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31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 14

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Nintendo Entertainment System 1989) “Something frightening has been happening on Elm Street lately. It seems that with each waking day another gruesome discovery is made… another neighborhood teen has mysteriously passed away into the dark stillness of the night. Everyone says it’s “natural causes,” but it seems as if somethingContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 14”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 13

The Simpson’s first annual Treehouse of Horror was originally broadcast on October 25, 1990, and is the only one of the yearly episodes to actually take place in Bart’s treehouse despite subsequent titles. This first offering finds Bart, Lisa and Maggie telling scary stories in Bart’s treehouse on Halloween night.  Each story being a segmentContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 13”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 11

The elements that make Session 9 work so well are the same elements that make John Carpenter’s The Thing the terrifying masterpiece that it is.  A sense of isolation.  In this case an asbestos abatement team working in an abandoned mental asylum.  The fact that these are grown men in danger, not teenagers and not women, but fully grown,Continue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 11”

Action Figure Review – Kid Festered’s Xenocreeps

Xenocreeps is the initial bootleg action figure from graphic designer and all around mad bastard Adam Gotthardt a.k.a. Kid Festered.Standing at 3 1/4 inches tall, the Xenocreep is kit bashed from a Dino-Riders Dedeye body and a strange bandaged head and then cast in clear resin.  I’m usually pretty good at deciphering the bits and piecesContinue reading “Action Figure Review – Kid Festered’s Xenocreeps”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 9

The best slasher movie to come out in the last ten years?  Absolutely.  Spinning the genre on its head, Behind the Mask uses the mockumentary approach to give you a behind the scenes peek at how a slasher does his thing.  Living in the same universe as Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Leatherface and even Chucky,Continue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 9”

The Devil’s Groove – 8 Rap Songs That Sample The Halloween Theme

Since the early days of rap and hip hop DJs have been sampling the records of other artists, sound bites from movies, television and commercials and splicing them into their own songs to create new soundscapes, moods or beats.  The fun as a pop culture aficionado is to try and identify those samples and observeContinue reading “The Devil’s Groove – 8 Rap Songs That Sample The Halloween Theme”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 8

Are You Afraid of the Dark?  – The Tale of the Twisted Claw (Season 1 Episode 4 – Original air date:  October 31, 1991) The Tale of the Twisted Claw is a modern re-telling of W.W. Jacobs’ 1902 classic cautionary short story, The Monkey’s Paw.  Here Devil’s Night pranksters Kevin and Dougie play a trickContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 8”

31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 7

Super Castlevania IV (Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1991) Originally released in Japan on Halloween in 1991, as Akumajō Dorakyura (Devil’s Castle Dracula) Super Castlevania IV was the franchises first foray into the 16-bit era.  The game is more or less a re-imagining of the original Castlevania but with the obvious graphical and audio upgrades theContinue reading “31 Days of Horror 2013 – Day 7”