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The Threshold People

About Me

Once they were human, even as you and I...

The Threshold People debuted in October 2005 on This Plague of Dreaming , with their now-legendary album Night of the Threshold People .

In 2007, the fiends returned to the lab to animate the terrifying sequel, Seven Legs from an Eight-Legged Beast !

2009 got off to a terrifying start when The Threshold People were probed, dissected, and re-stitched by the mad scientists at [Esc.] Laboratory's Department of RMX, resulting in the nightmarish The Tales from the Dead Sun Remixes !

Turn up the volume and turn out the lights! The Threshold People have returned...

(For more information, see this interview , from 2006.)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/08/2007
Band Website: http://www.thisplagueofdreaming.net
Band Members: The Threshold People
Influences: Universal, AIP, Hammer, RKO, Monogram, PRC, Republic, James Whale, Tod Browning, Val Lewton, Roger Corman, Coleman Francis, Edward D. Wood, Jr., Robert Fuest, William Alland, William Castle, Ishiro Honda, Jack Hill, George Romero, Max Schreck, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Peter Lorre, Dwight Frye, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Edward Van Sloan, Gloria Holden, Evelyn Ankers, Lionel Atwill, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Peter Graves, Tor Johnson, Criswell, Ben Chapman, Ricou Browning, Willis H. O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Matheson, Paul Frees, Franz Waxman, Hans J. Salter, Charles Previn, Frank Skinner, Les Baxter, Ronald Stein, and those wonderful people out there in the dark...
Record Label: This Plague of Dreaming
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Blog (somewhere else-shhh!)

We have a new blog: House of The Threshold People!We will continue to post music-related updates to our MySpace blog, while the House will be our Classic Horror/Halloween blog.  There's not much there...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:48:00 GMT

Terrifying New Netlabel (Maybe?)

We love monster music.  Horrorpunk, horrorbeat, spooky surf, Halloween novelty records, monster film soundtracks, we love it all.  We love it so much that we got together to make our own.  We've had a...
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 20:25:00 GMT

New Release: [Esc.] Laboratory + The Threshold People - The Tales from the Dead Sun Remixes!

We've had to keep this under our hats for a while, but it's finally here:[Esc.] Laboratory + The Threshold People - The Tales from the Dead Sun Remixes[free mp3 download](horrorbeat, remixes)Horrorbea...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:31:00 GMT

First Wolfman Pics!

This is a couple of days old already, but maybe some of you haven’t seen them yet?  Two pics and an interview with makeup artist Rick Baker:"Here we have Benicio Del Toro, who’s pract...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:11:00 GMT

R.I.P. Ben Chapman, the Creature from the Black Lagoon

10.29.1998 - 2.21.2008The original (on-land*) Creature from the Black Lagoon"Ben Chapman passed away at 12:15 am Hawaii time on Thursday, February 21 at the VA hospital in Honolulu. His health began t...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:30:00 GMT

New Shocks! New Thrills! NEW ALBUM!

The Threshold People - Seven Legs from an Eight-Legged Beast[free download, 192kpbs mp3]Skeletons!  Monsters!  Living Shadows that talk--and KILL!!The Threshold People are back, complete wit...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:48:00 GMT

Frightmare Forest, and [meta:Human]

As the days grow short and the nights grow chill, we're pleased to bring you more Threshold People news!We've just licensed our song "The Pit" (again!) for use in the haunted attraction Frightmare For...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:52:00 GMT

Monster By Mail

Monster By Mail ("An original hand drawn monster sketch delivered to your doorstep!") recently featured The Threshold People song The Pit in one of their art-in-progress YouTube videos: Zombies vs The...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:17:00 GMT