We’re one week from Halloween. Yeah, vampires, anime and the Groovie Ghoulies. Kind of a hodgepodge of medi-core but it’s Sunday.
October 2010 archive
Oct 23 2010
The 2010 Halloween Contest Winners!
It was a pretty good first contest, here at Gravediggers Local 16. Before we go any further, we want to extend our gratitude to all of those who entered. A contest without entries is the saddest pumpkin on the block. You took time out of your day to craft together some effort – could have …
Oct 23 2010
Music to Haunt By: An Introduction
Having clearly not learned my lesson from doing the Freaky Tiki Surf-ari, I’ve decided to do another music-related review series for the site. However, unlike last time, this will be much shorter and won’t have the introduction and first review merged into a single post… Sound is an important part of any haunted attraction, be …
Oct 22 2010
Women are scary, too.
Jason. Freddy. Leatherface. Pinhead. Where are the women? Technically, it was Mrs. Voorhees who did all the killing in the first ‘Friday,’ but where are the iconic female monsters to compete with the males? I haven’t seen all the horror movies out there and my memory can be dim as a jack o’lantern’s candle in …
Oct 22 2010
High-Tech Haunted Houses
For the past two Halloween Countdowns, I’ve always had at least one haunted attraction review. Sadly, it’s looking more and more like that won’t be the case this year. Ironically, my busy schedule for the countdown leaves me with zero free time to check out any of the few haunted attractions that are within reasonable …
Oct 21 2010
Living Dead Live!
Although there are tons of materials devoted to the various aspects of creating of haunted house, one topic remains mostly ignored amongst all the how-tos on prop-making and setting up a haunted house: scaring people. Far too many people think simply wearing a mask and yelling “Boo” while jumping out of a dark corner is …
Oct 21 2010
Jill Thompson: Queen of Halloween.
Jill Thompson is amazing. There’s no denying that her career as a cartoonist has produced some of the most fantastic spooky artwork out there. There’s both a playfulness in her line work and a genuine sense of creepy in her colors, making her a great example of how spooky and weird can be fun. I …
Oct 20 2010
A Halloween Moon
Although the use of video technology for decoration did exist in the days of VHS, things really didn’t take off until DVDs entered the picture. Finally, a program could be played over and over again in a loop without the need for constant rewinding. TransLumen Technologies seeks to differentiate themselves from the virtual fireplaces and …
Oct 20 2010
Help Us Rock the Rondos!
Oct 20 2010
Tiger Army
I don’t know the guy personally but I’m sure that Tim Armstrong of Rancid is a big fan of psychobilly. Nekromantix, HorrorPops and The Creepshow are all signed to his Hellcat Records label, which also is home to Devils Brigade, which is Matt Freeman’s side project when he’s not playing in Rancid. Over ten years …
Oct 19 2010
What a (Pumpkin) Carve Up!
Ah, the soft, eerie glow of a lit Jack O’Lantern on Halloween night. What could be better? To help further this grand Halloween tradition, we here at Gravedigger’s Local 16 have compiled a list of helpful pumpkin carving-related links. So if you’ve exhausted your ideas for pumpkin faces, really want to dominate the next pumpkin …
Oct 18 2010
Remember…
Oct 18 2010
It Came from Amazon II
Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties has an amazingly awesome cover. Can you name all of the characters depicted on it? The cover of the Goodtimes home video DVD release of King Kong vs. Godzilla always makes me snicker. Why? Because they used images from a more modern Godzilla movie …
Oct 17 2010
Linger Longer V: Costume Lazyness
Despite being from 1998, the comments in this ClassicOnA upload regarding “wacky” topical Halloween costumes are still as true today as they were then: Meanwhile, Yarsh29 brings us this gem featuring America’s favorite ghost hunter: As is always the case for “Linger Longer” entries, these videos are NSFW!
Oct 19 2010
Remakes Are Hell p.2
News Broke Out like a bad case of scabies that the Hellraiser remake is going to go PEE GEE THUR-TEEEN for the reason of “why the fuck not?” It makes sense, since the film industry is still kind of confused as to what to do with itself. Jackass 3D makes 50 million in a weekend and …
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