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John Squires

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[Movies]

My Favorite Horror Movie Kill Scenes: Volume 1

I’m often asked by fellow fans to list off my favorite horror movie kill scenes, which is a gargantuan list that’s quite frankly impossible to limit to the usual 5, 10 or even 20 that website lists are typically limited to. There are just too many awesome ones that come to mind whenever I’m asked

[Reviews]

Movie Review: The Den (2014)

I’ll never forget the night I went on Chatroulette with some friends a few years back, which was equal parts fascinating, disturbing, hilarious and utterly creepy. If you’ve never been on, Chatroulette is one of many internet services where you can live video chat with people from all over the world, giving you unsettling access

[Costumes and Masks]

Don Post Studios’ Unreleased 2012 Halloween Masks

It was way back in 1938 that the legendary Don Post Sr. forever changed the holiday this here blog is named after, creating the very first overhead latex rubber Halloween mask. With the formation of Don Post Studios, Halloween was truly never the same again, and to this very day all the rubber masks worn

[Reviews]

Thoughts on ‘The Strain’ Series Premiere

Right about now, us horror fans are in the midst of an absolute golden age of television, with the quality of shows on networks like AMC, HBO, A&E, FX and even NBC far surpassing most of the genre films that have been released into theaters in the past few years. The Walking Dead, Hannibal and

[TV]

True Blood Season 7, Episode 4: Recap & Thoughts

If you’re a regular reader of my weekly True Blood recaps here on HL, then surely you’ve caught onto the fact by now that I haven’t thus far been a big fan of the show’s seventh and final season. Quite frankly, the first three episodes of Season 7 just plain bored me, with little happening

[Art]

The Most Awesome Images Found on Social Media: 7/7-7/11

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?! Earlier in the week, the nominations for the

[Collectibles]

The Halloween Love Toy Box: McFarlane’s Monsters Playsets

In a press release sent out earlier this week, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane announced that he’s looking to revolutionize the horror action figure game once more with a brand spankin’ new line of building block style toys, kicking off with a handful of Walking Dead-themed releases. Set to exclusively hit Toys R Us stores this

[Reviews]

To Stream or Not to Stream? Haunt

Presumably referring to the criticism being heaped upon his latest film, Deliver Us from Evil, writer/director Scott Derrickson tweeted something out over the weekend, which really stuck with me. “A good movie doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel,” he wrote, “but it does have to roll it well.” What Derrickson was essentially saying is that

[Collectibles]

Five Awesome 2014 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive Horror Toys!

The annual San Diego Comic Con kicks off in just a couple short weeks, running this year from July 24th through the 27th. As anyone who’s ever experienced the event can attest, Comic Con is the absolute mecca for geeks like ourselves, the convention center jam packed with absolutely everything that we love so much.

[Collectibles]

Unboxing the First Ever Horror Block Mystery Box!

Last week here on Halloween Love I made a post about four horror-themed mystery boxes that have recently become available to us fans, one of which was the just launched Horror Block. An off-shoot of the popular Nerd Block, Horror Block is a subscription box that’s filled with toys, t-shirts and various other goodies that