Mutterings of a Mad Woman

I love horror movies, but I am not the type of person who likes a movie simply because it fits a certain genre. Therefore, I don't get excited about a new film coming out just because it's a horror movie. There has to be something about it that catches my interest.

Clive Barker's 'Midnight Meat Train' is one of those movies that has the potential to be more than just a slasher gore-fest (though what's with the string of horror movies that focus on photography lately?).

For one night only, Rue Morgue is presenting the premiere of Midnight Meat Train at the Bloor Cinema this Thursday at 9:30 PM. There will be prizes and 'Evangelical Satanic Faith Healing' with Pastor Morgan Wilkes and Victor Marshall of Cloven Path Ministries.

I originally saw this on a blog called Desserts by Candy. You can find the entire from-scratch cake recipe there. Since I rarely bake from scratch (I'm a cooker, not a baker), my interest is in how she does the fingers.

To make the fingers, shape the marzipan into five logs of vary length and score lines with a knife to make knuckles. If the marzipan is too sticky to work with, dust some icing sugar on your palm. Press a sliced almond to one end to make the finger tip and adhere with some left over chocolate glaze. Adhere the finger to the cake with more left over chocolate glaze and prop them up with toothpicks if necessary. Sprinkle some chocolate cookie crumbs around the fingers to make dirt.

On Saturday night, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival is having a fundraiser ...sorry, fiendraiser for the annual Toronto Zombie Walk that takes place in the streets of Toronto each October. I could describe the event to you in my own words, but why go through all the hassle? Here is the description from the Facebook events page (with a couple of links for the bands thrown in from moi):

"On August 16, the dead will rise and descend on the Smiling Buddha Bar for the first annual Toronto Zombie Walk Fiendraiser.

Prepare for an evening of ear-splitting monster bands, ghoulish performances, artist meat and greet and spooktacular giveaways. All the money raised from the Fiendraiser will go towards the operating costs of this year's Toronto Zombie Walk.

Only seven people attended the first Zombie Walk, held in Toronto in 2003, but the ghoulish plague has since spread across the globe. Zombie Walks are now held throughout Canada, the United States, England and Australia. Last year's fifth annual Toronto Zombie Walk drew a record-breaking crowd of over 1,000 living dead!

A big thanks to CreepersCreek for the pictures and how-to for this Witch Finger Card Holder.

It's a simple but beautiful idea for decorating your table with place settings or food labels. If you're interested, you can make your own by following the instructions in the Horrific 'How To's section.

You could do the same thing using mini cauldrons, teeny coffins, little skulls or pumpkins, but I happen to like the tiny terracotta pots. You could add spiders to the moss or LED lights.

You could replace the fingers with plastic or foam gravestones as well. The possibilities are endless.

(Note: How to was lost in the migrating of the site 4 years after this was posted, though I imagine using a little imagination, you can put together how to use a plastic finger and a painted terra cotta pot to make this!)