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A lit­tle break from the usual DVD and CD news to announce a unique inter­net hap­pen­ing: Your Humble Reviewer has made his pod­cast­ing debut as a guest on TheAvod.  If you aren’t famil­iar with this show, it’s an excel­lent, witty affair in which TheDivemistress and Count Vardulon dis­sect hor­ror films new and old in an irrev­er­ent yet intel­li­gent style.  Their finely-honed blend of ban­ter and insights makes for con­sis­tently enter­tain­ing listening.

This week, Your Humble Reviewer was allowed to crash the party and sup­ply a topic of his own, “The Three Worst Modern Horror Remakes.”  The selec­tions dis­cussed are House Of Wax, The Amityville Horror and Zombieween (a.k.a. Rob Zombie’s infa­mous attempt at remak­ing Halloween).  Everyone involved threw out their best crit­i­cal barbs and the result is a fairly fast-moving gabfest that cov­ers a lot of ter­ri­tory in 83 minutes.

If you’re inter­ested in check­ing it out, here is the direct link to the podcast:

http://theavod.blogspot.com/2010/06/75-have-you-seen-tourist-trap.html

You are also encour­aged to visit Zombots! and Castle Vardulon, the blogs for TheAvod’s hosts:

http://zombots.blogspot.com/

http://www.vardulon.com/

Happy lis­ten­ing (and reading),

Your Humble Reviewer

(Special Pre-Amazon Links Note: it is rec­om­mended that you do not pur­chase any of the lousy remakes men­tioned above.  If you must watch them, wait for them to pop up on cable or rent them as cheaply as pos­si­ble.  Instead, the fol­low­ing links are devoted to the supe­rior orig­i­nal films)