Day: October 29, 2016

  • Send out the clowns

    Send out the clowns

    The long national nightmare is almost over..

    The clowns are going to go away.

    I read a story today in USA TODAY, somewhat ridiculous actually.. The title: Halloween countdown: States, residents get ready for creepy clowns

    A little truth needed here..
    For all of these ‘creepy clown’ articles that have been appearing since late August, one interesting thing has been abounding: There really have been no REAL true and proven accounts that people are actually seeing clowns to begin with!

    This is an urban legend gone wrong.. an urban legend in the modern internet age, where rumors become fact and police officers post on Facebook, only to be re-shared around the world.

    And really… the threat? People dressed as clowns during the Halloween season to scare people?

    When I was a child my friends and I used to wear masks and hunt each other down in corn fields to scare each other. It was a great time–especially this time of year when the sunset is darker and the landscape is dimmer. But I suppose in the modern age I’d find myself in trouble with police if we did such childhood fun things!

    We have become increasingly over sensitive about just about everything.. hyper tensive.. hyper active.. hyper fearful. And clowns! 
    If they are there, chances are they are just kids giving a good scare. IF they are there, and I really, really doubt they were ever there to begin with. I believe it to be mass psychosis.. 

    Regardless of what it is, it’s almost over. But fear over Halloween because of clowns? A little ridiculous. Just as it is intensely awful and stupid for our nation that the White House was actually forced into answered questions about ‘creepy clowns’ during a press conference…

    My local school where my son attends actually banned clowns from their Halloween parade. I saw a few Michael Myers, Chuckies, and people with rubber axes in their heads. But clowns? too much this year.. just too much.

    We need to chill out. Eat some fruit, as Graham would have said in SIGNS. And just calm down.

    Calm down.
    Clown on.
    It’s Halloween folks.
    And everyone is entitled to one good scare.

  • This is an image from Seph Lawless–one of my all time favorite…

    This is an image from Seph Lawless–one of my all time favorite…

    This is an image from Seph Lawless–one of my all time favorite photographers and one of the coolest people online today .. he takes footage inside abandoned places. He is best known for his work with malls that are closing or have closed, sneaking in and taking video and footage from inside of malls that once were amazingly busy and popular. He also has been in some very emotionally heavy places.. 

    When Seph posted this doll head on Facebook, he also wrote this: (my emphasis added)

    It is true that I’ve been inside and photographed some of the same abandoned houses that were used by serial killers Anthony Sowell and Michael Madison over the years. Both serial killers acted independently and used abandoned homes to torture, murder and hide the victims bodies in and/or on the property of these abandoned homes. Both men are currently on death row.
    That being said I’ve seen crazy things inside abandoned places that make no sense at all and at times are truly frightening like a sex chamber set up at an abandoned building in Detroit that I reported to the Detroit PD years ago and never released those images and some that are just creepy like this abandoned home that had a room full of mannequin heads along with old lab equipment and intricate surgery tools oddly out of place.


    People ask me all the time if I get scared in locations like this and the answer is undoubtedly yes but not because of ghosts…I’m petrified of humanity.

  • I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING BEHEADED..May not be…

    I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING BEHEADED..May not be…

    I BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW THIS ABOUT GETTING BEHEADED..

    May not be the reason for the season.. but certainly an interesting little tidbit about getting beheaded..

    Guillotines made the act of decapitating someone relatively quick (but not painless), but before the guillotine was invented, using a sword or axe often meant multiple strokes were required. Mary, Queen of Scots, for example, required three strokes when she was executed in 1587. 

    Think that’s bad? According to Tudor History, Margaret Pole, the Eighth Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded by an inexperienced executioner who botched the job and practically shredded her head and neck. made the act of decapitating someone relatively quick (but not painless), but before the guillotine was invented, using a sword or axe often meant multiple strokes were required. Mary, Queen of Scots, for example, required three strokes when she was executed in 1587. Think that’s bad? 

    According to Tudor History, Margaret Pole, the Eighth Countess of Salisbury, was beheaded by an inexperienced executioner who botched the job and practically shredded her head and neck.

  • JUST PICTURE MICHAEL MYERS WITH A TERRIBLE MASK!

    JUST PICTURE MICHAEL MYERS WITH A TERRIBLE MASK!

    coalspeaker:

    An artist named Marc Schoenbach did just that! 

    There are some amazing Michael Myers masks out there for Halloween.

    And some really, really awful ones.. I have owned both. 

    The most iconic image of Michael Myers comes from the original film.. William Shatner’s face without paint is haunting and will forever be so. But just picture some of these wretchedly AWFUL Michael Myers masks replacing the first film’s SHAPE face!

    For HALLOWEEN fanatics this may particularly funny..

    These made me laugh out loud.. Now when I see kids on Halloween dressing in the absurdly awful masks, I will forever think of these images..

  • BEHIND THE SCENES FREDDY PICTURESThe spirit of scare.. Robert…

    BEHIND THE SCENES FREDDY PICTURESThe spirit of scare.. Robert…

    BEHIND THE SCENES FREDDY PICTURES

    The spirit of scare.. Robert Englund posted some cool behind the scenes images, among many other things, on his website..

    Take a look..

  • GLENN from WALKING DEAD MEME makes its way around the…

    GLENN from WALKING DEAD MEME makes its way around the…

    GLENN from WALKING DEAD MEME makes its way around the net..

    Actually, a lot of them have been since the demise on the first show of the season.. The controversial death sequence has been lambasted by critics who say the show has lost its edge, lost its fun, and lost its way..

    Glenn was a beloved character who was thrown to the wayside after several seasons of love…

    Check out this article appearing on CINEMA BLEND..

    Show creator Robert Kirkman says this about the death:

    It’s just that there’s a lot of material that comes from Glenn’s death in the comics. And while we do try to change things up to keep things interesting for the audience, and for me, this is one that there’s so much that comes from Rick, there’s so much with Negan, because that character is someone that he killed, and definitely Maggie is someone that kind of gets put on the trajectory that affects a great number of stories and a great number of characters moving forward. So it was kind of essential that that part of the scene at least remained intact, unfortunately.

    The comic book fate..
    The eye sequence.
    The same as it was on paper.

    x x x 

    Speaking the villain NEGAN.. at my local mall’s trick or treat night the other day, a store owner dressed as the WALKING DEAD villain, and even was handing out chocolate eyeballs for effect.  We overheard him saying that some patrons were threatening him, showing anger at him.. 

    Move over Trump and Hillary.. the biggest villain of the 2016 Halloween season: NEGAN from the WALKING DEAD.. Guaranteed you’ll be seeing him, maybe with a set of eyeballs, at your doorstep on Fright Night.

  • WEINER’S REVENGE..This is the latest cover of the NEW YORK…

    WEINER’S REVENGE..This is the latest cover of the NEW YORK…

    WEINER’S REVENGE..

    This is the latest cover of the NEW YORK POST.. The bombshell of October surprises occurred just as the waning days off the 2016 presidential campaign began.. Hillary Clinton’s email server investigation was closed by James Comey and the FBI back in the summer. Safely paving the way for the nomination of HILL.. it was reopened yesterday .. Anthony Weiner’s computer apparently had emails that would have had, as the POST claimed, enough ‘dirt’ to compel the FBI into reopening the investigation. Reigniting the issue. Restoking the flames. And invigorating the Donald Trump campaign to use it as an issue as the last days of this election cycle now begin…

    The race is on.