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“Escape: Psycho Circus” Music Festival Returns October 27

A combination music festival and haunted house “Escape: Psycho Circus” returns October 27, just in time for Halloween. Along side such notable artists as DJ Snake And AfroJack, there will be burlesque shows, tightrope acts, and enough creepy clowns to fill a hundred floppy shoes. Unfortunately you’ll have to live in California (or make a long ass drive) to visit the Circus, but for anyone in the area, this could be a scary treat.

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Capt McNeely

Oct 7, 2017

ConventionsHalloweenMoviesReviews

We Need To Talk About Michael

News of Jamie Lee Curtis’s return to the long-running Halloween franchise almost broke the Internet a few weeks ago. Some online posts were akin to The Beatles US arrival or the announcement of The Force Awakens. Blumhouse has taken the reigns and hopes to run with it. Part of this Cynema post asks, “to where?” There is nothing wrong with what Blumhouse is doing. Films get made, they get sequels, they get remakes. Hats off to any franchise that lasts forty years and remains relevant. However, there are a number Cynema-like elements to this. While everyone gushes about what this means to horror, I am going to look at just what this means to horror. Fan Reaction Details trickled in not long after the initial euphoria. Would this new film ignore the events after Carpenter’s original ’78 film? The news of Judy Greer joining the new film as Laurie Strode’s daughter sent a new wave of concern among online nerd-dom.

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Capt McNeely

Oct 7, 2017

Movies

Let Elvira Put You In A VUDU Trance This Halloween

Greeting’s my Little Monsters, it’s lovely of you to come around yet again. October is finally her and that means it’s time for all the creepy and macabre trappings of the Halloween season. Of course one thing I diligently prepare each year is my Halloween horror movie watch-list. In the past it has consisted of whatever genre films I had in my own collection, but now it can be extended to the offerings of various streaming services. One such service, VUDU, has begun offering some titles to stream for free right alongside those you would normally pay to rent. Now since the site had recently been under maintenance, I was unable to bring you all my weekly installment of Woman(In Horror) Crush Wednesday. So my way of making it up to you is to tell you about one particular free offering that VUDU is making this month, which features everyone’s beloved Mistress of the Dark, ELVIRA! Nope, this is no

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Capt McNeely

Oct 6, 2017

MoviesReviews

Movie Review: “The Domicile” Is A Poorly Built House of Horror

Russel Brody is a playwright who is familiar with the sweet taste of success. But one can only rest on their laurels for so long before they must again prove their worth. Therefore, Russel is looking to make lightning strike twice, by writing a successful follow up play. However, he is somewhat beleaguered by a marital tension that is compounded by the fact that the couple are expecting their first child, all the while they are caring for his wife’s mentally disturbed sister. Things take a harder downward turn when his pregnant wife Estella suffers a fall down the stairs, claiming her life and the life of her unborn child. As a result of this tragedy, Russel’s mental state is sent spiraling into anguish and despair. In an effort to get him back on track, Russel’s writing partner convinces him to reconnect with a former lover/mistress in hopes that she may serve as his muse and reignite his creativity. When

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Capt McNeely

Oct 6, 2017

From the Crypt

‘Flatliners’ Flatlines At The Box Office

The remake/sequel/bad idea that is “Flatliners” wasn’t met with a warm reception when it was released Friday, getting a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and a mere $9.8 million worldwide, on a $20 million budget. Include marketing expenses and it looks like “Flatliners” is one of the biggest flops of the year. While the remake train has slowed down in recent years, this is yet another lesson for Hollywood that audiences don’t want rehashed and underwhelming adaptations of stories we already love. Because seriously, the original “Flatliners” is pretty damn good and can be rented for $3 on Google Play. And you get to watch it from the comfort of your couch while sipping on a beer. So basically, eat it Ellen Page (for the record Ellen Page is a great actress and a wonderful human being, who just needs to make a few better choices in what she decides to star in.)

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Capt McNeely

Oct 1, 2017

From the Crypt

Hurricanes And Horror Movies: 3 Flicks That Take Place During Brutal Storms

Having just gone through one of the worst hurricanes Florida has experienced in decades, I got to thinking about some of the best horror films that have taken place during hurricanes. The list is surprisingly short. Hopefully, we’ve seen our last hurricane for the season, but for those of you that want to experience some hurricane-horror from the comfort of your own couch, here’s a short list of flicks that take place during some of the worst storms Mother Nature can throw at us. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer In this sequel to 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer, it’s one year after the killing of a crazy hit-and-run victim turned slasher Ben Willis and survivor girl Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has won a trip to the Bahamas with some of her new college friends. They arrive at a resort that’s operating with a skeleton crew, and apparently, none of them get the weather

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Capt McNeely

Sep 28, 2017

MoviesReviews

Short Movie Review: ‘The Body’ Is Murderously Amusing

A professional killer has fulfilled his obligation, he has taken a life. All that’s left to do now is dispose of the corporal evidence (that’s corpse to you and me, Rusty). The key to a long tenure in such a vocation is disposing of the evidence cleanly and efficiently without detection of any kind. One would have to be crazy to just brazenly parade their fresh kill around in the open for everyone to see…right? Well it just so happens that our killer is about to do so, and on the one night of the year that nobody would likely give so much as a suspicious glance – Halloween. With “the body” cocooned in plastic, Mr. Killer is now prepared to venture out onto the busy streets of London with his “friend” in tow. On his journey, he will meet all manner of revelers caught up in the Halloween spirit, and they can’t help but compliment him for his “killer”

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Capt McNeely

Sep 28, 2017

From the Crypt

Before Playboy, Hugh Hefner’s First Magazine Was Horror

Hugh Hefner’s passing to the big Bunny Ranch in the sky is a tragedy that reverberates across pop culture. While Old Hugh was of course most famous for the founding of Playboy Magazine, the only thing Hef loved more than sailor caps and silk pajamas (and ladies) was his love of classic horror movies. Well being Hefner was 91 when he died, he was around when they were just called horror movies. “I grew up loving the classic horror movies of the 1930s. I created a club & fanzine in my teens titled Shudder,” Hefner tweeted back in 2010. He added in a subsequent tweet, shortly thereafter, “I created a Shudder Club & Shudder Magazine Hefner even directed his own film as a teenager, “Return From The Dead”, where he played a mad scientist. Hefner at 16 in “Return From The Dead” Hefner will go down in history for his contributions to the sexual revolution. But behind the man’s man

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Capt McNeely

Sep 28, 2017

Movies

Woman (In Horror) Crush Wednesday: Scout Taylor-Compton

It’s almost here my Little Monsters,m October is almost here. And when it arrives, we begin that downhill run towards our beloved holiday, Halloween. In fact it’s with Halloween in mind that I chose this Wednesday’s wonderful Woman of Horror, Scout Taylor-Compton. Now I know there are those rabid fans out there that want to shit all over Rob Zombie’s re-imagining of John Carpenter’s classic, but I happened to like it very much, so I DON’T CARE that anyone else didn’t. Anyway… Desariee Starr Compton is a California girl, having been born in Long Beach, CA on February 21st of 1989. Now I’m not exactly sure when or even why she changed her name to Scout Taylor-Compton. Next time I see her at a con, I’ll have to ask her. And even though both names are perfectly lovely, I do admit that Scout just kind of stands out. As the daughter of a mortician, Scout definitely became conditioned to handle

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Capt McNeely

Sep 27, 2017

Film Festivals

Bigger Than Harry Knowles

Me Too A recent wave of sexual harassment allegations against Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles has moved through the film world. Knowles is accused of allegedly groping, fondling, verbally accosting and making unsolicited advances against a number of women over the years. The famed “Head Geek” of the pioneering film website announced he was taking a leave of absence placing his sister in charge of the site. This news comes on the heels of similar allegations against The Alamo Drafthouse. Online response was swift and hard, condemning the alleged actions of Harry Knowles and Drafthouse writer, Devin Faraci. Some of Knowles’s best veteran writers as Eric “Quint” Vespe have resigned their positions in protest and out of good moral conscience.The allegations continue to roll in and Knowles seems to have taken a very casual response to the scandal, calling his exile from Fantastic Fest a chance to “mind the store” and devote more time to his website. The

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Sep 27, 2017

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