Your Mission...

[jetpack_monkey]

ETA: I should clarify -- Classic-Horror.com's server crashed irrevocably on Sunday. I have a database backup from September (I had more recent ones, but apparently having a backup and a redundancy means you're just going to lose two backups instead of one), but I've lost all the content since then. I can recreate some of it from files on my computer, but some of it I can't (and I can't guarantee what I can recreate will match what was on the site, as I'm a compulsive content-fiddler). We now return you to the post, already in progress.

Should you choose to accept it, is to grab the Google caches for the following Classic-Horror pages before they disappear forever. Trust me when I say I will be eternally grateful and will find a way to repay you for your time.

To make it quick and easy, these are broken up into sections of five articles each. Just comment to claim a section so there's no overlap. I'm afraid the cache might expire soon, as many of these were taken over a week ago. All you need to do is go to Google and search for

site:classic-horror.com "name of article"

The title of the article is the same as the last part of the url, except with spaces instead of underscores. Just open the cached version of the page, save the source to a file, and then send the files (in a zip or other archive) to me at nate AT monkeyswithjetpacks.com. I really just need the text. The pictures I can recreate. If Google's cache is already expired, Yahoo also has page cacheing that might be of use.

This means the world to me. Spread the word if you can.

Section 1:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/curse_of_the_demon_1957 EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/sweeney_todd_nominated_for_four_golden_globes
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/idle_hands_1999
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/sweeney_todd_attend_original_tale_oxford_university_press
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/christmas_evil_1980 EXPIRED

Section 2:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/its_a_qeetastrophe_for_charity
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/race_with_the_devil_1975
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/sunshine_2007
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/hatchet_opens_today
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/rick_baker_to_design_new_wolf_man

Section 3:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/the_return_of_fu_manchu
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/fruit_chan_attached_to_english_language_dont_look_up
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/rob_zombie_discusses_halloween_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/new_stills_from_george_a_romeros_diary_of_the_dead
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/full_details_for_death_proof_dvd

Section 4:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/wolf_man_remake_delayed
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/mother_of_tears_weinsteins_get_dvd_myriad_keeps_theatrical
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/new_poster_for_the_cws_reaper
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/plasterhead_stalks_onto_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/new_trailer_for_the_strangers

Section 5:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/full_dvd_details_for_planet_terror
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/shear_terror_on_black_sheep_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/pathology_trailer_online
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/recall_of_children_shouldnt_play_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/new_poster_for_the_mist

Section 6:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/trailer_for_midnight_meat_train
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/funny_games_unveils_serious_poster
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/shocktober_2007_roger_corman_week
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/auction_of_the_son_of_son_of_frankenstein
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/rip_charles_b_griffith

Section 7:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/dvd_details_for_return_to_house_on_haunted_hill
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/images_from_upcoming_poltergeist_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/shocktober_2007_wes_craven_week
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/no_red_state_for_weinsteins
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/eerie_midnight_meat_train_still

Section 8:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/tobe_hooper_amicus_entertainment_team_for_from_a_buick_8
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/wolf_man_to_make_perfect_valentines_date_movie
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/langella_joins_richard_kellys_the_box
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/silent_night_deadly_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/silent_classic_nosferatu_gets_two_disc_ultimate_edition

Section 9:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/shocktober_2007_lucio_fulci_week
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/whither_the_news_and_pardon_our_mess EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/dimension_extreme_conjures_distribution_for_wizard_of_gore_remake
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/rob_zombies_halloween_coming_to_dvd_for_christmas
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/alfred_molina_hope_davis_set_for_the_lodger_revisit

Section 10:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/morbid_configurations_the_beauty_of_bava
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/diary_of_the_dead_after_valentines_day
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/marsden_to_join_the_box
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/blue_undergrounds_two_disc_living_dead_at_manchester_morgue
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/trailer_for_ghost_writer

Section 11:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/spider_baby_or_the_maddest_remake_ever_made
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/theyre_here_agaaaain_mandate_and_mgm_to_remake_poltergeist EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/attend_the_trailer_of_sweeney_todd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/full_details_for_unrated_hatchet_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/del_toros_at_the_mountains_of_madness_charging_ahead

Section 12:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/new_friday_the_13th_confirmed_to_be_a_remake
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/spyglass_entertainment_remaking_cronenbergs_the_brood
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/robert_englund_to_direct_film_based_on_the_viy_in_talks_with_christopher_lee
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/dark_sky_to_release_curtis_harringtons_the_killing_kind_on_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/mario_bava_collection_volume_2_cover_art

Section 13:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/cover_art_for_hellraiser_20th_anniversary_dvd
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/its_a_qeetastrophe_for_charity
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/kill_baby_kill_1966 EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/blood_and_black_lace_1964
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/hatchet_for_the_honeymoon_1970

Section 14:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/naked_you_die_1968
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/5_dolls_for_an_august_moon_1970
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/shock_1977
http://classic-horror.com/weblinks
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/wes_cravens_new_nightmare_1994

Section 15:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/summer_of_fear_1978
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/vampire_in_brooklyn_1995
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/scream_2_1997
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/bucket_of_blood_1959
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/little_shop_of_horrors_1960

Section 16:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/terror_1963
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/frankenstein_unbound_1990
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/eyes_of_a_stranger_1981
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/hellraiser_1987
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/hand_1981

Section 17:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/zombie_1979
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/black_sabbath_1963
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/black_cat_1981
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/wasp_woman_1960
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/attack_of_the_giant_leeches_1959

Section 18:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/someones_watching_me_1978
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/from_beyond_the_grave_1973
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/black_sheep_2006 EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/lizard_in_a_womans_skin_1971
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/dont_torture_a_duckling_1972

Section 19:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/house_by_the_cemetery_1981
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/zombi_3_1988
http://classic-horror.com/masters
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel?page=5

Section 20:
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/shocktober_2007_roger_corman_week
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel?page=7
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel?page=9 EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel?page=10 EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/billy_the_kid_vs_dracula_1966

Section 21:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/believers_2007 EXPIRED
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/asylum_1972
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/silent_hill_2006
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/terminator_1984

ETA: NEW SECTION

Section 22:
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/return_of_the_blind_dead_1973
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/oblong_box_1969
http://classic-horror.com/reviews/primeval_2007
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/new_nbc_series_fear_itself_third_season_of_masters_of_horror
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/director_cast_for_hammers_beyond_the_rave
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/the_master_will_sing_you_now_manos_musical_hits_chicago_stage
http://classic-horror.com/newsreel/possible_directors_for_hellraiser_remake

Last ETA: You guys are AMAZING. In just about three hours, you've combed through over 110 links. This will be immensely helpful in getting the site back up and running. Thank you so much.

Comments

[airawyn.livejournal.com]

I grabbed what I could of 16-21 but there's a lot that's already gone.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. This is extremely helpful.

[airawyn.livejournal.com]

Tracked down a couple more in that section by searching for "classic-horror" + movie title. Not all, alas.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

I...am not finding a lot of this stuff. Section 1 in particular, the only hit I get is classic-horror.com/content.

This particular crawl is ungodly old, but maybe there's some stuff you can salvage from web.archive.org? (http://web.archive.org/web/20070626085936/http://classic-horror.com)

Edited: Attempting to salvage what I can. I think you're pretty well screwed with regards to the pictures, unfortunately, but we may be able to find you some text.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Nah. Archive.org only releases material that's six months old. So I could get at the stuff I need until March at the soonest.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The text is pretty much all I need.

Just let me know which sections you grab.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

I feel like Scotty with the transporter, recovering patterns from subspace.

Sections 9-15 recovered as much as possible. I'll stop for now because it looks like much of the rest is spoken for.

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

I have some time on my hands. I'll see what I can grab.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much.

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

I'll start on Section 1. Sorry, Nate. Lame!

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

Okay, out of Section 1, all I found was the complete of Idle Hands.

[happybydefault.livejournal.com]

Do you need the cached page saved as an html file or just the source code?

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Either/or.

[happybydefault.livejournal.com]

Alright then! I've got section 7 and most of 8 and I'll send it over.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[happybydefault.livejournal.com]

Sent 6 over as well, btw.

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

Working on Section 2.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

This is immensely helpful. Thank you.

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

You don't have any need for the Sunshine one-sheet, do you? Just the review, right?

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Just the review. I can get the rest myself, I think. Thank you, though.

[bitterbyrden.livejournal.com]

Sent three over.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

I noticed that some of the time when I searched for the full title and it didn't find it, searching for a subset sometimes worked. So it might be worth going back through the ones marked "expired" and trying to find them using alternate Google-fu techniques.

Edit: This appears to be related to whether or not there was an apostrophe in the original title.

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

http://web.archive.org/web/*/classic-horror.com/*

I was going to ask if anyone had tried the Wayback Machine yet, but it's better for older stuff. (Got a suggestion from someone else to try it and discovered there's quite a bit of stuff in here.)

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's only six months or older. Unfortunately, everything I need is five months or newer.

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

Well, I have sections 3 and 4 from above, anyway.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Thank you so so much.

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

Grabbed Five, too. Will be sending along shortly.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

Grabbed 22 (except for Return of the Blind Dead which is nowhere to be found), sent it over.

[timjr.livejournal.com]

Hot damn.

I was gonna work on this when I got home, but... dude, y'all rock.

[steinba.livejournal.com]

Here's what I believe is still missing after the batch of Yahoo cache files I sent over (assuming the only missing files are the ones tagged "EXPIRED"):

Curse of the Demon (1957)
Christmas Evil (1980)
Whither The News And Pardon Our Mess
They're Here Agaaaain Mandate and MGM To Remake Poltergeist
Kill Baby Kill (1966)
Black Sheep (2006)
Pages 9 and 10 of the newsreel (these are such moving targets though)
Believers (2007)

[steinba.livejournal.com]

And after using Live search to find a few more, here's what I didn't find yet:

Curse of the Demon (1957)
Christmas Evil (1980)

Along with what dhaunea found in the RSS feed I think that may be everything except the pages of the newsreel, which are too meta to really be useful to recover anyway.

[dhaunea.livejournal.com]

Some of the reviews marked 'expired' were found in the old RSS feed - albeit a bit mangled and without formatting.

Found Curse of the Demon, Christmas Evil and Spider Baby, I think.

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

Looks like I'm a bit late to the party. You need more help, you let me know.

Also, I've got a lot of final versions of recent reviews saved on my computer. I never delete anything, so... if you need the content from any of the "expired" reviews other than Christmas Evil, I've got them floating around.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm also late to the party. If you need more of this done, just say the word.