Doc Terror Forever - JOIN US as We Celebrate James Harris' Legacy and Help Out His Family!

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On April 13, 2017, my friend James Harris (proprietor of Doc Terror.com and HorrorSexy.com) lost his long battle against Ewing Sarcoma.

In the time I knew him, James was pure inspiration: A devout family man, he was passionate about all things Horror, and overflowing with positive energy. Jimmy's enthusiasm was infectious, and everyone (including Jimmy himself) truly thought that he was going to come out on top in the end.

But the tide suddenly turned a few weeks before his untimely demise, and now the world seems a bit darker without him. Jimmy was one of a kind - a diamond in the rough. He was the sort of person (and Horror fan) that the rest of us all aspire to be.

Since his passing, I've seen an enormous outpouring of love and sorrow on social media. It is absolutely incredible how many lives Jimmy has touched in his short time here on Earth, so it comes as no surprise that many are rallying to help his family and keep his memory alive!

Here is a list (thus far) of various folks in the Horror community that are doing special film screenings, art prints, t-shirts, and more to raise funds for the Harris clan. I'll try and keep it all updated and current as events are announced:

• Hudson Horror Show's Chris Alo hosted a late-night Italian Horror double feature on Saturday May 6th at the Empire South Hills 8 in Poughkeepsie, NY. The event featured TWO mystery Italian Horror films in 35mm! Between ticket, merchandise, and raffle ticket sales, a total of $2,000 was raised!
• Quiltface Studios' Chris Garofalo did a limited edition art print that pays tribute to James Harris and his love of Creepshow. It is now available HERE for a mere $20, and it is pretty damned cool - Jimmy would have definitely approved! Please pick one up because all money raised will be going to the Harris family! If you donated to the GoFundMe campaign to make this print possible, contact Danny over at The SHOCK Chamber with your mailing address to ensure that you get one!
• The gentlemen at Vinegar Syndrome did a silent auction, and the winner (who spent a whopping THREE-THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!) got themselves a single MASSIVE package that will include all of VinSyn's releases from May thru the end of the year (including all secret and limited titles), a film canister with a VS shirt, VS hoodie and other added surprises inside. Congrats to the winner - thank you for your generosity!
• For one week only, FRIGHT RAGS' did pre-orders for a Tribute tee to Jimmy "Doc Terror" Harris, designed by the uber-talented Jeff Zornow! The t-shirt was $20, the hoodie was $40, and every penny of that $2,000 going to Jimmy's family!
• The folks from Exhumed Films dedicated Ex-Fest: Part VII to James. The event took place at the International House in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, April 29th!
• I've also heard that the folks that put on the Italian All-Night Splatter Fest at The Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, PA are dedicating their next big event in honor of Jimmy Terror. More details when I get them!
• Chad from The Horror Movie BBQ put together a charity raffle to raise money for Jimmy's family, comprised of three enormous prize packs donated by various companies, bloggers, and other do-gooders. In the end, a whopping $1,435 was raised! Congrats to the winners!
• On Friday, May 26th at 7:30 PM, The Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, NY did a James Harris Memorial Screening of CREEPSHOW!
• Danny "Mozz" Monserrate from The SHOCK Chamber started up a GoFundMe for James last March. CLICK HERE to visit the page and make a donation. 
• Dan Terr of Inked Up Merch will be selling more Doc Terror beanies and baseball caps to raise money for Jimmy's family. The first batch has sold out but more are now available!

Further details (and hopefully more new events) will be posted soon. In the meantime, explore Jimmy's legacy on the web:

DOCTERROR.COM - Jimmy's home base on the internet. Even as his health deteriorated, he continued plugging away at it.

HORRORSEXY.COM - Home of the HorrorSexy podcast and the short-lived HorrorSexy Web-mag.

DOC TERROR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - Those 8-bit Horror game previews James and Frank Browning created are to die for!

CINEPUNX INTERVIEW WITH DOC TERROR - Cool interview with Doc Terror!

Jimmy, it was a distinct honor to call you my friend. I miss you terribly, but hope that someday, in some way, our paths will cross again. Rest in peace my friend, and thank you for being a shining example for so many of us.

HUDSON HORROR SHOW 13 CONQUERS POUGHKEEPSIE, NY AGAIN THIS MAY!

ON SATURDAY, MAY 14TH, HUDSON HORROR SHOW RETURNS, BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER! 

 BE SURE TO YOUR PRE-ORDER YOUR TICKETS ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH BECAUSE 

IT WILL SELL OUT!

Fresh off the presses: 

First off, thanks to those who bought tickets to our March Madness Triple Feature at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, NY. We are sorry to report that our screening of HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP, HELL NIGHT and CHILD’S PLAY is now completely sold out. All we can say is to keep your eyes on the Alamo Yonkers website to see if more tickets become available.

Now onto the good news, Hudson Horror Show returns to its native soil in Poughkeepsie New York on May 14th, 2016 for Hudson Horror Show #13!

Tickets will go on sale on Valentine’s Day, Sunday February 14th 2016 at 9 AM exclusively at www.hudsonhorror.com. Tickets are just $35.00 for the six movie, 12 hour show. Each ticket purchased comes with a free limited edition Hudson Horror Show Leatherface/Black Sabbath sticker.

Like the last time, there will be two rooms showing all of the movies, you will need to decide which room you want to sit in. Both rooms will get the same exact movies, just in a different order. So, what are we showing?

We’ve been threatening to show a Blaxploitation movie for years and now we’ve finally got one of the best in DOLEMITE! Presented by our friends at Vinegar Syndrome, Dolemite stars Rudy Ray Moore as the one and only pimp, comedian, lounge club singer, kung fu artist, and all around bad ass!



You’ve seen the sequel, now it’s time for the original, Robert Englund’s star turn in 1984’s A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET! With John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp and Johnny Depp, do we even need to say more than that?



Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, HHS presents JAWS 2!!! The giant fish movie that many feels plays like a slasher JAWS 2 brings Bruce back to Amityville and the results are as disastrous as last time. JAWS 2 rarely gets any play theatrically and we are pleased to have this as part of our show.



Our headliner for show# 13 is the much requested NIGHTBREED! Presented by The B-Movie Film Vault, Clive Barker’s monster mash features more on screen creatures than any other movie ever filmed. And forget that director’s cut, the theatrical version of NIGHTBREED is by far the superior version and we are ecstatic to have this as part of our lineup.


We will also have not one but TWO MYSTERY HORROR MOVIES!! Want to know what we are showing? Get your tickets and find out! Again, tickets go on sale Sunday February 14th at 9AM at www.hudsonhorror.com. What better way is there to celebrate Valentine's Day than buying your significant other a Hudson Horror Ticket?

If you have any questions, shoot us an email at chris@hudsonhorror.com and we’ll see you at the movies!

Hudson Horror Show MARCH MADNESS TRIPLE FEATURE tickets on sale now!

UPDATE: HUDSON HORROR SHOW'S MARCH MADNESS TRIPLE FEATURE HAS SOLD OUT (IN RECORD TIME)!

UPDATE: Read my coverage of this event HERE at The B-Movie Film Vault! You can read all about my other Hudson Horror adventures HERE!

 

Sorry if you missed this one gang! But don't feel bad, there's plenty of awesome coming up in Hudson Horror Show on May 14th, 2016!!!!

HUDSON HORROR SHOW is a 35mm-fueled juggernaut that cannot be stopped! The event has grown so large that it occupies TWO screens during it's bi-annual film fest!

On Saturday, March 5th, the Hudson Horror crew is once again conquering The Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, NY, with yet another "March Madness" triple feature that's sure to please fans of Horror and Exploitation cinema!

Tickets are on sale now, and half of them are already gone! So do yourself a favor and CLICK HERE to order yours right now. If you wait, they will be gone, and you'll have to sit at home and sulk on March 5th!

The event kicks off at 6:00 PM and boasts three awesome flicks:

FILM #1: HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
Highly-evolved icthyoids (i.e. "fish men") rise from the deep and attack a small fishing village. All men must die, and all women must be impregnated, in this insane Roger Corman production featuring genre vets Doug McClure and Vic Morrow. Also keep an ear out for the score, which was created by composer James Horner, whom you may recall tragically died in a plane crash last June.

FILM #2: HELL NIGHT
Linda Blair stars in this sadly oft-overlooked 80s slasher film, where a group of college students must stay in a "haunted" mansion on Halloween night in order to join a fraternity (and sorority). What is supposed to be a harmless night of fun, quickly turns into a fight for survival when the would-be pledges discover that they are not alone in the house. This is a cool little indie Horror flick from the early 80s that has several memorable moments, and I think the audience is really gonna dig it!

FILM #3: CHILD'S PLAY
Brad Dourif stars as the villainous Charles Lee Ray, who uses a voodoo spell to hop into the body of a Good Guy Doll after being fatally shot by a police officer (FRIGHT NIGHT's Chris Sarandon). The possessed doll ends up in the hands of a young child named Andy, and soon strange "accidents" begin happening. Is Andy responsible, or is his doll "Chucky" really alive? Well honestly everyone knows the answer to that question, but who cares, because this movie is awesome, and gave us one of the most beloved Horror icons from the 80s!

I'm not entirely sure what order these three films will be screened, but all three are 35mm presentations! There will also be giveaways in between each film, maybe a vendor or two, and of course delicious food and a large variety of alcoholic beverages courtesy of The Alamo Drafthouse! (Chicken wings and bottomless popcorn for the win!)

So save the date (MARCH 5TH!!!!), GET YOUR TICKETS, and hopefully I'll see you there!

HUDSON HORROR SHOW DOUBLE FEATURE @ THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE - SEPTEMBER 19TH!

HUDSON HORROR SHOW INVADES THE ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE WITH YET ANOTHER INSANE 35MM HORROR DOUBLE FEATURE!

Hudson Horror Show is a major reason why I continue to live and breathe. The bi-annual event brings together hardcore horror and exploitation film fans, and the lineups at each show are to die for. It's a smoothly run film fest that sells out ridiculously fast, and for good reason!

On Saturday, September 19th, Chris Alo and his Hudson Horror crew will be taking over Theater #4 at the immensely awesome ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE in Yonkers, NY. (GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!)

During their last epic team up, The Drafthouse and Hudson Horror Show team brought us a great triple feature of SLEEPAWAY CAMP, THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION, and BLOOD BEACH!

This time around, come to the Drafthouse and we'll crack open a few cold ones and “get hammered” with THE TOOLBOX MURDERS! Starring cult horror icon Cameron Mitchell (BLOOD & BLACK LACE, NIGHTMARE IN WAX), seventies teen heartthrob Wesley Eure (TV’s LAND OF THE LOST) and adult film superstar Kelly Nichols, THE TOOLBOX MURDERS ranks as one of the grimiest horror films ever made.  

Originally released in the spring of 1978, this somewhat forgotten slasher preceded both HALLOWEEN and FRIDAY THE 13th and features so many death scenes using tools, that it should have been sponsored by Craftsman!  Forget the 2004 remake by Tobe Hooper, the original film still packs quite a punch in the blood and nudity department and tonally is still creepy as hell and just generally “unsettling.”

In the UK this was one of the original “Video Nasties” which saw the movie banned in England for nearly 20 years. Now you can see it all, back on the big screen and from glorious 35mm film!

The second feature at the Alamo/Hudson Horror Show team up is an even more obscure title, the completely overlooked and underappreciated monster bash SPOOKIES! Originally lensed in 1984 under the title "Twisted Souls," the original film was unfinished and therefore, never released. 

Several years later a second director was brought in, along with an entirely new cast, to shoot new footage to expand the unfinished movie to feature length. With two separate movies, multiple story lines that never intersect and two different casts mashed together, SPOOKIES is completely nonsensical and utterly batshit crazy, but so much fun!

While the title was surely a cash-in on the GREMLINS and GHOULIES craze, this “R” rated monster movie has very little to do with either of the aforementioned films. Featuring zombies, dead girls in coffins, giant spiders, assorted demons, a Grim Reaper, and more, this completely ignored haunted house/creature feature is a dream come true for lovers of old school practical effects! 

This movie was barely released theatrically in the United States in 1988 as a mere 17 prints of this movie were struck in 35mm and sent to theaters. Never released on DVD or Blu Ray in the U.S. and practically unseen in theaters. (Though it became a popular staple of late night cable TV!) With one of those rare 17 prints now unearthed, the time has come to bask in the rubber monster madness that is SPOOKIES!

The Hudson Horror at the Alamo double feature will feature the usual trappings of our regular Hudson Horror Show: Classic drive in trailers, trivia questions, giveaways, and of course, some vendors with assorted horror merchandise for sale. Add that to the Alamo’s delicious food, drink specials and film fan friendliness and you have another winning combination. 

The show starts at 8:00 PM and tickets are a mere $12 bucks! They are on sale and going FAST! I myself secured tickets just yesterday, and discovered that half the seats are already claimed! So if you are serious about attending, get your butt in gear and order your tickets HERE, before you miss out on this once in a lifetime double feature!

Get your tickets, save the date, and prepare to have your brain melted by these two cinematic oddities! Hopefully I'll see you there!