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Martyn

martyn@halloweenlove.com

I love horror, art, toys, comics, monsters and ANYTHING that came from the 1980s. Share our stuff and thank you for reading, we do it all for you!

[TV]

Inevitability: The Cartoon Characters That Helped Shape My Love of Horror

I write about my childhood a lot here on Halloween Love but I suppose that’s inevitable. Every drop of passion and love I have for the horror genre was born and developed in my youth. As I’ve always said … it was age-appropriate imagery that first sparked my interest in horror and that just grew

[TV]

Terror and the Tardis Part 2: The 10 Spookiest Doctor Who Episodes Since 2005

It’s time to reveal the top 5 spookiest, creepiest, frightening and most horror-filled episodes of Doctor Who since it returned in 2005. Part 1 of the list can be found here containing numbers 10-6, but now let’s find out what made the top positions … 5. The Satan Pit 2006. The conclusion of a two

[TV]

Terror and the Tardis Part 1: The 10 Spookiest Doctor Who Episodes Since 2005

History tells us that Doctor Who has been watched by several generations of children from behind sofas or through gaps in their fingers. I grew up with the show and I can’t say I ever found myself running for cover but when it comes to creating original unnerving creatures and unique scary Aliens then Doctor

[Art]

Smashing Pumpkins: A Closer Look at Some Very Cool Carving

Something that has become increasingly clear to me in recent years is that England doesn’t embrace Halloween nearly as much as our friends on the other side of the Atlantic. I’m not entirely sure why? … It’s possible that being so close to Bonfire Night (Nov 5th) has an impact, and despite the best efforts

[Reviews]

A Very Cold War: Threads 1984

Threads was a Documentary / Drama partly produced by the BBC that was first aired in 1984. It would go to win four BAFTA awards and almost unanimous critical acclaim. Even now, 30 years after it was made, many still consider it to be the most genuine, harrowing and uncompromising look at a full-scale Nuclear

[Collectibles]

Weird World Weekly: Amputation, Evil Lego and Skin Auctions!

It’s a wonderful and sometimes truly bizarre world we live in but the age of the internet makes so much information and news available to us that it’s easy to become desensitised to most things you read and watch. There is fascinating, thought provoking and brilliantly crazy stuff out there, you just have to fight

[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

[Reviews]

Can’t Avoid it Any Longer: The Friday the 13th Movies Get Ranked

If you’ve been following my posts here on Halloween Love over the last couple of months you will have probably noticed I’m a bit of a Friday The 13th nut. I love Freddy and Michael as much as the next guy but when it comes to the Horror Icons Jason is my main man. Over

[Collectibles]

Prized Possessions: Horror Collectors Reveal All

When you have a passion for movies, TV shows, books, comics and characters like we all probably do then more often than not that passion also extends into the realm of toys and collectables. They seem to go hand in hand with most people I’ve met over the years and there really is some wonderful