Haunting Beyond Halloween
Think the haunted house season ends tonight (Halloween)? Think again! Many haunted houses are open through Saturday or Sunday (check individual haunt websites for dates/hours of operation), and there's a brand new quartet of haunted houses open until the second weekend in November!FEAR ITSELF just opened a couple of weeks ago in Mishawaka, Indiana, and is definitely worth the short hour-and-a-half drive! Fear Itself features 4 full haunted houses (with more in production for 2009!) - the Zombie Army made the trek to check it out earlier this week and we were all very impressed with this new "Skream Park",...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Happy Halloween from everybody at HauntedHouseChicago.com!
D. E. CHRISTMAN’S TOP HALLOWEEN PICKS
D. E. Christman is a dark artist, the man behind the Grendel's Den Design Studio, The Philly Zombie Crawl & Zombie Prom, and numerous other nefarious projects.TOP 10 HALLOWEEN MOVIESPoltergeist (It's filled with frigging ghosts out the wazoo. Can't get more Halloween than that.)Halloween (1978)The Exorcist (So sacraliciouses and creepy. May not have anything to do with Halloween but it is one of the best horror films ever.) It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!The Nightmare Before ChristmasHalloween (2007)Return of the Living Dead (The dead coming back to life to eat your brains! And one of them is Linnea Quigley! Oh...
THE SOUND & THE FURY
Sometime in September every year, as the temperature drops and the leaves start to turn, my music listening habits change completely. For 10 months out of the year I'm a total Rivet-head, listening to harsh, grinding industrial noise and rhythms, because that's what I've been into since Wax Trax & Nettwerk were wet behind the ears.But for 2 months out of the year, September and October, I listen to nothing but Halloween music & sound effects, since I was a kid and wore out my copies of BLOODCURDLING! HORROR! TERROR! SOUNDS TO MAKE YOU SHIVER! and CASPER and DISNEY'S THRILLING,...
GEOFFREY GRAVES’ TOP HALLOWEEN PICKS
Geoffrey Graves is a Chicago-based special effects make-up artist and sculptor, as well as being the man behind Spooky/Halloween Buttons! http://www.spookybuttons.com / http://www.halloweenbuttons.comSo whenever this time of year comes around, I start waxing nostalgic. There is something in the air that just makes me think of the years past of trick or treating, hot apple cider and pumpkin patches on cool days. So many of my picks are older movies with a special place in my heart. And I love the fun side of Halloween as well as the horror side. Actually, as much as I like a good horror...
HAUNTED HOUSE MOVING SALE
Sunday, October 26, Noon - 4:00 pm2644 N Sacramento AveChicago 60647See the stuff for sale HERE.For full details, go HERE.