October Halloween Movies

One of my favorite days of the year is October 31st Halloween. As a kid I would decorate the outside of our house with grotesque beings and add some eerie music to scare the trick or treaters.

My favorite pastimes is also collecting horror posters, lobby cards etc. I'm especially
into most of the Hammer Horror films of the sixties and seventies, as well as the Amicus movies. I'm getting ready to pull out my collection of dvds and watch them over this month. Here is the rundown of the films I'll be watching and hope you'll find them somewhat frightful but nevertheless entertaining!

Horror of Dracula (Lee and Cushing at their Best!)
Curse of Frankenstein (Christopher Lee's portrayal of the Monster is pretty creepy)
The Mummy Karloff/Lee (original and Hammer remake)
Warhol's Blood for Dracula (Criterion)
The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires
Taste the Blood of Dracula
Eyes without a Face (Criterion)

Horror Express
The Creeping Flesh
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper Original)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
Phantasm
Shockwaves (Blue Underground) "The Best of all the Nazi Zombie movies!"
Dawn of the Dead (George Romero original)
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
Return of The Living Dead

Reanimator (Anchor Bay)
Vampyros Lesbos (Jess Franco) Search out the soundtrack, "Sexadelic Dance Party-groovy
A Clockwork Orange ( Kubrick)
Evil Dead
Destroy All Monsters!
And the one I cannot miss-out on the Halloween season
It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!


Added 10/10/07
Halloween 3
Dr Phibes (Vincent Price)
Haunted Palace (Vincent Price)
Witch-finder General (Midnight movies)
The Thing (John Carpenter) (Original Howard Hawks)
The Shining (Kubrick/ Stephen King)


Thanks to Martin Harris for his scary movie contributions! :)
I'm sure I've might have left a few out. We will be updating The Lost Kaiju in the next few days, so please check back for some new items!

Stay Tuned

The Lost Kaiju has some great new figures arriving soon, please stay tuned. We will be updating the storefront shortly. Please enjoy the new Iron Man trailer. Robert Downey Jr's portrayal of Tony Stark looks to be fantastic.

In Touch with ToyKarma

Rotofugi's ToyKarma show is already here and will be opening it's doors this Saturday September 8 in Chicago on Chicago Avenue. I met up with Carlos Enriquez one of the many big talents presenting works at the gallery. He introduced me to Mark Nagata curator of ToyKarma. This show looks to be one of the biggest and first of it's kind I believe. A lot of the figures have already sold out on Rotofugi's preview list. Kirby and Whitney did a great job handling the masses as they drove the server to meltdown. Congratulations on the folks who were lucky enough to get some of the great figures, Their are sure to be more on opening day!

Coming

In the upcoming weeks/months The Lost Kaiju will be selling you Anraku, Exohead, CCP Meltdown Godzilla and much more. Stay tuned for more information soon.... Also upcoming is the latest addition to our gallery section is from Pickeloaf. You can check out his fascinating and informative blog called Assorted Loaf (random musings on dirty little habits)

Out with the Old & In with the New

The Lost Kaiju is moving some old inventory onto ebay to make room for some new items. Please check our ebay store now for aged or fresh new Wonderfest goodness and then back at The Lost Kaiju store page for new figures next week!

Featured Artist is Carlos Enriquez

Our featured artist will be Carlos Enriquez. This very talented artist has sculpted many familiar kaiju that has to be seen to believe. Carving out figures from wood he then uses fiberglass to bring to life his creations. You can see he has been inspired by tokusatsu shows such as Barom 1 or Matango. One of Carlos's many interests are Quantum Physics. He will be at Toy Karma in Chicago on Setember 8 with many other talents including Mark Nagata, Bob Conge, Ralph Cosentino, and Steve Forde. Carlos will be selling many of his unique pieces at Toy Karma. This is one artist to watch! Please visit our featured artist page to catch a glimpse of things to come..

Now in Stock

The Lost Kaiju has some new figures in stock now! CCP Spectreman C type. (weathered version)
These were limited to only 300 pieces. A highly detailed figure of Spectreman in the latter episodes as the suit took some real beatings. From the brilliant Japanese toy company Amapro comes Kira. Kira is limited to 100 figures and is purple vinyl.

One of my personal favorites this month is Liberty Planet's Seabozu (Glow version) The like-able depressed Kaiju from the Ultraman epidsode Grave of the Monsters. Even comes with a glow and the dark rock! Come over to the store and check out the great figures.

We will reveal our featured artist shortly, can you guess who it is? He will be at Rotofugi's Toy Karma next month.