Horror and Halloween fanatics long for the days when Spirit Halloween opens its doors signifying the official arrival of the spooky season and now Spirit has one more grand Halloween treat for us to look forward to- A SPIRIT HALLOWEEN MOVIE!
I don’t even care what it’s about. Just put it in my eyeballs right now.
In an exclusive with Variety, the iconic seasonal costume and prop store with 1,425 locations across North America, has teamed with Strike Back Studios, Hideout Pictures and Particular Crowd for a feature-length family movie simply entitled, “Spirit Halloween.”
The premise so far is as follows:
“When a new Spirit Halloween store appears in a deserted strip mall, three middle-school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick-or-treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night. But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves.”
With a screenplay by Billie Bates, the movie is billing legendary actor Christopher Lloyd alongside Rachel Leigh Cook as the main stars for the film alongside Donavan Colan, Dylan Frankel, Marissa Reyes, Jaiden Smith, and Marla Gibbs with Director David Poag, making his directorial feature debut.
Filming is reported to have been completed and is eyeing an October 2022 release date.
That’s right folks, conventions are coming back and just in time for the 30th anniversary of the goddamn greatest gore-fight game of all time-MORTAL KOMBAT!
Fan Boy Expo is a traveling convention popping up in cities from Las Vegas to Orlando bringing the hype of fandom of all types of pop-culture enthusiasts. Whether you’re a fan of anime, gaming, or film/tv, chances are you’ll find your favorite artist or actor hanging out at the expo ready for a Q&A panel or signing autographs. And one of those events, in particular, is a 30-year celebration of a fan-favorite game, Mortal Kombat with the very actors/actresses appearing IN COSTUME from the nostalgic films and games we all know and love!
Fanboy expo has partnered with retail pop-culture collectible staple, IT CAME FROM PLANET EARTH to make this possible and will be holding gaming tournaments all weekend on Twitch hosted by Kevin Fair and Keith Burgess in a 5,000 SQ FT room dedicated to Arcade Games, Classic Console Games, and Table Top Gaming. MK royalty will be signing autographs and taking selfies in costume with patrons Saturday and Sunday of the show!
Fanboy Expo
The guest list is as follows:
Brian Glynn-Shao Kahn
John Turk – Subzero Unmasked- Sub Zero
Chris Casamassa – Scorpion
Kerri Hoskins – Sonya Blade
John Parrish– Jax
Lia Montelongo – Sindel
Dana Hee – Mileena
Photo Credit: Fanboy Expo
Fanboy Expo Las Vegas will be held at the Rio Hotel and Suites from April 22-24, 2022. You can pick up your tickets, and exclusive VIP ticket packages by clicking here, with kids 5 and under free of charge to the events with a paid adult ticket.
The Mortal Kombat 11 Gaming Tournament begins on Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 at 2pm (pre-registration begins at 930am) in the Gaming Room.
Now GET OVER THERE and grab your tickets. No 90s fan is going to want to miss this!
It’s been 30 sad years since the Horror Hall of Fame Awards aired for the third and final time and I need some closure. While The Horror Hall Of Fame III wasn’t exactly on par with the previous two award shows years before, presumably because 1992 was sort of a weaker year for the genre, I respect the fact it happened goddammit and I wish the tradition had continued for years to come.
Brought to you by Butterfinger, Speed Stick, and a grainy VHS recording (but also grateful to have it) of the 1992 ceremony, let’s revisit the 1992 Horror Hall Of Fame!
In a world where national treasures of the horror genre like Child’s Play 3 and The Addams Family can’t get an ounce of respect from the cinematic awards world, we had the Horror Hall of Fame with Robert Englund hosting along with a hilariously gory illusion act from the late Vegas staple, The Amazing Johnathan in between inductee segments following with pesky Gremlins annoying the audience.
It goes without saying that the annual event held at Universal Studios, Hollywood was a complete cheese-fest. But, for someone like me, it was the most delicious piece of cheese to this ten-year-old. It wholeheartedly felt like an award show catered to young horror fans such as myself year after year, and the third chapter of the horror event was no exception. Although this ceremony in particular felt a little less jazzy than the two prior, maybe it was the absence of the co-hosting Crypt Keeper this year, it’s still a fun watch. Especially that Monster Mash dance with Bobby “Boris” Pickett and Beetlejuice that exemplified what the Universal Studios park once was back in the early nineties. Seriously, I have a fantastic recording of that daily Universal Studios Beetlejuice show on a Polaroid VHS somewhere. I really need to dig that bad boy up.
Anyway, the awards show opens up with a ceremonial tribute to Frankenstein’s mate and the James Whale film that was just as great, if not better than its predecessor. Followed by fellow inductees Alien, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Night of the Living Dead. For the third and what would be the final time, we got another fun segment of Scare Tactics from master of effects Steve Johnson with Linnea Quigley serving as his guinea pig showing how to make up some monster teeth, and gap wounds for Halloween.
The inductees and awards for this year were as follows:
Film- Bride of Frankenstein
Film- Alien
Film- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Film- Night of the Living Dead
Publisher- Famous Monsters of Filmland
Publisher- EC Comics
Production Company- Universal Studios —- I mean, why not give it to themselves, right?
Nominees for best horror film were Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The Lawnmower Man, Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, Child’s Play 3, Alien 3, Pet Sematary 2, and The Addams Family who took home the win for Horror Film of the Year.
In what had sadly turned out to be the final year of The Horror Hall of Fame, even though host Robert Englund said they would be back for the Horror Hall of Fame 4, it brought with it a bit of a sadness to young horror fans such as myself who had become accustomed to this, albeit short, an annual celebration of the best in the genre when we realized it wasn’t making a return as 1993 came and went. As we come to the end of Horror Hall of Fame memory lane, let’s grab some Butterfinger BBs and an Ecto-Cooler, and watch this partial home-recorded version aired in 1992 thanks to YouTube uploader Doug Tilley! Of course, it’s missing some segments mentioned above but hey, it’s better than nothing folks!
