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Fill your Home With The Scents Of Monster Cereal!

Although I live Halloween 365 days out of the year, my inner-child spirit of Halloween doesn’t officially begin until I see that glorious display of Monster Cereal boxes lining my local market. The holy trinity of Frankenberry, Boo Berry, and Count Chocula is more than just a dose of nostalgia- it’s a symbol, and a tasty one at that, that Summer is coming to an end and the festival of Samhain is upon us.

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Some Monster Cereal fanatics’ may complain that the seasonal treat should be available all year- I humbly disagree as that would lessen the special excitement the product illuminates. However, diving through the seventh layers of Hell on Etsy, I found a few ways to keep these nostalgic nuggets of Halloween treasure around beyond the October holiday. Via a handful of shops on the small business platform, we can give the gift or heavenly glucose to our senses in the form of unofficial candles and wax melts!

Great for a gift for the Boo Berry fanatic in your life, or heck, treat yourself because why not- here’s a few shops that make some quality soy wax cereal content!

Monster Cereal Candles by Fandlemonium

Etsy shop Fandlemonium curated by Rianna out of Columbus, Wisconsin offers up the trio of Monster Cereal mayhem as 10 oz soy wax candles. Along with these, the shop also offers pop-culture curated scents in the form of CastleVania, Jurassic Park, and The Nightmare Before Christmas!

Per the description: Enjoy the scents of your favorite holiday cereals year round with these deliciously smelling candles! They smell just like the cereal but don’t eat ’em! Grab one or all three here!

Monster Cereal Shaped Wax Melts by MeltsCandlesCo

If you’re a wax melt kind of people, these cereal-shaped melts that come in a custom Monster Cereal Box are pretty much the best. Each cereal melt is customized to let off that familiar fragrance in your personal warmer that will surely satisfy those nostrils; AND towner Alexis offers both Fruit Brute and Yummy Mummy!

SCENT DESCRIPTIONS:

Count Chocula: Delight in rich and creamy milk chocolate with a light coating of cocoa powder.

Frankenberry: An incredible iced champagne mixed with rich sweet raspberry and cranberry.

Boo Berry: A yummy smelling blend of strawberry, grape, buttercream, fresh bakery notes and wild berries. Background notes of powdery raspberry, vanilla sugar, plum, tonka bean and warm maple go into this complex scent. Seriously just like the cereal!

Yummy Mummy: Sweet and dreamy, Orange Dreamsicle is a reminder of those childhood orange push-ups we all loved. Both you and your customers will have sweet dreams when you use this bestselling blend of orange citrus swirled with creamy vanilla in your products.

Fruit Brute: It’s Cherry Pure sweet delicious insane CHERRY

Top Note – Cherry
Middle Note – Sweet
Bottom Note – Vanilla

Grab one or all of them by clicking here!

Count Chocula Ultimate Scent Collection by FamiliarFrangrances

Shop owner Jessica from Florida specializes in theme park and nostalgic scents from out childhood; offering them in various forms from candles, to roll-on oils! In this Count Chocula inspired line from the shop, you can choose from incense, room sprays, candles, and burner oil!

Per the description:

Another spot on cereal scent is now available in the chocolatey Halloween theme of Count Chocula! The scent of cereal is profound in this fragrance; it is much more than the smell of chocolate.
This fragrance comes in a wooden wick 8oz candle, 1oz glass spray bottle, 5ml fragrance oil (for burners), 10ml Roll On Body Oil Applicator, wax melt clam shell, or a 3 pack of 12″ incense.

This candle is a fine blend of paraffin & soy wax that creates a wonderful scent throw that stretches a considerable distance when lit. The 8oz tin comes with a crackling wooden wick that requires maintenance for proper burning (trimming). Comes with a tin cover.

1 candle/ 1 spray option comes with a wooden wick

Shop by clicking here!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a wallet I need to empty into some of these small businesses’!

Spirit Halloween Will Pay One Lucky Person $10,000 To Be Their “Chief Spirit Officer”!

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN WILL PAY ONE LUCKY PERSON $10,000 TO BE THEIR "CHIEF SPIRIT OFFICER"!

If you live Halloween 365 days a year, have an outgoing personality, vast knowledge of the horror genre, and a knack for dishing out thrills and chills, then get ready; because THIS is the ultimate Halloween lover’s dream job… and they will pay you $10,000!

Halloween superstore Spirit Halloween is searching for the ultimate Halloween superfan to crawl out from their devious dwellings and to take on a very cool opportunity to be their first-ever Chief Spirit Officer.

If selected to be the King or Queen of Halloween, the Chief Spirit Officer will get to host a social media series on Spirit Halloween’s exclusive social media channels, where they will treat fans to the latest Halloween season news, the hottest holiday trends, and offer behind-the-scenes tips, treats and tricks. Along with the mentioned $10,000 cash prize, the CSO will also get free Spirit Halloween costumes for a decade, a $500 shopping trip for a haunted home décor upgrade, and an all-expense paid trip to the Spirit Halloween Headquarters along with a guest of their choice!

SIGN ME UP, I’M READY TO WORK.

Per Spirit Halloween:

All types of Halloween mega enthusiasts – including DIYers, costume connoisseurs, makeup magicians, out-of-this-world home decorators – are encouraged to apply. Applicants can enter via video and/or photo submission on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok from August 11 at 3 PM ET through August 29 at 11:59 PM ET. For consideration, candidates should show their passion for Halloween and Spirit Halloween and share why they want to be Spirit Halloween’s CSO using the hashtag #SpiritHalloweenCSOContest and tagging @SpiritHalloween.

For more details and to enter and apply, click here!

Good luck everyone!

WTF Review: “Look What’s Happened To Rosemary’s Baby”

WTF REVIEW: "LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY"

In 1968, Roman Polanski shocked the cinema world with Rosemary’s Baby, starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, and  Sidney Blackmer. Seeming rather tame to today’s standards, the age-old story of trading eternal damnation of your soul for a bit of luxury was fresh entertainment over 50 years ago and remains a tried and true horror classic to the genre that the movie helped progress into more risky territory. So why not give it a worthy sequel, eh ? What became of little Adrian Woodhouse and his Antichrist fate?

Umm. Hmm.

Now, I hear a lot of shit about The Exorcist II: The Heretic being the worst sequel of all time- but I’d challenge anyone that makes that statement has surely never seen Look What’s Happened To Rosemary’s Baby. I had only found out about this sequel a few years ago, and then compeletly forgot about it’s existence until a conversation with my step-mother who was looking for the film- which understandably, had fallen into obscurity. BUT, when there’s a will, there’s a way and thank goddess for YouTube where I found a full version of the movie to indulge my curiosity.

Man. I wished I hadn’t.

The film made as a special Halloween presentation airing on ABC, premiered on October 29, 1976 continues the story of Rosemary, Guy, and their bastard Antichrist child, Adrian- whom Rosemary refers to as Andrew which is what his name had intended to be before he was reveled to be the spawn of Satan. Rosemary (this time played by Patty Duke) and “Andrew” have been lying low with Minnie and Roman (Ruth Gordon and Ray Milland) as with the rest of the cult for the past eight years. The pair flee to LA in the hopes of finding ex-husband Guy Woodhouse (George Maharis) and demanding help. However, “Andrew” is kidnapped by a curious woman who had promised help to Rosemary and the little satanic spawn while running on the road and we never see Rosemary again during the rest of the film.

Fast-forward a few years where Adrian (Stephen McHattie), as he is now being called, is a party rock star with hair that even 1978 John Travolta would envy and has all the looks of what you would envision a cocaine- fueled disco dickhead would look like. At the very least, they left out the cliché medallion off his half-exposed chest. He is still living with his abductor, Ellen, who he obviously has no clue of who she truly is. Minnie and Roman re-appear on the eve of Adrian’s non-specified-age birthday; where they intend to consecrate Adrian’s birthright and move forward only if he hasn’t been too tainted as they put it and his vessel can fully embody his demonic destiny. Following a few rituals and bizarre dream sequences, this turns into one real drugged-out comatose of a film. Now normally I can appreciate that fuzzy 70s’ B-Grade artistic experimental film, but this is a fucked up mess. It’s almost trying to be like De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise, but far less interesting and done very badly . Adrian with white face paint and a black vest strutting across dance floors to a funky disco, and through a crowd of mindless disco-dancing nimrods as the Castevets, Guy, and the cult stare on as though they are mesmerized by his booty shakes and dream-like Pazuzu transformations is really… something.

I suppose the only redeeming quality to the movie is that Guy Woodhouse gets what he finally fucking deserves, but that’s about the best it gets. It truly doesn’t surprise me that a good majority of fans have never even heard of this film, as it seems to be just an embarrassment to the legacy of what is considered, one of the greatest horror films of all time. If you want a real sequel, I suggest picking up Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin.

Or.. If you dare, here’s the movie generously uploaded by Youtuber Ethan Terra. Either way, don’t say I didn’t warn you.