Reviews

Reviews, anecdotes, and the like related to Halloween, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, or the bizarre.

[Bite-sized Horror]

Halloween 2015 Review: Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Spread

Living in the UK means I rarely find food products that could be classed as EXCITING, we’re just not that kind of country. So every couple of weeks I like to head to a specialist store that opened up in my home town about two years ago which sells imported candy, chocolate bars, canned drinks

[Reviews]

Slap Band Glassware by Iconic Concepts Review

We all remember slap bands when were kids, those Airheads-shaped colorful bands that you could slap around you and your friend’s wrists over and over in a habitual manner as hyper kids tend to do. I remember them specifically from the Scholastic Book Fairs of elementary school where we’d find all sorts of Halloween-themed goodies:

[TV]

Halloween Specials — Starsky and Hutch: ‘The Vampire’ (1976)

The cool thing about the Halloween season is that EVERYONE suddenly embraces and celebrates the things we love all year round. Non-horror television shows have proven to be no exception to that rule over the years, often getting their horror on in the weeks leading into the greatest holiday of the year. Of course, no

[Books and Comics]

Halloween 2015: The Dead Omnibus Wants to Show You How GRAPHIC a Novel Can Get!

For many of us the journey toward a love and appreciation of horror will have started with the same things across our childhoods. Spooky toys, certain movies we were either allowed to watch or secretly viewed when our parents weren’t around. Cartoon shows, reading books, and that oh so magical Halloween season. They all combine

[Reviews]

Short Film Review: The Confession of Fred Krueger (2015)

Given Hollywood’s obsession with the origin stories of iconic characters, it’s somewhat surprising that the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise has never spawned a full-on prequel. Oddly enough, it was the pilot episode of Freddy’s Nightmares – a show that didn’t have much to do with the character – that delved deepest into Krueger’s origins,

[Collectibles]

Halloween 2015 Review: Let’s Rip Open Some Lego “Monsters” Minifigures

Series 14 of the incredibly popular Lego Minifigures arrived last week, and for the first time since they started releasing these blind bagged individual characters I decided to get involved and buy a few. I’m not normally much of a Lego collector at all, but when it was revealed that this latest series had a

[Reviews]

WNUF Halloween Special: Guaranteed to Get You in the Halloween Spirit

There are a handful of horror movies and television episodes that I consider must-watches every Halloween season, from John Carpenter’s Halloween to Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, Trick ‘r Treat to Roseanne‘s many Halloween specials. It just doesn’t feel like Halloween until I revisit festive favorites such as those, and this year I’m happy

[TV]

NBC’s Cancellation of Hannibal Was a Blessing in Disguise

When NBC announced back in June that they had cancelled Hannibal, I was one of the many fans who was incredibly bummed out by the news. It’s not that I was surprised, as the writing had been on the wall for some time, but it’s always sad when a show doesn’t get the chance to

[Reviews]

Movie Review: Para Elisa (2012)

For the last few years, a Spanish horror film called Para Elisa has been finding its way back into the spotlight without any means for the mass audiences to see it. Now, thanks to Dark Sky Films, Para Elisa will be hitting DVD and video on demand services on September 1st. The film follows a

[Reviews]

Blood and Moonlight: Let Me Tell You Why I Love Manhunter so Much

Manhunter is one of my earliest memories of watching a film that was FAR too mature in content to be unfolding before my eyes (I think I was about 12-13 years old), but it’s also one of the most perfect examples of my young self being exposed to the sort of quality filmmaking that would