Don’t Let The Riverbeast Get You! [FILM REVIEW]
Jun30

Don’t Let The Riverbeast Get You! [FILM REVIEW]

Posted By on Jun 30, 2013 in Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Films, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

Neil (Matt Farley) was a tutor who lived in the ubiquitous berg of Rivertown, USA. Returning from a self-imposed exile, he arrives to find that he has become the laughing stock of the town because of his alleged Riverbeast sightings, earning him the nickname “RB.” He resumes his life by moving in with his godmother and best friend, Teddy (Tom Scalzo), whom he constantly seems to get in fights with. He begins his vocation again by tutoring a young girl named Allie (Sharon Scalzo) who is very intrigued…

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The Hunger [FILM REVIEW]
Jun16

The Hunger [FILM REVIEW]

Posted By on Jun 16, 2013 in Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Films, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

If you haven’t guessed already, this is one of the essential Goth films. It’s ridiculously chic, it has vampires in it, and it’s arty; not to mention the fact that none other than Bauhaus appears at the very start of the film, performing the quintessential Goth song “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”. That is pretty much as Goth as it gets.

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The Goth Detective [ARTICLE]
May02

The Goth Detective [ARTICLE]

Posted By on May 2, 2013 in Article, Article: Art/Theater, Article: Books/Literature, Creative Arts: Painting & Art, Origin: DGM Staff, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

When you list off great Goth literary characters in both book and film, it’s easy to focus on the usual Gothic who’s who: Anne Rice’s LeStat (of The Vampire Chronicles), the Wachowski’s Neo (of The Matrix), Mary Shelley’s Doctor Frankenstein (of Frankenstein), Tim Burton’s Jack Skellington (of The Nightmare Before Christmas), or almost any protagonist of Edgar Allen Poe. However, there is another literary character that easily deserves to join the Gothic pantheon: Agent Aloysius Pendergast.

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Harold and Maude [USER REVIEW]
Mar26

Harold and Maude [USER REVIEW]

Posted By on Mar 26, 2013 in Origin: User (Approved), Review: DVDs, Review: Films, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

Harold is a young man from a wealthy background. Dissatisfied with life, his favourite activity is staging fake suicides, much to the dismay of his long-suffering mother, who wishes that he would find a wife. Harold’s other hobbies include watching demolitans and attending random funerals. Also, he drives a hearse. Death-obsessed and lonely, Harold doesn’t really have any friends…well, except for one person, maybe.

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Behind the Scenes of Total Hell [FILM REVIEW]
Mar23

Behind the Scenes of Total Hell [FILM REVIEW]

Posted By on Mar 23, 2013 in Origin: DGM Staff, Review: Films, Reviews, Type: Article (w/ Photos), Type: Article (w/ Videos)

Behind the Scenes of Total Hell is a mockumentary done in the spirit of This is Spinal Tap, except instead of following an 80’s hair band around it chronicles the attempts of amateur filmmakers who are trying to produce a horror movie called Totalitarian Hell (later shortened to Total Hell), which looks like a British version of Blair Witch Project only with worse directing and an even lower budget.

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Strawberry-Blueberry Vanilla Muffin: An Izzy Sunday Treat [RECIPE/TUTORIAL]
Mar16

Strawberry-Blueberry Vanilla Muffin: An Izzy Sunday Treat [RECIPE/TUTORIAL]

Posted By on Mar 16, 2013 in Tutorials, Tutorials: Food, Type: Article (w/ Videos)

Sunday’s are always the one day of the week that seems to be not so special, especially since it leads to the dreaded Monday. But I like to make it a special day so a yummy and pretty breakfast is just what the doctor ordered.

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