One of the best television episodes this year was the Season 2 premiere of FX’s vampire series The Strain, which featured a pre-credits scene directed by Guillermo del Toro, co-writer of the novel trilogy the show is based on. The flashback sequence showed us the origin story of the so-called Master, who we learned was …
Each and every Halloween season is marked by all sorts of goodies for us humanoids to enjoy, from festive new horror movies to spooky television specials, awesome decorations to killer costumes. And then there’s all the wacky food and drink products that line store shelves, which seem to grow in popularity with each passing year …
By the end of the 1980s, Wes Craven had woven his name directly into the fabric of popular culture, firmly solidifying himself as a true master of horror. He shocked and horrified audiences with his debut feature, The Last House on the Left, and then single-handedly revitalized the genre with his crowning achievement, A Nightmare …
In the interest of full disclosure, it seems only fair that I start off this review by noting that I’m a total sucker for two specific types of movies: ones set on Halloween and ones starring the incomparable Nicolas Cage. Needless to say, when I heard that Cage was starring in a supernatural thriller that …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
