TERROR: Children’s Costumes of the Distant Past
Once upon a time, we said to HELL with children and their costumes. This is because children typically dress as cartoon characters in store bought costumes. Or their ever-controlling parents dress them up in some cute pumpkin outfit and call it a day. Or, if we are talking about the tween children, they are dressed in somewhat more imaginative costumes, or, if they are girls, as too-revealing Slut Lite girl characters like princesses and pop stars, which makes us too uncomfortable to even look at. We promise. Children have boring, unimaginative costumes, and they are really only dressed up in order to deserve candy when they go Trick or Treating. They aren’t really trying to express themselves or seem clever. They are just all having wide-eyed experiences that they will forget in a sugar haze within a week, if not by the end of Halloween night itself. We, as adults who value this day, think poorly of these children, if we think of them at all. We want SCARY costumes – or, we want respectable hand-made offerings. Children hardly ever deliver this way. (more…)
Modern film-goers are often found to be of the opinion that black and white movies are “boring” for reasons that I cannot fathom. Perhaps they require color and bright flashing lights and cgi effects to keep their attention. Maybe they accidentally caught a drama from the 1940s when they were young children, at an age when ANY drama will seem dull and agonizingly slow. The people who feel this way, and there is an alarmingly large amount of them, can’t begin to imagine how boring and terrible silent films must be. No color AND no sound?? Actually, these people probably dismiss the idea of ever watching a silent movie so quickly that they don’t even form an actual opinion on the matter. If you are one of these people, then please read on. I hope to open your rapidly moving eyes and special little minds to a few gems. 
As a gigantic Silent Hill fan, it is with very little shame that I admit that SH cosplay and Halloween costumes are an instant hit with me. While the highly elaborate Pyramid Head costumes usually get the spotlight and make me think about putting one together till I remember it requires effort, I seem to favor the SH Nurse costumes above all. I’m not negating the fact that it might just be because it is an excuse to get a girl into a tight outfit that leaves most of her better parts exposed to the elements. Beyond that, there is an appreciation I hold for the SH nurses. After all, they are the true work-horses of the SH games. They’ve been there since the beginning, evolving over the years into even more hideous, twisted, yet at the same time oddly alluring figures. Well, I guess it isn’t so “odd” that they are alluring, since their outfits have gotten all tits out like WHOA. When it comes down to making you feel slightly disgusted by sexual arousal, it’s right up there with finding some porn of your sister and finding yourself not entirely turned off by it. I have no sister, for the record. 
I am not one to scare easy. I have chose to talk about this subject because with Halloween nearing, it seems every one of my sissified-ass friends feel the need to send me link to videos that are “scary” and “creepy”. Normally I will give them at least a half-viewing, dismissing them for more un-scary shit that is a waste of time. You see, deep down I wish I could be scared by these clips, but somewhere along the line I lost the ability to do so. Whether I just have trouble suspending my disbelief, or I’m just 2 HARDKORE, I can’t bring myself to so much as catch a chill from the usual garbage floating around. However, some of you out there may be different. In that case, I have kept a few of the links, and dug up a few things blindly that I will be watching for the first time as I write this. So sit down, prepare to be scared, prepare to be horrified, and prepare to open a bunch of extra tabs. 
Halloween parties are mostly awful. It’s unfortunate, but it is basically how things work. The main cause for just about every shitty Halloween party is the fact that you have to invite your friends. Face it, your friends fuck everything up. Even Halloween when given the opportunity. What should be a fun gathering of semi-drunk friends will almost always end up with someone vomiting on your cat, sexual harassment charges for the guy that tried to eat candy corn out of some girl’s bra, and usually large amounts of property damage that no one wants to pay for. This isn’t even counting the amount of time it takes you to prepare the entire thing, which in the end is more like carefully building the Jenga tower up just to watch it all fall down within three minutes. In the end, it’s just not worth it. Especially for a group of people that probably won’t remember it come morning anyway. So if this is what we can expect, why not at least be able to enjoy ourselves at the expense of these assholes anyway? 
Hi everyone. I was going to write about the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie, but then I actually went and saw it. It’s actually not that bad. Don’t get excited, it’s in no way even close to as good as the original, but it’s still better than 4-6 and New Nightmare, which is really not much of a feat to accomplish. Basically, other than that it’s weird to see someone else as Freddy, it’s not a bad way to spend an evening. I’d say it’s better than the Friday the 13th remake, if that matters to any of you. Either way, it would make a shitty article since I have only trailers to get good screencaps and since I don’t want to ruin the movie quite yet. 
The experience that is BOO 2 comes to an end this week. While many could say the experience has been a national phenomena, there is no arguing just what it has done to me as a person. To see the middle chapter of BOO 2 wrapped up, I can only feel moved to tears to see the years of hard work come to a close. It has been a long road, but here we are, at the end of things. I hope you all enjoyed BOO 2 as much as I did making it. While I can’t say when BOO 3 will see the light of day, I can at least say that we have begun working on concept art for the next batch of characters. So here it is, kids. BOO 2: the conclusion…(click to make larger) 
No doubt you have already covered yourself as if you were in the first row of a Gallagher show, because you expect some shit to be flung around all over this article. Well, we’re saving the shit for toilets and the bathroom floors of restaurants that have extremely bad service this time. You see, just like the movies it is inspired by…this game has a twist. This twist is even more unpredictable and much more satisfying than any of the ones in its cinema cousins…this twist is actually pretty damn shocking and doesn’t make you wonder why you didn’t just spend your $7 purchasing a real snuff film in an alleyway. I hate to spoil things for you, but the twist is as follows:
