Rondo Awards Voting Ends Saturday Night!

by Armand Vaquer


A reminder from the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' David Colton just came in:

A reminder to all CHFB* members that voting in the 9th Annual Rondo Hatton Awards ends Saturday** night. A ballot can be found at the Classic Horror Film Board, or at rondoaward.com. Thanks for all your support of the CHFB over the years.

So, if you haven't voted yet for the Rondo Awards, go to www.rondoaward.com and vote! Make sure you follow the posted directions so that your vote will be counted.



The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan and Monster Island News blog received nominations for Best Book and Best Blog respectively.

To vote, go to www.rondoaward.com

*Classic Horror Film Board
**It was originally reported that voting ends Sunday night.

Rondo Awards: 10 Days Left To Vote!

by Armand Vaquer


Right, Miki Hayashi with "The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan." Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Ten days from tonight (March 27), voting for the 9th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards will end.

So if you haven't placed your votes for the best of 2010, you have ten days to do so.

Two things near and dear to me have been nominated: The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan for "Best Book" and Monster Island News for best blog. I wrote the former and contribute to the latter.

Also, please consider the following nominees (who are also friends of Monster Island News):

BEST COMMENTARY

August Ragone, Jason Varney, GAMERA VS. BARUGON

FAVORITE HORROR HOST OF 2010

KARLOS BORLOFF (Monster Madhouse, Washington, DC)
COUNT GORE DE VOL (Creature Feaures)
PENNY DREADFUL (Shilling Shockers, New England)

and ...

MR. LOBO (Cinema Insomnia, California)

BEST HORROR COMIC

BELA LUGOSI'S TALES FROM THE GRAVE (Monsterverse). Colorful and clever anthology features Bela as a very sinister host..

VINCENT PRICE PRESENTS (Bluewater). Anthology includes Witchfinder General tales.

To vote, go to the offical Rondo Award website at www.rondoaward.com.

Thank you for your vote!

Monster Mash 06/26/09

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Avery Guerra / Various

When you are writer with you own blog or website, you sometimes get inundated with tons of info on new films and other forms of media. Sometimes the pile can get kinda high and it can be hard to sort through and let's be realistic, there just isn't time to write about everything. This fact has been troubling me for some time. There are tons of cool things that I have had to pass over due to time.

Well, I think that I have figured out a solution. Today I am launching a new Friday feature called "Monster Mash." Essentially it will serve as a collection of stories from other sources that I just couldn't get a chance to write about myself.

Here we go.......

Haunted House The Movie

Here is a pretty interesting looking indie horror movie about eleven employees of Hellsgate, a popular Haunted House, who went missing in 1992.

"This is the real story of the last person to see them."

Check out: http://www.hauntedhousethemovie.com/

Cencoroll

My buddy Avery has been so excited about this new giant monster related anime for some time and I don't blame him, it looks pretty amazing.

Here is the synopsis:

"A huge monster shows up on the top of a building of an ordinary city, prompting the Defense Forces to go into action and causing something of an uproar in the citizens of the city. Yuki, a brave-hearted and naturally inquisitive girl, happens to know a secret: her friend Tetsu has been keeping and raising a strange creature called Cenco. When a mysterious boy appears who has control over the huge monster threatening the town, an unexpected battle between the creatures begins. But what are each of the combatants fighting for? Who are they really? And by getting involved in the battle, what fate will Yuki bring down upon herself?"

Robert Hood over at Undead Backbrain has been all over this one: http://roberthood.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/22/cencoroll/

Blastosaurus

Here is an interesting comic book about a crime-fighting dinosaur that's being made into a movie.

i09 has the details: http://io9.com/5298355/blastosaurus-may-be-our-sci+fi-future

Attack of the 50ft Ghoul Girl

We here at Monster Island News love low-budget cinema, and this is about as low-budget as it gets. The film is called "Attack of the 50ft Ghoul Girl" and it was made by Brian Nichols with his own daughter playing the part of the monster filmed against cardboard sets in their backyard.

The film is set to debut this weekend at Monster Bash in Butler PA.

Undead Backbrain has been following this one for some time: http://undeadbrainspasm.blogspot.com/search?q=GHOUL+GIRL

Look for more cool stuff in next week's "Monster Mash" posting!

Monster Island News Is Now On Twitter

Written By: Ken Hulsey

Okay, I finally caved. On the way in to work today, I kept hearing, Twitter this, and Twitter that, so I decided to give it a try.......okay I feel like a tool. Anyway, I understand that zillions of people are using the thing, so it would probably be in my best interest to post links to my articles on the site to possibly get more interested readers.

So, I'm giving it a shot.

Now all of you out there that get you daily voyeurism from Twitter can now keep track of independent films, monster movies, sci fi and horror via my updates. I will be posting links to my own articles plus stuff that I can't get to, so other sites will reap the benefits of my labor as well.

So here we go! Here is the link to the thread:

MONSTER ISLAND NEWS ON TWITTER

Enjoy!