Way back in 1979, Kenner was famously forced to pull an Alien toy from shelves, amidst parental complaints that suggested the toy was much too horrifying for its intended audience. We’ve come a long way as a society since then, and a quick trip into your local Toys R Us serves as the perfect example …
To celebrate the journey toward Halloween 2014 I’m going to do something I’ve wanted to attempt since I first started writing here on Halloween Love … put together a definitive list of my personal favorite horror movie moments and scenes. I hope you will agree with some, maybe raise an eyebrow at others and fingers …
An annual tradition started by Matt from Dinosaur Dracula a couple years back, the basic idea behind the so-called Halloween Mood Table is to create a shrine to Halloween in your home, essentially as a place of Halloween worship. When your spirit is feeling low, you simply look at the shrine and VOILA… it’s completely …
All horror fans tend to have that one special movie that they love more than anyone else in the community. For me, that movie is 1995’s Ice Cream Man. I’ve been writing blog posts about Ice Cream Man for the last few years, including one here on Halloween Love, and it’s just one of those …
Hubble, bubble, toil, and trouble, the Wicked Witch of the West has been melted into a sweet, green puddle. Elphaba left her spell casting hand and black hat behind. This morbid but delicious potion is sure to offer guests a wicked-good time. Makes: 40 cups Ingredients 6 cups of water 1 cup of sugar 5 …
First, before I get into the review, let me just say how great it feels to come back and write again. Long story short, some things in my private life have kept me so busy, I haven’t had time to do what I love. My comeback will be slow, but I have not yet begun …
The last few weeks have really felt a little bit magical, and the best is yet to come! I’m going to give my small corner of the UK a firm pat on the back this year, retailers have really stepped up and embraced Halloween 2014 in a way I’ve never seen before over here. The …
There are a select few haunted attractions that are known the world over and widely considered to represent the industry’s proverbial cream of the crop, and Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride is one of those haunts that’s often listed amongst the best. Started in 1991 and run out of Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania, Bates Motel is …
It was to be expected that Season 5’s action-packed premiere episode of The Walking Dead would pave the way for a handful of slower ones, centered mostly on driving the story to an epic mid-season conclusion. Anyone who’s been watching The Walking Dead with any regularity surely knows the way the show works at this …
Technology continues to progress exponentially, with technologies becoming dated quicker than ever before. Fax machines abandoned in way of email. Payphones and landlines abandoned in way of mobile phones. Phonebooks abandoned in way of Google search. Blockbuster storefronts and cable abandoned in way of Netflix. CDs abandoned in way of iPods. Film cameras abandoned in …
