The happy and hormonal teenage campers at Camp TNUC are in for a real treat this season. Year after year he's talked about around campfires, during up-all-night slumber parties and even giggled about in the midst of a few naked pillow fights in some of the cabins. But this year, the legend has never been so real. It all started with a counselor that disappeared out by the archery range. Then a blood-soaked canoe seen out by the dock that washed up on shore. Followed by a scare out by the showers that one girl reported a "glory hole" was cut out in one of the shower curtains with something on the verge of peeking in (no further details). The only one that claims to have caught several glimpses of the dark figure of a man rustling around in the woods was one of the camp custodians, who naturally everyone laughs at and doesn't believe. Instead of pulling pranks and gags on him, like sticking his arm in a pot of boiling meatballs in the kitchen, they should be listening to him. After all, he's the one left cleaning up after their cafeteria food fights, heavy metal vomit parties but most importantly...knows more than anyone else about the return of this unholy, camp-obsessed manimal! Only mister custodian realizes that this must be the year TNUC returns, the year TNUC LIVES. The figure of "myth" is no longer. He's out there. Campers and listeners please note - run-in's with this savage psychopath are happening, and could happen to you. Take warning the next time you: Are out collecting sticks for s'mores and you hear the snap of a branch. Hear the humming of what resembles a synth resonating from the forest. Catch a patch of fog pummeling out of the woods for no apparent reason. Return from skinny dipping and JUST your panties are missing.
So consider the following soundtrack to be the essential 33-minutes you'll need for survival. Disciples worldwide who listen to this will feel his unseen presence watching, waiting - stalking dusty cabins and selecting his chosen bunk bed of the night. This mix is especially important and vital for survival because it's the 3rd Annual Halloween mix by the combined powerhouse of TNUC + Mike Ballermann. So grab a s'mores and head on down to the lake to join us for 'CAMP TNUC Part III: TNUC LIVES' TNUC LIVES Mix by TNUC 1) PRELUDE 2) ALICE COOPER - HE'S BACK (THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK) 3) 45 GRAVE - PARTYTIME 4) RAMONES - PET SEMATARY 5) CLAUDIO SIMONETTI - RUNNING ON THE BEACH 6) LOU GRAMM - LOST IN THE SHADOWS 7) MEGADETH - PARANOID 8) MOTLEY CRUE - DANCING ON GLASS 9) OZZY VS. LEMMY - HELLRAISER (TNUC EXCLUSIVE) 10) FINALE
Artwork by Jarred Hageman. [Click the picture for mandatory extreme close-up] The 3rd Annual TNUC & Mike Ballermann Halloween mix, 'TNUC LIVES', is coming extremely soon, but before we let this hellhound off it's leash, I think it's necessary that we at least fork over a selection of artwork from the upcoming release. This mix was engineered to please everyone...especially the cliched women from our favorite slasher films. That's right, from the electronic-loving, soft-spoken goody-girls (that live longest) to the heavy metal-obsessed, whorey loudmouths (that die first)...there's something for everyone on 'TNUC LIVES'. Just read what one of the villagers found inked in blood on an unmarked grave last night... Up the hill through the brush pass the Indian burial grounds stay clear of the moors start up the hearse drive over to Betty's hide in the closet tip the blinds climb under her bed then up through her sheets we've got bush! fly out the window swoop into the cathedral drop under the altar into the pit beneath the tomb HE IS RISEN.
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Greetings all you cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers, today our focus is on watching as many clips as possible of Mr. Tom Savini, the Godfather of big-screen beasts and splatter effects. It's easy to understand some of the jaw-dropping facial expressions on the kids in the audience at these talk show appearances. My mind is still blown as we sit here 30 years after this first interview aired. The hard work and craftsmanship that's put into these fleshy puppets, props and masks really shows and is a huge part of why it's so appealing.
These first clips are parts 1 + 2 of an interview from the show Livewire, a kid's show on Nickelodeon which aired in 1982, a time during which Tom had already completed work on Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th, The Burning, Maniac, Creepshow and many others.
Throughout the years gorehounds and creature fiends could see Savini's make-up and special effect skills in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, Creepshow 2, Tales From the Darkside and so on. The following clip is more fun times on the Late Show with David Letterman. You'll have to put up with Letterman's whining on this one.
"Horror Effects" - a 37-minute video of step-by-step demonstrations of some of his most lavish, gory illusions. Hosted by Savini himself. Watch it.
"Scream Greats" - a documentary on Savini's career and clips from selected films he's worked on. Watch it.
Every October at CAMP TNUC we can't make it to the 31st without bringing up Ghoulies. Weather it be around a crackling bonfire, sitting on the toilet or listening to W.A.S.P., we can't shut up about these tiny bundles of death. This year we're going to switch gears for a change and spotlight their household cousins, the Boglins.
Boglins were rubbery fat creatures that you could control like hand puppets and move them around to make repulsive facial expressions. One of the coolest features of the Boglin were the boxes they were designed in. The boxes had cages in the front with bars that appeared to have been pried open, which suggesed that Boglins destined to be fugitives. Their flesh was made of this strange, flexible rubber material that literally felt like skin. If that wasn't enough, they had glow in the dark eyes! Truly the coolest toys of all time, they even made skirt-chasing a high priority, as stated on one of their magazine ads: Boglins love to meet girls. Especially little sisters. Try one and see. Boglins come alive in your hand. They're squishy, squashy, squirmy and scary. And they come complete with their own cage! So look for Boglins. Then look for girls. Sounds like a passage from the TNUC bible. The first run were released by Mattel in 1986 and became very popular. The timing was perfect given that the world was currently at the brink of the "little dudes craze" during this time (Gremlins, Ghoulies, Critters, Hobgoblins, Munchies, Puppet Master, etc.). This initial family of Boglins were Vlobb, Drool and Dwork, who's pictured below...ready to get gnarly on that off-white sofa.
Printed on the back of each box were "Bogologist Field Notes", which would explain some of the creature features of these obscure swamp dwellers...
After the boom of the "big 3" Boglins and a family of "Small Boglin Subspecies" being released, Mattel really went bonkers and took Boglins to a whole new, weird level. European society was introduced to "Soggy Boglins", "Hairy Boglins"and even a line of tiny plastic Boglins that came with a toilet and can of slime! But these variations were all put to shame when the next Boglin would crawl in the room: the #1 Boglin all-star and the most sought-after of them all..."Blobkin" the HALLOWEEN BOGLIN.
These bastards were part of the deluxe collection which features a second Halloween Boglin, "Bog O Bones", who is equally as ruthless and difficult to track down. Ol' Boggy had a creepy skeleton look going on. Not only did these exclusive Boglins have longer arms and tails, but you could stick your fingers in each eye socket to rotate their eyes separately of each other. Also included in their prison cell box was a FREE trick-or-treat bag that I hear was big enough to consume a small child or two inside. These overlooked classic puppets will always be dear to TNUC's heart and if you're an avid disciple of this blog and own a Boglin, maybe you could donate him to TNUC's Boglin-dump?....a "donate-your-Boglin" charity case that will help enhance my Boglin Den. Hey...it was worth a try. I love these rude dudes. "If you take us home, we'll kiss your Aunt Martha, we'll eat your peas, and we hope you know lots of girls"
You better believe it. - - Greetings night beasts...if you've been a regular camper at Fort TNUC the past few years, it must be pretty obvious that right around when this season lurks upon us, we can't help but sink head-first into every bit of nightly macabre and supernatural sludge that Halloween has to offer. One might question the above picture as to how your crotch holds up after a few hours with a TV sitting on it...let's just say it's a good thing TNUC straps on his Blackie Lawless-influenced codpiece before he hits the hay each night, or ELSE.
The main title music from 1988's Night of the Demons is a synth-heavy crypt-crusher that will even make the floorboards in your house creak more than usual. This intro theme comes from the unreleased score by Dennis Michael Tenney, which remains one of the most sought-out scores of the genre. Before his work on Night of the Demons, his first professional job as a film-score composer was for Kevin Tenney's (his brother) film Witchboard, where he also wrote the song 'Bump in the Night' featured during the end credits for the rock group Steel Breeze (!).
Big thanks to our soundtrack main-man Phaota for digging this one up and supplying TNUC with the keys.
MIDNIGHTS ALL THRU OCTOBER! 30 SHOCKERS THAT OUTRAGED A NATION! EVERY FILM ON 35MM. BUY TICKETS ($12/free for members. Oct. 1st, 10PM show is free admission: first-come, first-served. All showtimes subject to change): ————————————————————————————————– Monday, Oct. 1st, 10PM (free admission): Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape Monday, Oct. 1st, midnight – Night Warning Tuesday, Oct. 2nd, midnight – Hell of the Living Dead Wednesday, Oct. 3rd, midnight – The Witch Who Came From The Sea Thursday, Oct. 4th, midnight – Axe Friday, Oct. 5th, midnight – Evilspeak Saturday, Oct. 6th, midnight – Inferno Sunday, Oct. 7th, midnight – Dead & Buried Monday, Oct. 8th, midnight – Visiting Hours Tuesday, Oct. 9th, midnight – The Funhouse Wednesday, Oct. 10th, midnight – Cannibal Apocalypse Thursday, Oct. 11th, midnight – The Burning (fully uncut 35mm print!) Friday, Oct. 12th, midnight – XTRO Saturday, Oct. 13th, midnight – The Evil Dead (brand-new 35mm print!) Sunday, Oct. 14th, midnight – Possession Monday, Oct. 15th, midnight – Night of the Bloody Apes Tuesday, Oct. 16th, midnight – The Toolbox Murders Wednesday, Oct. 17th, midnight – Driller Killer Thursday, Oct. 18th, midnight – Mardi Gras Massacre Friday, Oct. 19th, midnight – The Beyond Saturday, Oct. 20th, midnight – Blood Feast Sunday, Oct. 21st, midnight – Anthropophagus Monday, Oct. 22th, midnight – Snuff Tuesday, Oct. 23rd, midnight – Fight For Your Life Wednesday, Oct. 24th, midnight – The House on the Edge of the Park Thursday, Oct. 25th, midnight – Nightmares In A Damaged Brain Friday, Oct. 26th, midnight – Faces of Death Sunday, Oct. 28th, midnight – Cannibal Ferox Monday, Oct. 29th, midnight – The Last House on the Left Tuesday, Oct. 30th, midnight – I Spit On Your Grave Wednesday, Oct. 31st, midnight – Cannibal Holocaust As part of Cinefamily’s upcoming month-long horror celebration NIGHTMARE CITY (co-presented by Elijah Wood’s The Woodshed Horror Company), we’re about to do something so over-the-top and wondrously fun that we ourselves still can’t believe it: midnight shows almost every single night in October featuring 35mm screenings of films from the infamous list of “Video Nasties”. What’s a Video Nasty, you ask? Back in 1982, a moral panic erupted in the U.K. under the iron fist of Margaret Thatcher and her cohorts in media censorship, who found it handy to blame all of society’s ills (and particularly its maladjusted children) on those nasty, nasty horror movies sitting on video shelves around the country. Using rigged data, trumped-up reports in some of the shiftier papers and an easily frightened public, a number of gory films — 72, to be exact, with almost all of them Italian or American — wound up as official societal scapegoats, and were either eventually banned or reissued in drastically cut versions. A most baffling criteria for inclusion on the list: that there was no true criteria, other than, when viewed through today’s lens, that they all be as awesome as possible. This scandalous rundown of films ranges from bona fide classics (The Evil Dead, Possession) to top-tier trash (Evilspeak, Faces of Death.) To mark the 30th Anniversary of the Video Nasties legacy — and to examine over the years how much the brand (in a literal sense) has become a badge of pride rather than a mark of shame — we’re not only going to offer almost thirty Video Nasty midnight shows in a row in October, but we’re also going to have a free screening of the brand-new documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape at the top of the month, to get everyone jazzed about the series, and to provide highly entertaining cultural background on the whole shebang. Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “Nightmare City: A Video Nasties Celebration”!
TNUC (tee-nuk) HAD ALL THE NORMAL TEENAGE FANTASIES...CARS, GIRLS, MONEY. THEN HIS PARENTS LEFT FOR A WEEK, AND ALL HIS FANTASIES CAME TRUE. THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THOSE FANTASIES WILL ALL SLOWLY UNFOLD. TNUC IS A SWEATY TRIP TO THE EDGE, AND PAST IT. PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A NEW DIMENSION IN SEDUCTION...WELCOME TO TNUC.
The happy and hormonal teenage campers at Camp TNUC are in for a real treat this season. Year after year he's talked about around campfires, during up-all-night slumber parties and even giggled about in the midst of a few naked pillow fights in some of the cabins. But this year, the legend has never been so real. 
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