According to IMDB, I'm up 96% in popularity this week. Oh my.

When you make horror movies, they truly do live forever (for better or worse, sometimes, it's true). Alas... THE TRIPPER continues its run on Showtime while DARKNESS FALLS returns to pay cable (ch-ching!) with a nice run on STARZ and STARZHD. There's no HD version of DF so I'm assuming this means "widescreen" to most.

Your market's times might differ. These are taken from my New York City IMDB listings page.

Anyway, check 'em out and help support writers' residuals -- a worthy cause this holiday season!

An afternoon swing by Ain't It Cool News delivered terrible news. Stan Winston is dead and that's just horrible.

I had a chance to tour Stan's creature shop during and after their work re-designing the Tooth Fairy on DARKNESS FALLS. I've been on many movie sets and to every sort of fan convention imaginable. I've been to Disney World and Six Flags, World Series clinchers and ticker tape parades. But I don't think I've ever seen anything cooler than Stan Winston's creature shop, up close and personal.

I only got to meet Stan a couple of times, but they each had that sort of charge I can only associate with the times I've met Bill Clinton and Stan Lee. A fucking giant of his profession and an old school movie maker and innovator.

My thoughts are with his friends and family.

Check out Stan Winston's IMDB profile for a list of his many startling and visionary achievements.