* B-Sol at the Vault of Horror brings us a rundown of George A. Romero’s appearance on the Opie & Anthony show today, including the zombie king’s comments about Land of the Dead, Zombi 2, Resident Evil, Saw, Hostel, World War Z, and whether any racial commentary in the original Night of the Living Dead was intentional.
* Various sites are reporting that the Hellraiser remake supposedly has a January 9th, 2009 release date.
* Eve Tushnet spots an interesting quote from Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae, calling the rise of doppelganger/double horror during the Romantic era a reflection of those writers’ replacement of church and state with the Self as the ultimate authority.
* My All Too Flat-mate Ken Bromberg drew my attention to this creepy Wikipedia entry on “rat kings,” cryptozoological clusters of rats whose tails have become inextricably entwined.
* The FBI and various police agencies arrested almost the entire Gambino family hierarchy today—except for one captain who lammed it, making the story even more awesome than it already was.
* Rob Humanick of The Projection Booth and The House Next Door has declared February 22-28 the VHS Blogathon, celebrating the unique phenomenology of the late, lamented format of our collective youth.
* Steven Wintle of the Horror Blog will be spending the next year participating in a weekly gladiator-movie podcast based off one of those 50-movie DVD value packs, god help us.
* I’m not as wowed by her covers for Runaways and Buffy the Vampire Slayer as others seem to be, but this preview art for Jo Chen’s new manga The Other Side of the Mirror is just gorgeous. Just look at the line placement alone. (Via Tom Spurgeon.)
* Finally, should female dragon people have tits?