Attend the EREBUS Haunted Attraction VIP Party with Kane Hodder!

EREBUS Haunted Attraction

Celebrities are always a big draw for a Haunted Attraction during the haunt season. It both gets customers to your event to meet, party and have that photo moment with Horror Icons, but also gets them to your front door, facade and more.

Since the Haunt Season has arrived, many haunts use this technique and coming next week to the World Renown Haunted House EREBUS in Michigan.

Kane Hodder as Jason Voorhees

Now you can attend the special VIP Party with Kane Hodder. Hoddar played Jason Voorhees in many of the Friday the 13th films.

Kicking off on September 30, 2011 from 8pm to Midnight. 100 fans will be partying Hollywood style with Kane Hodder on the rooftop of Erebus the four story haunted attraction in downtown Pontiac Michigan.

All you have to do to be one of the few, the proud is submit a photo of you as Jason or a Jason-victim to info@hauntedpontiac.com.

100 fans will be selected to mix and mingle with Kane Hodder. The media will be there and you may even get a chance to be on a reality TV show.

NOTE: You must be 21 or over to enter. If you are selected you must arrive in your Jason or Jason-victim costume with your VIP invitation in hand.

to find out more about the event, details and the World Famous Haunted Attraction EREBUS visit: www.HauntedPontiac.com

Rotting Flesh Radio SHOW #246: Halloween & Haunt Season Arrives

SHOW NOTES FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 SHOW #246

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The Haunt Season has arrived! This week we kick off the Halloween and Haunt Season with a jam packed show featuring the ALL HALLOWS REVENGE, SCREAM ACRES COURT, and THIRTEENTH STREET MORGUE all stopping in to the show! Each of these Haunted Attractions are stopping in and discussing the Haunt Season, what to expect out of their event this year and more!

In addition we have Chuckles the Clown along with RFR Casket Crew Storm with In A Haunt Minute. Joey Blood is back with this week’s Bloody Blu-Ray Releases this week and RFR Casket Crew Pierce is back with Fresh Meat discussing Prosthetics for Scare Actors.

This week we have Haunt Industry News covering Costumes for Kids Charity, Derek Mears, House of Shock, The Halloween Festival, Trick or Treat Studios, Halloween Asylum, Distortions Unlimited, The Travel Channel, The Dent Schoolhouse, Ashland Oregon’s Halloween Parade, The Haunt Rocker Jerry Vayne, Wednesday 13, SeaWorld’s Spooktacular, Scare A Torium Haunted House, The Baysox Psycho Safari, Scare Kingdom in the UK, The Nashville Nightmare Haunted Attraction, Toxic Toons, Canadian Haunted Attractions Conference, Fright Catalog, Haunt Kits, Haunted Mansion Event at Contemporary Resort, Trick or Treat Under the Sea, North Carolina Aquariums, Faces of the Great Pumpkin Contest, Ghostbuster Re-Release, Alice Cooper’s New CD, Robert Englund, and more from the Halloween and Horror Industry this week.

We have RFR Casket Crew’s Badger replying to Deadite Listener Emails, and more.

There are ALL-NEW Rules to Win the Screamline Studios Graverobbing Giveaway and Twisted Tunes from the Grave.

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Seasonal Films – “Waxworks” – 1924 (100 years of Horror)

by: RFR Casket Crew Jigsaw Jim

Waxworks - 1924

Greatings again Film Fiends and Deatites,

As we weave our way through 1920s silent horror cinema, I present another classic German expressionalist film; “Waxworks” directed by Paul Leni and starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt. This 1924 film is more of an anthology but still rates as one of the best of the era. Available through Netflix (not insta-download) but is on You tube.

Freaky Friday Film Review: “At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul”

by: RFR Casket Crew Jigsaw Jim

At Midnight I'll Take your Soul

Greetings Film Fiends and Deadites,

Besides my ongoing posts on 100 years of Horror movies, every Friday I will post a review of “another” horror movie usually a “blue” or cult movie.I’ll call it “Freaky Friday Film Review”. To start it off, I present “At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul” (“À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma”.) This 1963 film was Brazil’s first horror film and launched the career of the iconic film maker/actor  Jose Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe. This was the first of the “Coffin Joe” trilogy films but this one set the stage as Marins plays the undertaker who abhors religion and is only concerned about the continuity of the blood. Discovering that his wife is unable to conceive children, he dispatches her in an unusually gruesome manner along with anyone else who gets in his way. Black and white and in subtitles, this movie is truly a work of genius! Marins actually went to prison for blasphemy for making his movies (talk about suffering for your art!). Be sure to check this film out along with his other two sequels. 5 out of 5 severed thumbs up!

Donate to Costumes For Kids and get a Personalized Autograph from DEREK MEARS (Jason Voorhees)

Derek Mears (Jason Voorhees)

Hey there Fright Freaks and Halloween Junkies. In keeping the Halloween Season moving forward for Disabled Children and Less Fortunate, the one and only DEREK MEARS (Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th) is donating Personalized Autographs to you if you help the charity.

Yes, Derek has promised us that he will give you an Autograph to 10 Halloween Friends who donate to the cause!

Not only will you have the chance to help out a Fantastic organization you can get an autograph from one of the baddest Jason’s to don the screen DEREK MEARS.

What we ask is for the first 10 people to donate $55.00 or more. You will get an personalized autograph from Derek to you.

100% of all donations goes to the Costumes for Kids Charity!!! Recently we had two sponsors step up to the plate to help the organization keep going.

There is an all-new Costumes For Kids website coming in the next few days and we are looking forward to fulfilling every request this Halloween Season.

If you would like to help out the cause and in exchange get a personalized Autograph from DEREK MEARS, please call 262-323-1424 and Jonathan will make sure you are helped.

THANK EVERYONE Who helps with costume donations, monterary donations and more. The organization couldn’t happen without you, the Halloween friends.

CALL: 262-323-1424 to get your DEREK MEARS autograph and to make a contribution to the Costumes for Kids. And find out more about Costumes for Kids at: www.CostumesForKids.net

ABOUT COSTUMES FOR KIDS:
Costumes for Kids is program designed to collect new or used costumes, make-up, costumes for disabled children to give them the Halloween they deserve.

The program has officially launched this year and we are looking for haunted attractions, individuals, halloween enthusiasts and more to donate their new, unused, and gently used costumes. These costumes in return will be distributed to children who are less fortunate, and children with disabilities including hard to find costumes themes for children in wheel chairs and special needs.

All we ask is that you contact us, and ship your costumes to us so we can have them cleaned and sent to the families in need to give the children a very special Halloween every year. All sizes are acceptign from infant on up.

Don’t let the name fool you. We also accept Make-Up (unopened), Halloween favors and decor and such to bring the whole Halloween experience to these children and families. For more look at our Items Wanted or Needed page.

We will also have posters available to download that you can put up and start your own drive to help this cause. Not every child is able to celebrate Halloween as they should so let’s give them that chance to escape hard times, disabilities and special needs by bringing them some simple joy.

Grimm Fairy Tale #2: Halloween 2010 (Review)

by: RFR Casket Crew Denise

Grimm Fairy Tale Halloween #2

The second Grimm Halloween special arrives with a brand new original vampire story. when four vampire obsessed teens head out for a night on the town in search of the real thing. They quickly discover they have bitten off much more than they can chew. The group finds themselves face to face with an actual clan of real vampires who are intent on teaching the wannabe teens a horrifying lesson.

Now the way I understand it, most of you Deadites are not particular fans of Twilight. I know most if not all the crew finds Twilight a laughable offense – sparkling vampires. But nevertheless, Grimm’s Halloween issue ventures into that area. In fact, this issue, I think, mocks Twilight.

There is one particular scene I like. Our vampire obsessed teens arrive at a party covered in glitter. When they enter the party, all the guest stop and gawk at them. While this is a classic cliché, I got a good chuckle.

Once again the people at Grimm’s Fairy Tales have delivered an entertaining and twisted tale of Halloween and vampires.

This issue was written by Joe Brusha, Raven Gregory and Ralph Tedesco. The art was done by Marcio Abreu, Geldson Barreto and Alisson Rodrigues. It was published by Zenescope.

Seasonal Films – “Hunchback of Notre Dame” – 1923 (100 years of Horror)

by: RFR Casket Crew Jigsaw Jim

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1923

Greetings Film Fiends and Deadites,

As we continue our trip down memory lane, I present one of the classics; “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”,  directed by Wallace Worsley and starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Patsy Ruth Miller. Based on the Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name, this 1923 film was Universal Studio’s highest grossing film at the time (over $3 million) and launched Chaney as a horror icon. On Netflix insta-download and You Tube.

Alice Cooper’s ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’ is Here!

Welcome 2 My Nightmare

So as we have mentioned many times on RFR, the sequel album to Alice Cooper’s original hit is out now! Dropping online, in stores, and more, you can now get your copy of WELCOME 2 MY NIGHTMARE.

This has been a long anticipated follow up to the original LP of the same name. And Alice hasn’t been sitting down on the promotion either. We recently posted on the site, that Alice is also have his own Haunted Attraction at the Universal Halloween Horror Nights in California.

From his personal appearances throughout rock history from Television, Music Videos and even The Muppet Show, Alice set the Horror Trend in Rock N Roll as the innovator of the genre. Many have followed in his footsteps so much so the Newest Wednesday 13 Single ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ (Click Here to Listen to The Track) mentions Alice Cooper as his childhood inspiration!

The tracks from this sequel album over 35 years overdue are hard hitting, riff splitting and classic in true Alice style. With tracks like ‘The Nightmare Returns’ or ‘I’ll Bite your Face Off’, Alice pulls out all the punches. True to Horror, the spooky feel and the complete storyline of his albums in concept ring true.

It may be over 35 years too late, but better late than never from the Original Rock Horror Icon!!

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ABOUT ALICE COOPER:
“Every great production deserves a sequel – even if comes 35-plus years after the original. In 1975, Alice Cooper joined forces with longtime collaborator and producer Bob Ezrin to record his first solo album Welcome to My Nightmare, a theatrical concept album about the nightmares of a young boy named Steven. Now, he’s followed Steven into adulthood and presents Welcome 2 My Nightmare, a new but familiar concept album about the fear, anxiety and disgust that haunt Alice Cooper’s dreams in an era of Facebook, Lady Gaga, Sketchers and Angry Birds.

“Alice hates technology, disco is still a nightmare for him and working in a cubicle from nine-to-five would give him cold sweats,” Cooper says. “At the same time, this is a nightmare so all these normal life things are thrown into this crazy world that’s only logical when you’re in the nightmare. You could have an elephant in your garage, and you’re on the lawn in a pink tutu cooking hot dogs. And at the time it’s fine. But when you wake up you go, ‘How insane is that? Where did that come from?’ So we realized that having Alice in a modern-world nightmare is a great place to come from theatrically because we can go anywhere we want and make it as insane as possible.”

Alice Cooper: The Original Horror Icon

A wild, surreal odyssey, Welcome 2 My Nightmare provided Cooper and Ezrin the opportunity to work with numerous musicians and experiment with various musical styles. The three surviving members of the original band, guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway and drummer Neal Smith, co-wrote three songs and they all played on “When Hell Comes Home,” a gritty ‘70s-style rock track about the nightmare of domestic abuse. “I wanted the song to feel like it was off of Love it to Death or Killer, Cooper says. “But we never had to talk about playing the song ‘70s-style, they just did it. It was great and there was nothing we could do to make it any more ‘70s ‘cause that’s just the way these guys play.”

The collaborations with his fellow original band members stemmed from their 2010 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for which they reunited to play four songs. “I was always looking for a logical reason to work with them again,” Cooper says. “When we broke up there was no bad blood. Most bands break up and they start suing each other. We never broke up on that level. We broke up on a very friendly level. ‘You go do what you’re gonna do, I’m gonna do what I’m gonna do. Let’s see what happens.’ When we got in the Hall of Fame I called them up and I said, ‘We have to do four songs. Let’s get together and rehearse.’ And they sounded great. They played great. We did a few projects after that. We played a couple times together. And I said, ‘Let’s keep it going. Let’s get these guys on the album.’ And Bob said, ‘That’s a great idea. Let’s write with these guys.’ It just worked.”

The first single from Welcome 2 My Nightmare, “I’ll Bite Your Face Off,” is about a gorgeous but deadly female who takes Alice by the hand and guides him through the various scenes of his nightmare. The song was co-written by Neal Smith and features a swaggering ‘60s British rock rhythm, brash, bluesy guitars and sneering, seductive vocals. “We tried to make this sound as much like early Rolling Stones as possible and we really did capture that,” Cooper says. “We’ve been doing it onstage and the audience sings along without knowing the song.”

On “Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever,” Cooper combines a tongue-in-cheek disco beat and rhythm with near-rap vocals and lyrics about taking a machine gun to zombie disco dancers who refuse to die. Then there’s the zany surf rock of “Ghoul’s Gone Wild,” the derelict down-on-his-luck slur of “The Last Man on Earth,” and the Beatles meet Gary Glitter show tune “The Congregation,” which stars Rob Zombie as a narrator describing such modern-day nightmares as telemarketers, lawyers, pimps, mariachi bands and mimes.

One of the highlights for Cooper is the throbbing, modern rocker “What Baby Wants,” which stars Ke$ha as the devil. “Some people thought I was crazy to have Ke$ha on the record, but I never saw her as one of these Britney Spears diva girls. I saw her more as a rock singer. So I said, ‘Let’s present you not as a diva, but as a rock singer on this.’ We wrote the song together and in the end the darker lyrics were hers.”

Like The original Welcome To My Nightmare, which was highlighted by “Only Women Bleed,” Welcome 2 My Nightmare also features a lovelorn ballad, “Something to Remember Me By,” which was written with Dick Wagner back when they released “I Never Cry” in 1976. “We never used it on an album before because I never felt I was good enough to sing that song,” Cooper reflects. “It was never in my key, I could never get it right. Finally, we got it where my voice is in the right place so we included it and it may be the prettiest ballad we ever wrote. Steve Hunter played guitar on it and we really got a nice Beatles-y sound out of it. So when you’re listening to it you hear this really pretty romantic song and then you realize that in the Nightmare Alice is singing to a pile of bones that used to be a girl.”

Fans of the first Welcome To My Nightmare will recognize melodic references to the original woven throughout the new record. For example, in the cinematic minor-key song “The Nightmare Returns,” Ezrin plays the theme from “Steven” when Cooper sings, “I think we’ve heard that song before.”

“I really like the idea of having some of the musical identity of the first album showing up in the second album,” Cooper says. “It really connects the two and if you’re a real Alice fan and you hear those themes it makes you feel comfortable.”

Welcome To My Nightmare, which came out in 1975, was a landmark album for Cooper. It was his first solo release, following a historic string of anthems written and recorded by the original band between 1971 and 1974, including “School’s Out,” “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “Elected,” and “I’m Eighteen.” A multimedia smash long before the dawn of music television, Welcome To My Nightmare proved that Cooper could remain popular musically and could take theatricality to an entirely new level of dream by exposing audiences to the crippling fears of a seven-year-old child with an active imagination.

Welcome To My Nightmare spawned two major singles, the ominous, anthemic title track and the beautiful, melancholy acoustic ballad “Only Women Bleed,” and featured narration by horror movie icon Vincent Price. In addition to touring the live “Welcome To My Nightmare” show, Cooper created the prime time special The Nightmare, which was essentially the first long form music video. The program debuted in April 1975. In September he shot the concert film “Welcome To My Nightmare” at London’s Wembley Arena.
“A seven-year-old kid is pretty sure there’s something living in the closet and thinks that something is waiting for him under his bed,” Cooper says. “His toys are probably coming to life and trying to kill him. And I thought, ‘Well, that’s a good general approach for the album because we’ve all been kids and we’ve all had those nightmares.’”

Who You Gonna Call? The Ghostbusters Back To The Big Screen This Halloween!

Ghostbusters Returns To Theaters

As Halloween gets closer and we all get in the haunting mood, we look forward to scary movies, halloween movies and ghost filled entertainment. Along with that comes, horror, Jigsaw and some lighter fare like 80s Classics?

Yes, Who are you Gonna Call? The classic film GHOSTBUSTERS is returning to the big screen this Halloween. Not in a re-envisioning, not a remake, the Original Classic is Back, the boys, Slimer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man! The film is getting a full digital restoration and getting re-issued this season for a limited number of engagements for all of us to enjoy.

When Rotting Flesh Radio talked to Ernie Hudson last year, we discussed the much talked about Ghostbusters 3. And maybe this re-issue will spark that development further and gets the juices flowing for it once again. Rumors had been floating around that it is a go possibly without Murray attached, although that would destroy any hope of its success. you need the team back in full!

So when you play the awesome Ghostbusters game, kick out your old Soundtrack Cassette Tapes, Read your Ghostbusters Books (Like the Classic we posted on the Rotting Flesh Radio Facebook Page), We can all enjoy Slimer and claim this S%$T is for Real, watch Dogs and Cats Living together and sing along in Theaters this Halloween once again.

Seasonal Films – “Nosferatu” – 1922 (100 years of Horror)

by: RFR Casket Crew Jigsaw Jim

Nosferatu (1922)

Greetings Film Fiends and Deadites,

To continue with my serving of seasonal film offerings, I present “Nosferatu” directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlock the Vampire. This 1922 German Expressionist film is the first cinematic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Due to copyright issues, Murnau couldn’t use the characters from the original novel so he changed the names. There is also some minor “tweeking” to the story, otherwise a very faithful cinematic telling of the classic vampire story. Also available though Netflix instant download and You Tube.