Nice fuckin’ Docs! Warner Bros. Studios is the latest to hop on the horror shoe train collabing with every goth’s favorite blister maker, Dr. Martins, and giving three different die-for shoes to choose from featuring some of the 80s’ very greatest in gothic horror.
The Beetlejuice 1461 shoe has been painted with Beetle Snake and enamel lace charms before being finished with a printed sock liner, graphic laces, and colored sole pads.
1461 received a second makeover for The Lost Boys in croc-embossed leather with vampire teeth lace charms and hardware.
Then, we have the 1460 boot for The Goonies. Embossed with a skull pattern ‘NEVER SAY DIE’ printed backstraps with a skull lace charm. Now those are some ass-kickin boots. LITERALLY.
At the time of writing this, many sizes have already been sold out but if you hurry, you may get to snag a pair of these amazing horror kicks for your feet! Check out Dr.Martins.com directly to check availability!
Welp. We’re a day early, but not a buck short as the official first look at Blumhouse’s Halloween Ends just dropped and it’s already looking miles better than Kills even with just over a glimpse of a minute!
One full glorious minute of Myers and Laurie going Kill fucking Bill on each other offers just a shadow of what we may expect as we know this is Jamie Lee Curtis’ last hurrah in the Halloween franchise once and for all as the actress stated on her Instagram:
Will Michael end Laurie’s character in the final installment, or will evil die tonight? Universal Pictures’ HALLOWEEN ENDS premieres theatrically on October 14, 2022.
First off, I just want to start off by saying that I’m gleaming like a Halloween jack-o-lantern in Carpenter’s intro credits after stumbling upon this information by pure accident via /Halloweenmovies on Reddit. Halloween is by far, one of the most discussed and beloved horror movies of the horror genre, and finding any kind of new information, facts, or trivia on the film is slim fuckin’ pickings as every horror journalist in the world has said everything and anything they could on the film. But, behold I come bearing gifts on that strange and interesting tale told by none other than the grave keeper of Haddonfield, Angus Taylor to one Samuel Loomis as they trenched through the cemetery. The mystery of Charlie Bowles and what he “proceeded to do” drives us all crazy to this very day. However, I can verify as the story checks out, that Charlie Bowles was based on a real person living in Russellville, Kentucky; and his name was, well, Charlie Bowles.
“He ran a drive-in movie theater in Russellville. Russellville is my hometown and about 30 minutes from Bowling green and Smiths’ grove where John carpenter spent much of his childhood. I always thought that was a cool way to pay tribute to ol’ Charlie.”
She goes on to say that while ol’ Charlie was no hacksaw murderer, he was known to be involved in illegal activities like bootlegging and gambling.
Now, if you’re a John Carpenter buff, you know that while he was born in Carthage, New York, his family later moved to Bowling Green,Kentucky, where his father was the head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. And about fifteen minutes away from a little town called Smiths’ Grove with Russelville another fifteen from that. Carpenter used these places from his years in the Bluegrass state as references in his “immortal classic”; so using names of people he actually knew isn’t that inconceivable.
Upon further investigation, while verifying this information, I came across an interview done by Chris Cooper with Carpenter himself who did indeed confirm Charlie Bowles was a real person, but that, however, he was not willing to discuss anything about Charlie Bowles: “Under no circumstance will I talk about Charlie Bowles. He is the father of an old girlfriend, deceased, and had other things in his life best left unsaid by me.”
So while we may not know exactly what Charlie’s fate was in the film, we do know that Charlie did exist in reality and is forever immortalized as the one lingering cliffhanger in the classic 44-year-old movie.
Now, let’s let our OCD go crazy one more time and revisit that scene.
