Halloween Update for 9.2.11

The Countdown is coming...

 

Ten Musicians' Ghosts That Still Stalk The Earth (And How To Dress Up As Them For Halloween) @ DC9 at Night

Hiding in the shadows of Venice @ Justine's Halloween

Check out Creepy Creations' cool Halloween Clock

Roundup: Halloween Horror Nights “exclusive” concept art @ Creepy Los Angeles

Halloween Horror Nights construction ramps up @ behind the thrills

Spooky World brings Halloween frights to Fenway @ Boston Herald

Silly Symphony: Hell’s Bells @ She Walks Softly

The Sidewalk of Sinister Snares @ Dave Lowe Design

Halloween Book props @ Instructables

... plus more links 'n' pix and stuff at Prof. Rasvensdeath's Monster Rally (Tumblr) and Prof. Ravensdeath's Tales of Terror (Tumblr)

 

Halloween @ Kickstarter

Halloween @ Bandcamp

Video: X-E's Halloween Countdown: The Gremlins Cocoon/Durian

Halloween Update for 8/15/11

• 77 Days 'til Halloween: Making the Cauldron Pyre @ Dave Lowe Design
• rchassel shows us a work in progress video for his Halloween Stalkaround @ Halloween Forum
• skid_68's Oquirrh Meadows Yard Haunt 2010 (video) @ Halloween Forum
• Distinctly Jamaican Sounds has a quick video preview of it's annual Halloween Spooktacular
• Midnight Syndicate taps into the origins of the amusement industry with Carnival Arcane @ Behind the Thrills
• Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor and Reign of Terror Haunted House @ Creepy Los Angeles
• Mick Garris on "The Legend of Hell House" @ Trailers From Hell
• Monster Rally on Tumbr Here and Here

Halloween @ Etsy

Cross Stitch Pattern - Halloween Honeymoon @ abracraftdabras Etsy shop

Halloween (and stuff) update for 8.11.11

 

Behind the Thrills recently had The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland as their Ride of the Day

The Ghost and Yale Gracey @ Disney History Institute

82 Days 'til Halloween: Building a Better Cauldron - Part One @ Dave Lowe Designs

The Weird Circle: What Was It? @ A Passion for Horror

Rotting Flesh Radio 242

Kazuno Kohara's Ghosts in the House! @ Everyday is Like Wednesday

 

Song of the Day

Halloween Update for 8.9.11

 

"Beware of Ye Wiles of Satan"  vintage postcard @ Postcard Roundup

Halloween Forum Prop showcases

• Chop Shop's Full Size Witch
• terryh142's Skull with Spine
• Baldzillabill's 2011 corpse creations

Halloween @ Etsy

Halloween Table Luminaries -- Spider @ mommamink's Etsy shop

Halloween (and stuff) Update for 7.21.11

 

Kickstarter Halloween Project of the Day
Anathema - A Return to Classic Horror in Comics

A Ghost Ship Launches for Halloween in Southern California @ Dread Central

'The Thing' Invades Universal's Halloween Horror Nights @ FearNet

My Ghoul Friday has loads of great Halloween haunting ideas

Halloween Infographics from Visual.ly @ Halloween Addict

Criterion to release ‘Island of Lost Souls’ @ Psychobabble

Ten Classic Rock Albums With a Horror Hook @ FearNet

Dark Shadows Comic Returns in time for Halloween

Chrome Users check out this Zombies - Creepy Halloween Theme @ Chrome Web Store

 

Halloween Spotify Playlist of the Day

Ravndeath FM Podcast Show 001 Playlist @ Spotify

Halloween Update for 6.30.11

 

Haunt soundtracker Verse 13 is offering free music to pro-haunters interested in using his sounds.

Here's a sample (more info and another sample here at Verse 13's Halloween Forum Post)

 

Halloween Comic Strip Collection of the Day: Cul de Sac Halloween 2007-2010

Prof. Ravensdeath's Tales of Terror: Legend of Sleepy Hollow Cereal Record.

 

Halloween Etsy of the Day

 

Grape Newts - 13 x 19 limited edition print from JasonEdmiston's Etsy shop

Bozeman Montana Fear Mine Haunt (Kickstarter Project)

If you are planning to be anywhere near Bozeman Montana come Halloween this Kickstarter project might be for you...

 

About the haunt:

Throughout our years, nay decades of our experience, we have learned that to really get the customers immersed in the haunt you need to tie in the local legend and lore into the haunt. We learned this from the "Jersey Devil Haunted Woods" in New Jersey and the Pirates of Emerson on the coast of California. There is a rich mining history in many parts of Montana, and many of these old mines have an accompanying ghost town. What better theme for a haunt in Montana than a haunted mine and ghost town?

About our goal:

We have $10,000 of our own personal funds set aside for this project. However, we will need double that in order to make it a reality. Not if, but when we raise the additional $10,000 through the awesome backers at kickstarter, we will have the $20,000 needed to make our dream a reality. This money will be used for building rental (BIG expense), insurance (necessary evil), construction tools (yay), construction materials (plywood is expensive), costuming (thank goodness for thrift stores), makeup (not the girly type), and many others (too many to list).

Halloween Update for 6.27.11

 

Frightful flickr of the Day

Halloween at Stop'N'Go / pdokey1365

 

squidoo: Halloween Graveyard Props and Creepy Halloween Recipes

 ‘The Phantom Carriage’ to Get the Criterion Treatment @ Psychobabble

The latest Rotten Flesh Radio Podcast is out now

Enter The 1st Annual Strange Kids Club Halloween Costume Contest 

Terror sets sail on the Ghost Ship for Halloween 2011 @ LA Times

“Halloween Horror Nights” short film competition

Universal Studios Hollywood invites aspiring filmmakers to compete in its annual “Halloween Horror Nights” short film competition, offering budding directors anopportunity to hav e their most disturbing horror short films judged by a panel of industry insiders, including horror film auteur Eli Roth, Daily Variety senior writer, Marc Graser and “Halloween Horror Nights” Creative Director John Murdy. The winning film will be awarded a premiere showing on Chiller, a posting on Syfy.com, a cash prize of $1,000,
and a trip for two to “Halloween Horror Nights’” opening night “Eyegore Awards” at Universal Studios Hollywood"

 

nightrideproductions shows off their new mausoleum prop @ Halloween Forum

 

Halloween Etsy of the Day

Hand-printed greeting card from L2design's Etsy Shop

The Halloween Time Machine Ride (Kickstarter Project)

The Halloween Time Machine Ride: A Public Art project in Oklahoma City, OK by Sam Seide

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

I want to build a simulator ride of a time machine for my home Halloween haunt. The ride will hold two riders inside the unit. They will be strapped into the time machine and the door will be shut. Three LCD screens will act as "windows" out of the time machine. The outside of the time machine will look like a dilapidated outhouse, but upon opening the door of the ride the machine will look the part of a true time machine with metal walls, lots of dials and blinking buttons displaying "data". The time machine "pilot" will be Morris the Hunchback as he stands outside the main compartment and is viewable to the riders on the LCD's. He'll be the one getting into all the hi-jinx with the various creatures and people found in the different time periods the machine travels to.

Morning stuff

Vincent Price on The Tonight Show w/ Johnny Carson (1973) (MikeTheMook)

Cool-Mo-Dee shares Out of the Night #8

Final Girl reviews Night Train to Terror

Horror Movie a Day takes on Exorcist: The Beginning

natsukashi gets Freaked!

Para Abnormal - Brain Juice!

FMC goes Ape for Thanksgiving - Mega-Marathon of Planet of the Apes Movies (and TV-Movies) set for Thanksgiving Weekend (The Forbidden Zone)

Hulu adds...

Slayers
In a land of fantasy and fairytale, magic rules and one can prosper by the point of a sword. But somewhere between the realms of good and evil, a band of misfits stumble upon an artifact which could prove the undoing of all…

Shuffle
Ten years ago, the gateway to the Realm of the Gods and the Realm of the Demons was opened. Soon afterwards, the gods and the demons began migrating to our world.

Rt. 666: America's Scariest Home Haunts
Hosted by Halloween (2007) star Danielle Harris, this original short form series will profile some of the country's scariest, most innovative haunted houses and meet the people behind the madness.

Halloween Link Catch-up Part 2

John Rozum's Big Halloween Finale!

She Blogged By Night looks at Dracula Has Risen From the Grave

Alfred Hitchcock will not wear a Halloween costume at TV Squad

Cinematical:

• Movies That Shouldn't Have Scared You, But Did
• Cinematical Seven: The Horror of Fairy Tales
• The Scary Bits
• Review: The Haunting of Molly Hartley
• Your Favorite Scary Movie of All Time

Plauge Town trailer @ Spike plus The Top 10 Worst Slasher Villains Ever

Monster Mondays! @ Random Acts of Geekery plus Halloween Night Movie Festival : The Mummy (Hammer), Horror of Dracula, and Blacula,

Last Blog on the Left reviews Dance of the Dead plus The Top 10 Best All-Time Horror Movies Ever & The Haunting of Molly Hartley

Shadowplay on She Wolf of London and Werewolf of Washington

League of Tana Tea Drinkers' Halloween Memories

Halloween Link Catch-up Part 1

I didn't really have time to do any web work on Halloween and I was away all weekend so here's a post full of wonderful tricks and treats that you may have missed - plus a few fresh ones mixed in...

The First Annual Kindertrauma Halloween Parade!

13 covered the likes of "EEGAH!!!", "The Monster Of Piedras Blancas" and "Fiend Without a Face".

It's a Halloween hootenany! at And Now the Screaming Starts plus The Other Author of Frankenstein

Horror Movie a Day reviews The Beyond (1981)

The Horror Section's Halloween Link Roundup

arglebargle! celebrates The Munsters

The Wolfman (1941) & Werewolves 101 @ The Monsterverse

War of the Worlds 70th Anniversary @ Blogue Macabre

Branded in the 80's remembers Saturday the 14th!

Halloween safety clips at Carrie White Burns in Hell

Cinefantastique has Orson Welles on "The War of the Worlds" panic broadcast plus a Bruce Campbell interview

The Classic Tales Podcast presents Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker.

So much great stuff at Cool-Mo-Dee!

• Complete List of Links to Comics
• Super Gliders - Stolen Candy
• Casper - Frightday the 13th (1952)

The Hammer Film Music Collection @ Cosmobells

Fong songs: Dancing at the Zombie Zoo

Dave Lowe has lots of great shots up of his yard haunt and home decor.

Stan Lee Reads The Raven @ Quickstop Entertainment

A Hardy (Boys) Halloween @ Dinner with Max Jenke

Diversions of the Groovy Kind has Jack Kirby's Spirit World! and Morbius--the Sci-Fi Vampire!

Halloween Party at The House of Edgar

Electronic Cerebrectomy's Link Recap

Evil on Two Legs critiques The Fashion of Haddonfield

Exploitation Retrospect reviews Argento's The Mother of Tears

Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? @ Franklin Mint Blog

Groovy Age of Horror on the Universal & Hammer Monster Rallys plus "My Groovy Grandma - Halloween Edition"

Happy Halloween from Chas Addams @ Hairy Green Eyeball

Haunted Forum menber jimmyzdc's Phantom Hollow Yard Haunt

Avalard's Box of Obfuscation Podcast: Is This A Hammer Film? (via Hammer and Beyond)

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 21: Evening

"Lucky 13" Steps to Halloween Safety (American Red Cross)

Disneyland Japan Halloween Parade at Cool-Moe-Dee

Kindertrauma befriends Satan's Little Helper

Horror's Not Dead reviews Dance of the Dead

John Rozum reviews Jeepers Creepers

And Now the Screaming Starts looks back at the supposed "panic" caused by Orson Welle's Halloween War of the Worlds broadcast.

Bloody Good Horror Podcast Episode 46!

Lovecraft and Franklin Roosevelt (Chris Perridas)

More werewolves (and Swamp Thing) at Diversions of the Groovy Kind

Halloween in NYC at A Child Grows in Brooklyn

Make your very own Halloween Stocking at Cottage Way of Life

Take your very own Ghostly Photos at Creepy Cupcakes

Make a super easy Monster Wreath at Dabbled

Geek O'Lanterns @ Electronic Cerebrectomy

...mmmm Meathead...

Super nifty/geeky ILM Halloween Party Invites @ Nostalgic G

Lovely Halloween Ephemera at Old Fashioned Halloween.

Harvey's Midnight Hour tears apart, in a good way, the Winchell's Donut House Halloween Record.

Great Moments in Trick or Treat History #2 (Para Abnormal)

Peter Cushing (by pbradyart)

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 21: Morning

Cool-Moe-Dee presents Pac-Man - Nighty Nightmare (toon) Monsters Unleashed #3 (comic) and From Beyond the Unknown #1 (comic)

The Tell-Tale Heart w/ James Mason (toon) at Electronic Cerebrectomy

Frankensteinia spotlights the art of Mike Hill

The Undead at 13

Dinner with Max Jenke remembers Fade To Black.

Scream Blacula Scream at Franklin Mint Blog

Dr. K on Doomwatch

WeeklyComicBookReview.com reviews Halloween:The First Death of Laurie Strode

Digital Meltd0wn shares Christopher Lee - Fireside Tales

Novelist Chris Marie Green's Scare List

Fear.net's Home is Where the Haunt Is contest.

A Brief History of "The Monster Mash" at Backseat Cuddler

Dead Birds reviewed at The Monsterverse

Top 10 Star Wars Pumpkin Carvings

Misc. Garbage offers it's Halloween Mix Vol.3 -(Here's Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)

In Vancouver for Halloween? Miss604 has the holiday covered!

Universal Horror Sounds presents Carol Burnett, Chita Rivera, Caterina Valente, and Boris Karloff !

Horror at Hulu:

Horror Express
Victorian scientists fight a missing-link monster making zombies on a trans-Siberia train.

Atom Age Vampire
A reptilian professor restores a scarred singer's beauty with serum from the dead.

Frankenstein's Daughter
Suburban scientist Oliver Frank creates a she-monster of the night.

Netflix Watch Instantly (req acct)

Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
Go inside the world of makeup special effects for movies of all genres, from horror (Scream, The Thing) to fantasy (The Chronicles of Narnia) to sci-fi (Planet of the Apes) as K.N.B. EFX Group shares their techniques in creating monsters, aliens and ... old people. Directors Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven, John Carpenter and more tip their hats off to the magic makers themsevles, such as Howard Berger and Rob Bottin.

Unbreakable
Bruce Willis plays an ordinary man who makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead -- and him unscathed. Is he unbreakable? The answer may lie with the mysterious Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass. Unbreakable marks writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's moody follow-up to The Sixth Sense.

Flash Gordon
Flash gets a face-lift in this update of the 1930s comic strip. After being skyjacked (along with comely Dale Arden) to the planet Mongo, Flash (Sam Jones) learns that its merciless ruler, Emperor Ming (Max von Sydow), plans to destroy Earth and take Dale as his concubine. There's only one thing to do: unite Mongo's warring kingdoms, foil Ming's plan and get the girl.

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 20: Afternoon

Cool-Moe-Dee has a Monster Music round-up plus Casper's Halloween Special

Vinnie Rattolle offers a special expanded soundtrack for Phantom of the Paradise!

A bunch of Cool Halloween links at Dabbled

24 Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities (WebUrbanist)

Dave Lowe on Norman Rockwell

It's Werewolf Week at Diversions of the Groovy Kind!

Dr. K on They Saved Hitler's Brain!

Digital Meltd0wn shares the April Fools Day OST

The Mousetalgia Podcast #6 is all about the Haunted Mansion via Doombuggies

Spoiler Alert! Dread Central leaks the Scream Award winners.

Lazy Eye Theater's Guide to Horror Texting

Geektarded remembers Disney's Halloween Treat

Giallo Fever styles The Long Hair of Death

The Lightning Bug's Lair reviews Transylvania 6-5000

io9 previews the week's genre television offerings.

Last Blog on the Left has The Best in the Week's Horror News

Magic Carpet Burn shares some Ripley's True Ghost Stories plus Monster Parade #2 &#3

The Monster List - more than 800 Halloween Projects! via Trixie's Treats

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 15: Late Afternoon

Creepy Candy at Branded in the 80's

Dave Lowe has an ad for one of my own personal kinder-traumas - The Haunted Mansion at Longbranch. My little brother and I had no concept of the "haunted attraction" and my folks rushed us in before we had time to fully grasp what was going on. I never fully forgave them...

It's not to late! Check out Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories' Halloween Project Archive!

Sign of the Smiling Spectre at The Horrors of it All

Beverly Hills Cthulhu at io9

Attack of the Puppet People! at Random acts of Geekery

The Evil of Frankenstein at John Rozum.com

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 13: The Witching Hour

Universal Horror Sounds presents HorroRitual: "The original prologue for the U.S. release of "Dracula A.D. 1972""

It's HAPPY HEADLESS DAY! at Neato Coolville

Disneyland's Master Carver shares Jack-o-Lantern tips @ DoomBuggies

Mickey Mouse in The Mad Doctor @ Electronic Cerebrectomy

Geektarded shares a slew of TV Guide Halloween Ads

Hulu:

Christine
The twisted love story of a teenager and his obsessively jealous 1958 Plymouth Fury.

OTR at Internet Archive

Theater Royal

• Queen of Spades w/ Orson Welles
• Markheim w/ Sir Lawrence Olivier
• The Canterville Ghost w/ Sir Lawrence Olivier
• Dr Jekyl And Mr Hyde w/ Sir Lawrence Olivier
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles w/ Sir Ralph Richardson & Alec Guiness
• All Individual Episodes
• Complete series (1 gig)

Dinah Shore Show w/ Peter Lorre

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 12 : Afternoon

Latenight Wingman has a fairly complete list of Horror Movies on TV during the Halloween season (I meant to post this much earlier - oh well, better late than never)

Arrivederci Bloody Italiana Hello I Spit on Your Taste

Dave Lowe shows how to make a Moving Monster Eye.

Electronic Cerebrectomy joins Mickey in The Haunted House

Horror Movie a Day reviews The Burrowers

Paul Naschy's Vengence of the Zombies at Internet Archive

John Rozum spotlights monster artists Don Marquez

Lots of cool Planet of the Apes stuff on display at Random Acts of Geekery

Fantastic Monsters of the Films #4 highlights at Magic Carpet Burn

retrospace remembers the Razorblade/Apple scares of the '70s plus other Halloween safety tips.

The Home Theater Forum reviews The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Munsters:The Complete Series.

kevin g shinnick at the Scarlet Street Forums has posted a bunch of neat Youtube videos including a recent news report on The Witches Dungeon and a Zacherley Out-Take from the upcoming Legends Of Film & Fantasy.

31Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 7 : Evening

Kindertrauma has a cold blast from the refrigerated past: Carvel Halloween Commercial.

datajunkie shares Scream 6 and a scary Boris Karloff L.P.

Cottage Way of Life shows you how to make your very own vintage style poison bottle.

Crosseyed Cyclops shares an episode of Freddy's Nightmares.

Evil on Two Legs gives us it's Favorite H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations

The Horrors of it All shares the creepy comic tale "The Head Man"

THE MUMMY (1932) Castle Films 16mm Digest at Random Acts of Geekery.

Hulu has added Carnival of Souls and Terror in the Haunted House.

io9 asks you to "Show Us Your Best (or Most Humiliating) Scifi Halloween Costumes"