Horror, Video Games, old school hip-hop, Movies, Books, The Marquis de Sade, turntablism, existential philosophy, nihilism, Mondo Videos, and collecting lots of useless crap.
Music
Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, The Roots, The Beatnuts, KRS-One, Dilated Peoples, Crown City Rockers, J-Live, J-Dilla (R.I.P.), Erule, Organized Konfusion, Digital Underground, Brand Nubian, Sade, Amel Larrieux, Groove Theory, Goblin, Joe Hisaishi, MF Doom, MF Grimm, KMD, Paris, Public Enemy, X-Clan, Hieroglyphics, X-Ecutioners
Movies
Suspiria, Tenebre, Deep Red, Jaws, Dawn of the Dead (the original), Cemetery Man, Fireworks, Sonatine, Violent Cop, The Lone Wolf and Cub series, Zombie, The Beyond, Bay of Blood, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (again, the original), Videodrome, The Manson Family, August Underground, The Big Lebowski, Wonder Boys, Zatoichi, Visitor Q, Rainy Dog, Ichi the Killer, Hard Boiled, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, Murder-Set-Pieces, Dead Alive, Evil Dead, Re-Animator, Eko Eko Azarak (the Misa Kuroi movies), and too many more to list...
Television
Beat the Geeks, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Supernatural, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Miami Ink, Man vs Wild, Around the Horn, Pardon the Interruption, Jackass, X-Play
Books
The Convulsion Factory, American Psycho, Exquisite Corpse, Incubi, Murder of Angels, Falling Idols, The Girl Next Door, By Bizarre Hands, Book of the Dead 1&2, The Scream, The Light at the End, The Kill Riff, Bullets of Rain, The Black Dahlia, The Great and Secret Show, Prototype, The Haunted World of Mario Bava, Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike, Broken Mirrors, Broken Minds, Profondo Argento
Heroes
Dario Argento, George Romero, Takashi Miike, Joe Bob Briggs, Bruce Campbell, H.G. Lewis, Lucio Fulci, Jose Mojica Marins (aka Coffin Joe), Takeshi Kitano
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I'm Mike Bracken, a 36-year-old bohemian living in Oakland, CA. You might know me as The Horror Geek from the two seasons I spent working on Comedy Central's Beat the Geeks.
BtG is long gone, but I'm still alive and kicking and writing about film (mostly horror, but I'm really into a lot of Asian cinema, cult movies, and other weird crap). I'm putting the finishing touches on my first book: Sick Flicks: The Horror Geek's Guide to the Greatest Gore Movies of All Time. I also penned the weekly horror film column, The Horror Geek Speaks, at IGN.com. Here's the URL to some of the older columns: http://filmforce.ign.com/horrorgeek.html
When not writing I'm a weekly guest on the Big O and Dukes radio show in Washington DC. Every Friday night I do a segment with the guys talking about current and upcoming film releases. If you're in the DC area, you can check out the show from 10AM to 3PM on 106.7 WJFK. If you're not in the area, I believe you can hear it on the web or via free podcast. These guys are great--if I lived closer to the nation's capital, they'd have to get a restraining order to keep me from loitering around the studio.
When I'm not on the radio (or watching a movie), I'm usually playing a game (World of Warcraft is my current addiction), reading a book (lots of horror, generally), or listening to some music (old school hip-hop, but I do enjoy some other stuff as well).
I have a wife (Laura), a daughter (Jasmine), two stepkids (Monica and Gabe), a dog (Bear), and way too many cats. The cats weren't by my choice--everyone else was.
Thanks for stopping by--I'll try to keep this updated as time goes on.
I've been fortunate to meet a lot of my heroes (particularly Dario Argento a few years ago), but here are some folks I haven't met who I'd love to hang out with:
George Romero, John Carpenter (we met once, briefly), Takashi Miike, Mario Lemieux, Tom Savini, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Lloyd Kaufman (he was actually on BtG with me, but we didn't get much time to chat, which sucked), H.G. Lewis, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Susumu Terrajima, Tadanobu Asano, Jim Van Bebber, Rob Zombie, Larry Flynt, Anthony Wong, Wong Kar Wai, and at the top of the list, Beat Takeshi Kitano.
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Happy B-Day Bracken...even though we don't hear our voice anymore on the O and Dukes anymore it's still good to see those reviews for your movie blog. Plus it's good to see an old Hiphop head like yourself around. Peace.
I think it was maybe the best horror film this year, besides the fact it'll likely get a sequel. The traps were twisted but I suppose that's what you get from the minds of saw creators.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:
“SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.” —Famous Monsters of Filmland
“John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes
Hey Mike whats up....of all the movies you've seen and liked...I would think u would have a killer script or idea that would make a great movie. I know that a critic can bash or kill a movie, but can a critic make a movie...is it possible?
Hey Mike whats up....just heard Monday's show and not Tuesday's yet of Big o' and Dukes....hope all is well with u still being on the show, ur segment is something i look forward to and enjoy. Anyway, just wanted to pop by and give my support....
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Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel 
