I was truly saddened to hear about the passing of Harold Ramis in the news today. No other film sums up the magic of my 1980s childhood more than Ghostbusters. It still remains the best experience I have ever had in a movie theatre and I watch it at least once or twice a year. …
Today this world got a little less awesome as it was announced that beloved writer/director/actor Harold Ramis passed away. He will always have a special place in the hearts of genre fans for his work writing and acting in the Ghostbusters franchise as Dr. Egon Spengler. Getting his start with SCTV (Canada’s answer to Saturday …
I am a big fan of both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick. And although Stephen King does not approve of the film adaptation of his story The Shining, many, if not most or all horror fans or movie lovers, buffs, and critics in general, consider it to be a masterpiece, possibly the best horror film …
Cosplay noun 1.The practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game. If you’re like me and have a bevy of horror loving friends who are either extreme Halloween lovers or convention goers, you’ve no doubt noticed how serious they take cosplay. I’m not talking about girls in ripped up …
It’s fair to say that when you grow up obsessing over horror films you’d be at least a little nervous to meet your favorite icons of fright. With so many conventions spreading all across the globe, meeting your favorite celebrity has never been easier. As a person who frequents conventions I’m here to give you …
I’m normally not the type of person to turn someone’s passing into a blog post, but since I know most of the horror sites likely won’t be covering this one, and since it’s a story I’ve been following over the course of the last several months, I feel it’s important to use my little soap …
Imagine a government organization created solely to secure, contain, and protect paranormal anomalies in order to study them, help them, or keep them locked up. Imagine multiple facilities all around the world, multiple doctors and scientists, multiple test subjects and volunteers, all coming together to continue the research of these creatures and entities to keep …
I’ve always been drawn to witches since I was a young child. Not an obsession, and not exactly a fetish, but I feel a warmth there, a loving nature. I’m of course not talking of “evil” witchcraft or satanism in its commonly misunderstood connotation, but “good” witches. And before you say “But, witches aren’t real.” …
Few films are truly worthy of being called macabre and the definition alone and synonyms really don’t live up to it either: ma·ca·bre /məˈkäbrə/ (I personally pronounce it as meh·kob — expert discussion of pronunciation) Adjective Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury: “a macabre series of murders”. Synonyms …
I was only recently introduced to Kickstarter, a social platform that helps ideas get off the ground both in the “spread the word” sense and the “funding to put it into production” sense. What surprised me, is all the fun Halloween and horror themed ideas. For example, the zombie mugs: Here are a few others …
