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...

The Son of Madblood: New Spring Season Line-Up OF TERROR!

The Son of Madblood is poised and ready - coiled and eager to POUNCE! Yes - we're springing forward with our all-new line-up of horrific shows.. Wait, no - the shows aren't horrific - they're going to be great.. the movies, however - will chill and tremble you to a pulp!
In like a lion, out like a lamb - they say. But that's not us here at Madblood Manorette - we ALWAYS roar! April showers bring May flowers? At The Son of Madblood - April showers you with EVIL and brings MAY-HEM!
So - stay glued to your sets; riveted to your seats; bound to your barf-bags and clutch your popcorn tight: The Son of Madblood's Spring Season will shake you to your CORE!

Sunday, April 19th: Tobe Hooper's: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The brutality of this so-called-Spring is a cake-walk compared to the brutality of this Texas-Summer sweat-drenched HORROR! With a capital "H", a capital "O", a capital "RROR"! If you haven't seen this classic - there is no way to prepare yourself for it.. You have been warned. Who will survive? And what will be left of them? (And we're referring to YOU - the audience!)
The Son of Madblood gang starts out the new season with a dedicatory show to the late, larger than life, Austin, TX legend - actor and raconteur Lou Perryman. He may have stolen the show in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 but he also helped get this first one made.. And, yes, we're buildin' him a little fry house...

(We choose NOT to run a trailer here for this one until AFTER the show - this should suffice)

For you followers of The Son of Madblood shows - this one's going to have a few changes to our normal way of running things (into the ground?).. How will it be different, you ask? You'll just have to come and see.. if you DARE!

Sunday, May 10th: Lucio Fulci's: Murderock! (aka: Dancing Death; aka Slashdance! - take your pick)
It's a dance-school of DEATH with spandex, headbands and a Keith Emerson soundtrack as relentless as the hat-pin wielding killer in this infectious Italian horror-giallo.. Just when you thought it was safe to listen to Eighties-disco-pop!


(can you Son of Madblood regulars guess what cast members will be featured in this episode?)

It's The Son of Madblood meets Santa's Party House at Madblood Manorette tonight! Bring your dancin' shoes! DARE to DISCO!

Sunday, May 24th: The Son of Madblood's Special 3D Event! With: Friday the 13th - Part 3 - 3D!



We provide the glasses - you provide the screams! Dare you go camping in the 3rd Dimension with The Son of Madblood gang? There just may be someone - or something - in those woods...
We've been talking about this one for a while - don't DARE miss it!

The Son of Madblood has not forgotten you, Marilyn Chambers. Our thoughts and love are with you..

(Rip Torn, Nicholas Ray, and Marilyn Chambers - HOLY MOLY!)

and Rabid is on the way...

(this film contains, possibly, one of the best outfits EVER)

Stay tuned for MORE Son of Madblood mayhem!

The "Lost" Episode...

Yes - this was the Episode where The Son of Madblood almost lost his show to marauding Revolutionaries! Secessionists in the Laboratory! Anarchy all around! Turncoats! Spies in my soup!
What started as an innocent, amiable Dead-Presidents'-Day Celebration quickly devolved into debauchery on all sides... et tu, Igor? Stabbed in the back by the most trusted of Hunchbacks...
It's hard to fault him, however - the Lab was ripe with the noxiously nefarious emissions emanating from a particular Brain in a bowl claiming Eminent Domain! His blood lust overtook allies and swayed our happy home to frenzy and panic... The result: B.A.R.F. - Brain's Armed Revolutionary Faction.. A coup disguised as a bid for Independence!
In the end:
One Dead President, dead again - Lincoln assassinated! Left dying in The Son of Madblood's arms - loving the Theater till the very End...
A second Dead President, barely escaping with his dignified Death intact as a would-be-assassin's bullet just misses Andrew Jackson's dead heart. His valiant efforts to quell the Revolution did not go unrewarded as...
A third Dead President stepped triumphantly in: the Rough Rider, himself - Teddy Roosevelt! He and his big stick put the miscreants in their place.. The Son of Madblood show was saved!
And all through this turmoil the audience feasted: on Herschell Gordon Lewis's Two Thousand Maniacs and Kentucky Fried Chicken!
All was not lost.... The Son of Madblood goes on!

Yeeeeeeeee Haw!

Y'all come back, now, ya hear? The Son of Madblood returns with an all-new Spring Season Terror-filled lineup!
(and doncha fergit to take a gander at the Son of Madblood Mad-Mall - git sum shoppin done! Then - sit a spell an put yer feet up an enjoy them movin pictures from that there first season of shows..)

The Son of Madblood Continues...

Well, here it is, kids: a little One Year Anniversary Compilation video that Brain was so kind (?) to have put together for us and you. Notice the inordinate amount of me-getting-hurt-time - a clear indication of Brain's hand...um..his..umm.. BRAIN - at work. We showed this at the end of our Big Anniversary Episode and the crowed went wild here at Madblood Manorette. It was the end of the evening and ALL of the Sangre de Loco had been drunk.. drank.. drinked? I can never get that right - especially when I'm drunked... It's a little on the long-ish side for computer-screen viewing in my, albeit humble, opinion - closing in on six-ish minutes in all. Pretty soon I'll get Brain to help me figure some of this stuff out on my own and we'll be presenting some nicely edited tight excerpts from specific shows posted right there in the Episode Guide (the Indispensable one) in a fitting manner. He's a bit stingy with his knowledge so it may take some time and some coercion in the form of money or nights on the town - one day I hope to be able to tap straight into whatever part of him I want to access - circumventing his sarcasm, brutality, grumpiness, his mocking and name calling and general vile attitude. So, really - who knows when we might get another video post around here. Until then - pop some popcorn and put your feet up and enjoy this "first look" at the first year of the show we call The Son Of Madblood...

And - as we're not the kind to quit while the quittin's good.. to dally when the dolly's done (?), to nap while the iron's hot - nope, not us - not the Gang here at Madblood Manorette... no siree, kids - it's just about time for the Next Episode of The Son Of Madblood! Yes - coming this Sunday, December 14th we're baaaaaaaack! Indeed - it's the beginning of our Big Second Season - our Season Premier, so to speak - Premire de Saison, as the French would have it..

I'm thinking of starting this season with a nice little shocker called The Funhouse.

Don't cry - cuz this is a good one! It's one of Tobe Hooper's most under appreciated film (the MOST most under appreciated being Eaten Alive which we'll be seeing later this season if I have my 'druthers). On the surface it appears as an almost routine teen-slasher genre film - but it's where it veers away from those tropes that it really gets good AND creepy. To quote myself from an earlier post: "Hooper brings enough imagination and detail to set it apart from the routine slashers that were being made at the time. He devotes a lot to the setting of the carnival, it's other-worldliness and strange characters - even just the weirdos milling about in the crowd - and the funhouse, itself, is perfectly atmospheric and nerve-jangling. He also is able to make a little go a long way in creating a slasher-flick scenario with only 4 characters, one of whom you know is going to survive anyway! And yet it still manages to deliver the frights in a somewhat old-fashioned-monster-movie vein. A lot of the chills come from the rantings and ravings of the monster hinted at in the poster - and something that could easily have come off as ridiculous is, instead, what really makes the film succeed. It's a classic monster in the Frankenstein/Wolfman mode: always scary, always dangerous, but also sympathetic; and it's performed so pitch-perfectly that you won't soon forget it." Not that anyone is really paying attention - but please forget all I've just said about the movie when you come to the Manorette to see it on the night of
Sunday, December 14th! You'll be scared...

PLUS it has that heart-throb, William Finley, in it!

I'm watching you...

AND wait til you see the Mad-raffle prizes! (Next post, maybe..) Curious?

Who will DARE enter? Who is BRAVE enough?




And don't forget to do some Holiday Shoppin' in The Son of Madblood's Mad-Mall!

Holiday Chopping Is Here!

I know - I know.. We've been a heck of a lot behind here - getting back into the swing of things way too slow.. but - with the Halloween Holidays and the Big One Year Anniversary - we were just a tad bit in need of some R'n'R (Rye on the rocks) around here. Plus - it took me an extra long while to just wash all the pie out of my naturally curly locks. I needed a whole wash-and-set with a hot-oil treatment!

But we haven't just been lying here doing nothing - doing our hair and resting on our One Year laurels. No. We've been putting together a little surprise for you - our loyal fans.. Yes, kids - Black Friday and Black Tuesday have come and gone and it's time to battle tourist and townie alike in the race to get that special someone that something special...some..one...thing..some..special... Why risk you neck and limbs and life, even? Out there in the throngs with the not so huddled masses - that is, unless they're huddling to determine the best strategy for separating you from that last whateveryamacallit-hot-this-year-item that you happened to un-luckily end up standing there holding - you haven't a chance!

So - why not get some of your shopping done right here at Madblood Manorette? You heard me right - the Gang here have got the gifts that keep on giving... ummm... no.. not THAT 'gift' that keeps 'giving' - the one that won't go away no matter how much Penicillin you bombard it with.. no, no.. What I mean is:

The MAD-MALL is open for business!

(even if you do have to click on it a few times to get it to work)

It's just opening up so we still need to get it all stocked - poor Igor has been working his stocky stock-boy fingers to the bone unloading boxes and popping those packing-bubble-sheets. Pretty soon, now, the isles will be overflowing with the best that we here at the Manorette can offer - all for your shopping satisfaction. We believe that the customer is always white.. or we keep a close eye on them for shoplifting... Your pleasure is our business. If you're not happy - we're not doing our job. And we believe that. And we believe other stupid truisms like: if it's not worth doing right - it's not worth doing at all. Or: where there's smoke there's fire - sometimes it's just smoke! Yes - your laziness is our bread and butter.
Shop at your own risk. You break it - we break you...


And don't delay - the next Son of Madblood looks to be coming round the corner on Sunday December 14th! So - get all your stockings stuffed and then come back here for some roasting-on-the-open-fire chestnuts in the coming soon updates.. What will we be showing next? What excitement? What fun? What Mad-Raffle prizes? A 3-D Son of Madblood in the works? Hold on to your hats!

Uncle (Son of) Madblood Wants You!

That's right, kids - the time is nigh for our big spectacular One Year Anniversary Episode! This Sunday - October 26th! The Big Numero Uno as our long-lost Manorette pal, Manuel, would say.. that is - if you could understand him in the first place - which I always had trouble doing.. So, anyhow kids - get your party-hats on because we mean to celebrate.. And "how to celebrate?" you may ask.. Well - that's EXACTLY what I'm asking you - our loyal watchers and fans: what the heckle should we do to celebrate such an event? See - the "thing" is - we're kinda at a loss over here at Madblood Manorette as to what to do for this upcoming Episode.. We've got a great movie with Halloween III (see below for a little TREAT) and some great Mad-Raffle prizes - but we're all just shrugging our shoulders over how to celebrate.. And - shut up Brain - I already heard enough of you and all your "so, what's new, Madblob" - I'm talking to our fans and, yes - there ARE a few out there..

remembering Manuel...

So, kids - we're bringing our problem to you, the audience. After all, we've been working hard for a year now entertaining you (shut up, again, Brain with your "hardly entertaining" remarks) and we thought you might be able to give us a little help.. a little boost up.. a little feedback, if you will. Yes - we're interested in your opinions, your feelings, your hopes and desires (just remember - it is a family show). You can help us here at Madblood Manorette out of our dilemma by letting us know what YOU liked about this past year of fun - what YOU thought were our best moments, our most entertaining bits and pieces, our high points (speaking of which - that reminds me of when Bones ate all those Brownies and got real small and started flying around singing 'Tiny Dancer').

What slap-dash memories of The Son of Madblood would you re-visit if you could? Which of our friends here at the Manorette did you love to see the most of? What good-times-past would you like the chance to re-live? (And any over-enthusiastic Brain-related responses will be ignored unless fully verifiable as not coming from Brain, himself!)

our humble beginnings...

If you tell us what you liked - it would greatly influence the manner in which we would proceed. (Stop laughing, Brain.) And - it could help us make this Special Anniversary Episode something to remember.. I mean, really remember.. unforgettable..I mean - I'm hoping that some of you remember the past ones, as well, or this is going to get us nowhere.. Unless, maybe.. that's where you think we belong.. nowhere.. not much to remember, anyway... completely forgettable.. Jeez - we're just trying to show you a good time, here...

We really are interested - we're not just looking for some lip-service - we really want to know... So - give it a whirl - knock on that Laboratory door... IF YOU DARE!

PS in case you didn't see it last post:
This just in from our Manorette friend, Sean, at Maysles Films:

What a fantastic Halloween TREAT! (as previously mentioned here...)