If It’s Tuesday It Must Be New DVD Day for May 13th, 2008
May 13, 2008:
Amateur Porn Star Killer 2 (Special 2-Disk Edition)
Botched
The Cottage
Frontier(s)
Love Thy Neighbor
Timber Falls
Untraceable
Ghostbusters 3 to Hit the Small Screen
OK, if you’ve had images of the Statue of Liberty walking the streets of New York floundering about like the crappy reviews of Ghostbusters 2 in your head since 1989 then you’re not alone. While the sequel to the 1984 hit Ghostbusters didn’t quite live up to expectations (why oh why didn’t lady liberty have a giant creature to fight instead of just sticking her hand through a roof?!) that hasn’t stopped fans from wanting a third installment. Well one is in the works - sort of. Due in October from Sierra Entertainment is Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
Yeah, so you’re saying that you have Gameboy and Sega games with the Ghostbusters in them. What’s unique about this one is that Dan Akroyd (Dr Raymond Stantz) and Harold Ramis (Dr Egon Spengler) penned this story and all the original cast members Akroyd, Ramis, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, and even William Ahterton who played the annoying EPA agent Walter Peck are back lending their voices to the characters. Set in 1991, two years after GB 2, the Ghostbusters have franchised out and you get to play as a new recruit. Slimer and the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man are even in it, and Akroyd has said himself that this is basically Ghostbusters 3.
So, if you want to see the boys back in action then hopefully you’re a gamer. If not, there’s probably some kid on your block you can pay to play it for you. Check out the sample YouTube video below of some kick-ass-proton-pack destruction. As always if you’re getting this in an email you’ll have to hit our site to see it.
The Mind of Pumpkinrot
One of my favorite haunts has to be the very stylized and creepy Pumpkinrot. One could spend an afternoon just discovering all the dark little treats on his site. He’s often imitated, but very rarely duplicated. Well, thanks to Haunt Project I see that there’s a Pumpkinrot blog. Have fun viewing the scurrying critters that infest this guys mind.
The Great Lakes Fright Fest is Creeping Up
One con is over and another one is getting near. Here’s the latest press release from the Great Lakes Fright Fest.
Hi all, time to make plans for GLFF!
I am excited to announce this year’s “Highlights”:
The 8th Annual Great Lakes FrightFest Gathering will be held on May 30 -> June 1, at Totem Pole Campground in Petersburg, MI. (9 miles north of the Michigan / Ohio state line - off 23)
Some of the demos that are in the works: (No particular order)
Mask painting and detailing - Brian Lashchuk, (Beyond the Grave Productions)
Fog U 101 - Corey Minion (Minion’s Web) & Brian Taylor (KK’s Keeper)
Snakes - Sandy Belshause
Extreme Make-up - Rob Johnson (BodyBagging Entertainment)
Even more spooky cooking treats - Culinary Artist Jon Elias,
Vortex Tunnel - Dennis Darke (Darke Haunt Works)
Scott Stoll’s Papier Mache’ with recycled materials.. A “green” seminar
I’m too lazy to take to much time to Corpse - Toby Wrolson
Rubens Tube - Brandon Tucker (aka Ravenscroft)
Obelisk! - Bob Vaillencourt
Jim Weimi - TBA
… to name a few and more to be added!MAKE -n- TAKES:
Make n Take / Ornaments - Karen Murphy, ($1.00 per ornament, pay at class)
Make n Take Cup Holder Crosses - Wally Wojciechowski ($3.00 pay at class)
Make n Take / Web Spinner - Tom Byrne (Kit includes everything you need to start shooting webs except the drill and web-fluid (fluid will be on hand to test). Kit price is $11. Must sign up before May 16th to ensure you can take one home. Contact Toby at haunt31@msn.com to sign up.)…. More Make n Takes in the works
Back by Popular Demand:
HAUNTERS AGAINST HUNGER - Haunted House - Can Food Drive We are preparing a 3000 sq ft haunted house at the campground. Your Design—Your Props—Your Room—Your Scares—to be shared with the rest of the campground! Don’t Forget to Bring your Can Goods!This year’s goal for the can food drive is 1500! We can do this! We only have 8 rooms left - Please contact me ASAP if you want a room! Robert Beech has kindly offered one of his Bram Stokers Dracula plaque to the winner of this year’s Haunter Against Hunger Haunted House (along with this year’s trophy - to display proudly)!
The GLFF’s Fourth Annual “Fog Off”
Bring your biggest & baddest fogger and fog-chiller design to see who is the “Master Fogger”.Our 2008 Shirt design http://www.greatlakesfrightfest.com/souvenirs.htm
Children’s Crafts, Games and Activities
Campsite decorating contest!!
Friday night outdoor movie with a possible Surprise guest and Margaritas!!
*****Special Casket Raffle*****
Parade of Hearses
Campsite Prop Swap/Sales (feel free to set up in front of your campsite)
Fantasy Face/Body Art & Glitter Tats by Midnight Angel
We have a lot more surprises planned!!
Come and play, meet and greet with other haunters and their families! Free demos, activities for the kids, can food drive, raffles, door prizes and much - much more!!!
WOO HOO, the (ever changing) Website is up! I will be updating the web site, so please check back often!
The Message Board is updated - check back often for latest updates!
http://www.greatlakesfrightfest.com/messageboard/For Registration and Reservations (Must Register w/ me & the campground)
http://www.greatlakesfrightfest.com/reservations.htmHotel Discount available - see Message board
For more information, go to:
http://www.greatlakesfrightfest.com or contact me at GLFF@BEX.NET!Come Play with Us!
~Karen aka KkrazyKkaren
http://www.GreatLakesFrightFest.com
May 30 -> June 1, 2008
Well behaved women rarely make history.
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Are Halloween People Insane or Geniuses?
I’m really trying to figure something out about Halloween people. Maybe you can help me out. It seems now to be about a bazillion years ago I joined the Halloween-L email list. This was originally back in 2000 or so. This was the first time I joined you ask? Yes, I have joined several times and that begs the question, “Why did you stop being on the list at all?”. Well, for anyone who has ever been on this list what you’ll find at any given time between one to three thousand members from estimates I’ve heard. Of course, you say, it must be total mayhem with that many people active on the list. Well, actually, the active members are few – maybe thirty to forty. Really, you say?! Why so few, and what are the non-active members doing? Let me tell you the latter and you’ll understand the former.
They are lurking.
lurked, lurk·ing, lurks
1. To lie in wait, as in ambush.
2. To move furtively; sneak.
3. To exist unobserved or unsuspected: danger lurking around every bend.
So why would anyone be lurking on an email list they actually subscribe to and want to be on? I have my suspicions, but I can actually only speak for myself. Mainly I lurk because when I post it is either not acknowledged or the opinion differs from the clique Thus you are then belittled. In fact this can happen no matter what one says. I personally believe that if I said the sun would come up tomorrow I would receive no less than thirty responses: 3 in agreement, 15 in disagreement, 10 in total denial who question my integrity in some inane manner, and 2 from moderators threatening to ban me from the list. I may be exaggerating a bit but not much. This has happened to me before, and I have unsubscribed numerous times to get away from the ridiculous insanity. I always manage to come back though because about one in every one hundred posts is actually something very interesting and I’d hate to miss out on seeing something someone made or did.
Is this unique to the Halloween-L? Most assuredly not. Is it unique to the Halloween community? No to that one too. However, I have noticed that people in the Halloween subculture do tend toward some disturbing polarizations of viewpoints that lead to to the discomfort on the email lists. In fact just this week one came floating to the top of the Hall-L pus bucket. It was posted that Mike Bruner of the Monster Maze and more recently the Eastern Haunters Convention was booted from the Hall-L for SPAM about his event. In reality he only posted around ten times in a four month period and all of which were actually on-topic and valid Halloween information. It wasn’t so much that he was booted that made the controversy, but how people actually reacted to the news that he was booted.
It followed the scenario I laid out above. Some folks were immediately on Mike’s side. Some against. Some whining just to whine. And others ranted on and on in way more posts than Mike ever posted himself. Personally I found this a precious waste of time and energy. For years I’ve witnessed ridiculous and petty fights over little things like haunts with chainsaws versus haunts without, spooky haunts versus bloody haunts, Haunted Attraction Magazine and Leonard Pickel versus HauntWorld Magazine and Larry Kirchner, professional haunts versus home haunts, yard haunts versus garage haunts, automated haunts versus actor driven haunts.
It all becomes just so very tiresome. Wouldn’t it be a wonderful world where we all realized that we’re on the same side here and that each one of has something in common? A love of Halloween and haunted houses should be the unifying theme in our endeavors, and I must admit that while I have my preferences in what I do I really do love it all. Heck, I even like the guy who puts out a bag of leaves that looks like a cheesy pumpkin. It’s all good man. Now, sometimes on this site I throw out an opinion, but it really isn’t meant to be taken as gospel. It’s just my opinion after all, except for the one about the Speed Racer movie – everyone should hate it just like me. Everyone has opinions whether it be one or a whole boatload. It’s OK to spout off, but some of these fights seem to go on and on and drive people apart in the haunt community for weeks, months, or years at a time. I’m not sure if it’s that Halloween people tend to be more high strung artsy creative people or that something about the darkness in Halloween – the very thing that draws us to watch horror movies, build gruesome props, and love scaring people witless – is the very thing that makes us so angry at one another over petty things. Maybe both are tied to each other like genius is to insanity.
Basically I just want to say this to any haunter out there who is holding a grudge against another haunter that doesn’t involve them stealing your money, destroying your livelihood, raping your dog, or killing your family in some horrific manner. Lighten the fuck up will ya! I hate resorting to cursing, but as you all know I do it from time to time. Nothing says it like a good dirty word. So I say it again – LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP! We’re all together here.
Oh yeah, and just because you can email someone, or a thousand someones, and trash somebody while under the guise of a pseudonym like ScaryPukerhead1313 doesn’t mean you shouldn’t conduct yourself with the same societal proprieties you would standing next to that person in the grocery store. That kind of anonymity is the shield most often used by cockroach-like pedophiles scurrying from the light and the law on Dateline NBC. Now, with that said, go out and subscribe to both magazines and visit a haunt you normally would because it was either too gory, spooky, cutesy, or whatever. Like your mother taught you about saying something good if you have to say anything at all go out and compliment someone on an email list or at a convention or gathering who spent hours or weeks working on their haunt or a prop. No one expects you to love everything and you can even judiciously disagree with anyone so long as you just acknowledge the love of Halloween in your fellow haunters. Aren’t there enough kooks out there who cause us problems every October stealing our stuff and protesting us as Devil worshipers that we don’t have to do it to ourselves?
