Carlos Gonzalez
Bio
A passionate writer and graphic artist looking to break into the BIG TIME! Short stories, scripts and graphic art are my forte! Brooklyn N.Y. born and raised. Living in Manchester, Connecticut! Working on two novels now!
Stories (115/0)
H'ween Horrorthon: Scream
"You push the laws, and you end up dead. Okay, I'll see you in the kitchen with a knife". - Jamie Kennedy as Randy. I'm baaaaaack! Okay, as I previously mentioned in my post blog for Happy Birthday to Me, I am utterly convinced that both the late Wes Craven and first-time writer Kevin Williamson took apart that bizarre 1981 slasher pic and remade it as Scream; but that's only the icing on the... ahem — cake!
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Geeks
8EEZ Playlist: Ronnie Milsap
So, here it is. The first playlist that really isn't my own. As I mentioned, this dueling playlist was designed to chronicle artists of various musical genres in the 1980s; but, as it turns out, I've been bested by at least one genre that I am a little unversed in: country music.
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Beat
H'ween Horrorthon: A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
"Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream..."–The Chordettes Hello and welcome. Here's a question. Is "A Nightmare On Elm Street" a slasher movie, or a psychological horror film? I'd like to think its both. The late, great Wes Craven was truly on to something when he made this low-budget horror masterpiece. Sure, it was marketed as a teen slasher flick; disposable and forgettable. But, there's a master at work here. It's a deceptively brilliant film that does what it's supposed to do; Scare you, terrify you, horrify you - and do it through evil personified.
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Poltergeist
Hello and... boo! The latest in my horrorthon is a classic ghost story from the mind and imagination of director Steven Spielberg, but the reigns of the direction were handed to director Tobe Hooper, the man who scared generations of roving hitchhikers and weed-obsessed youths with one man—Leatherface, in his seminal 1974 cheapie-chiller The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Happy Birthday to Me
"Go shawty - it's yo' berf-day" — 50 Cent (2003) Okay, it WAS my birthday in August and one of my many guilty pleasures is this absolutely shitty 1981 slasher pic that if anything was known for its iconic movie graphic art (with graphic being the operative word). A young, wide-eyed, terrified teenage male is about to be orally skewered by a shish kebab...how very Artemisia Gentileschi! It's held up by a glove; above the image, the tagline: "John will never eat shish kebab again."
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Beetlejuice
Hello out there. So...my second entry is a comedy (as was promised). Horror and comedy have been two genres that have been mixed together since the days of Abbott & Costello when they went up against all the monsters from The Universal backlot. The success of Ivan Reitman's 80s horror/comedy Ghostbusters paved the way for other horror spec scripts to undergo a more comedic transformation — and no surprise, Beetlejuice was one of the horror/comedy hybrids that got greenlit — and it actually worked.
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Geeks
8EEZ Playlist: Air Supply
G'day mates! As much as my buddy Oates and I enjoy writing about the long crop of 1980s new wave rock artists and the darlings of MTV, we like to explore ALL aspects of music from the 1980s, which will indeed include artists that were still held-over from the late 1970s as the dynamic began to shift slowly, but strongly away from disco and punk, and briefly had a renaissance of the kind of music that was the mainstay of pop in the early-70's.
By Carlos Gonzalez7 years ago in Beat