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Top 10 Horror Movies: Jon Dobyns of Twitch The Ripper

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Jon Dobyns of the electronic band Twitch The Ripper has sent us his Top 10 Horror Films and, well, all I can say is wow! This is a true horror fan that has some very obscure and very important picks listed below. Make sure to check out their website to hear stream two songs off of their upcoming debut LP ‘Bodiless’. The album does not have an official release date yet but expect it later this year, sometime in the fall. You can also sign up to receive a FREE sampler from the band. The sampler has two songs off of the ‘Bodiless’ LP and 15 lucky packages will contain a free Twitch The Ripper t-shirt! Honestly, how can you go wrong? No matter what, you get free stuff. Gotta love it. But anyways, make sure to check after the jump for this incredible Top 10 Horror Movie list from Jon Dobyns of Twitch The Ripper!

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1) Freaks
It’s hard to choose an all time favorite film, but if I had to I’d choose Tod Browning’s “Freaks”. Nothing is scarier than real life horror. A true, classic exploitation film from 1932 that uses real circus folk. I’m sure the cinematography and the era add to its genuine creepiness, but you can’t deny the long lasting effect it has left. The scene at the wedding ceremony when they try initiating Cleopatra is completely unsettling. I love this movie so much, TTR made a shirt based on what they did to Cleopatra as they turned her into half duck.
2) Buio Omega
One of my all time favorite horror films, also known as Beyond The Darkness. We’ve watched this film at rehearsal and during studio sessions hundreds of times. The story of a taxidermist and his wife is secretly killed by his crazy housekeeper. This is a movie you have to see. There is one scene where he is in bed with a woman, and he lifts up the covers on the other bed to make his wife visible, to stare at her ( he dug up his wife after her burial, drained her body of her organs and keeps her in the house ). And he and his house keeper chop up someone and throw them in an acid bath!
3) Frankenstein
Not just one of the best horror films, one of the best films in cinema. The scene where the Frankenstein monster picks up the little girl, throws her in the pond as if she would float like a flower, then kills her, still holds an immense amount of power.
4) Black Sunday
The Mario Bava movie. Black Sunday is nothing short of a masterpiece. This is my comfort movie. The gothic airiness that was captured on this film will never be replicated.
5) Blood And Black Lace
I love giallos, and this is the giallo. Mario Bava has an amazing eye for color, whether it be the brilliant lighting or the clothing on all 60’s models. This is a stylish masterpiece. I would love to recreate the tub scene for a video one day.
6) The Howling
Picking my favorite werewolf movie was difficult. The Wolfman and An American Werewolf in London are both timeless in my eyes, but I will have to go with The Howling. I prefer the dark, brooding atmosphere and it has Dee Wallace and Tom Atkins! Top notch transformation for the time, and it has a great story with the underground community of wolves trying to co exist. If you disagree, then go watch Teen Wolf on ABC Family.
7) Maniac
If you haven’t seen this film, go buy it right now from blue-underground.com. Tom Savini does all make up and special effects so you know what you are getting into. This movie has the infamous shotgun to face explosion scene. Stellar acting job by Joe Spinell. He plays a creep better than anyone. Taking the scalps from his victims and putting them on his mannequins, and speaks to them as if they were his mother.  Just buy it and thank me later.
8) Tenebrae
One of my favorite giallos. I know when Argento Fans talk about their favorite films it’s either Deep Red or Suspiria, but I choose Tenebrae.  Great trick ending and personally think it’s his most violent, gory film. This movie poster was also a TTR shirt at one time. Did I mention John Saxon is one of the stars?
9) A Blade in The Dark
By far the best Lamberto Bava film. There is something about the atmosphere in this movie that makes me feel uneasy after it has ended. The bathroom scene with the knife through the hand and the bag over the head is a work of art, even though those ideas were derived from his father.
10) House on the Edge of the Park
This movie is one of the most wild movies I have ever seen. You know Director Ruggero Deodato from Cannibal Holocaust, but I think House On The Edge Of The Park is more twisted. Actor David Hess steps up his maniacal duties and makes his performance in Last House on The Left seem PG. There are still I scenes that make me say, “Oh my god”. The great clothes, and music from the late 70’s/early 80’s atmosphere is an added plus.
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‘The Lost Boys’ Musical Extends Broadway Run With North American Tour Set for Spring 2028

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The Lost Boys: A New Musical officially kicked off on Broadway last month, and Deadline now reports that the show’s Broadway run has been extended into next year.

The show was originally set to run through November, but Deadline reports that The Lost Boys: A New Musical “has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 2027.”

The news comes in the wake of The Lost Boys: A New Musical becoming the most Tony-nominated musical of the season with twelve nominations including Best Musical.

Additionally, “The Lost Boys will launch a North American National Tour in Spring 2028, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced later.”

The Lost Boys: A New Musical is of course an adaptation of the 1987 horror classic from director Joel Schumacher, with the cast including Ali Louis Bourzgui as lead vampire David (originally played by Kiefer Sutherland), Maria Wirries as Star (originally played by Jami Gertz), and LJ Benet as the soon-to-be-turned Michael (originally played by Jason Patric).

The horror musical’s cast also includes Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson, Benjamin Pajak as Sam Emerson, Paul Alexander Nolan as Max, Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog, Miguel Gil as Edgar Frog, Brian Flores as Marko, Sean Grandillo as Dwayne, and Dean Maupin as Paul.

The Lost Boys: A New Musical is Directed by Michael Arden, featuring Music and Lyrics by The Rescues, Book by David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, Story by James Jeremias & Janice Fischer, and Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait & Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.

When a mother and her two teenage sons move to Santa Carla in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family’s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging.

As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality: When night falls, Michael’s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.

Joel Schumacher directed the original The Lost Boys vampire movie in 1987, wherein two brothers move to a new town and discover that the area is a haven for vampires.

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