A Nightmare on Elm Street

[Movies]

Reader’s Choice: Rebeka Fairbanks Reveals Her Horror Top Ten

It’s time for some interaction. I want to mingle (digitally) with Halloween Love readers and get to know them a little better. Chances are most people who regularly come here love horror … a fairly safe assumption to make I would think, and the only thing I enjoy as much as watching horror is talking

[Books and Comics]

Help Turn ‘Never Sleep Again’ from a Documentary into a Book!

In 2006, author Peter M. Bracke released Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, a full-color 300+ page book that served as an exhaustive retrospective on the entire Friday the 13th franchise. Last year, that book was turned into an equally extensive and comprehensive documentary, with the written words on the page

[Art]

Art Attack: Beautiful Horror from Master Deviant Grimbro

Did you ever feel like you were meant to have a talent for something but fate or destiny or whatever forgot to give it to you? Know what I mean? … For example, I had a friend who was obsessed with playing Pool, he would play it day and night and when he wasn’t playing

[Movies]

Razor Sharp Tongue: Classic Freddy Krueger Moments

Halloween Love is showing some serious LOVE this month to the one and only Freddy Krueger. If you haven’t already entered the incredible Giveaway that is running all through April then do it now and after you have finished tell your horror loving friends and get them involved as well! One insanely lucky reader will

[Art]

A Lost Art Part 2: More Passion for Paint and Posters!

A few weeks ago I wrote about the intense passion and love I have for painted movie posters, especially painted horror posters from the 1970s and 80s. I also briefly touched upon the sheer frustration I feel when I look at modern posters and the lifeless direction I feel they have taken. The first article

[Movies]

Jason Voorhees Kill List / Visual Guide Part 3: Freddy vs Jason

Here we go with the third part of what will hopefully become a 100% complete visual guide to every character and actor who has died at the hands of the legend that is Jason Voorhees. Jason Takes Manhattan got the treatment first Here. Then we moved onto Part 7: The New Blood Here. Getting on

[TV]

Nightmare Cafe: The OTHER Wes Craven/Robert Englund Collaboration

Today here on Halloween Love, we continue our ongoing celebration of the 30th anniversary of Freddy Krueger’s birth by stepping a tad bit outside of the box, to look back on a short-lived television series that can in many ways be considered a spin-off of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. A spin-off in spirit,

[Art]

A Lost Art: My Passion for Paint and Posters!

I was obsessed with movie posters in the 80s, to me they were genuine works of art that could be visually studied for hours. They fired my imagination and made me dream of being able to create something that beautiful myself. Being a fairly quiet and shy lad I would often whisper in my Dads

[Art]

California Art Gallery Pays Tribute to the Legacy of Wes Craven

To avoid fainting, keep repeating… It’s only an art exhibit… It’s only an art exhibit.. It’s only an art exhibit. While there’s no denying that Wes Craven isn’t exactly the filmmaker he once was, there’s also no denying that it quite frankly doesn’t even matter. Craven has given us some of the very best horror

[Movies]

1984: One Hell of a Year for Horror

The year we currently find ourselves in is of course 2014, which means that 30 years have passed since the calendar read 1984. That is, if I’m doing the math correctly. I never was very good with numbers… 1984 was one of the greatest years in the history of the horror genre, giving birth to