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Halloween 2013: CVS Stores Decorations

October 3, 2013 / Halloween Novelty / 1 Comment

Oct 3 2013

Making the usual rounds, CVS keeps impressing me with their taste in Halloween decorations each year. Ever since the GREAT RECESSION, I’ve not seen as much Halloween merchandise in the stores; and what’s showing up is usually not at the quality level I’ve seen years back. But visiting CVS stores and other local haunts each year is never disappointing, I’ll say that. I especially love the pumpkin vine arms!

Now if only I could find a LITTLE MORE ROOM in my house…and once I do, sneak in with the stuff before my wife catches me…I’d be right as rain 😉

Halloween Yard Haunt:
Dead End Cemetery and Eerie Acres

October 3, 2013 / Halloween Candy / 1 Comment

Oct 3 2013

So, do you still think your Halloween display is all that awesome after seeing what this fanatic does with his front lawn? Me? I'd be ashamed, with only my 3 air-blown blowups to show for it, if he were my neighbor.

Halloween 2013: Rite Aid Decorations

October 1, 2013 / Halloween Novelty / 1 Comment

Oct 1 2013

Saw these nifty Halloween decorations at Rite Aid, and they’re running a 50% off sale, to boot! So don’t dawdle.

Movie Pressbook: The Three Stooges
Go Around the World
In a Daze

October 1, 2013 / Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy) / Leave a Comment

Oct 1 2013

Universal Studios Monsters: A Big Coloring Book
From Golden Books, 1991

October 1, 2013 / Art/Animation / Leave a Comment

Oct 1 2013

Here are a few choice pages from this fun Golden Books coloring book for monsterkids; just to get you into the Halloween spirit.

Fright Flicks Picture A

October 1, 2013 / Trading Cards / Leave a Comment

Oct 1 2013

This is the 10 card set for Picture A of Fright Flicks, 1988, from the Topps Company. Put together, the backs make a nifty nostalgic poster suitable for framing. Practical effects were the bomb in the 1980s.

Double Bill Movie Pressbook: Tomb of Torture
And Cave of the Living Dead

September 27, 2013 / Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy) / Leave a Comment

Sep 27 2013

Euro-shock double bill from the 1960s. The promotion is done through the poster art in this no-frills 4-page pressbook.

Movie Pressbook: Witchcraft ’70

September 27, 2013 / Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy) / Leave a Comment

Sep 27 2013

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Movie Pressbook: The Child (1977)

September 24, 2013 / Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy) / 1 Comment

Sep 24 2013

Just another 11 year old with psychokinetic powers and a terminally pointed sense of mischief, inflicting her growing pains on everyone else. Tsk. Tsk.

Movie Pressbook: The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

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Sep 24 2013

Ghost in the House of Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Part 8

September 23, 2013 / Universal Monsters / Leave a Comment

Sep 23 2013

Zombos Says: Classic and still required fun for all horror fans.

So it has come to this. The monsters that once scared audiences and terrorized countless kids through Shock Theater on television were made benign and comical and quite a lot of fun to watch. The world had changed. Science was the new monster, springing to life as we entered the space age. Unlike the mysterious, sinister, and supernatural trappings of Universal’s classic horror cycles, science would still be a mystery to many, but a welcomed one, filled with unlimited potential for doing good.

A second world war was over and hope finally settled in along with an energy greater than that charging up Frankenstein’s Monster. After all the real-life terror and death of a world acting like a mad scientist, a lighter tone–a mixture of medicine tinged with a dash of old world supernatural fog, dark woods, gypsy curse, and a blood-sucking bat–was prescribed with Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. …

Ghost in the House of Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
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