Ray Villafane's 3D Pumpkin Carving Tutorials (Kickstarter Project)

This cool sounding project is, as of this writing, about 20% funded with little over a month remaining. I'm defiantly going to make a pledgeonce I figure out which level to choose (that $100 pledge premium looks mighty sweet but I may have to face economic reality and stick with the $25 DVD pledge)

From the Kickstarter Project Page:

ABOUT THIS PROJECT

If you thought Halloween and pumpkin carving was fun before...wait until you discover the magic that lies just beneath the rind. Get ready to unlock the 3D potential!

I plan on creating a set of DVD's that will benefit ANYBODY looking to become a better pumpkin carver! As a former kindergarten-12 Art teacher, I intend on including a couple of tutorials geared towards those individuals whom find even cutting triangles into a pumpkin challenging. Armed with some simple kid friendly tools (which can be easily purchased at stores for for just a couple of dollars) we will start off with some simple bare bone designs that begin to touch on the joys of going 3D!...

Friday Afternoon Fear

Pumpkin Face (by pumpkinrot)

Panic In Year Zero! @ The Unknown Movies

Creepshow 2 @ Kindertrauma

Hausu @ Doomed Moviethon

New York Ripper @ The Lightning Bug's Lair

Frat House Massacre @ HorrorYearbook

Tesla coils sing the Doctor Who theme in orgy of electric awesomesauce @ boing boing

Les Baxter - Macabre @ 13

Vampire Novelist David Wellington Names His Top Ten Vampire Movies @ Horror Hacker

Gullivar Jones, Warrior Of Mars @ The Bronze Age of Blogs

Sewer Horror @ The Horrors of it All

Killer Kitten's Claws of Horror

Dean Koontz's "Frankenstein"

Zombie Themed Wine Hitting the Market @ Dread Central

Top 8 Oedipal Robots Of All Time @ io9

5 Tips for Scaring the Crap out of People @ Dark Party Review

Sunday Linkage

Cool-Mo-Dee shares some Funky Phantom

Dread Central's Weekly Wrap-Up plus Yuzna to Produce Trio of 3D Horrors

Horror's Not Dead reviews Dead Set

What Would Toto Watch? watches Splinter and Let the Right One In

Weekly Comic Review weighs in on Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein

io9's Tasty Super Scifi Cereal Breakdown

The Lightning Bug Dollar Deals: Fury of the Wolfman (1972)

The Vault of Horror notices something about Fulci's House By the Cemetery - Stephen King, By Way of Lucio Fulci

Moon in the Gutter looks back at the career of 80's cutie Betsy Russell who's made something of a comeback in the recent Saw sequels.

Retro Slashers reviews Return to Sleepaway Camp

meanlouise shares Bugs Bunny - Transylvania 6-5000

Videogamesblogger reviews Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)

Weird Hollow flicks Frankie's Bic

The Making of Vincent Peorice Presents @ Comic Monsters (via Unspeakable Horror)

Old Fashioned Halloween has a vintage ad for Sears, Roebuck and Co. Halloween Costumes

Cool Things in Random Places on the Punkin Chunkin 2008 Championship

Non-Horror Stuff:

Cheesecake album covers of yesteryear at retrospace

Partridge Family Comics at Diversions of the Groovy Kind

HALLOWEEN (by David Zellaby)

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 2: Evening

Cottage Way of Life's Mr. Potato Head Pumpkin

Film School Rejects 31 Days of Horror: The Descent

A gloomy John Rozum tries some Twice Told Tales

Eric's Bad Movies: Leprechaun @ Film.com

Steampunk and the Macabre @ Brass Goggles

Fantastic October themed Desktop Wallpapers @ Smashing (via Super Punch)

Crosseyed Cyclops shares a comic book adaptation of The Thing From Another World.

6 Famous Unsolved Mysteries (With Really Obvious Solutions) (Cracked)

Flickr:

31 Days of Halloween: Day 2: The Vault

from the crumbling crypt of blogging past Prof. Ravensdeath brings you more classic radio drama...

The Inner Sanctum Set Three
The Onyx Eye
The Meek Die Slowly
No Rest For the Dead'
The Magic Tile
Murder Off the Record

Scans from this date...
2006




2005

31 Days: Tricks and Treats: Day 1: Late Afternoon

Halloween Blogging....

Better Homes and Gardens has literally scads of neat Halloween crafts, recipes and costume and decorating tips in their 100 Days of Holidays section.

Weddings and Celebrations features a Halloween Candy Buffet.

Exploitation Retrospect kicks off 31 Days of Fright.

31 Days of Horror: A Cinematic Countdown to Halloween @ Triggeerstreet

31 Ghosts in 31 days at Do Ghosts Exist?

In the Void begins it's Oktober Horror Fest

B-Movie Star waxes nostalgic while kicking off 31 Days of Halloween.

Row Three's 31 Days of Horror begins with My Little Eye.

The Zombie Reporting Center is undead with their 31 Days of Halloween celebration.

Other Good Stuff...

Homer of the dead: Simpsons turn into zombies for horrific Hallowe'en episode (Daily Mail via Zombie Reporting Center)

Crosseyed Cyclops shares Boogeyman #1, an underground comic from 1969 featuring a certain R. Crumb.

Apparently, H.P. Lovecraft Had a Sense of Humor (Suite 101 SciFi)

Random Horror Comic Cover | Weird Mystery Tales Super Special

31 Days of Halloween: Day 1: The Vault

From deep within the Ravensdeath archives come the horrors of the past...

Classic radio Horror: The Inner Sanctum Mysteries

Inner Sanctum Mysteries was a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952. Created by Himan Brown, the anthology series featured stories of mystery, terror and suspense. The tongue-in-cheek introductions were in sharp contrast to shows like Suspense and The Whistler. A total of 526 episodes are known to have been produced. (Wikipedia)

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"Taking its name from a popular series of mystery novels, Inner Sanctum Mysteries debuted over NBC's Blue Network in January 1941.

Inner Sanctum Mysteries featured one of the most memorable and atmospheric openings in radio history: an organist hit a dissonant chord, a doorknob turned and the famous "creaking door" slowly began to open." (Radio hall of Fame)

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Over the years I've shared a lot of classic radio drama of the Horror variety. These days you can find loads of great sites sharing tons of wonderful OTR. Keep watching our frequent "Trick or Treaters" blog roundups to see who is sharing what this season!

(My first set of Inner Sanctum shares has gone missing, I'll re-post it when I find it)

The Inner Sanctum Set Two
Death For Sale
Terror By Night
Birdsong For A Murder
Beyond the Grave
Beneficiary of Death

Murder Mansion

Six episodes - about 28mb

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The Crypt of Screaming Scans

Here are the scans that were posted on day1 of the last 3 countdowns...

2007




2006




2005

sunday evening stuff (haunt how-to, naughty book covers, stuff)

while I mourn my miserable Mets here's some stuff...

Let the Right One In Trailer & More Confusing Updates on Pixar's John Carter of Mars @ Firstshowing.net

Oh my... Misteria - raunchy horror book covers @ Blonde Zombie (nsfw)

The Secret of the Moaning Ghosts @ the Horrors of it All

Wondermark #446; In which a Toy prevents against Neglect

Cinema Fromage reviews Mulberry Street.

Some Haunt tutorials...

• Corpsefied Blucky in a Crow Cage (dariusobells)
• Papier MacheScarecrow Skulls (stolloween)
• Giant Paper Mache Pumpkins(spookyblue)
• A PumpkinRot inspired "Roots" scarecrow (vikingdarkworks)

DVD Talk Reviews:

• Schrader's Exorcism
• Rodan/War of the Gargantuas

One Step Beyond : Brainwave

Aboard a United States ship in Japanese waters during World War II, Captain Fielding is critically injured. A hospital corpsman must perform surgery with only the radio voice of a doctor on another ship to guide him.

Flickr:

second Saturday stuff

When a Slasher isn't a Slasher but is Still a Slasher - Horror Yearbook looks at Slasher films that may not have sold themselves as Slasher flicks but really were slasher flicks after all..
(via Anchorwoman in Peril)

Camp Blood premiers Blood Work, a True Blood Vlog.

Hauntworld.com announces Americas Best Haunted Attractions 2008

Hauntworld's 2008 Top 13 Haunted Attractions

1. 13th Gate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2. The Darkness, St. Louis, Missouri
3. Netherworld, Atlanta, Georgia
4. Haunted Overload, New Hampshire
5. Scarehouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6. House of Torment, Austin, Texas
7. Bates Motel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8. Headless Horseman, New York
9. Dead Acres, Columbus, Ohio
10. Spookywoods, North Carolina
11. House of Shock, New Orleans, Louisiana
12. Erebus, Detroit, Michigan
13. Cutting Edge, Dallas, Texas

Dread Central has posted it's Weekly Wrap-up.

Monsters A Go-Go Spookshow Radio 001 is ready for your downloading and listening pleasure!

DVD Talk reviews

• Buried Alive
• Goosebumps - Monster Blood
• Goosebumps: A Night in Terror Tower
• Rest Stop - Don't Look Back

Netflix Watch Instantly (Req. Account)

Toxie's Triple Terror: Deadly Daphne's Revenge
When a woman is hideously raped, she puts her faith in justice meted out by a court of law. Big mistake. When the sham verdict comes in, she decides she'll have to take matters into her own hands -- and nothing's more dangerous than a woman scorned! Shocking schlock from the gang at Troma -- the same production group that brought you The Toxic Avenger.

Flickr:

Sing a Song of Halloween Vintage Postcard

if this is Tuesday it must be stuff

Evil Dead: The Musical Coming to the Big Screen in 3D?! (FirstShowing)

The Forbidden Planet blog has info on a Rentaghost revival.

Fringe Bloggers have an episode preview and a review poll for tonight's premier episode.

Fringe reviews at Metacritic.

Giallo Fever looks at 1978's I Gabbiani volano basso (Seagulls Fly Low).

The Good, The Bad, and Godzilla's Monster of the Week is Doruge Demon: OKOZERUGE !

Carrie White Burns in Hell has the Hell Night trailer.

Internet archive has...
Deep Red (imdb)
Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory (imdb)

The Last Blog on the Left reviews the unrated DVD of The Wizard of Gore.

Sweet Skulls carves into the Halloween II movie poster.

SciFi Japan notes that Sept. 14th is Death Note Day at New York City's Kinokuniya Bookstore.

Coney Island's AstroLand Park Closing, A Victim Of The Real Future (io9)

Trixie's Treats shares the sounds that haunt her house at Halloween.

Toyama bone collector on the prowl (Road to the Deep East via Japan News Junkie)

Since last August, one bizarre and horrible incident is scaring the people in Toyama prefecture. Someone is stealing the cremation urns from cemeteries in some villages.

Movie Morlocks list of 10 good things about the Book of Lists:Horror.

Flickr...

flickr frights: Looking forward... (by wishshaper)

Looking forward... (by wishshaper)