MEET THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK
Michael Myers himself -TYLER MANE will be signing autographs of Rob Zombie’s Halloween available on DVD 12/18 at the Halloween Town Store on Tuesday December 18th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.!
Also on hand will be Wayne Toth, creator of the new Michael Myers and makeup FX from Halloween and many other films!
Details
Date: Tuesday, December 18th
Time: From 7pm to 9pm
Location: Halloween Town 2921 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank 91505 (818-848-3644)
December 5, 2007
A pencil sharpener with a twist
October 31, 2007
AOL Top 13 Freaky Attraction in the US: Ms. Scary Midwest Pageant’
‘Ms. Scary Midwest’ pageant, held at the Midwest Haunters Convention, is rated as one of the top 13 Freaky Attractions in the US by AOL Online; Fall 2007!
If you’re excited about this Halloween, you should check out the upcoming Midwest Fantasy Show and Haunters Convention this June 13-15, 2008! The show has been moved from July into June this year and will be held in Columbus Ohio at the Greater Columbus Convention Center (the only venue in town large enough to host our huge crowds).
Photos and video of the Scareparts Masquerade Party, including the Midwest Fantasy Show Body Art Fashion Show (sponsored by the U.S. Body Painting Festival), and AOL Top rated Ms. Scary Midwest Pageant and more are available at:
http://www.midwesthauntersconvention.com/mhc07wrapup.htm An awesome photo CD/DVD is still available from Rich Johnson, Spectacle Studios.
REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA
I saw a preview of this last night on the tube. Looks interesting. Here's the official press release:
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, announced today that Twisted Pictures commenced principal photography this week in Toronto, Canada on REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA. The film is being produced by Daniel Heffner, Carl Mazzocone, Mark Burg and Oren Koules. Lionsgate’s President of Acquisitions and Co-Productions Peter Block and EVP Jason Constantine are overseeing production for the studio.
Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) is directing from a screenplay by Terrence Zdunich and Darren Smith, co-creators of the original stage production of the same name upon which the film is based. Japanese musician, songwriter and composer Yoshiki Hayashi (better known as simply Yoshiki) is producing the film’s soundtrack.
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October 30, 2007
Like what you see big boy?
Well besides being a horror pervert there is nothing wrong with you! We here are the Haunted Report want you to know that we post stories like these 365 days a year. So don't just check us out when we run video of hot half naked Zombie chicks, check us out all year long by subscribing to our RSS feed.
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- iamlegend
October 29, 2007
Top 5 TRUE urban legends
Cracked.com has an interesting article just in time for Halloween. It's called "The 5 Creepiest Urban Legends (That Happen to be True)" and it has some very interesting stuff.
For example, did you ever hear of the story of a couple who checked into a hotel room and had to put up with an awful smell the whole night so they complained to the hotel management and they found out later that it was because of a body underneath their bed?
Well this, as it turns out, actually did ihammen in a few different cities including Las Vegas, Atlantic City and a few times in various Florida cities.
Or how about the funhouse mummy which turned out to be a real mummified person? This is also a true story.
You can find our more at this link.
Some Giveaways coming to Haunted Report
Just wanted to let you know that we'll be starting some contests soon - have been stockpiling some things to give away.
More details to come...
October 28, 2007
Zombie Tales
Boom Studios is releasing it's best-selling zombie anthology as a collection featuring contributions from some of the industries best such as Eureka creator Andrew Cosby, Transformers the Movie writer John Rogers and more.
The edition collects Zombie Tales #1, Zombie Tales: Oblivion, and Zombie Tales: The Dead into 1 volume.
October 26, 2007
Hatter M - The Looking glass Wars Vol. 1
We just received an advanced copy of this graphic novel and we have to tell you that we are impressed. The cover alone grabs your attention:
Just flipping through it, we can't wait to sink ourselves into the story.
Here is the synopsis of the book:
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October 22, 2007
Horror novelist accused of boiling girlfriend's flesh
Jose Luis Calva, an aspiring Mexican horror novelist, has been arrested after police discovered his girlfriend's body parts scattered throughout his home.
The author told police he had boiled some of his girlfriend's flesh but that he hadn't eaten it however investigators are trying to determine if chunks of fried meat found in a pan in the apartment were human, a police spokesman said.
Police were called to Calva's apartment on Monday after neighbours reported a fetid smell where they discovered the dismembered body of his girlfriend Alejandra Galeana in a closet, the spokesman said. A leg and pieces of an arm were in a refrigerator and there were bones inside a cereal box.
October 16, 2007
Mutating Pictures
This isn't necessarily haunted industry related, however we found some of the images disturbing and, therefore, right up our alley :)
Before you look at the images you need to understand the premise of this site. It consists of 1000 pictures randomly generated from various shapes. Site users rate the images and those with the highest ratings survive and "evolve"
August 31, 2007
So You Think You Can Scream???
There are many kinds of screams; shrieks of horror, shouts of joy, or maybe it’s a good old fashioned rock & roll scream. Whatever scream you do best LiveMansion.com wants to see it.
Upload a video of your best scream to http://livemansion.com/dcContest.aspx?cid=30 for a chance to win $500 (use it to pay for the throat doctor).
Members of LiveMansion can enter up to 10 separate scream video submissions and the LiveMansion community will vote for their favorite. The winner gets $500.
August 24, 2007
The Times - They Are A-Changin'
As you may have noticed, it's been a while since we posted anything substantial on HR.
But that's about to change.
You see, we've been in negotiations for a little while with other interested parties about making some changes to freshen things up a bit.
Now we're not talking about money or anything here (we wish). Just a slight course correction.
Iamlegend and I have decided to switch places. My site - The Console Conspiracy will now fall under his jurisdiction while I take over the Haunted Report.
What does this mean for HR?
Well nothing in the short term. The news I bring will be the same or similar to what Iamlegend did. And in fact, you won't even see the first changes - namely upgrading our publishing platform.
I will tinker with the layout of the site a bit in hopes of helping pages load quicker, but the quality of news will still (I hope) be the same.
Once the upgrade in publishing platform is complete I'm going to bring you some overdue news. There's been lots of tips and news coming from valued readers which hasn't been posted yet, so I'm going to attempt to post as much of it as I can in the coming weeks.
If you have submitted news to us at our news email - news at hauntedreport dot com please rest assured that I will post it if it's relevant to this site.
And if you'd like to contribute please email the same address.
I look forward to bringing you all the haunted industry news in the future!
Thanks for your patience.
August 22, 2007
Vampire Bats Attacking Cattle
We know this isn't necessarily "haunted industry" related, but felt we'd like to share the above picture and explain why.
Apparently due to logging in the rain forests, vampire bat attacks on cows have gone up. There are many theories as to why.
You can find out more at National Geographic.
July 18, 2007
New Feature on the Haunted Report - Prop of the Week
Hello All,
We have a new feature on the Haunted Report : Prop-of-the-Week. This will be our first feature on the Blog that relies entirely on you the reader. Each week (if we have submissions) we will feature a prop-of-the-week. This could be something you built yourself or something you purchased for your Home Haunt or Pro Haunt. If it's something you built yourself we would love to see HOW you built it and you might even have the chance to see your prop in MAKE magazine at some point. So start sending those descriptions and photos to us TODAY at news@hauntedreport.com.
Thanks,
iamlegend
April 23, 2007
Free, CC licensed stories from horror writer David Nickle
One of our readers sent this in from BoingBoing. David Nickle, the Stoker-award-winning horror writer, has just posted a bunch of his short stories to his website under a Creative Commons license. What that means is people can use them in their own works as long as they obey the CC laws. Pretty cool.
- iamlegend
February 27, 2007
Rise from your Grave!
Ugggghhh. No that's not the sound of a zombie that's the sound of our Blog
once again rising from the grave to haunt a whole new year. For those of
you that are left our Blog has been down about 2 months now to due to some
really crappy hosting and various Moveable Type problems and DNS issues.
But we are back and will start to infect new readers asap. In the meantime
feel free to tell us some things you would like to see us cover in the
coming months......
- iamlegend
June 6, 2006
Do you suffer from Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia?
if you do you can find help by calling 666-6666 now. Okay so can you guess what day it is? Talk about a good date for a horror Blog. Not much news to bring you today but let's take a look at what this famous date is all about 06.06.06? You can check out the Number of the Beast or take a look at what went on in the year 666. And of course if you really do suffer from a fear of the number 666 you can seek help here.
May 31, 2006
HorrorClix Returns
We got a great email from HorrorClix product manager Mark Tuttle pointing us to some great Horror Clix news. Looks like their new Web Site is up and running. It's pretty cool and also includes a great online tutorial on how to play. We also checked out some of the rules of the game including how the monsters get their powers. Which is through their victims. Check out the HorrorClix victims below:
Of course this wouldn't be The Haunted Report if we didn't cover one of the new figures released for HorrorClix. Check out the sweet Skeletal Maiden.
- iamlegend
May 10, 2006
Movie News
Here’s an update on a previous post about Saw 3. The release date is set for 10/27/06 according to their official movie site: http://www.saw3.com/ The site also has a Saw 3 message board.
In other movie related news:
Here’s a link to an interview with Jake Wade discussing some of his upcoming projects
In the interview he discusses the possibility of “Halloween: The Missing Years”.
I came across this interesting little site Strongman Pictures in Melbourne Australia:
They have an interesting trailer to a movie they’re doing called “Disturbed”. It looks to be very promising if they can get the funds to complete it.
For those of you who want to keep up with the latest news on horror movies your at the right Blog!
Psychoterror
March 23, 2006
New Feature on The Haunted Report
Hey Everyone,
Hope you have been enjoying our Transworld coverage as we team up with Rotting Flesh Radio. In other news I wanted to point out a cool new feature of the Blog iteself. You can now leave us voicemail. That's right. Thanks to a cool new product called Odeo. All you need is a microphone attached to your computer. If this works out well we might start to have a weekly Q&A session. Where you leave us a voicemails and we answer your questions. Anyway good stuff. Go ahead leave us a message today!
- iamlegend
March 9, 2006
Pumpkinhead Lives!
Since I missed posting on Tuesday I figured I’d post two new items today and they are both related to movie news. I already talked about Saw III (sorry about my little ranting in the article, but sequels are a touchy issue with me) now lets switch gears to the announcement for plans to bring an 80’s horror monster back to life on the big screen. According to Fangoria and The Horror Channel the green light was given to Pumpkinhead sequels. That’s right I said sequels. It appears that the Sci-Fi channel is ultimately behind the Stan Winston creature resurrection although there is no mention that Winston’s studios will be along for the ride that Gary Tunnicliffe, who did all the effects work on the most recent Hellraiser and Prophecy sequels will be creating the demon anew. Let’s hope the creature looks similar to Winston’s since it looked so frickin’ awesome!
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Saw III Confirmed in Blood!
According to several sources Jigsaw fans have either their wildest dream or worst nightmare come true as Twisted Pictures officially confirmed recently that Saw III will happen and will be in theaters by Halloween making the Saw films a tradition almost as big as trick or treating. Now I said their wildest dreams, who wouldn’t want two kick ass horror films to have yet another sequel. Worst nightmare is that the excellent Saw franchise will have another sequel. History proved itself time and time again in the horror industry that making a sequel to a top grossing film like Saw almost always leads to disaster. Unless you come up with a twist that no one saw (no pun intended) coming. They did that with part two, but anything after that runs dangerously close to sucking little by little as the numbers go up. In my personal opinion Saw I and II are one big movie like Halloween I and II. There is no need to have a sequel. We all knew it was coming, but it did look doubtful when the Twisted Pictures big wig and "Saw" producer Greg Hoffman died at age 42 about a month after the second film was released. Another thing that makes me kind of uneasy is the fact that it’s already March and they are pushing for an October release. Films that are rushed in any genre never come out being very good. To much has to be jammed in to too little time and everything isn’t planned out very well. But enough about my opinion lets get to the facts.
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February 23, 2006
Horror Figures from Toyfair 2006
The year 2006 shows great promise for all of us action figure collectors. Personally I thought the new year would bring tons of Star Wars related collectibles and everything else would be swept to the side. I was wrong. It seems that 2006 promises to be one of the best years for Horror action figure collectors. With companies like NECA toys and SOTA toys paving the way for a whole new re-birth for collectibles related to the horror genre. Here is the break down for each company as announced at the 2006 Toy Fair.
SOTA Toys: Their horror movie figure line is appropriately titled Now Playing. In my personal opinion the details in the sculpts blow away anything McFarlane has ever done, but that’s just me. Here is what they announced at the toyfair:
• Series 2 which is already on the shelves features: Jeepers Creepers 2, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, and The Mummy Returns.
• Series 3 which is slated for a spring 2006 release features: BARON VLADIMIR HARKONNEN (Dune), MEG MUCKLEBONES (Legend), and WEREWOLF (Dog Soldiers).
• Box sets for the Now Playing line features a nice looking set from John Carpenter’s The Thing and also plans for Mini-Busts from: DARKMAN, AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, DARKNESS (Legend), and THE THING: SPIDER-HEAD also are slated for a spring 2006 release.
• However the most exciting news that has the whole industry buzzing is the announcement of the 18” figure of Lord Darkness himself from the movie Legend. He is the largest 18 inch scale figure to be released to date by anyone standing with horns over 20 inches tall and has a shoulder span of over 9 inches. But his size isn’t the only thing that makes the collectors crazy this incredibly details figure says 5 movie lines to send him over the top. A huge figure like this of course comes with a huge price tag with a suggested retail price of $75.
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February 22, 2006
New Staff and a new feature....
Hey All,
Please help me welcome three new staff to the Haunted Report. They are R0adk1ll, Mr. Nightmarez and Mr. Maniacal. Mr. Maniacal will be helping us blogging about the latest in the Horror Scene as well his Haunted House opinions. Meanwhile R0adk1ll and Mr. Nightmarez are going to do something that has never been done before in this industry. They are going to Blog thier experiences running a Haunted House over the course of one year. Mr. Nightmarez will be blogging his experience setting up a Pro Haunted House and R0adk1ll will be blogging his experience running a home haunt. We think this is truly unique and a first for our industry.
Stay tuned to see how it turns out! You can read more about all our Bloggers here.
- iamlegend
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