Theatrically released horror has been pretty awful in 2014, the box office inundated with endless clones that have all grabbed for the same slice of that sweet paranormal pie. When Hollywood finds a formula that works, they hold onto it like a drowning man holds onto a life preserver, and the low cost-high profit formula …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We’ve reached the end of another week – thank god! – which means it’s time to once again take a look at the coolest, weirdest and/or most awesome images that I’ve stumbled across on social media this past week. So let’s get right to it, shall we?! In preparation for The Walking Dead‘s fifth season …
‘If there’s a common bond that ties our generation together, it’s the shared magic of waking up on a Saturday morning and watching six hours of cartoons while eating bowl after bowl of sugary cereal, then going to bed and having hideous sugar-induced nightmares.’ This is the first thing you’ll read when you open up …
Found footage movies have acquired a pretty lousy reputation over the years. In many ways, the sub-genre has come to represent the absolute pinnacle of creative bankruptcy within the horror genre, as each new one feels like an exact replica of the last. The problem with this rampant horror fan hatred of all things found …
The worlds of wrestling and horror have collided many times over the years, giving us characters like The Undertaker, Papa Shango, Kane and Gangrel. Kamala, too. Can’t forget Kamala. He ate live chickens. But there’s never been a more majestic partnership between those worlds than Halloween Havoc – the now-defunct WCW’s annual pay-per-view that served …
