Universal Pictures and Blumhouse just released the first photos from the new Halloweenmovie and holy shit guys… Michael has finally found his way home and he is looking PISSED.
Seen first via USA Today, the following pictures give us a better look at an aged Michael Myers (portrayed once more by original Shape Nick Castle) and Laurie Strode (resurrected by scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis). The trailer, which drops this Friday, has given way to a surge of anxiety from fans all over the world as the hype for this one is almost as huge as last year’s adaptation of IT. And who wouldn’t be excited to have a good chunk of the original cast and crew back handing out Haddonfield boners to fans of the William Shatner nightmare?!
Check it out, guys!
Images via USA TODAY
In addition to Curtis, Halloween stars Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Will Patton, and Virginia Gardner. Original Halloween director John Carpenter is back to executive produce and give us another nightmarish soundtrack for us to obsess over.
Halloween opens October 19, 2018. Stay tuned for the trailer this Friday!!
Ah, McDonald’s. The chicken nuggets are endless, the playgrounds are bitchin’, and the McFlurry machine has been broken since 1995. Despite that one glaring flaw, Mickie D’s is a pretty solid fast food joint. However, the franchise’s greatest accomplishment is one that time has forgotten. That pesky time.
That accomplishment, for those who still don’t know, is The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald. Produced by Klasky Csupo, the company known for shows such as The Rugrats and The Wild Thornberrys, the separately-released direct-to-video series focused on Ronald McDonald, the other McDonald’s mascots, and their young human friends while they experienced wondrous, moral-teaching adventures.
None of those adventures were greater, though than “Scared Silly,” the series’ very first episode. Released to VHS in October of 1998, the 40-minute episode could be purchased at your local McDonald’s for less than $4, and unless your guardians were total squares, they spotted you the cash.
Now, I’m not going to sit here in my holey sweatpants and tell you that “Scared Silly” is greater than classic haunted house films like Poltergeist and The Changeling, but I’m not going to deny it either.
Just look at that freaky shit.
The episode follows the baggy jumpsuit-wearing Ronald McDonald and his friends while they go camping in the Far-Flung Forest. There are songs, there are jokes, and there is cheer all around. Like any great horror film, though, that happiness is quickly suffocated by a sense of doom when a thunderstorm strikes and forces the group to take shelter in an old haunted house.
While there, the McBuddies (A name I just gave them that should’ve totally been trademarked) encounter a holographic head named Franklin, who forces them to partake in a challenging riddle game if they ever want to leave the spooky house again. One by one, the friends begin to disappear as they fail to correctly solve each riddle.
I won’t spoil the ending for you, but I promise that it’s satisfying.
If your interest in The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald has been renewed, or if you have a child you want to shamelessly frighten in a family-friendly sort of way, the episode has been uploaded to YouTube and can be viewed below.
Ahhh… The dog days of Summer are finally upon us. BBQ’s, trips to the beach, and countless cannonballs of glory into swimming pools are a given thanks to the scorching heat. And hey, if happen to reside in Satan’s Armpit, I mean the desert much like myself and dealing with 115 degrees plus these next few months, chances are you’re going to want to crawl into the shadiest corner of your home and live like a true desert rat. However, if you also happen to be a Godzilla fan like myself then we can now bless the rains down in Africa and COMET TV for giving us a monster of a Summer with a full three months of Toho dreams!
Beginning on May 27th, COMET will be airing two double-header national treasures every Sunday through the first weekend in September. The first each night featuring the undisputed King of the Monsters and the second starring some lesser-known monsters in the Kaiju universe. From the 1954 debut of Gojira, to Destroy All Monsters, all the way to campy classics like Konga, I’m grabbing a frozen banana pop and chilling out with giant monsters this Summer.
