done... Curious? Tune in and find out! Just remember - it's a family show!

It's been a long, hard Winter here at Madblood Manorette and we are ready and rarin' to start heatin' things up... Yes - Spring is our saison d'être, as they say en France (or is it our saison d'État?) - and The Son of Madblood is ready to spring forward none too late.. The clock is set! The die has been cast! Who in the cast will be the first to die?

Igor heating things up in the old Green Room...

It's about to be a new era here at The Son of Madblood.. Tis Spring! Tis the Season of re-birth! Tis Wabbit Season! And we're hopping headlong into it... Sleeping Beauty awakes! Dust off that ol' piana - get ready to shake a leg - The Son of Madblood Gang are springing into action in a BIG WAY and are going to blow your mind and open your eyes to sights unseen! Have we got a whoopee of a show for you, kids... The special effects, alone, are going to be worth the price of admission! (Well, ok , admittedly - the admission price is free, as always.) And our movie this show is a well sung and well hung classic of the post-Manson dark side of hippie free-love-Satan-worship-cultdom gone amok!

Look what's popping up at The Son of Madblood!


It's 1970's I Drink Your Blood (starring Bhaskar - shown in "full glory" above!) and it will leave you reeling... and, maybe, retching.. Just look at all that... Bhaskar!


Naked, demurely posed hippies love Satan!

The poster says it all:

To be precise, however - the poster should rightly read: "Rabid, Drug CRAZED Hippies on an INFESTED Blood Killing Rampage!"

But we think BoogerBoyMeister (!?!) says it even better:

"There are NO zombies in the movie..and there's no one-eyed monster thing either..."

He's not only observant - but he's got a fool-proof money-saving plan! He-he...

And YOU can save money , too! Don't buy it - don't even rent it - see it at Madblood Manorette with the Gang - all for FREE! With popcorn! With prizes! With paltry entertainment! Paltry? We mean "plenty"!


We'll throw another shrimp on the barbie for ya.. Wait - that ain't shrimp!

And here's the exciting, dramatic and somewhat understated trailer for David E. Durston's I Drink Your Blood to further whet your appetite (the I Eat Your Skin is just a fish-tale - there isn't a frame of that movie anywhere in the trailer):

This HOSE.. in - I Drink Your... what?

And you thought you knew all there was to know about naked, drug-crazed, Satan-worshiping, free-love hippie cultists... "I drink your milkshake" has NOTHING on I Drink Your Blood! And the music is better, too...

Come see it - and see The Son of Madblood Gang up to some new shenanigans.. Not the same old monkey shines! New thrills! New spills! New non-pareils!

Remember - too much candy will rot your teeth and cause your head to fall off!


The Son of Madblood Pledge:
You will love this movie so much that you will e-mail BoogerBoyMeister immediately after seeing it and offer to but his copy if he didn't already give it to somebody!

Stay tuned for more Son of Madblood excitement coming soon! Good night, gang - and thanks for turning us on...

Too Much is Never Enough...

OF THIS STUFF!

Yes, kids - we know you’ve been poised on the edge of your seats since the end of our last Episode’s doozy of a CLIFFHANGER! In fact - some of our audience is still here - refusing to leave until they find out WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? Their butts are numb now from being on the edge of their seats for over a week and Igor has had one heck of a long labor - hanging in there and holding “it” in until we could get this next Episode ready to go.. And, The Son of Madblood won’t make you wait a second longer.. just a day or two longer...

Yes - we’re getting the nursery ready - delivery date is scheduled for THIS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4th! And we’re inducing no matter how lacking in preparation (or cast members) we may be.. It’s now or never for the Gang at Madblood Manorette - a possibly somewhat thinned-out Manorette Gang, yes - but with a little “addition” that promises to make up for any absentees...


Larry Cohen - Father of some of the cutest darned tykes around...
(well.. except, of course, for The Son of Madblood)

And, as promised (at least until I, The Son of Madblood, get voted down or clubbed) we’ll finally be showing the ultimate Father’s Day shockomedy - Larry Cohen’s It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive:


Prizes! Punch! Popcorn! Postpartum Paranoia! Parents in Peril! The Son of Madblood has it ALL!


All Summer in Fire Island - things get ROUGH!

Don’t miss it - next time we open these creaky Manorette doors it could be NEXT YEAR!

Goodnight, gang - and thanks for turning us on...

We're Back and Outta the Sack!

Just when you thought Sunday nights were safe again - just when you thought it was time to relax - yes - just when you thought your life was your own -The Son of Madblood returns! With a vengeance. With a purpose and a plan. And with more fun than you can shake a stick at... You kids have had your break - you’ve had your Summer fun. Now - it’s OUR turn - to TURN YOU ON! That’s right - we’ve been gone far too long and we’re readier than than a randy orangutan to swing into the jungle of television-type “entertainment”! That’s right, all you lucky “fans” - The Son of Madblood gang is back with it’s first historic two-part Episode to start off this Fall season - en francaise: “saison”..You heard me: back-to-back(ish) Episodes of “ecstasy”! No more waiting MONTHS to find out what we’ve been up to here at the Manorette - with the first Episode of the double whammy scheduled for THIS SUNDAY - OCTOBER 25! And we know you’ve been waiting..and waiting..and waiting... and - what? You weren’t waiting?

(The "eyes" have it - The Son of Madblood is BACK!)

It has taken us quite a while to recuperate from our last foray into the unknown - that ill-conceived adventure into the Third Dimension to Camp Crystal Meth. Our bodies - wracked with pain indescribable (the Transducer that catapulted us into the Third Dimension being hell on anybody over.. ah-hem.. 35). Our minds - fried like rice.. or - flied rike lice, as they say.. But- we delivered as promised: The Son of Madblood was IN Yo FACE, DOG! It was drama at it’s most real as we practically came to life in heart-stopping 3-D..

(Roughing it at Camp Crystal Meth)

However, to NOT deliver on a promise: the previous post’s promise of an upcoming It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive has since fallen fallow. The high-minded plans for that special Father’s Day Episode proved too emotionally draining for this Fatherless Foundling - The Mother’s Day Episode was enough torture for one season! Give a lonely soul a break, will ya! But - don’t cry, kiddies - all broken promises will soon be forgotten - will melt away like ice on Satan’s nipples - once you’ve seen the mind-twisting inscrutability, the pulse-pounding horror, the brow-furrowing weirdness that is Phantasm! Yes, you lucky duckies - we are going to freak you out with one of our very own all-time favorites - a film that lives in a world of it’s own and in our hearts. There is nothing like Phantasm (except, maybe - Phantasm II - The Ball Is Back, Phantasm III - Lord of the Dead, or - Phantasm IV - Obl(IV)ion - but this, the first, is, as the French say: première). Consider it our treat to you this Halloween season..

So - get ready to fall in love all over again... The Son of Madblood has your heart in mind (for my next experiment!)..

(The Never Dead? Whatever you call it - don't call it late for dinner!)

And...maybe if you’re good - you just may get It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive NEXT WEEK! What, you say? Already another? Astounding, no? Two weeks in a row? Unheard of in these parts! But, that’s right, all you Doubting Donnas, all you Skeptical Steves, all you Waiting Willies and Frightened Friedas - this week’s Episode is a CLIFFHANGER! So - hold onto your seats and put up your feets - we’re diggin’ in. The Son of Madblood gives the people what they want! If what they want is us, that is...

(Just look at how much the people want us!)

Be sure not to miss this week’s show - or you’ll never understand next week’s! And, don’t miss next week’s show - or you’ll never know “the truth” about this week's! Or - heck - skip ‘em both if you’re some kind of loser and like it that way.. BOOOOOY!

(You'd better come - or we'll send The Tall Man after you!)

May Mad-Ness Is Up-On Us!

GET UP IN THERE! (If you DARE!)

The first Episode of our hotter-than-the-weather-we've-been-having Spring Season was a hit! Standing Room Only as opposed to the usual Single Room Occupancy we're used to around Madblood Manorette.. With Episode 2 ahead (Sunday - May 10th!) we hope to keep the (disco) ball rolling...

Lasers! Lights! Ludicrous Sound Systems! Fog! Dancing and Disco Punch! It's all part of this Episode's Murder Rock Sock-Hop! So bring your dancing shoes. And bring your Moms (it's that Special Day, after all) - go ahead - rub it in.. no matter that I, The Son of Madblood, was raised an orphan... and that most of my cast will be away - visiting with their own dearest ones.. a pleasure I shall never know... No matter - we're gonna DISCO!

(Disco'd to DEATH!)

To get back to our last Episode for a moment - and to further revel in it's astounding success: we had left the choice to you - dear fans - as to which Texas Chain Saw Massacre we'd show (although - actually - only the first one was "Chain Saw" - all subsequent films were the one-word "Chainsaw" - go figure!). The race was neck to neck.. with the 50-1 odds Mine That Bird pulling out in front by 8 lengths... No, wait... that was The Kentucky Derby... Our race was won - fairly surely - by Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - a fitting tribute to the man we were honoring that evening - Lou Perryman - who, as radio-station assistant, L.G. - steals the show and has his skin stolen to boot! We built him a little fry-house:


In deference to the suggestions of a couple of South By Southwest big-wigs that we try the tried and true formatting of a standard Late-Night-Talk-Show - The Son of Madblood became "The Laterest Show with The Son of Madblood" and gave that Fallon schlub a real run for his money - he's "Fallon" behind like Friesan Fire on a sloppy track (again, for you Derby fans).. Fallon flails for sloppy seconds!

(Minnie is the premier guest on the short-lived "The Laterest Show")

Alas - the format proved to rigid and the majority of guests too unruly for our laid-back, off-the-cuff, willy-nilly temperaments - although Igor and His All Hunch Backing Band really did lay it down... I, however, am still apologizing for that "Opening Monologue"... And my Landlord is still griping about getting bumped from the show when we "ran long"... Which forced me into a promise we'll all surely regret on THIS Episode: I got suckered into giving him a spot as a guest DJ for our Disco Party... You'll have to tune in to witness the horror of it all... If you DARE!

(That ain't no Texas oil!)

And - stay tuned! As laid out in our last Madblood Missive: the 3rd Episode of The Son of Madblood Spring Season is COMIN' AT YA! (Not the movie Comin' At Ya! - for those who remember the 80's attempt to re-kindle the 3D craze - of which the movie we are showing was part of) Yes - Friday the 13th - 3D! Right here at Madblood Manorette! Glasses provided! Duck! It's a machete! Headin straight for YOU! And have we got a few of our own surprises aimed right for your hearts and minds... You will GASP!

(don't be a Dizzy Dean - we've got the glasses!)

AND - continue to stay tuned! Because in June (date TBA) The Son of Madblood celebrates Father's Day (and, alas, the Father I never knew) with the AWESOME-EST Father-Flick you've maybe never seen: It's Alive III: Island of the Alive! Larry Cohen's full-on, full-tilt, full-weird pay-off to his It's Alive tri-fecta.. You'll laugh. You'll scream. You may even cry a bit...

Michael Moriarty! Karen Black! Mutant babies! Don't miss it! Bring your Dads! (Alas - something I could never do...