Feeling a Little Crabby

I'll be reviewing the Blu-ray release of Island Claws for an upcoming issue of SCREEM magazine, a piece that will include comments from two of the film's stars. In advance of that, I thought I'd share a few images from the film's various marketing campaigns that I stumbled across.

First up is the VHS cover art, which was re-used for the new Scorpion Blu-ray.

Then there's this poster image, which appears to be for the overseas, Spanish-language video release.

And finally, this mysterious image that I found in a chat room that may have been from some pre-release promotional material, sporting a completely different title.

My Island Claws coverage will be in the spring issue of SCREEM.

Trailer of the Week: Where Evil Lives (1991)

To answer the question, "Did Claude Akins ever appear in a regional horror film?" we present this Florida obscurity that was finally released on DVD in 2012 by Troma. Shot in Stuart, Fla., on 16mm as Trilogy of Fear, this horror anthology failed to find a distributor during the dark days of the early 1990s when the fright film market bottomed out.

You can read more about it here and here. Watch the original promo below, along with Troma's revamped trailer.

I'm Dreaming of a White Yeti

A highlight of the most recent "snowpocalypse" coverage (for me, at least) was the image of a local prankster wandering the streets of Somerville in a Yeti costume during the storm. You can read The Boston Yeti's Twitter feed here.

I don't know if The Boston Yeti is related to his Massachusetts neighbors, Winterbeast or Sasqua, but he bares more than a passing resemblance to some of our other favorite regional horror cryptids. See below.

Trailer of the Week: NATAS: The Reflection (1983)

This weird western from Arizona is the one and only directing credit for bit player Jack Dunlap. I used to see it on video store shelves pretty frequently back in the VHS days, but it has since dropped off the map. There's another trailer, for the Elvira-hosted edition of the tape on Thriller Video, here.