#Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards

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22nd Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards!

The ballot for this year's Rondos has been released. If any of you should vote for Content Abnormal contributor Josh Ryals in the write-in category of Best Fan Artist (Linda Miller Award) PLEASE let us know so that we may thank you!

Vote For The Rondos HERE

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CHARACTER OF THE DAY: Rondo Hatton (1894 - 1946)

Hatton enlisted in the army during WWI, and was exposed to Poison Gas in France and honorably discharged. The gas led to Hatton developing Acromegaly (a disorder of the pituitary gland) which causes deformation of bones in the head, hands and feet, and internal and external soft tissues. He became a popular "Monster" at Universal. One who didn't require hours in the make-up chair.  In recent years the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, awarded each year for the best in horror research, appreciation and film restoration, uses his name and consists of a statuette based on the mammoth bust of Hatton as the Creeper, seen in Universal's House of Horrors (1946).

[vintage1981]

Dr. Who & The Daleks: The Official Story of the Films by John Walsh Available Now from Titan Books

The definitive guide to the making of the classic 1960s Dr. Who movies, lavishly illustrated and packed with insights into these beloved films.  

Dr. Who and the Daleks: The Official Story of the Films is the definitive guide to the making of Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. The first and only big-screen adaptations of the long-running TV series, the films, starring Peter Cushing as the titular time-traveller, are beloved by fans – and the Daleks, in glorious Technicolor, have never looked better.

Author and film expert John Walsh has unearthed a treasure trove of archive material, interviews and stunning artwork, and takes us through the whole process of translating the metal monsters from small screen to big. In-depth information on the production, design, casting and special effects is accompanied by full-colour illustrations, including props, posters, and behind-the-scenes photography – making it the perfect gift for fans of the films.

About the Author

John Walsh is an award winning filmmaker with a focus on social justice. His work ranges from television series to feature films. He is a double BAFTA and double Grierson Awards nominee for his groundbreaking work. John’s 1989 documentary on Ray Harryhausen (Movement Into Life) is held in the Ray and Diana Foundation‘s archive. John also produced HD audio and film commentary recordings with Ray in his final years.

Hardcover | $50.00 Published by Titan Books Dec 05, 2022 (UK) Dec 20, 2022 (US) | 160 Pages | 10 x 12 | ISBN 9781803360188  

REVIEW

By Brandon Gantt

Dr. Who & The Daleks: The Official Story of the Films is a title that I have eagerly looked forward to since it was announced. Filmmaker and author John Walsh has the golden touch (or pen) when writing definitive guides on classic cult cinema. He’s done it thrice over with his tomes, Harryhausen: The Lost Movies (2019), Flash Gordon: The Official Story of the Film (2020), and Escape From New York: The Official Story of the Film (2021), all for Titan Books. To say my expectations were high would be an understatement. Consumers and reviewers highly regarded all three previous titles, and all were nominated for Rondo Hatton Classic Horror awards!

Luckily Dr. Who & The Daleks: The Official Story of the Films lives up to Walsh’s previous titles and my lofty expectations! John takes control of TARDIS and drops us effortlessly back to the swinging sixties, where Dalekmania was running wild, culminating in the two 1960s Doctor Who film adaptations, Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. John does an admirable job of painting a vivid picture of the making of these two films, drawn from lots of archive material, interviews, unseen artwork, and gloriously restored and colourised photos by Clayton Hickman. The book examines the complete production process for both films, including production, design, casting, and distribution, all accompanied by a cornucopia of illustrations, behind-the-scenes photos, posters, and props that I’ve never seen before. The overseas promotional campaigns are always fascinating, as Doctor Who had yet to become the worldwide phenomenon it is today.

This book is a must-purchase. Whether you are a fan of Doctor Who or just cinema, John Walsh has done a magnificent job capturing the excitement and enthusiasm of 1960s Doctor Who.

Interview with John Walsh

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I emailed David Colton who tabulates the votes for The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards to see if I did come in 2nd overall in the voting for Fan Artist Of The Year and he said I did and congratulated me.

[namesisfortombstones]

The Rondo Classic Horror Awards are going again for this year. If you're participating, I'd appreciate it greatly if you named Constantine Furman in the write-in "Writer of the Year" and/or "Special Recognition" categories.

You could also write in The Unofficial Tokusatsu Fan's Handbook for ‘Gamera, Super Monster’ in the Book of the Year Non-Fiction category. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have a straight fiction category this year, so it doesn't seem my two books Farmarna's Monster Martial Law and A Specter Tale Concludes are eligible.

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Andrew Scott’s Irish Film and Television Award for Smithereens isn’t on the Wikipedia page for awards Black Mirror has been nominated for and won. (It also isn’t in the awards paragraph on the episode page. The entirety of the paragraph is about the fuckery with the Emmy rules.) There’s an “other awards” section for the series and it isn’t there. What is there? The episode’s nomination (one of 16) for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award whatever the fuck that is.

The IFTAs are Ireland’s equivalent to the Emmy’s and BAFTAs. Irish Andrew Scott from Ireland is an Irish citizen with a home in Dublin. I don’t know how to edit Wikipedia pages so this is all I can do.

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via NickALive!

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Today is my 30th birthday, and I'm kicking off my midlife crisis by releasing my latest short film, The Misplaced, which I directed, co-wrote, produced, and edited. If it creeps you out, please consider sharing it.

I find horror to be most effective when it invades the home, so I drew inspiration from films I love that embrace that atmosphere, like John Carpenter’s Halloween and The Strangers, to tell what I hope to be a similarly unsettling story.

A young woman unwittingly discovers why things have been going missing around the house in The Misplaced. See why some things shouldn’t be found by watching the video above. It's only 4 minutes long!

Jamie Lyn Bagley, co-writer T.J. Frizzi, and Michael Jacobs star in the film. It premiered to a sold-out audience at the 2018 Boston Underground Film Festival. The poster is below.

My previous effort, Be Us, is currently nominated for Best Short Film at the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. I’d greatly appreciate your vote!

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Book : ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK

MARIO BAVA by Tim Lucas

Winner of 2008

Saturn Award for Special Achievement

Independent Publishers Book Award

Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award

International Horror Guild Award

ntroduction by Martin Scorsese!

Foreword by Italian Horror Pioneer

Riccardo Freda!

The Complete Story of Mario Bava's life and careers as director, cameraman and special effects artist

Interviews with more than 100 actors, co-workers, friends and family members

The Definitive Study of each of his films: production histories, cast biographies, critical analysis, and video information

Never-before Published Photos including the only color shots taken on the set of BLACK SUNDAY

Original Mario Bava Storyboards - including the boards for the unfilmed project BABY KONG

Original Mario Bava Artwork - Some in Full Color!

Bava's Secret Filmography: His uncredited works as director, cameraman and special effects artist

Complete Videography and Discography

Eugenio Bava (Mario's father) Filmography

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“Debbie Rochon grew up in British Columbia, Canada. She was a child of the streets and victim of much abuse until she accidentally ended up in a featured extra role in Paramount's Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)! The event changed her life, and she saved enough money to move to New York City and study acting. After many years working with numerous theater companies in off-Broadway plays, she started to land small roles in films. Spike Lee's editor Barry Alexander Brown cast her in a featured role in his first directing effort, Lonely in America(1990). Soon the parts grew bigger and bigger and primarily fell in the fear flick genre. After spending three months as a featured extra on the 1980 filmed Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) movie set, Debbie was still a fledgling actor but took on the female lead in the Leonard Melfi one act play Ferryboat. It was indeed synchronicity for Debbie to cut her acting teeth on a play about the Staten Island Ferry, by 1984 she moved from her home town of Vancouver, B.C. to New York City. For the rest of the 1980s she spent most of her time studying acting at Michael Chekhov Studios under Ted Pugh, Lee Strasberg Institute under Penelope Allen, NYC's Chicago City Limits under David Regal and H.B. Studios under William Hickey, Carol Rosenfeld and Uta Hagen. Debbie spent all her time working in plays on Theatre Row in NYC, mostly in new works by playwrights and shooting NYU thesis films with burgeoning filmmakers. By 1988 she started to land small roles with grind-house indie filmmakers Roberta Findlay and Chuck Vincent. She made two films with each film maker by 1989, in both cases they would be the last, or close to very last, films both directors would helm before retiring. By the early 1990s, Debbie was working with multiple theatre companies in NYC including The Tribeca Lab where she played multiple characters in Stephen DiLauro play The Secret Warhol Rituals. In 1993 Debbie began her career in radio co-producing and co-hosting Oblique Strategies on the terrestrial channel WBAI. 1994 was the beginning for Debbie to land lead roles in film. Abducted II: The Reunion (1995) would be the first, and in 1995 she co-stared in her first Troma produced film Tromeo and Juliet (1996) co-directed by James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman. This would also be the year Debbie would be given her first writing column which appeared in The Job Bob Report, published by John Bloom. She would also pen for numerous genre publications including The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope magazine which she still writes for today. Of the multiple roles she would portray by decade's end it would be Hellblock 13 (1999), co-staring Gunnar Hansen, that would begin the wheels turning for a new type of role she would soon be known for. During the 1996-1998-time frame Debbie would co-produce and co-host Illumination Gallery for the internet's first on-line radio station Pseudo Radio. In 2000 director Jon Keeyes cast Debbie in the now cult classic American Nightmare (2002) which garnered much acclaim with legit reviewers and audiences alike. Her role as Jane Toppan would solidify her as a go-to actor for roles of the off-kilter and intense kind. By 2002 Debbie began working for Full Moon Entertainment, starring in four feature films with the company. She continued to write for genre publications and contributed chapters to horror themed books. In 2005 Debbie joined forces with what was then known as Scream TV. The company bought Fangoria magazine and Debbie began producing short documentaries including Fangoria Presents: Slither Behind the Scenes (2006). In 2006 they launched Fangoria Radio for Sirius/XM where she co-produced and co-hosted the show with Twisted Sister front-man Dee Snider until 2010. The following year Debbie was granted her own column in the magazine called Diary of the Deb, the first column written by a woman for the publication, it was nominated for three Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards for best column, winning the esteemed statue in 2014. During this decade Debbie also gave critically acclaimed turns in works inspired by some of her favorite classical writers; Tales of Poe (2014) (Edgar Allan Poe), Mark of the Beast (2012) (Rudyard Kipling) and Colour from the Dark (2008) (H.P. Lovecraft). Debbie appeared on the VH1 reality TV show Scream Queens: Episode #2.4 (2010) as a guest judge in 2010. In 2012 she served, with Mira Sorvino, Gabrielle Miller, Tamar Simon Hoffs and Lana Morgan, as part of the first all-female jury at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in Germany. The same year Debbie had her directorial debut with the extreme body-horror film Model Hunger (2016). ETonline.com hailed Debbie as one of the "40 Top Scream Queens of the Past 40 Years" in 2018. Debbie's current writing column, Debbie Rochon's Bloody Underground, appears in the Italian published magazine Asylum. Debbie continues to act in feature films, is writing her book and prepares for her sophomore directing project.” IMDB

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Frankentyner’s alter-ego, Josh Ryals, is a Runner-up in this year’s Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards!  Thanks to all who voted for him!

- Frankentyner

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Let's get Stan Against Evil a Rondo award!

If you've been paying attention, you already know one of my favorite shows of the last few years is IFC's Stan Against Evil. It's third season proved to be the best yet, but it was also the last. Not long after the final episode aired IFC decided to drop Stan Against Evil from its lineup. It was disappointing, but not a huge surprise ... anybody that can cancel Garfunkel and Oates is a heartless monster and capable of anything. One of the episodes from Stan Against Evil's third season has been nominated for "Best TV Presentation" by this year's Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. I hadn't planned on doing any campaigning this year (The Collinsport Historical Society is also nominated for "Best Website") but there's interest among Stan Against Evil fans in getting the show a Rondo. It's not a substitute for a fourth season, but might make for a nice consolation prize for the show's creators. There's some stiff competition this year. Also nominated are shows like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,  The Haunting of Hill House and Castle Rock ... but if we pull together we can collect the votes needed to get Stan Against Evil that Rondo it deserves. The episode nominated is "Larva My Life," a kaiju parody that inspired me to create an obscene amount of tribute art/vandalism last year. If you missed the show, all three seasons are now streaming on Hulu. If you want to cast a ballot, here's how: As usual, this year's winners will be determined by votes from the public. And that means you. You can copy and paste the ballot and include an X next to your choices, or just type your ballot choices directly into the e-mail. Readers are asked to select winners from this year's nominees and e-mail your selections to David Colton at taraco@aol.com. You can find the entire ballot at https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/. Note: Best TV Presentation is #3 on the ballot. While you're at it, please consider voting for Stan Against Evil creator Dana Gould for #30, Monster Kid Hall of Fame. This is a write-in category.All voting is by e-mail only. One vote is allowed per person. Every e-mail must include your name to be counted. All votes are kept confidential. No e-mail addresses or personal information will be shared. Votes must be received by April 20, 2019.

[vintage1981]

Happy Birthday Martine Beswicke!

Martine Beswicke (born 26 September 1941) is an English-Jamaican actress and model perhaps best known for her roles in two James Bond films, From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), who went on to appear in several other notable films in the 1960s. In 2019, she was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards' Monster Kid Hall of Fame.

Beswicke is best known for her two appearances in the James Bond film series. Although she auditioned for the first Bond film Dr. No (1962), she was cast in the second film From Russia with Love (1963) as the fiery gypsy girl, Zora. She engaged in a "catfight" scene with her rival Vida (played by former Miss Israel Aliza Gur). Beswicke later stated that there was as much bad feeling with Gur offscreen as well as on, with the film's director, Terence Young, encouraging Beswicke to get rough with Gur.

"I was a very nice girl but Aliza was a cow. We had terrible clashes and I was disgusted with her. I had a lot of anger inside of me so that [fight] scene was a perfect way to work it out. We rehearsed the fight for three weeks but when we shot it, Aliza was really fighting. Everyone encouraged me to fight back, so I did. We got into a real scrapping match." — Martine Beswicke[9]

Beswicke then appeared as the ill-fated Paula Caplan in Thunderball (1965). She had been away from the Caribbean so long that she was required to sunbathe constantly for two weeks before filming, to look like a local.

Beswicke went on to appear in One Million Years B.C. (1966) opposite Raquel Welch, with whom she also engaged in a catfight. She played Adelita in the well-regarded Spaghetti Western, A Bullet for the General (1966) opposite Klaus Kinski and Gian Maria Volonté and played a villainous role in the exploitation thriller The Penthouse (1967). She then appeared in various Hammer Films, most notably Prehistoric Women (1967) (aka Slave Girls) and the gender-bending horror Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), in which she played the titular villainess.

She had a supporting role in the Italian sex comedy The Last Italian Tango (1973). She then starred as the Queen of Evil in Oliver Stone's 1974 directorial debut Seizure. In the 1970s, Beswicke moved to Hollywood and regularly appeared on both the big and small screens. She made numerous guest appearances on television series, including Sledge Hammer!, Fantasy Island, The Fall Guy, Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man and Falcon Crest. In 1980, she played the lead role in the comedy film The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.

Beswicke's career was active well into the 1990s. Since then, she has mainly participated in film documentaries, providing commentary and relating her experiences on the many films in which she has appeared. She owned a removals business in London, but is now semiretired except for her guest appearances at international film conventions.

After a 24 year absence from the screen, Beswicke came out of retirement in 2018 to appear in House of the Gorgon opposite fellow Hammer film actors Caroline Munro, Veronica Carlson, and Christopher Neame.

[frankentyner]

New Rondo Hatton Award ballot is out!  IF any of you decide to write in Josh Ryals under the category of Best Fan Artist of 2020 (The Linda Miller Award) or Content Abnormal #3 under Best Magazine of 2020 or Frankentyner (Content Abnormal) as Best Horror Host of 2020, PLEASE let me know SO I can thank you personally!

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For Your Consideration... It's once again time for The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards (aka The Rondos), that annual honoring of all things horrific and fantastic in the world of throwback terror. Here's your chance to weigh on on your favorite films, TV episodes, magazines, books, horror hosts, and more! (It also serves as a nice guide to notable things you may have missed in the last year...) We humbly suggest that you may want to write in The Mahoning Drive-In for the following category: 27) SPECIAL RECOGNITION Who deserves special recognition for achievements that may have been overlooked or don’t fit into other categories? Suggested language could be to the effect of: "The Mahoning Drive-In Theater in Lehighton, PA, for holding COVID-safe horror events in 2020, allowing fans from all over the east coast to gather safely and enjoy 35mm screenings, cosplay, and celebrity appearances throughout the summer and fall, when most other venues were closed, giving people a chance to have fun and celebrate classic horror in an otherwise event-free year." Feel free to add your own details or flowery language. Thanks, as always, for your support! Voting rules: TO VOTE: INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND SEND YOUR PICKS TO taraco@aol.com by April 25, 2021. — VOTING TIPS: You can copy this ballot into an email and make your selections with an X, or in bold, or by highlight. We know the ballot is awkward but a cut-and-paste into an email works fine. — Or you can simply type your choices into the email. — Remember, you do NOT have to vote in every category, and given this crazy year, write-ins are welcome. https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/?fbclid=IwAR3SlIso6yAErjBb6JZinKSsoSvFLs9tvJJ7jt5xJjcwKhIWEoNtqoILo6M #cinema #classicfilm #classic #drivein #driveinmovie #doublefeature #driveinmovies #driveintheater #film #driveinmovies #filmpreservation #driveinmovietheater #lehighton #movies #movieposter #movietheater #nostalgia #phillyfilm #retro #atthedrivein #mahoningdit #35mm #mahoningdriveintheater #mahoningdrivein #rondoawards #horror (at The Mahoning Drive-In Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSYTxZlffk/?igshid=vmwsjjnphbun

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Congratulations to Horror Host Svengoolie!

Congratulations to Horror Host Svengoolie!

Mister Lobo congratulates all the winners of the The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards! Monstrous thanks to all who voted in this contest. Many of the winners are dear friends and colleagues! David Del Valle, Daniel Griffith, David G. Hardy Dr. Gangrene and others! With a heavy heart I must concede that Mr. Lobo was not your “favorite horror host of 2017”. Favorite Horror Host Svengoolie Rich…