In 1970, a doctor by the name of Robert J. White transplanted the heads of two rhesus monkeys. The procedure was a “success” since the animals were alive and responded to stimuli. They were able to move their heads and even bite a pencil. What’s worse, they could still feel and hear.

The only problem, aside from it being like some Twilight Zone hell for all the animals involved, was that the spinal column had to be severed in order to transplant the heads and could not be reconnected. This rendered the animals completely paralyzed from the neck down. White would go on to torture many more monkeys and get a lot of flack from animal rights activists and ethical scientists.

The Soviet Russian government were interested in White’s mad scientist idea and conducted some severed head experiments on dogs. They ended up sewing the head of a puppy onto another dog. They also kept the severed heads of dogs alive through tubes with pumped oxygen and blood. The footage of this is pretty fucked up.

The first dog heads to enjoy, if that word can be used, full cerebral function were those [of] transplantation whiz Vladimir Demikhov, in the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Demikhov minimized the time that the severed donor head was without oxygen by using “blood-vessel sewing machines.” He transplanted twenty puppy heads—actually, head-shoulders-lungs—and forelimbs units with an esophagus that emptied, untidily, onto the outside of the dog—onto fully grown dogs, to see what they would do and how long they would last (usually from two to six days, but in one case as long as twenty-nine days).

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Recently, Dr. Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon, announced that the spinal column could now be connected and that a successful head transplant on humans could be achieved. All he needs is about $12.8 million, 100 people, and 36 hours. The heads need to be removed and connected within an hour. Canavero states,

“This is no longer science fiction. This could be done today — now. If this operation is done it will provide a few people with a substantial amount of extra life,” he said. “The only reason I have not gone further is funding.”

via The Telegraph

Thankfully many in the scientific community do not agree with Canavero, calling his claims “bad science” and comparing his idea to something from a horror movie.

You there is an interesting documentary about all this called A. Head, B. Body.

For a related movie, watch:

Watching horror movies is a staple all year for most of us and triples on Halloween. With all this extra horror film viewing comes the lists!

Most disturbing, best Halloween 80’s nostalgia, best ever period! Since there are lists galore of best horror films to watch, and do feel free to post your favorites on the comments, I wanted to compile a list of best horror porn.

There are loads of horror porn films out there, mostly parodies of horror movies.

With porn parodies becoming more and more popular, this is definitely not a comprehensive list of all the horror porn out there. These are just some of my favorites:

1) Re-Penetrator (Burning Angel)

A parody of  Re-Animator, this is by far the best horror porn ever made. Once a hot dead chick, played by Joanna Angel, is penetrated with some glowing green goo by Dr. Breast, she becomes a sex-craving zombie that fucks the mad scientist to death. Filled with the bloodiest sex scenes I’ve ever seen, this movie won an AVN award which is the equivalent to winning an Oscar in the porn industry. Re-Penetrator is a Halloween horror porn classic.

2) Evil Head (Burning Angel)

There are a lot of Burning Angel movies on this list simply because they do make the best horror. It helps that this alt porn company is made up of fans of the genre. Tommy Pistol’s performance as Ash is a solid homage to Bruce Campbell. There is also a really hot dendrophilia scene.

3) XXXorcist (Burning Angel) 

Ok, I have to paste the plot synopsis from the DVD:

Mrs. MacFeel (Kylee Kross) looks on helplessly until she succumbs to the evil and becomes possessed as well. Father Merkin is forced to fight for his life…with his genitals.

Besides copious amounts of demonic possession, green vomit, head-spinning and bed-floating, the film features the unique religious sex toys from Divine Interventions, such as the “Jackhammer Jesus” dildo , the “Virgin Mary” dildo, and of course, the “Baby Jesus Butt-Plug.”

I am one of the few people who thought The Exorcist was boring, making XXXorist loads better than the original!

4) Porn of the Dead (Punk Productions)

I love porn titles. Half the fun of writing up these reviews are the porn puns. Porn of the Dead is the goriest porn film I’ve ever seen. It might actually tie with Re-Penetrator as best horror porn ever now that I think about it.

There’s a lot of zombie sex which is technically necrophilia. With zombies dying more than once and having more sex. It’s well put together and the plot is your typical zombie plot. There’s even a very…chewy scene that might ruin your hard-on or enhance it, depending on how fucked up you are.

5) The Human Sexipede (Evolution Erotica)

Of course there would be a Human Centipede porn parody! If it weren’t for the hardcore sex, I’d hardly be able to tell the difference between this and the original.

6) A Wet Dream on Elm Street (Tom Byron Pictures) vs. Nightmare on Dyke Street (Fresh Video) vs. A Nightmare on Twink Street (Bare Twinks)

I’ve only watched A Wet Dream on Elm Street but there are 7 parodies of this classic horror franchise!

7) Saw XXX Parody 

Saw A XXX Parody: The porn biz is in a panic. A killer is on the loose putting porn stars in diabolical sexual situations. The sole survivor (Amber Rayne), while being interviewed, gives a clue which delves you deeper into the story of the madman behind the puppet. It`s up to Detective Roush (James Bartholet) and his partner Detective Humpsey (Syren DeMer) to catch him in this all-star comedic thriller adaptation.

There is also a gay bondage porn version called Raw & Raw 2. 

8) Silence of the Lambs XXX Parody (Zero Tolerance) 

What makes this movie so great is the guy playing Hannibal. I was laughing so much, I forgot to masturbate.

9) The Texas Vibrator Massacre (Punx Productions)

An awesome homage to the original, The Texas Vibrator Massacre is shot with that grainy 70’s splatter look and has an actual story line. Instead of a chainsaw, Leatherface has a…you guessed it…vibrator! Rob Rotten is the Rob Zombie of porn. He sure loves him some gore sex!

10) Beyond Fucked: A Zombie Odyssey (Smash Pictures)

This horror porn isn’t a parody of a specific movie, just of zombie flicks in general. Here is the premise:

Bonnie Rotten stars in her first leading adult role as a bounty hunter and one of the last few survivors left in the zombie apocalypse. After a pill was invented to cure the world’s obesity dilemma turned everyone who’s taken the drug into crazed uncontrollable flesh eating psychos

11) Gayracula (HIS Video) vs. This Ain’t Dracula XXX (Hustler)

Gayracula is a classic 80’s gay porn with an original plot that really doesn’t make sense. It starts off in the 1700’s and ends up in the 80’s with Gayracula falling in love with some virgin twink. There is also rivalry sex with “Marquis de Suede” and Gayracula turns into a rubber bat. The special effects are very Ed Wood. BTW did you know Ed Wood’s last film was a 70’s horror porn called Necromania? I haven’t been able to obtain a copy.

Speaking of special effects, This Ain’t Dracula XXX comes in 3D! It’s based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula and if you check out the trailer, does a damn fine job of matching the nuance of the Coppola film.

12)  Halloweiner: Friday the Fuckteenth (ASG Entertainment)

I haven’t watched this one but it goes on the list because the name made me laugh. Here is the synopsis:

“Someone is playing a sick copy-cat joke at Crystal Lake… killing off some of your favorite porn stars one by one. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop these horny studs from busting creamy and hot loads. When these guys get together, any Friday is Halloweiner. They really get spooked when the hard cock meets the tight asshole. Are you ready for this?”

13)  Halloween XXX Porn Parody (Smash Pictures) vs. Official Halloween Parody (Zero Tolerance)

These two parodies came out at the same time. I remember that epic horror porn parody battle like it was yesterday. As you may have noticed, some movies have several porn parody versions but this was the first time 2 horror porn parodies were released simultaneously.

There was a bit of a rivalry going on of course as to which one was better. I’ve watched both of them and they were both enjoyable. For what it’s worth, XCritic gave Halloween XXX Porn Parody a glowing review, saying,

I have watched many parodies, take offs and recreations of mainstream movies, but very few deliver in the content of the story, script, sets, graphics, acting and sex that flows so naturally with each moment as “Halloween XXX Porn Parody”. This movie is not just your average “XXX Porn Parody”, but it is a movie in itself that will keep your attention during every moment and at times wondering what will happen next. If you enjoy porn with a script, mainstream video quality, fantastic acting and fucking great sex, then this is one you will enjoy. The movie even plays out its entirety. Smash Pictures, puts a different and unique twist as it has over ten minutes of the ending story part of it all, even after the last sex scene.

There is also a 3rd Halloween parody called This Isn’t Halloween… It’s A XXX Spoof! 

Dishonorable mention goes to The Twilight Zone Parody. It’s not even in black and white and has no “Twilight Zone” vibe at all. Someone needs to get on making a proper porn tribute to “The Twilight Zone!”

So I hoped I’ve helped add  some porn parody classics to your Halloween horror movie marathon rotation. Enjoy!

(photo by Danielle Tunstall)

I’m very pleased with how “American Horror Story: Freak Show” is coming along. The characters are fun, especially Twisty. You can be Twisty for Halloween! Here is a tutorial:

But not everyone is pleased with Twisty’s antics. The Clowns of America International think Twisty makes all clowns look bad, stating:

“They can take any situation no matter how good or pure and turn it into a nightmare. We do not support in any way, shape or form any medium that sensationalizes or adds to coulrophobia or ‘clown fear’.”

via IGN

I totally disagree, I think Twisty adds to coulrophilia, or “sexual arousal by clowns.” Besides, it’s not as if Twisty is the first murderous clown…

Tumblr user, b–salacious, carved this wonderful likeness of Twisty:

There is even a “Twisty loves Dandy” blog and lots of tumblr users are already fantasizing about them having sex. The pornographic fan art should be coming shortly. Rule 34 and all that.

See Clowns of America International? Even though a lot of people are freaked out by clowns, there are a lot of freaks turned on by them. Hence Sugar Weasel, the clown escort!

Yummy!

Here is some Bizarro breaking clown news:

• “Creepy Clown Sightings Spread Across America“
• “Crazy knife-wielding clowns terrorize small French town“
• “A mother and daughter claim they were attacked by sex toy-wielding clowns at a haunted house.”

And for fun, here’s a creepypasta for the road:

6 days until Halloween!

Although there aren’t as many female serial killers as there are male, there’s still quite an extensive list of killer women. Typically, female killers murder lovers, kids, or work as nurses and off their patients in some twisted “angel of mercy” syndrome. Some just do it because they’re sadistic.

Here is a list of some murderous women of history. I had to throw in a couple “classics” as well as some deadly females you may have never heard of before.

Marie Bosse was a Parisian fortune teller and poisoner who was burned as a witch in 1679. She was a part of the Poison Affair scandal where

“…prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoningand witchcraft. The scandal reached into the inner circle of the king. It led to the execution of 36 people.”

A well-known fortune teller in Paris, Bosse also had a side service of selling poison. During a party with a bunch of her fellow aristocrats, she revealed that she made her fortune by dealing deadly poison to rich people and would be able to retire soon with all the loot she was making.

Someone reported her to the cops who were already investigating the sale of poison in Paris. A lot of rich people were offing each other. After the wife of a cop was sent to buy poison from Bosse, who happily sold her some, Bosse was arrested. When she was arrested, it was revealed that she was having sex with everyone in her family. It was also revealed that there were a network of fortune tellers who were selling poison.

Bosse’s family were also sentenced to death.

Magdalena Solis, the “High Priestess of Blood,” was the head of a Mexican blood-drinking sex cult. She murdered at least 8 people but probably killed many more. She is considered one of the few women whose murders were sexually driven.

Bored with simple orgies, she began to demand human sacrifice. She devised a “blood ritual”: The sacrificed (which was always a dissenting member) was brutally beaten, burned, cut and maimed by all the members of the cult. Thereafter, blood-letting was practiced: The blood was deposited in a cup mixed with chicken blood (the ritual also included animal sacrifices and the use of narcotics such as marijuana and peyote).The victim was made to bleed to death.

Source

Solis was eventually caught and sentenced to 50 years in prison. Some of the members of her cult were killed in a shootout with police.

If you’re an “American Horror Story” fan, you’ll recognize Delphine LaLaurie from last season’s “Coven.”

The blood facials seem to just be creative liberties but Delphine did murder and torture black slaves in her mansion in New Orleans. A 70-year-old slave, who was kept chained to the stove in the kitchen, purposely started a fire in attempt to commit suicide, which lead police to discover the gruesome torture chamber.

As reported in the New Orleans Bee of April 11, 1834, bystanders responding to the fire attempted to enter the slave quarters to ensure that everyone had been evacuated. Upon being refused the keys by the Lalauries, the bystanders broke down the doors to the slave quarters and found “seven slaves, more or less horribly mutilated … suspended by the neck, with their limbs apparently stretched and torn from one extremity to the other”, who claimed to have been imprisoned there for some months.^[14]

Even slave owners have some moral standards, Delphine’s neighbors were horrified by her actions and a mob tried to destroy as much of the estate as they could. No formal charges were made against her. Delphine fled by boat with her husband, to Paris. The details of her death are unknown.

Isabel Cristina Torreão Pires da Silveira is a Brazilian cannibal serial killer who sold human meat pies with her husband and his mistress.

Three persons are under arrest a Brazilian in the state of Pernambuco for murder, having killed three women and eaten parts of their bodies, while the remainders were made into meat pies for sale to the public. Based on police reports, the Folha daily in Brazil noted that Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira (51), his wife Isabel CristinaTorreao Pires da Silveira (51), and his girlfriend Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva (25), committed the stunning crimes in Geranhuns and Olinda, some 200 miles from the city ofRecife on Brazil’s coast. The three accused criminals lived under the same roof.

Living with the macabre adults was a 5-year-old girl, who is believed to be the daughter of Jessica, a 17-year-old girl from Olinda who disappeared in 2008.  

Police Commissioner Demócrito de Oliveira of Garanhuns said in a press conference that “there may have been men among the victims,” but refused to provide further details so “not to cause panic.” The commissioner said that the trio is being held on charges of homicide, abduction, improper handling of human bodies, and fraud, as well as violations of the city health code.  According to commissioner Oliveira, Isabel da Silveira had sold meat pies, known as empanadas, stuffed with human flesh.

According to local police, the three murderers belong to an esoteric Brazilian sect that considers that human beings overpopulate the world, and thus practice cannibalism and bizarre rituals to supposedly cleanse the world of human beings. They said that they had heard ‘voices’ that gave orders to murder certain women who they believed to be evil. They were arrested on April 12.

An investigation into the activities of the trio began in March, when Jorge Negromonte daSilveira went before a notary to register his authorship of a book entitled ‘Revelations of schizophrenic,’ which he wrote in 2009 to describe the practices of his sect.

Negromonte Da Silveira describes in his book the death of Jessica, the mother of the surviving  child.  “While gazing at the lifeless body of the evil teenager, I feel relief. I grasped a razor blade and began to remove all of her skin and then divide it. I, Bel, and Jessica (name of the victim, whose identity was assumed by fellow cannibal BrunaOliveira da Silva) at the evil flesh as if it was part of a ritual purification. The rest we buried beneath the patio,” he recounted.

The remains of two women were discovered in the garden belonging to the alleged murderers. It is believed that these correspond to a woman who disappeared this year from Garanhus, while the other is believed to be young Jessica. In addition, the three suspects are being investigated for being also responsible for another five murders in Pernambuco. The two women disappeared when they accepted work as childcare workers, at rates far above the norm for this impoverished area of Brazil.
Regarding the health risks of consuming human meat, Brazilian authorities said that these are similar to those for eating any kind of meat. The public was advised to go to local clinics and hospitals should they show signs of vomiting, diarrhea or stomach cramps.

Via Spero News

Leonarda Cianciulli murdered 3 women and turned them into soap and cake. Her motive was to make human sacrifices in order to protect her favorite son who was about to become a soldier and fight in WWII. She was also said to be a fortune teller.

After she was caught, Cianciulli confessed to her crimes, stating:

I threw the pieces into a pot, added seven kilos of caustic soda, which I had bought to make soap, and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that I poured into several buckets and emptied in a nearby septic tank. As for the blood in the basin, I waited until it had coagulated, dried it in the oven, ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together. I made lots of crunchy tea cakes and served them to the ladies who came to visit, though Giuseppe and I also ate them.

Cianciulli died in an Italian criminal asylum in 1970.

(Santiago Caruso ~ “Bloody Countess”)

Elizabeth Bathory is by far the most notorious female serial killer of all time. A personal favorite of mine, I had to add her on here even though everyone knows who she is. There are so many depictions her in movies, music, and art. I’ve yet to see a good film about her though.Do you have any recommendations?

“The Bloody Countess” is known for murdering young women to maintain her youth and beauty in her home of Hungary. She was said to have bathed in the blood of virgins but none of this has ever been verified. She was accused of murdering at least 650 people during her trial. Here is one of the servant’s testimonies:

… a 12-year-old girl named Pola somehow managed to escape from the castle. But Dorka, aided by Helena Jo, caught the frightened girl by surprise and brought her forcibly back to Cachtice Castle. Clad only in a long white robe, Countess Elizabeth greeted the girl upon her return. The countess was in another of her rages. She advanced on the 12-year-old child and forced her into a kind of cage. This particular cage was built like a huge ball, too narrow to sit in, too low to stand in. Once the girl was inside, the cage was suddenly hauled up by a pulley and dozens of short spikes jutted into the cage. Pola tried to avoid being caught on the spikes, but Ficzko manoeuvered the ropes so that the cage shifted from side to side. Pola’s flesh was torn to pieces.

One accomplice testified that on some days Elizabeth had stark-naked girls laid flat on the floor of her bedroom and tortured them so much that one could scoop up the blood by the pailful afterwards, and so Elizabeth had her servants bring up cinders in order to cover the pools of blood. A young maid-servant who did not endure the tortures well and died very quickly was written out by the countess in her diary with the laconic comment ‘She was too small…’

At one point in her life Elizabeth Bathory was so sick that she could not move from her bed and could not find the strength to torture her miscreant servant girls… She demanded that one of her female servants be brought before her. Dorothea Szentes, a burly, strong peasant woman, dragged one of Elizabeth’s girls to her bedside and held her there. Elizabeth rose up on her bed, and, like a bulldog, the Countess opened her mouth and bit the girl first on the cheek. Then she went for the girl’s shoulders where she ripped out a piece of flesh with her teeth. After that, Elizabeth proceeded to bite the girl’s breasts.

Source

Bathory was imprisoned in Čachtice Castle where she died at the age of 54.

Bonus: Great movie montage music video about killer women in horror films!

5 days until Halloween!

I can’t believe it’s almost Halloween already. And I still have so much spooky shit to show you!

Looks like a normal old book but it is quite unique. Harvard University recently discovered one of their library books was bound in human leather! The book is called Des destinees de l’ame and is about souls and life after death. The maker of the book put a note inside explaining,

“I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman,” he wrote. “A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering.”

The Ekoi people make funeral ceremony masks out of human skin. This mask is on display at Ripley’s Believe it or Not! in San Antonio.

This UK site claims to illegally sell human leather products because,

“…human leather is the finest grain leather that is obtainable. It is free from defects and has the smallest grain size which makes it the smoothest, softest leather on Earth.”

Serial killer Ed Gein made a lot of objects from human skin. This is a list of all the human parts found in Gein’s home:

• Whole human bones and fragments^[20]
• wastebasket made of human skin^[21]
• Human skin covering several chair seats^[22]
• Skulls on his bedposts^[23]
• Female skulls, some with the tops sawn off^[24]
• Bowls made from human skulls^[21]
• A corset made from a female torso skinned from shoulders to waist^[22]
• Leggings made from human leg skin^[21]
• Masks made from the skin from female heads^[25]
• Mary Hogan’s face mask in a paper bag^[23]
• Mary Hogan’s skull in a box^[26]
• Bernice Worden’s entire head in a burlap sack^[27]
• Bernice Worden’s heart in a saucepan on the stove^[28]
• Nine vulvae in a shoe box^[28]
• A young girl’s dress and “the vulvas of two females judged to have been about fifteen years old”^[29]
• A belt made from female human nipples^[30]
• Four noses^[19]
• A pair of lips on a window shade drawstring^[19]
• A lampshade made from the skin of a human face^[19]
• Fingernails from female fingers

Gein became an inspiration for famous horror icons such as Buffalo Bill, Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Bloody Face from American Horror Story.

Norman Bates was sexy!

Speaking of horror, time for a Bizarro short film festival. Here are 3 short spooky videos to put you in the mood!

1) A little girl must perform an exorcism on her father with some help from someone on the phone.

2) A nice gory short about 6 friends who unleash a killer demon while playing with a Ouija board.

3) This creepy CGI short is about a man who can edit his memories. He injects a secret fluid from the brains of dead people and ends up being trapped in the mind of a dead prostitute.

Bonus: Did this post make you hungry? Try a delectable people pot pie!

4 days until Halloween.

(from a Humpty Dumpty horror graphic novel)

Gizmodo has a good article on Project MKultra. It’s pretty creepy.

As are vintage Halloween kids…

3 more days until Halloween!

Hand of a jeweled skeleton clutching the pommel of sword in Gutenzell.

(All photos courtesy of Paul Koudounaris)

Paul Koudounaris is paranormal catnip. Unexplained and weird phenomena gravitate towards him like death moths to a preternatural flame. He specializes in finding the most unique shrines to the dead which also sometimes end up finding him.

He has extensive knowledge of ossuaries, sex ghosts, charnel houses, weird history, demonic cats, death rituals, funeral rites, and of course, skeletal bling, among many other things. Between travelling to exotic locations, taking stunning pictures of the dead, he also gives lectures on the aforementioned subjects.

Paul was kind enough to answer a few questions about his unique line of work, paranormal experiences, as well as give some tips on how to buy a human skull!

How much is a human skull and how does one obtain one? I know it’s easier to get here in Thailand but you said the one in Chatuchak was insanely expensive. How many skulls do you currently own?

The one I wanted in Bangkok was insanely expensive, but that’s because it’s a kapala, so it’s sacred and from the Himalayas. More mundane skulls should be easier to find. Human skulls in general are quite expensive now and harder to get. Dealers in the USA used to get them cheap from places like Rajasthan or China, but those channels to my knowledge have been largely suspended. The cheapest place I know of to get human skulls is Bolivia.

In the cemetery general in La Paz, grave space is only leased, so it’s pretty much inevitable that at some point your distant relatives will stop paying and you’ll be evicted. At that point, the bones are supposed to be broken down and dumped in a mass grave, but the skulls are typically taken by the gravediggers and sold on the side. Cheap. One lady told me she had purchased three several years back for the equivalent of 12 US dollars.

I myself only own one human skull. I used to have several others. I’m not so much into human anatomy. Animal skulls are better looking and more dramatic, they have horns and other fun things. Human osteology is in comparison a bit boring.

Is there a blinged out skeleton or skull you’d like to have in your possession if money or legalities were not a factor?

Well sure, there are several. In fact, I was so obsessed with the jeweled skeletons that at one point, when I got home from photographing them in Germany, I decided to make my own–I took a dog skeleton that I had lying around, went down to the garment district and bought a bucket full of high quality rhinestones and covered it over. I also got a crown and scepter for it, and it sits in my living room in an antique crib.

For one brief moment I thought I might be able to get one of the real ones–I was visiting a church in Switzerland that had it in storage, and they definitely didn’t want it, and one of the church maintenance guys suggested maybe they should just give it to me to get rid of it. I told them I would definitely take it and make whatever arrangements were necessary, but the local bishop soon got involved and nixed it since, even though it was unwanted, it was nevertheless a sacred item that had been entrusted into the care of the parish.

Would you like to become a jeweled skeleton after you die?

Personally I have neither desire nor aversion to being a jeweled skeleton. I don’t really care what becomes of my remains after I die. People often seem to think that because I study and photograph all these fancy skeletons that I must want to be one–well, I love them and I am glad people once made them, but my personal sense of what is important in post-mortem care doesn’t really involve that. They were part of a spiritual system at one time, so my if I had to make a verdict it would be that if one only wants to creates such things for aesthetic rather than spiritual reasons, probably best to not since lacking the spirit they I suspect be innately inferior.

Have you ever been cursed by a skeleton you’ve taken a picture of or felt like they’ve become upset for you being there?

Cursed–well not cursed, but there was one particularly notable incident. The first time I went down to Bolivia to document the Fiesta de las  Ñatitas, I visited a private home of a woman who had several miracle working skulls. I interviewed her and asked if I could take photos, which she said was fine.

What kind of miracles? Whose skulls are they?

They come from the cemetery or are donated, no one knows whose skulls they are. But the identity of the living person is irrelevant. In Aymara belief, a person’s soul is made up of different aspects that all have different identities, and one of those identities will contact the owner after death, so it’s not really the person who was living, since that person was a composite.

Not to get too sidetracked into the technical aspects, but I took all the photos on film–it was nearly pitch black, and film doesn’t care how long an exposure you use, whereas if you really want to burn out the sensor on an expensive digital camera, just sit around doing a bunch of 30 second exposures, plus the pictures will look terrible in addition.

So I did these photos on both 35mm and medium format film. The latter I had developed in La Paz, the former I brought back with me to develop here. That film that was developed in La Paz was a real treasure, because it was something no outsider had seen before, and being medium format it would print huge and beautiful. I carried it in its own box on my lap on the plane back–like I said, it was a treasure. So I got home, went to bed, and I heard a voice saying “Where’s Ana?” I jumped out of bed, but there was no one there. I figured I must be delirious after a very long trip. So I went back to bed, but there was a loud thump in the center of the floor.

Again I turned on the lights–nothing. Like I said, I figured I must be delirious. I went to sleep, woke up in the morning . . . and the box containing the film was gone. It had vanished from my living room, just disappeared. I searched everywhere, called the airline and the airport, but at the same time I knew for a fact that it had come home with me and I placed it on the floor in the middle of the room . . . and that’s when things all came together. Wait, in the center of the room, that was exactly where I had heard that loud thump. And the name Ana–that was the name of the woman whose house I had taken the photos in. Weird. Kind of creepy. And the film was gone.

So I still had the roll of 35mm film, and I took it to a lab to be developed, I told them to do it asap. The guy calls me back a couple hours later and told me there had been a “problem”–the film had started to burn. What???? He said he had no explanation. I went down there and he showed it to me, this burned, charred film strip, melted throughout except for two images at the very start, which is all I had left and used them for a magazine article I wrote.

Well, the next year when I was in Bolivia I went back to Ana’s house, and told her this story. She said it was because I hadn’t gotten permission from the skulls to take the photos, so they had decided to essentially vacate, except apparently for the one in the first two frames who was apparently OK with it despite my lapse. I told her, but wait, I *did* ask permission, I asked you if it was OK, I wouldn’t have taken the photos without your permission. She replied, yes, I had asked *her* permission, but I had neglected to ask the permission of the individual skulls as well, which was insulting to them. She advised me to take more photos but ask their permission first. So I did exactly that–and every single one came out perfectly.

Paul K’s latest book, Heavenly Bodies is out now.

His next book, Memento Mori, will be released in the Spring. He is also working on a book about pet cemeteries.

You can view more of Paul K’s exquisite photography at Empire De La Mort and his Facebook page.

3 Days Until Halloween!

Did you know that in the film, The Exorcist, the entire set of the MacNeil residence caught on fire except for Reagan’s room? A priest was brought in several times to bless the set but weird shit kept happening. Linda Blair’s harness kept breaking so she really was injured as she was pretending to be possessed by the devil. 9 people connection to the film died.

“Rosemary’s Baby” (1968). The horror classic was considered cursed by its producer, William Castle — who had to yield the coveted directing job to a young Roman Polanski. Lead Mia Farrow, a vegetarian, had to put up with eating liver through the shoot, and to add insult to injury, reportedly got her divorce papers from then-hubby Frank Sinatra halfway through the film. A film composer died of a blood clot, similar to another character’s fate in the movie. Castle later almost died from uremic poisoning. The far greater horror, of course, was the slaughter of Polanski’s family and guests by Charles Manson’s cult — who were actually after the home’s former owner, music producer Terry Melcher.

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The laundry list of misfortunes to befall the cast and crew of “The Omen,” Richard Donner’s classic chiller concerning a preschool-aged hellion with a distinctive birthmark on his scalp, is both creepy and considerable. And like the plagued production of “The Exorcist,” “The Curse of the Omen” (also the name of a 2005 British documentary film on the topic) has left many superstitious folk wondering if Old Scratch himself had something to do with it.

Just a few of incidents revolving around the famously jinxed production: On three separate occasions, star Gregory Peck, executive producer Mace Neufeld and scriptwriter David Seltzer were all aboard planes that were struck or almost struck by lightning; another plane that the crew planned to use for aerial filming but was chartered last minute to another client crashed, killing everyone onboard; Donner’s hotel was bombed by the IRA during filming; the day after the film’s safari park scene was filmed, an animal handler was mauled by a lion while animal handlers involved in the cemetery scene were attacked by dogs; Peck’s son committed suicide several weeks before filming commenced; and several crew members were involved in a head-on car accident during the first day of filming.

The most unsettling incident associated with “The Omen,” however, came several months after the shoot had wrapped and the film had premiered to critical and commercial acclaim. While working on the film “A Bridge Too Far” in the Netherlands, Special Effects Director John Richardson and his assistant, Liz Moore, were involved in a serious car accident. While Richardson survived, Moore was decapitated. Tragic for sure, but also incredibly creepy – or insanely coincidental – as Richardson was responsible for one of more gruesome scenes in “The Omen” in which David Warner’s character is beheaded by a sheet of glass. And as legend has it, at the scene of the accident was a road marker reading: “Ommen: 66.6 km.” While that tidbit is just a touch hard to believe, the accident was indeed verified as having occurred on a Friday the 13th, 1976.

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Do you know what you want done with your corpse when you die? As the last post showed, you can become a blinged out skeleton. You can also get shot up into the stratosphere, have a viking funeral, become a precious stone, a tree, or have monks break your body a part in a Buddhist ritual and feed you to the vultures.

The Tibetan Sky Burial is my ideal way to have my body disposed of. Since there is a lot of political unrest in Tibet, getting my dead body there wouldn’t be ethical so I’d have to have the Sky Burial recreated somewhere else with other animals eating me. I could also just be left to rot by a tree in Bali. There are many options for your corpse.

It’s Devil’s Night Bizarros! Time to play some pranks, set fire to shit, and hail Satan! You can even name your cat, dog, or kid, after a demon.

Speaking of animals, here are 6 animals who surely came from the depths of hell or were at least named after The Dark Lord.

1) Ayam Cemani (Gallus gallus domesticus)

This Indonesian chicken is the blackest animal in the world. Even its bones and meat are black!

2) Jacob Sheep (Ovis aries)

Baphomet incarnate, Jacob sheep can have 2-6 horns and are aggressive enough that they are used as guards in farms.

3) Satanic Leaf Gecko (Uroplatus phantasticus)

Found only in Madagascar, these geckos look a lot like dragons.

Aside from looking cool, they don’t really do anything demonic. They just use their cool tail which looks like a dead rotting leaf to lure prey.

4) Satanic Nightjar (Eurostopodus diabolicus)

The common and scientific names of this species refer to a local superstition: it is associated with a “wet” plopping sound, repeated twice, that may be heard in the nighttime in its habitat. Locals believe this bird to be a demonic entity that tears the eyes of sleeping people out, hence the sound. ^[2]

5) Anopheles Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae)

Why is a mosquito on this list? Because it’s the deadliest animal in the world. This little bugger spreads malaria which kills over 600,000 people a year!

 6) Blackdevil fish (Melanocetus johnsonii)

These deepsea anglerfish are monstrous creatures.

“The female lurks in the dark, drawing in prey with her glowing lure, while the male attaches to her like a blood-sucking parasite. Females can swallow prey larger than their own bodies.”

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Bonus: Old school documentary on Satan and demonic possession with Boyd Rice singing “Total War” in the intro! A classic!

It’s Dia de Los Muertos already, I was too busy getting wasted and putting on zombie makeup to make a post on Halloween proper but here’s my belated Halloween gift to you. A bombardment of creepy pics!

You should play this song while viewing them.

Bonus: My friend sent me this awesome video for Halloween that another friend described as a “horror snuff film.” This should have been V/H/S Viral instead of that crap it ended up being. It’s creepy and has some hot sex!

Hope you had an amazing Halloween and enjoyed this year’s Halloween Chaos Countdown. What did you dress up as?

Hello Bizarros! I’m working less and feeling the Halloween buzzzz. This means that Twisted Tuesdays will return next week, followed by the annual Chaos Countdown. So tune in because I have a lot of weird, crazy, creepy shit to share with you!

In the meantime, have a Bizarro Photoblast to whet your whistle!

It’s September Bizarros! That means it’s time to get serious with the Halloween spirit. So grab your pumpkin spice dildos and get ready!

If this music video of Tim Curry dressed as an 80’s vampire and channeling David Bowie doesn’t put you in the Halloween mood, nothing will! I’ve never watched The Worst Witch, but apparently it’s pretty dull aside from this incredible music video that comes out of nowhere.

As you might have noticed, I watch a lot of youtube. One of my favorite youtube channels is “Ask a Mortician” where a mortician answers cool questions about death, from death shits to foreskin wedding rings. I love Caitlin!

Typing of death, here is my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street death of all time. It involves twink Johnny Depp, a bed, and a lot of blood! Thanks Wes Craven for giving the world one of the best monsters of all time and inspiring some inventive kills.

Nothing says Halloween like Vincent Price dressed as a polar bear, in a wine cooler commercial. Nothing.

I’ve been binge watching Key & Peele lately because they’re hilarious. It’s great to see comedy taken to its full artistic potential with social commentary and theatrical silliness. Key & Peele are talented as fuck. Their range of characters is impressive. I’m sad that this will be their last season but they put out some amazing comedic content that I’ve been watching over and over again. Their “Sexy Vampires” sketch is a must watch. It brings up the serious question of vampire stereotyping in films.

Watching horror movies is the best way to get into the spirit of the season. Blood for Dracula is on my Halloween rotation every year and still makes me laugh. I love Udo Kier so much. In this film, he’s is a sexy vampire who is having some trouble finding virgin blood to keep him alive. I’m sure I’ve posted this before since this is such a classic movie with one of my favorite movie lines of all time:

You can watch the full movie here for now:

So Bizarros, what are your favorite things to do to get you into the Halloween spirit? Any favorite movies or creepy places in your area?

It’s Halloween, which is probably our favorite holiday here at Bizarro Central. We hope you all have fun tonight dressing up as razor-bladed apples and piles of dirty laundry. One bizarro fan celebrated by creating her own costume based on Polly from Carlton Mellick III’s Quicksand House.

It looks amazing! Here’s hoping that next Halloween we’ll have more people dress up as their favorite characters from bizarro books.

It’s October and Madeleine Swann wants weird stuff for Halloween! Send her links, videos, or other strange, spooky things via email (evilpixie.madeleine@gmail.com) and she’ll react to it in an upcoming video on her YouTube channel! See her video request below. This is a lady who wants to be weirded out! Help her out, bizarros!

It’s October and Madeleine Swann wants weird stuff for Halloween! Send her links, videos, or other strange, spooky things via email (evilpixie.madeleine@gmail.com) and she’ll react to it in an upcoming video on her YouTube channel! See her video request below. This is a lady who wants to be weirded out! Help her out, bizarros!

It’s Halloween, which is probably our favorite holiday here at Bizarro Central. We hope you all have fun tonight dressing up as razor-bladed apples and piles of dirty laundry. One bizarro fan celebrated by creating her own costume based on Polly from Carlton Mellick III’s Quicksand House.

It looks amazing! Here’s hoping that next Halloween we’ll have more people dress up as their favorite characters from bizarro books.

by Tracy Vanity

It’s September Bizarros! That means it’s time to get serious with the Halloween spirit. So grab your pumpkin spice dildos and get ready!

If this music video of Tim Curry dressed as an 80’s vampire and channeling David Bowie doesn’t put you in the Halloween mood, nothing will! I’ve never watched The Worst Witch, but apparently it’s pretty dull aside from this incredible music video that comes out of nowhere.

As you might have noticed, I watch a lot of YouTube. One of my favorite YouTube channels is “Ask a Mortician” where a mortician answers cool questions about death, from death shits to foreskin wedding rings. I love Caitlin!

Typing of death, here is my favorite Nightmare on Elm Street death of all time. It involves twink Johnny Depp, a bed, and a lot of blood! Thanks Wes Craven for giving the world one of the best monsters of all time and inspiring some inventive kills.

Nothing says Halloween like Vincent Price dressed as a polar bear, in a wine cooler commercial. Nothing.

I’ve been binge watching Key & Peele lately because they’re hilarious. It’s great to see comedy taken to its full artistic potential with social commentary and theatrical silliness. Key & Peele are talented as fuck. Their range of characters is impressive. I’m sad that this will be their last season but they put out some amazing comedic content that I’ve been watching over and over again. Their “Sexy Vampires” sketch is a must watch. It brings up the serious question of vampire stereotyping in films.

Watching horror movies is the best way to get into the spirit of the season. Blood for Dracula is on my Halloween rotation every year and still makes me laugh. I love Udo Kier so much. In this film, he’s is a sexy vampire who is having some trouble finding virgin blood to keep him alive. I’m sure I’ve posted this before since this is such a classic movie with one of my favorite movie lines of all time:

Full film here, after an age verification:

So Bizarros, what are your favorite things to do to get you into the Halloween spirit? Any favorite movies or creepy places in your area?

by Tracy Vanity

Do you have any favorite creepy comics?

by Tracy Vanity

Watching horror movies is a staple all year for most of us and triples on Halloween. With all this extra horror film viewing comes the lists!

Most disturbing, best Halloween 80’s nostalgia, best ever period! Since there are lists galore of best horror films to watch, and do feel free to post your favorites on the comments, I wanted to compile a list of best horror porn.

There are loads of horror porn films out there, mostly parodies of horror movies.

With porn parodies becoming more and more popular, this is definitely not a comprehensive list of all the horror porn out there. These are just some of my favorites:

1) Re-Penetrator (Burning Angel)

A parody of  Re-Animator, this is by far the best horror porn ever made. Once a hot dead chick, played by Joanna Angel, is penetrated with some glowing green goo by Dr. Breast, she becomes a sex-craving zombie that fucks the mad scientist to death. Filled with the bloodiest sex scenes I’ve ever seen, this movie won an AVN award which is the equivalent to winning an Oscar in the porn industry. Re-Penetrator is a Halloween horror porn classic.

2) Evil Head (Burning Angel)

There are a lot of Burning Angel movies on this list simply because they do make the best horror. It helps that this alt porn company is made up of fans of the genre. Tommy Pistol’s performance as Ash is a solid homage to Bruce Campbell. There is also a really hot dendrophilia scene.

3) XXXorcist (Burning Angel) 

Ok, I have to paste the plot synopsis from the DVD:

Mrs. MacFeel (Kylee Kross) looks on helplessly until she succumbs to the evil and becomes possessed as well. Father Merkin is forced to fight for his life…with his genitals.

Besides copious amounts of demonic possession, green vomit, head-spinning and bed-floating, the film features the unique religious sex toys from Divine Interventions, such as the “Jackhammer Jesus” dildo , the “Virgin Mary” dildo, and of course, the “Baby Jesus Butt-Plug.”

I am one of the few people who thought The Exorcist was boring, making XXXorist loads better than the original!

4) Porn of the Dead (Punk Productions)

I love porn titles. Half the fun of writing up these reviews are the porn puns. Porn of the Dead is the goriest porn film I’ve ever seen. It might actually tie with Re-Penetrator as best horror porn ever now that I think about it.

There’s a lot of zombie sex which is technically necrophilia. With zombies dying more than once and having more sex. It’s well put together and the plot is your typical zombie plot. There’s even a very…chewy scene that might ruin your hard-on or enhance it, depending on how fucked up you are.

5) The Human Sexipede (Evolution Erotica)

Of course there would be a Human Centipede porn parody! If it weren’t for the hardcore sex, I’d hardly be able to tell the difference between this and the original.

6) A Wet Dream on Elm Street (Tom Byron Pictures) vs. Nightmare on Dyke Street (Fresh Video) vs. A Nightmare on Twink Street (Bare Twinks)

I’ve only watched A Wet Dream on Elm Street but there are 7 parodies of this classic horror franchise!

7) Saw XXX Parody 

aw A XXX Parody: The porn biz is in a panic. A killer is on the loose putting porn stars in diabolical sexual situations. The sole survivor (Amber Rayne), while being interviewed, gives a clue which delves you deeper into the story of the madman behind the puppet. It`s up to Detective Roush (James Bartholet) and his partner Detective Humpsey (Syren DeMer) to catch him in this all-star comedic thriller adaptation.

There is also a gay bondage porn version called Raw & Raw 2. 

8) Silence of the Lambs XXX Parody (Zero Tolerance) 

What makes this movie so great is the guy playing Hannibal. I was laughing so much, I forgot to masturbate.

9) The Texas Vibrator Massacre (Punx Productions)

An awesome homage to the original, The Texas Vibrator Massacre is shot with that grainy 70’s splatter look and has an actual story line. Instead of a chainsaw, Leatherface has a…you guessed it…vibrator! Rob Rotten is the Rob Zombie of porn. He sure loves him some gore sex!

10) Beyond Fucked: A Zombie Odyssey (Smash Pictures)

This horror porn isn’t a parody of a specific movie, just of zombie flicks in general. Here is the premise:

Bonnie Rotten stars in her first leading adult role as a bounty hunter and one of the last few survivors left in the zombie apocalypse. After a pill was invented to cure the world’s obesity dilemma turned everyone who’s taken the drug into crazed uncontrollable flesh eating psychos

11) Gayracula (HIS Video) vs. This Ain’t Dracula XXX (Hustler)

Gayracula is a classic 80’s gay porn with an original plot that really doesn’t make sense. It starts off in the 1700’s and ends up in the 80’s with Gayracula falling in love with some virgin twink. There is also rivalry sex with “Marquis de Suede” and Gayracula turns into a rubber bat. The special effects are very Ed Wood. BTW did you know Ed Wood’s last film was a 70’s horror porn called Necromania? I haven’t been able to obtain a copy.

Speaking of special effects, This Ain’t Dracula XXX comes in 3D! It’s based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula and if you check out the trailer, does a damn fine job of matching the nuance of the Coppola film.

12)  Halloweiner: Friday the Fuckteenth (ASG Entertainment)

I haven’t watched this one but it goes on the list because the name made me laugh. Here is the synopsis:

“Someone is playing a sick copy-cat joke at Crystal Lake… killing off some of your favorite porn stars one by one. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop these horny studs from busting creamy and hot loads. When these guys get together, any Friday is Halloweiner. They really get spooked when the hard cock meets the tight asshole. Are you ready for this?”

13)  Halloween XXX Porn Parody (Smash Pictures) vs. Official Halloween Parody (Zero Tolerance)

These two parodies came out at the same time. I remember that epic horror porn parody battle like it was yesterday. As you may have noticed, some movies have several porn parody versions but this was the first time 2 horror porn parodies were released simultaneously.

There was a bit of a rivalry going on of course as to which one was better. I’ve watched both of them and they were both enjoyable. For what it’s worth, XCritic gave Halloween XXX Porn Parody a glowing review, saying,

I have watched many parodies, take offs and recreations of mainstream movies, but very few deliver in the content of the story, script, sets, graphics, acting and sex that flows so naturally with each moment as “Halloween XXX Porn Parody”. This movie is not just your average “XXX Porn Parody”, but it is a movie in itself that will keep your attention during every moment and at times wondering what will happen next. If you enjoy porn with a script, mainstream video quality, fantastic acting and fucking great sex, then this is one you will enjoy. The movie even plays out its entirety. Smash Pictures, puts a different and unique twist as it has over ten minutes of the ending story part of it all, even after the last sex scene.

There is also a 3rd Halloween parody called This Isn’t Halloween… It’s A XXX Spoof! 

Dishonorable mention goes to The Twilight Zone Parody. It’s not even in black and white and has no “Twilight Zone” vibe at all. Someone needs to get on making a proper porn tribute to “The Twilight Zone!”

So I hoped I’ve helped add  some porn parody classics to your Halloween horror movie marathon rotation. Enjoy!

by Tracy Vanity

I’m very pleased with how “American Horror Story: Freak Show” is coming along. The characters are fun, especially Twisty. You can be Twisty for Halloween! Here is a tutorial:

But not everyone is pleased with Twisty’s antics. The Clowns of America International think Twisty makes all clowns look bad, stating:

“They can take any situation no matter how good or pure and turn it into a nightmare. We do not support in any way, shape or form any medium that sensationalizes or adds to coulrophobia or ‘clown fear’.”

via IGN

I totally disagree, I think Twisty adds to coulrophilia, or “sexual arousal by clowns.” Besides, it’s not as if Twisty is the first murderous clown.

There is even a “Twisty loves Dandy” blog and lots of tumblr users are already fantasizing about them having sex. The pornographic fan art should be coming shortly. Rule 34 and all that.

See Clowns of America International? Even though a lot of people are freaked out by clowns, there are a lot of freaks turned on by them. Hence Sugar Weasel, the clown escort!

Yummy!

Here is some Bizarro breaking clown news:

• “Creepy Clown Sightings Spread Across America“
• “Crazy knife-wielding clowns terrorize small French town“
• “A mother and daughter claim they were attacked by sex toy-wielding clowns at a haunted house.”

And for fun, here’s a creepypasta for the road: