Midnight Syndicate releases first music video – “Dark Legacy”

Midnight Syndicate debuts new Halloween Music Video ‘Dark Legacy’
featuring clips from their upcoming ‘The Dead Matter’ movie

Cleveland, Ohio (April 30, 2010)- The Gothic Halloween music group Midnight Syndicate has released their first official music video, ‘Dark Legacy.’ The video showcases the song ‘Dark Legacy’ from their ‘Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates’ CD as well as clips from the upcoming dark fantasy vampire/zombie film, ‘The Dead Matter.’ ‘The Dead Matter’ movie which stars genre favorites Andrew Divoff, Jason Carter, and Tom Savini will be released on DVD July 30,2010.

Produced as a part of Midnight Syndicate’s 13th Anniversary celebration, the video marks the first time band mates Gavin Goszka and Edward Douglas have performed together live. Also featured in the video are fellow Cleveland music icons Jeff Hatrix and Tom ‘Schmotz’ from the heavy metal band Mushroomhead.

The video was directed by David ‘House’ Greathouse whose music videos for Mushroomhead won him MTV2’s ‘Headbangers Ball Best Music Video of 2007’ award and a spot on the new ‘Saw VI’ DVD. Robert Kurtzman (creator of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn,’ ‘Wishmaster’) and his company Precinct 13 Entertainment co-produced the video which will also be included as an extra feature on ‘The Dead Matter’ DVD.

‘Dark Legacy’ was shot at the historic and reputedly haunted Phantasy Theatre in Lakewood Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.

Watch the video now at Midnight Syndicate’s official website: www.MidnightSyndicate.com
‘The Dead Matter’ official website: www.TheDeadMatter.com

About Midnight Syndicate:
Midnight Syndicate has been creating instrumental Halloween music and gothic horror fantasy soundtrack CDs for the past thirteen years. The group’s music has become a staple of the Halloween season as well as a favorite in the haunted house, amusement park, role-playing game, and gothic music industries. From Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights and Hugh Hefner’s Halloween parties to Monday Night Football, X-Box games, the classic ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ roleplaying game, and Barbara Walters specials, the music is designed to take listeners on a musical journey into their imagination.

About ‘The Dead Matter’ movie:
A guilt-ridden young woman desperate to contact her deceased brother discovers a powerful ancient relic that controls the dead. Her dark obsession drags her into the tangled world of two warring vampire lords (Andrew Divoff of ‘Lost,’ ‘Wishmaster’ and Tom Savini of ‘Friday the 13th,’ ‘Dawn of the Dead’) each with his own sinister plans for the artifact and a vampire hunter (Jason Carter of ‘Babylon 5’) who will stop at nothing to destroy it.

Inspired by ‘Tales From the Crypt,’ and classic Universal and Hammer horror films, this chilling dark fantasy co-produced by Robert Kurtzman (creator of ‘From Dusk Till Dawn,’ KNB FX) features a haunting score by gothic Halloween music composers, Midnight Syndicate. It’s a mix of classic horror themes with modern twists that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Midnight Syndicate Music Video Premiere

MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE TO DEBUT FIRST MUSIC VIDEO AT
TRANSWORLD’S HAUNTED HOUSE SHOW IN ST. LOUIS MARCH 25-28th

(Cleveland, OH) Midnight Syndicate is teaming up with Precinct 13
Entertainment, Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps, and director David Greathouse to
produce a music video for Dark Legacy from their Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates CD. It is the band’s first music video in their 13-year career.
Syndicate’s Edward Douglas, director Greathouse, and Robert Kurtzman will be on
hand to premiere the video during The Dubliner Opening Night Celebration
co-sponsored by Ken Donat and Westland Insurance at the TransWorld 15th
Halloween & Attractions Show in St. Louis March 25th (http://www.haashow.com/).
It will also be on display all weekend at the Midnight Syndicate Soundtracks Booth #631.

In addition to heading up Special FX Makeup on The Dead Matter, David’s
directorial credits include Mushroomhead’s 12 Hundred music video which won
Video of the Year 2007 on MTV2's Headbanger’s Ball and their 2010 Your Soul
is Mine video which appears on the Saw VI DVD. He also recently completed
a documentary entitled Legion of Terror which is based on a notorious
Northeastern Ohio haunted house acting troupe.

Midnight Syndicate Soundtracks – BOOTH # 631
Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps – BOOTH #629

TransWorld 15th Halloween & Attractions Show – (http://www.haashow.com/)
Midnight Syndicate Halloween Music – Gothic Fantasy Horror Soundtracks -
(http://www.midnightsyndicate.com/)
Precinct 13 Entertainment – (http://www.p13entertainment.com/)

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Angels of Death

My mom came to visit me in Hollywood from Boston this week. She is a registered nurse in the ICU at a General Hospital in my hometown. For some reason, having her around made me think of serial killer nurses.

Nurse Mercy Adult Costume

Nurses and doctors. We trust them with our lives. However, what better profession for sick individuals to get their rocks off in. If they are smart enough they can get their lust for killing satisfied but disguise it with medical overlay. They are dealing with critically ill patients anyway. Some serial killer types like to bring their patients to the brink of death and then magically “save them” so that they can get all the attention and glory for “saving a life”. Some like to push their patients that extra step to cross over to death and justify their actions by thinking that they are helping them die peacefully.

Night Nurse Nora Costume

Imagine you are in a hospital bed surrounded by various machines and pierced by needles and tubes running through your body. The nurse comes in and injects something into your IV. You assume it’s to make you feel better. Then you are overcome with incredible pain and you slip into and out of consciousness. What’s going on? You’ve been visited by one of the many Angels of Death that dwell in our hospitals today. She is taking joy from your pain. Being in charge of another human’s health and very life is the ultimate rush of control.

Here are some of the more famous Angels of Death:

Zombie Nurse Adult Costume

Maria Gruber, Irene Leidolf, Stephanija Meyer, and Waltraud Wagner were Austrian nurses who worked at Lainz General Hospital in Vienna: Wagner (23) killed her first patient with an overdose of morphine in 1983. She found an overwhelming satisfaction in playing God. She recruited the other nurses and devised a new more “exciting” way to murder patients. One nurse would hold the patients head and plug his nose while the other would pour water in his mouth. The crime was unprovable since it wasn’t uncommon for elderly patients to die from fluid in their lungs. The nurses were caught when they bragged in a local tavern about their kills. They confessed to 49 murders over six years but may have been responsible for over 200.

Jumbo Syringe

Jane Toppan (1854 – 1938) – trained at Cambridge Hospital and even worked at the prestigious Massachusetts general Hospital. She was a “lust driven” serial killer. She experimented with different dosages of narcotics in patients and made up medical charts etc. to help get away with her deeds. She would lay in patients and hold their bodies to hers as they drifted in and out of consciousness before they would die. She derived sexual pleasure from being close to life as it was leaving the body. Jane eventually made a mistake which got her arrested. She confessed 31 murders to her lawyer and pleaded insanity. Jane spent the rest of her life committed to Taunton insane hospital.

Nurse Feelgood Costume

Genene Anne Jones (born July 13, 1950) is a former pediatric nurse who killed somewhere between 11 and 46 infants and children in her care. She used injections of digoxin, heparin and later succinylcholine to induce medical crises in her patients, with the intention of reviving them afterward in order to receive praise and attention. These medications are known to cause heart paralysis and other complications when given as an overdose. Many children however, did not survive the initial attack and could not be revived. The exact number of murders remain unknown, as hospital officials destroyed records of her activities to prevent further litigation after Jones’ first conviction. Two murders put her behind bars for 99 years and 60 years on top of that but due to a prison overcrowding law in place at her time of conviction, she will be eligible for automatic parole in 2017.

Dr Heartstopper Costume

Kristen Gilbert (born November 13, 1967 as Kristen Strickland in Fall River, Massachusetts) is an American serial killer who was convicted for three first-degree murders, one second-degree murder, and two attempted murders of patients admitted for care at the VAMC (“Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center”) in Northampton, Massachusetts. She killed her patients by injecting them with epinephrine, at the time a ward stock medication and a non-controlled substance, causing them to have heart attacks. Her goal was to bring patients to the point of cardiac arrest and then “save them” by demonstrating advanced nursing skills. She was convicted March 14, 2001 in federal court. She was sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole plus 20 years.

Twisted Nurse Too Adult Costume

Charles Edmund Cullen (born February 22, 1960) is a former nurse and the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. Cullen told authorities in December 2003 that he had murdered as many as 40 patients during the 16 years he worked at 10 hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Charles is serving eighteen consecutive life sentences in a New Jersey penitentiary. How was he able to go from hospital to hospital killing so many? Apparently, not one of those institutions gave Cullen a bad reference, or told other hospitals he was trouble. It amounted to a policy of “See no evil-speak no evil” – one that gave Cullen, in effect, a license to kill.

Source: Wikipedia

There are unfortunately many more where this came from…

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Vampire Dancer Hopefuls perform at Halloween Horror Night Auditions

Hollywood’s most talented “undead” performers bared their fangs and strutted their stuff at Universal Studios Hollywood as they auditioned to be a part of a troupe of dancing vampires for Halloween Horror Nights 2010! Sink your teeth into the footage above!

The fantastically creepy dance troupe will be just one of the legends that come to life for Halloween Horror Nights, and will echo one of this year’s all-new maze experiences, “Vampyre: Castle of the Undead.” Other features of this year’s spooktacular events will include a “House of 1000 Corpses” maze created by horror legend Rob Zombie, a new “La Llorona Scare Zone,” as well as Universal Studios Hollywood ride favorites with new, spine-chilling twists, such as ““The Simpsons Ride®,” “Revenge of the MummySM – The Ride” and “Jurassic Park® In the Dark.”

Stay tuned for updates about more new content for the Halloween Horror Nights 2010 mazes and attractions!

Also, be sure to stay in the loop with HHN updates on the Twitter (Twitter.com/HorrorNights) and Facebook pages (http://www.facebook.com/HalloweenHorrorNights).

Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie’s 3-D Maze

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“LA LLORONA” to Haunt Halloween Horror Nights!

“LA LLORONA”— THE BLOODTHIRSTY SPECTRE OF MEXICAN LEGEND,
TO STALK HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS GUESTS ON THE UNIVERSAL BACKLOT AND WITHIN HER OWN “SCARE ZONE”
AS UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD UNVEILS AN ALL-NEW
HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS EXPERIENCE FOR 2010

Universal City, California— La Llorona, whose fearful story of melancholy and murder has terrified Mexican and Latin American children for generations, will cast a grim shadow upon guests at Universal Studios HollywoodSM this fall as her dreaded presence is unleashed upon guests at the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights® event, where the legends of horror come to life.

According to the legend, a beautiful Mexican woman fell in love and married the most handsome man in the village. She bore two beautiful children, but her husband soon fell in love with another woman. Blinded by jealousy, the woman ran with her children to a river, where her faithless husband was courting his new love. Enraged, she threw her children into the river, where the current carried them away. When she realized what she had done, she threw herself into the river as well.

But the woman did not leave this Earth. Late at night, in the deep woods, or by a small creek, children can hear her weeping, searching in vain for her lost children. “La Llorona,(“the crying woman”) they call her, for she frequently wails “My children, where are my children?” Her frail, drenched body is a chilling sight; any child wandering alone is sure to be snatched as her newest victim.

At the 2010 Halloween Horror Night event, La Llorona will stalk guests as they make their way through the Universal back lot as part of the all-new “Terror Tram” experience and she’ll also terrorize her own “Scare Zone,” hiding within the shadows of a gauntlet haunted by the ghosts of her dead victims.

The 2010 “Halloween Horror Night” event at Universal Studios Hollywood will offer spine-chilling new mazes based upon the horror genre’s most compelling characters. Rob Zombie and other top artists are collaborating with Universal Studios Hollywood in the creation of new mazes, “scare zones” and backlot experiences. Additional new content for the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights mazes and attractions will be announced shortly.

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Pimp Out Your Pet for Halloween

Big Daddy Dog Halloween Costume

I’m not much of a dog person — the whole picking up poo and carrying it around thing doesn’t do it for me — but I think, if I had a dog, I’d dress it for Halloween. I know some people think it’s cruel, but really? Any dog doted on enough to be dressed in a dog Halloween costume probably has a pretty sweet life.

Some of the coolest pet Halloween costumes in the Catalog this year:

Monkey Dog Rider Pet Halloween Costume

This fez-wearing dog-riding monkey is amazing. Amazingly freaky!

Star Wars Princess Leia Dog Halloween Costume

Whoever came up with the idea to design dog costumes so that it looks like the dog is a tiny human is truly twisted. I think the officially licensed Star Wars Halloween costumes are the most hilarious, but if you’re more into Wonder Woman, Indiana Jones, Batman or Shrek, those styles are available, too.

Taco Dog Halloween Costume

The hat makes it.

Zelda Bouffant Dog Halloween Costume

Not convinced that your average dog would actually wear a wig and glasses any longer than it might take to snap a photo, but something tells me that, if I had a dog, I’d try and find out if he would.

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Midnight Syndicate in AOL’s Best Halloween CDs

Three Midnight Syndicate CDs make AOL Radio’s Top 10 Halloween Music CDs of all-time.

AOL Radio has just released a list of the Top 10 Best Halloween Music CDs as ranked by AOL/CBS Radio listeners. In the company of such greats as The Exorcist soundtrack and Rob Zombie, three of the ten CDs were Midnight Syndicate discs (Born of the Night #8, Realm of Shadows #4, and Vampyre #3), ranking only behind Danny Elfman’s Nightmare Before Christmas and John Carpenter’s classic Halloween soundtrack.

Vampyre and Out of the Darkness (a collection of the best music from Born and Realm) are currently available at your local Halloween retailer – see below!

Midnight Syndicate CDs in stores nationwide this Halloween season!

Midnight Syndicate and Van Helsing’s Curse CDs are now available at your local Halloween retailer. To find the store nearest you, visit our Store Locator or shop online at the Midnight Syndicate Store.

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Monster Cereals are back for 2010 — with a whole new look

Boo Berry's 2010 Cereal Box Photo: Holly Quinn

They’re back! Monster Cereals — Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and my personal favorite, Boo Berry — are in stock again for the Halloween season, and the look is all new. I picked up this box of Boo Berry yesterday, and wow! The style has changed pretty drastically from any of the Monsters designs we’ve seen before (outside of fan art, anyway). Boo has a more translucent look, and all three are looking more like characters on a modern Cartoon Network show than pure nostalgia.

I think it’s super cool, personally. What do you think?

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“Halloween Horror Nights” audition for a dance troupe of vampires!

HOPEFUL VAMPIRE DANCERS STRUT THEIR STUFF AND BARE THEIR FANGS
AT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD’S HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS
OPEN CALL AUDITIONS

Get out your fangs and sashay down to Universal Studios for the chance to bite into Halloween Horror Nights at the open call auditions for a dance troupe of vampires!

Dancers of both genders are encouraged to assemble at Universal Studios Hollywood to perform a series of elaborate dance sequences, choreographed to techno-funk music, but please leave your garlic and wooden stakes at home.

Ghastly go-goers recruited for annual Horror extravaganza, kicking off on Sept. 24

WHAT: They only come out at night, but for this audition, they’ll make an exception:

Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights” holds open call auditions for a dance troupe of vampires with the all the right moves.

Candidates-expressive and versatile dancers of both genders–will assemble at Universal Studios Hollywood to perform a series of elaborate dance sequences, choreographed to techno-funk music. Fangs are helpful but not required for consideration.

As the place where legends of Horror come to life, Universal Studios “Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights” kicks off on Friday, September 24 and will offer spine-chilling new mazes based on the horror genres’ most compelling characters. Rob Zombie and other top artists are collaborating with Universal Studios Hollywood in the creation of new mazes, “scare zones” and backlot experiences.

“Halloween Horror Nights” begin on Sept. 24 this year. Information available at www.HalloweenHorrorNights.com/hollywood

WHO: Blood sucking dancers that bite.

WHEN: Wednesday, August 18 at 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: The Globe Theatre venue at Universal Studios Hollywood

(100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608)

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Want To Be Haunted This Halloween?

One of the best things about Halloween, besides candy, is taking on the haunted houses!  October 31st brings with it not only trick-or-treating and costume wearing, but all things spooky as well.

Haunted houses that people put on during the Halloween season are all in the name of fun.  True, some of these haunted houses are made to scare you right down to the bones, but in the back of your mind you know that it’s not real.  Or at least that’s what I try to convince myself of as I’m making my way through some of the scarier haunted houses!  If you’re thinking of building your own haunted house this year, check out these great haunted house props.  Believe me, the animated horror props will have your customers screaming for the exit!

However, there are haunted houses AND there are houses that are haunted – two completely different realms of terror.  Places that have had paranormal activity where ghosts have been seen or heard are definitely a little more spine tingling and hair raising.

Here are some of the MOST HAUNTED PLACES TO VISIT.    

The Amityville House As the story goes, on Nov. 13, 1974, Ronald Jr. (“Butch”) DeFeo killed six members of his family in a house in Amityville, New York. He claims there were demonic forces in the home that drove him to murder. When new owners moved into the house at 112 Ocean Avenue, they too experienced terrifying phenomenon, which led to a best-selling novel and two films.

Alcatraz – The infamous San Francisco Bay’s prison, a notorious penitentiary, known for its cold dark cells, saw many murders, riots and suicides during its 29 years of service. Now a national museum, it’s said to be haunted, with tales of inexplicable sounds, cell doors closing on their own, disembodied screams and scary apparitions.

Saint Augustine Lighthouse - Legend says three little girls died on the construction site, while playing with a rail car. When the car spun out of control, the girls were drowned in the water below. Now, visitors can hear a female crying, “Help me!” inside the tower, as well as mysterious lights and footsteps.

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Fraggle Rock Returns With “Scared Silly”!

Do you remember the tv series Fraggle Rock?  It was a beloved children’s animated show in the 80's created by Jim Hensen and made up of what else…muppets!  It was right up there in popularity with Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.  Well, it’s coming back to the US next month in the form of a DVD just in time for Halloween called “Scared Silly” and is sure to be a big hit!  It consists of three mysterious and magical Fraggle stories that will entertain kids and parents alike! 

The Fraggle Muppets of Fraggle Rock are curious, clever and brave.  The five main muppet characters are:

Gobo – He loves exploringMokey – She loves paintingRed - She loves sportsWembley – He loves playing the bongosBoober – He loves doing laundry and cooking 

They live in a cave called Fraggle Rock and spend most of their time playing, exploring, and having fun.  I think that’s why children love to watch them!

And it’s not just the DVD bringing Fraggle Rock back into the spotlight, but these fun loving characters are coming out as Halloween costumes as well!  What a great idea for a group costume!   All you men that want to relive a fun memory from your childhood, grab a Boober or Gobo Costume and for the ladies wanting to get in on the fun be sure to order a Red or Mokey Costume and bring those lovable Fraggles back to life!

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Laughing in the Dark

GIVE IT BACK

I’m not sure if you young’uns remember Nickleodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark, but it was one of the most awesome shows of the early 90s. For those unfamiliar with it, the basic premise is that a group of preteens form a club, called the Midnight Society, and take turns telling scary stories around a campfire. Each show has a dramatization of the story being told.

As much as I loved the show, it had a tendency of giving me some pretty terrible nightmares. One of the episodes in particular stands out as being particularly creepy, due to its gratuitous use of carnival music and scary clowns. Here’s a synopsis of the episode provided by toplessrobot.com:

“… The clown in this case, Zeebo, worked in a carnival during the Great Depression. Desperate for money (like every other schlub during this time), Zeebo stole the park’s payroll and hid out in the spookhouse. But Zeebo was careless with one of his cigars and the spookhouse caught fire; burning Zeebo to death. As a memorial to the thieving bastard, the carnival rebuilt the spookhouse and put a dummy of Zeebo inside, dooming the place to be haunted. Years later, Josh (Christian Tessier, who would go on to play Lt. Tucker ‘Duck’ Clellan on Battlestar Galactica) decides to prove how tough he is by stealing the red nose off the Zeebo dummy. Urban legend turns into reality as Josh is visited by the ghost of Zeebo. Everything works out in the end (seriously, where the hell does a 12-year-old purchase a box of cigars?) but not before some seriously scary shit goes down. Everyone remembers the laugh, the balloon, the phone call, and all the other nightmare-inducing tricks that drove many to check our closets before bed. It’s like the writer of this episode was pissed at his kids and decided to scar them and the rest of us for life.”

Things I learned from this episode (video below).

1. “It’s a spookhouse, lameball. It’s supposed to be spooky. You’d gotta be some kind of doofus to think it’s real.”

2. Do not be a ginger. Especially not a ginger who steals stuff from scary clowns.

3. Give it back. Always give it back.

4. Following any childhood dare will always lead to bad things.

5. Do not trust carnies. They will sell you out to their scary clown friends in an instant.

Have a look and tell me what you think. You might want to keep an extra clown nose around, just in case.

Laughing in the Dark, Pt. 1

Laughing in the Dark, Pt. 2

Laughing in the Dark, Pt. 3

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Live in Sin? Come on in: Sexy Celeb Devils

It’s almost Halloween. The countdown is just about on. One of the most classic costumes for Halloween is of course the Devil. There are different variations of the old stand by so check out how these celebs made the devil their own.

Selita Banks- Victoria's Secret Model. She knows how to pose. You can see why gets paid the big bucks.

Kate Beckinsale out with her daughter. I think she makes a hotter vampire then a devil, but nothing is stopping this hottie.

Nadia Bjorlin "Chloe" from Days of our Lives - she is looking a little WonderDevilwoman to me. But you can't argue with hotness.

Rhianna.... what a twist on the typical devil style. Rhianna, you are a goddess.

Lady Gaga - but of course the Gaga rocks it like no other!

Christina Aguilera... Oh christina, I'm feeling a bit horny...

Jon Lovitz – classic. Horny Hugh - This sexy devil gets all the babes. He no doubt throws the best Halloween parties around!

So what Devil defines you?

Be sure to check out all the Hottest Devil gear around only at FrightCatalog.com

Live in Sin? Come on In.

Halloween Harlot- Miss Cara Maria

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Online Voting Now Open for Halloween Horror Nights-Rob Zombie Film Competition

A panel of industry judges have narrowed down the finalists for online voting in the “Halloween Horror Nights-Rob Zombie Film Competition
http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood !”

The film competition offered filmmakers an opportunity to submit their scariest short film to be judged by a panel led by the multi-media horror auteur. In addition to the prizes, including $1000 cash, a trip for two to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, and the broadcast of the film, the winning filmmaker will be honored in front of celebrities, studio executives and media at the Eyegore Awards ceremony, which will kick off the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/hollywood/ event at Universal Studios Hollywood http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/ .

Stay tuned for the winning film to be announced on September 17; voting is open to the public at www.halloweenhorrornights.com/vote from September 3 – 17, 2010, hurry over and cast your vote!

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Complete Your Look With a Costume Kit!

Halloween will be here before you know it so it’s time to really think about what you want to be this year.  You can go the way of movies such as; IronMan, Avatar, Toy Story or Alice In Wonderland, or go the traditional scary route of vampires, zombies or the ever-pleasant Grim Reaper.

No matter what you decide to dress up as this Halloween, one way to ensure you get the most out of your costume is to complete the look with a costume kit.  These kits are great for any costume!  Just think about it…with the “kitty” costume kit you can work up a costume for a little girl – just add a pair of black leggings and a black turtleneck.  If you’re thinking a little sexier for an adult cat costume - just add a black skin tight catsuit and a pair of over the knee black high heeled boots and you’re all set!  Either way by adding the Cat Costume Kit of gloves, headband with ears and tail you’ve just turned yourself or your chid into a Kitty Cat!  What kind of cat is simply up to you!

Costume kits are an easy and inexpensive way to transform yourself into character; bunny ears, butterfly wings, devil horns and even a pocket protector (for the nerd look).  With the Michael Jackson Kit you can turn yourself into the “King of Pop” within seconds! 

Just like in any fashion, accessories make the outfit!

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“It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”

I love Halloween!  It’s a holiday for everyone, ages 2 to 92.  There are so many fun things to do from going out to haunted houses and pumpkin patches to staying home and watching all the great Halloween shows on television.  It’s a great time to get together with you family and friends, make some popcorn and enjoy the shows!

One of our all time favorite Halloween shows is by far, “It’s the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown“.  It’s a tradition in our family that goes way back to when I was young.  I hope my children watch it with their kids when they grow up and have their own families.  I know Charlie Brown will still be around even then!

Did you know that the Charlie Brown Halloween show has been on the air since October 1966?  It’s been on every year since then during the month of October.  That’s got to tell you something!  The show is adorable!  Who can resist Linus and his hope to see The Great Pumpkin? 

All the Peanuts characters are wonderful; Charlie Brown, Linus, Sally, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Pig Pen, Marcie, Schroeder and of course Snoopy and Woodstock.  Charles Schulz really knew what he was doing when he invented all these great characters.

HalloweenExpress.com now has a whole line of Peanuts costumes that will make a great theme if you’re looking for group costumes or even if you’re going on your own.  Looking for a Charlie Brown costume, then look no further!  Go as the whole Peanuts gang for Halloween this year!

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That’s The Way We Became The Brady Bunch!

Halloween is a holiday best celebrated with lots of family and friends; the more the merrier!  That’s why group costumes are so popular.  Nobody wants to trick-or-treat alone!

There are so many great themes to pick from when choosing group costumes.  My favorite by far is “The Brady Bunch”.  I grew up watching the show and can still remember many of the episodes – who doesn’t!  The Brady Bunch taught us many important life lessons – such as donning a huge Afro wig will make one more popular, how to sport a groovy man perm, taking an ancient tiki from Hawaii is a sure way to get you cursed and exaggerating to your friends will get Davy Jones to sing at your prom.

Besides all that, the Brady Bunch gave us a sense of style!  There wasn’t a family out there that could put together outrageous vintage outfits quite like Mike, Carol, Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby, and Cindy!

This Halloween I’m definitely getting my husband to dress as Mike and I’m donning the Carol Brady costume!  Florence Henderson (who played Carol all those years) is putting on her dancing shoes to complete in “Dancing With The Stars” which airs on ABC in a couple weeks and I know Carol Brady is going to be one hot dance momma! 

I’m sad that my children are too young to appreciate the phenomenon known as The Brady Bunch, but I’m sure my brothers and sisters will be more than happy to portray one of the Brady’s in a Brady Bunch costume. 

Without a doubt we’ll win first place in any costume contest this Halloween!

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Poplar Grove Plantation’s 2010 Halloween Festival

Historic Poplar Grove Plantation’s
2010 Halloween Festival

Start and End Date and Times: Two Weekends – Oct, 22, 23, 24 & 25
Hours: Fridays, Oct. 22 & 29 – 6PM to Midnight
Saturdays, Oct. 23 & 30 – 2PM to Midnight
Sundays, Oct. 24 & 31 – 2PM to 10PM

Event Title: Halloween Festival

Event Description: A howling good time for the fearless and fearful alike. The haunted hayride and haunted barn will scare your pants off. Afraid of the dark? There’s plenty to do for everyone inflatable rides, pony rides, games, food, afternoon hayride, non-scary Kiddie Funhouse, palm reader and tarot card reader. All ages can enter the costume contest Saturday night, the 30th . Cape Fear starts here !

Location: Historic Poplar Grove Plantation , 10200 US Highway 17 North, Wilmington , NC , 28411

Admission Charge: Free

Additional Information: This is an annual event, the 29th year and held the last two weekends in October.

Halloween Festival – Photos

Halloween Festival – Video

Web – www.poplargrove.com

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I don’t know about you Miss Kitty…

……..But I feel so much…. yummier….

There’s just something about skintight latex clad curves on a super delicious woman that drive men out the window. Add to that heels and a whip and oh my god… on your knees please. I mean, it worked on Batman didn’t it?

Since Halloween is fast approaching, I’ll use this blog to post pics of super sexy costumed women. The “black cat” costume is one of the most popular for Halloween. You can do it cute, you can do it fun, and you can do it off the charts sexy.

Michelle Pfieffer

Left: Michelle Pfieffer… my idol. She brought some raw S&M flavor to Catwoman. I couldn’t have asked for more. This Catwoman was the start of my latex fetish. Apparently during production of the movie, Michelle went through several costume changes. The latex was so tight that she was sewn into it for each scene.

Bottom Right: Victoria’s Secret Model Ines Rivero pays tribute to the Michelle Pfieffer version of this feline fatale.

Ines Rivero Victorias Secret Model

Julie Newmar

Left: From the 60's Miss Julie Newmar really brought the sexy for Catwoman.

Bottom Right: Khloe Kardashian rocks a Julie inspired catwoman look for last years Halloween.

Khloe and Lamar

Now it seems as if the celebs who are Moms or Moms to be opt for a more furry and realistic type of kitty:

Gwen and Gavin

Brook Shields

Heidi Klum

Whichever catwoman you decide you emulate this Halloween, just make sure you do her justice.

Check out all the great Cat Gear we have at FrightCatalog.com … snag your own Batman this year.

halle berry

Also, by the glory of god, may the Hollywood execs not make another Berry mistake…

Halloween Harlot Miss Cara Maria

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THE ORIGIN OF THE HALLOWE’EN TREE

THE ORIGIN OF THE HALLOWE’EN TREE

By Philip A. Shreffler

Today, pretty much everybody who genuinely loves Hallowe’en knows what a Hallowe’en Tree is—the festive and macabre equinoctial version of a Christmas tree. Hallowe’en Trees have become so popular that, from variety stores on the low end to Christopher Radko at the high end, increasingly elaborate ornaments have been created expressly for them. But it wasn’t always that way. Back in the last century—in 1971 to be precise—even those whose favorite holiday Hallowe’en was seemed not to have come up with the idea. That is, until by a happy and almost accidental set of circumstances, I did it myself.

Living in suburban St. Louis and having just received my Master’s Degree in English from Washington University, I was embarking on what was to be a thirty-year career as an English professor and a writer. I was twenty-three at the time, an age when the most ambitious folk are looking ahead to a lifetime of success. But I never forgot my childhood delight in everything about Hallowe’en, about monsters, about the supernatural, about playing and having great fun at it.

One evening (I’d like to think it was a dark and stormy one), I was leafing through a collection of the cartoons of the late and deeply-lamented Charles Addams, who had created his “Addams Family” in the pages of The New Yorker magazine. And my eyes lit on one of my favorites: a 1947 image of Morticia decorating the family’s long-dead pine Christmas tree with little skeletons, snakes, ghosts, coffins and even a vulture as a tree-topper. Thought I: What a wonderful idea for All Hallows Eve (or Samhain, pronounced Sow-en, as the ancient Celts called it). It was the work of a moment in the days before Hallowe’en that year to find a dead tree branch, plant it in a crockery pot filled with earth (native soil, of course) and decorate it with cardboard jack-o-lanterns, black cats, haunted houses and even a “Lurch” mask as a homage to the Addams Family. It was the first Hallowe’en Tree, and I may even have called it that.

But even if I didn’t, the next year Ray Bradbury settled the issue when his book for young people, The Hallowe’en Tree, was published by Knopf. Now, the Hallowe’en Tree had a real physical existence and even a name supplied by the most beloved author ever to celebrate the holiday. What Dickens is to Christmas, Bradbury is to Hallowe’en. And that was the icing on the soul-cake. I determined that no matter what I did in life or where I ended up, I’d have a Hallowe’en Tree every year. And so I have.

In the 1973 October issue of St. Louis magazine, I even wrote about the Tree. In what was nominally a history of the holiday, I pretended that the Hallowe’en Tree was an ancient tradition in an effort to convince anyone who read the article to set up his or her own Tree. I’m not sure how well it worked. But a few years later, I naively tried to interest the Hallmark people in the idea, arguing in my letter to them that they could produce Hallowe’en ornaments and tap a fresh new market with fresh new products. What I didn’t know is that one can’t copyright or patent an idea. I never heard from Hallmark, but the very next year, small cardboard Hallowe’en Trees began to appear in their stores hung with—you guessed it—Hallowe’en ornaments.

Now that the idea was out there—and some ten years or so after I’d set up my first Tree—novelty stores, gift shops and catalogues began, by slow degrees, to feature table-top sized versions of twisted wire or cast resin to simulate ghostly, leafless trees, decorated with miniature pumpkins, witches and goblins. But this slick, “crafty” merchandise missed the whole point. The Hallowe’en Tree is properly an actual dead branch, which costs nothing and embodies the spirit of season. (By the bye, never cut a live branch from a living tree; the tree won’t like it, and, of course, your Hallowe’en Tree ought to be dead!)

In the meantime, my own Hallowe’en Trees were become larger and more elaborate. In the weeks before the holiday, my wife and I went out looking for just that right dead tree branch, best obtained in some excellently spooky place. Once I even had to strap the Tree to the top of my car just as Christmas tree hunters do. Lights were eventually added, lights in appropriately autumnal colors, mostly orange which looked wonderfully seasonal against the dark, dead limb that formed the basis for the Tree. And, of course, every time I came across a perfectly grisly artifact that might hang from the Tree, I bought it. Today I have so many ornaments that most remain in storage, and we decorate the Tree just with our favorites.

In the year 2000, I retired from teaching and moved to Connecticut, where I live in a renovated 1881 factory building and sail my little boat Goblin on Long Island Sound. I’ve had a fine career in academia, I’ve edited or written half a dozen books—one about that master horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and others about Sherlock Holmes (including two adult mysteries, The War of the Worlds Mystery and The Twentieth Century Limited Mystery). But my love affair with Hallowe’en and the Hallowe’en Tree has only deepened. The fact that in 2011 my Hallowe’en Tree will reach its 40th birthday is proof that, properly nurtured, the child in all of us can live a long and healthy life.

And for whatever accomplishments I’ve achieved along the way, the development of what has now become an October icon ranks equally with the rest. I’ve long said—and only half jokingly—that if I have an epitaph, it ought to read: Philip A. Shreffler—Inventor of the Hallowe’en Tree.

First Hallowe’en Tree 1971

Hallowe’en Tree 2002

Hallowe’en Tree mid-80s

Sometimes, it’s unlighted

Sometimes, the Tree features lights

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Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, hit theaters Memorial Day weekend to box office success. This epic action-adventure movie is based on a video game which was first released in 1989. Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films – who also brought us the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy – did an amazing job bringing the video game to life!

Jake Gyllenhaal (who I must say is absolutely hot in this film) plays Prince Dastan and Gemma Arterton plays the part of the beautiful Princess Tamina.  Now if that doesn’t scream “great theme for a couple costume” for Halloween this year I don’t know what does!  Prince of Persia costumes will be all the rage from young boys to grown men who want to be Prince Dastan to young girls and women who want to portray the lovely Princess Tamina.

The DVD was released on September 14th so go out and rent/buy the movie.  Bring on the popcorn and candy and make it a movie night with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time!

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