D. E. CHRISTMAN’S TOP HALLOWEEN PICKS

D. E. Christman is a dark artist, the man behind the Grendel's Den Design Studio, The Philly Zombie Crawl & Zombie Prom, and numerous other nefarious projects.TOP 10 HALLOWEEN MOVIESPoltergeist (It's filled with frigging ghosts out the wazoo. Can't get more Halloween than that.)Halloween (1978)The Exorcist (So sacraliciouses and creepy. May not have anything to do with Halloween but it is one of the best horror films ever.) It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!The Nightmare Before ChristmasHalloween (2007)Return of the Living Dead (The dead coming back to life to eat your brains! And one of them is Linnea Quigley! Oh...

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THE SOUND & THE FURY

Sometime in September every year, as the temperature drops and the leaves start to turn, my music listening habits change completely. For 10 months out of the year I'm a total Rivet-head, listening to harsh, grinding industrial noise and rhythms, because that's what I've been into since Wax Trax & Nettwerk were wet behind the ears.But for 2 months out of the year, September and October, I listen to nothing but Halloween music & sound effects, since I was a kid and wore out my copies of BLOODCURDLING! HORROR! TERROR! SOUNDS TO MAKE YOU SHIVER! and CASPER and DISNEY'S THRILLING,...

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GEOFFREY GRAVES’ TOP HALLOWEEN PICKS

Geoffrey Graves is a Chicago-based special effects make-up artist and sculptor, as well as being the man behind Spooky/Halloween Buttons! http://www.spookybuttons.com / http://www.halloweenbuttons.comSo whenever this time of year comes around, I start waxing nostalgic. There is something in the air that just makes me think of the years past of trick or treating, hot apple cider and pumpkin patches on cool days. So many of my picks are older movies with a special place in my heart. And I love the fun side of Halloween as well as the horror side. Actually, as much as I like a good horror...

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HAUNTED HOUSE MOVING SALE

Sunday, October 26, Noon - 4:00 pm2644 N Sacramento AveChicago 60647See the stuff for sale HERE.For full details, go HERE.

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KITTY ZOMBIE’S TOP HALLOWEEN PICKS

Kitty is the zombie shock trooper with the brain of a puppy that you'll find wandering around outside The Fear Haunted House and at many a ZombiePinups.com event! www.kittyzombie.comThis is Kittys top 10 movies he LOVES to watch on or around Halloween. Fun, silly and sometimes a tad dark. Just like Kitty himself! It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie BrownVincentCasperThe Nighmare Before ChristmasDisney's Sleepy HollowAddams FamilyBeetlejuiceFrankenweenieMonster HouseScary Godmother

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JOHN EVERSON’S TOP HALLOWEEN PICKS

John Everson is the Chicago-based Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Covenant (Leisure Books, 2008) and Sacrifice (Leisure Books, 2009). http://www.johneverson.comFAVORITE HALLOWEEN MOVIESOK, so I've watched hundreds of horror movies, but after the fact, I rarely remember very much about them besides whether I loved or hated. So some of these may not actually have anything to do with Halloween except in my mind; hence my rationalizations afterwards... Beetlejuice - aside from the classic melding of ghastly dancing to Harry Belafonte and including Michael Keaton's most memorable performance EVER, this move features ghosts "dressing up as ghosts" in sheets...

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