The great thing about Halloween falling on a Sunday is that the weekend becomes Halloween Weekend, and we expect most of you reading this right now will be watching horror movies all weekend long. For starters, Freddy Krueger is taking over SYFY for a Halloween Eve marathon of the Elm Street franchise, but what’s going […]
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BACARDÍ Conjures Up a Spooky Limited Edition Bottle of Rum for Halloween
If you’re looking to spice up these final few days of Halloween, BACARDÍ has just released a Halloween-themed bottle of their classic white rum that’s perfect for the spooky season. The limited edition bottle of BACARDÍ Superior is “decorated with a frightening bat swarm,” giving the classic bottle a spooky twist that should help liven up […]
Ready for Freddy? SYFY Celebrating Halloween Eve With All-Day ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Marathon!
This is sadly the final week of SYFY‘s Halloween celebration, but the channel is ending things on a high note with an all-day marathon of Freddy Krueger’s best hits on Halloween Eve! Freddy takes over SYFY on Saturday, October 30th, beginning with the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street at 8am EST. Don’t […]
“HELP ME!” – The Most Heartbreaking Horror in ‘Halloween Kills’ is All Too Real
This article includes spoilers for Halloween Kills. Halloween Kills is nothing if not a bold, chaotic bloodbath. Michael Myers slips into his most ruthless form, stacking up gruesome kills and a body count that rivals any Jason Voorhees flick. It’s a throwback slasher coated in themes of residual trauma, mob mentality, and surprisingly the gross […]
What’s Next for the Halloween Franchise? [Halloweenies Podcast]
The Halloweenies are still in Haddonfield, Illinois, where the mobs are mean, the streets aren’t clean, and the system is completely broken, to borrow from one angry Laurie Strode. It’s been a long night of trick or treating for the guys, which is why they’ve now assembled at 45 Lampkin Lane, aka the Myers House, […]
The Longest Night: The Original ‘Halloween II’ at 40
Halloween II has always stood in the long shadow of its practically perfect predecessor. In many ways, it is a meaner film than the original. While the first has more in the way of trick or treating, carving jack o’ lanterns, and teenage mischief, the sequel is the razor blades in apples, carved up bodies, […]
Unauthorized Terrors: A History and Defense of Horror Fan Films
From in-depth analysis to casual appreciation, there’s no wrong way to engage with art. However, some fans go the extra mile when demonstrating their love for certain franchises and characters by incorporating them into fanfiction. While these unauthorized stories are usually limited to the written word, a surprising number of die-hard fans are willing to […]
Out of Order and Out of Time: How the ‘Halloween’ Franchise Was My Guide to Horror Movie Obsession
My brother and I settled into our seats. The theater was dark but still dimly lit as more people filed in excitedly. There was a bit of electricity in the air, almost as if the crisp autumn breeze outside had infiltrated the space, carrying with it a whiff of bonfire and a few scattered red […]
William Shatner Recalls the Time He Learned His Face Was Used for the Original Michael Myers Mask [Video]
At 90-years-old, William Shatner was launched off into space the very same week Halloween Kills was released in theaters and on Peacock, an amusing little tidbit considering the fact that the original Michael Myers mask was of course a modified Captain Kirk Halloween mask. If Shatner is the face of Michael Myers, does that mean […]
Ignite the Night: Spooky Limited Edition Pringles Cans Glow-in-the-Dark for Halloween
Heinz Tomato Ketchup has become “Tomato Blood” for the Halloween season, and another fun Halloween-themed treat you’ll find on store shelves right now is limited edition glow-in-the-dark cans of Pringles, the brand celebrating Halloween with an “Ignite the Night” campaign. “Pringles is getting into the spirit and putting a costume on its iconic can to […]
Colin Alexander Reimagines John Carpenter’s Iconic ‘Halloween’ Theme for an Unmade Reboot Pitch from 2012 [Exclusive]
Just after running our Phantom Limbs article covering the unproduced 2012 Halloween pitch penned by The Night House/Hellraiser writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski (read here), Mr. Piotrowski passed along a special treat for Bloody Disgusting readers to check out once they’ve read the story. Mr. Collins explains: “We did one other funny thing. I […]
How the ‘Halloween’ Young Adult Novels from the ’90s Surprisingly Parallel the Current Films
I have a deep love of horror novelizations and tie-ins. I’ve written about them several times. Anything that expands the story beyond the films, even for a franchise as largely simplistic as Halloween or Friday the 13th, I’m there. That love started in a very specific place, when I walked into Mr. Paperback with my dad in 1998 and […]
‘Halloween Kills’: Classic Character’s Return Was Achieved Entirely Through Practical Makeup Effects! [Images]
Warning: this article contains Halloween Kills spoilers. While the movie has proven to be quite polarizing, one aspect of David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills that most fans of the franchise seem to have enjoyed is the opening sequence, which takes us back to 1978 to show us what happened directly after the events of John […]
Three Years Later, How Does ‘Halloween’ Hold Up? [Horror Queers Podcast]
We Need to Talk About Cameron…. After touring the streets of Los Angeles in David Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Drive, we went all the way back to the ’30s to check in with Countess Zaleska in Lambert Hillyer’s queer horror classic Dracula’s Daughter, before hitting the road with Steve Zahn and Paul Walker in Joy Ride. Now, in celebration of […]
‘Hellraiser’ Writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski Carve into the ‘Halloween’ Reboot They Pitched in 2012 [Phantom Limbs]
phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly […]