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By: Pamela Torres
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"A is for Amber who drowned in a pool! B is for Billy who was eaten by ghouls!
C is for Curt with disease of the brain! D is for Daniel derailed on a train!
E is for Erik who was buried alive! F is for Frank who was stabbed through the eye!
G is for Greg who died in the womb! H is for Heather who was sealed in a tomb!"
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Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and ghouls! Step right up! Behind this curtain lies a ghastly concoction of delight, horror, fantasy and terror! In case you kiddies didn't know, Creature Feature is a kooky Los Angeles, California duo formed by mad musicians Curtis RX and Erik X, two monster movie lovers who are in charge of their own independent film company, Last Man on Earth Productions. More recently, they began composing original scores for "Playing Dead," a new web series that was directed by Ted Raimi and stars Suzanne Keilley as an unemployed Hollywood actress who gets the chance of a lifetime when she's offered a part-time job as the Grim Reaper. Re-released by Sumerian Records in the year 2007, Creature's debut album, "The Greatest Show Unearthed," is a warped and whimsical audio funhouse of lava lamp acid guitars and neurotic new wave keyboard melodies. It's an excellent CD for fiends of Thomas Dolby, Danny Elfman and The Bauhaus.
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Kicking off this spectacle is the album's title track, which escorts unsuspecting vicims into a grand guignol carnival of madness and fear. "Bound and Gagged" is a heavy punkazoid kidnapping song about a criminal who ties up a girl and holds her for ransom. "Such Horrible Things" is a sick and delirious reggae-style track where Curtis plays a bad seed born to commit acts of cruelty to fantasize his childish games (burning down his family's house, pushing his sister down a well, etc!) until he gets locked in an asylum after his 18th birthday! "6 Foot Deep" is sung from the point of view of a gravedigger who swings his dirt-covered shovel in the boneyard. The alphabetic obituary march titled "A Gorey Demise" lovingly turns the tattered pages of Edward Gorey, an American writer and artist who created macabre Edwardian illustrations of children being killed in a variety of gruesome ways. "How to Serve Man," an obvious reference to a classic Twilight Zone episode about hungry 9-foot-tall martians, is a dizzying cannibalism track served pound for pound with a dash of salt (Hmmm, just thinking about it makes me crave a juicy steak!). The intergalactic "Look to the Skies" is a love letter to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." "Buried Alive" pays homage to the creepy short stories of Edgar Allen Poe. The festering "Aim for the Head" is a zombie invasion that samples clips of George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" (That reminds me, how many more walking corpse movies does that guy intend to do?!). "A Corpse in my Bed" is a maggot-infested serving of rockabilly romance tainted with the stench of rancid milk perfume (I don't recommend you eat anything while hearing this!). "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth" is an RKO-apocalypse scenario where subhuman monsters crawl out of the ground and take over the planet by exterminating mankind.
"...and we all fall down!"
http://www.myspace.com/creaturefeaturemusic
www.watchplayingdead.com
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