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by: RFR Casket Crew Storm
Greetings Deadites,
The Oscars may be over but we have some Oscar ideas and picks that should have happened last night.
You have heard that Rotting Flesh Radio has been nominated for a Rondo Award? Take a few minutes and go to www.rondoaward.com and e-mail a ballot in. RFR is at number 20 for Best Horror Audio or Video Podcast, and follow the directions to e-mail your vote. You can also find a lot of useful information on all the horror resources that are out there. While filling out my ballot I was wondering what other awards Rotting Flesh Radio could be nominated for…
The Avatar Award: Best 3D listening experience, Podcast – Rotting Flesh Radio
National Weather Service Correspondent Award: Best Weather Related Correspondent Name – RFR’s Storm
The Chocolate Bunny Award: Best Use of Easter Bunny in a Holiday Show – RFR’s Peter Rottentail
The Arterial Spray Award: Best Use of Bloodsplatter graphics – rfrpodcast.com
The University of Wisconsin Taxidea Taxus Award: Best Overall Performance – RFR’s Badger
The Weird Al Yankovic Award: Most Relevant Use of a Weird Al Song – Rotting Flesh Radio, Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars
Monty Hall Award: Let’s Make A Deal, non-door related, Rotting Flesh Radio Advertisement Promotions
The Tornado Award: Best Use of a Doublewide – RFR’s Chuck’s Extra Dead Horror Game Review
The Midnight Show College Radio Award: Most Frequent Change in Song Genres While Keeping to an Overall Theme – Rotting Flesh Radio
So until next time Deadites, Sit Back, Relax, and Rot Away…
The Dunwich Horror by HP Lovecraft
Being new to the RFR Casket Crew, I thought I would introduce myself before telling you what I’ll be bringing to RFR and to all of you.
First I must confess that I’m a native Texan who loves the horror genre. From print to film, I love all things scary and spooky. I found RFR about a year and a half ago and kept up with everything as much as possible. When the opportunity popped out of the graveyard to work with Jonathan and the other casket crew members, I jumped out of my skin because I love to write. And I get excited about writing about a subject I’m passionate about.
The horror genre covers a wide range of things. From vampires to werewolves, witches to wizards. It covers everything dead and ummm…undead too. One of my fondest memories is listening to ghost stories at an early age. The stories terrified me but I couldn’t get enough. I would listen to these stories and go to sleep with the covers over my head. As I got older, I would read these stories and then tuck the book under the mattress before drifting off to my nightmares.
I still enjoy a good story whether I’m listening to an audio book or orator or reading the printed word. I like Stephen King, Dean Knootz, Ann Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton or Kelley Armstrong. However, I don’t think I would be able to read any of these authors’ works if it weren’t for those who paved, or helped pave, the road. One such man like H.P. Lovecraft.
Howard Phillip Lovecraft was an American author of horror fantasy and science fiction. During his career, it was classified simply as weird fiction.
The Dunwich Horror is part of Lovecraft’s weird fiction. It was first published in 1929. I actually listened to a dramatized version of this story that I purchased from Audible. And even though it’s been more than seventy years since its first publication, it’s still an eerie tale.
The plot revolves around the desire of Wilbur Whately, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, to acquire an unabridged Latin version of the Necronomicon – his imperfect English copy ill-suited for his dark purpose – so that he may open the way for the mysterious “Old Ones.”
Next time I’ll be catching a ride with Marty McFly as he goes back to the future. I’ll be reviewing Stephen King’s latest work UR.
Are you a Haunter? Want to get involved in the Haunt Industry’s First and Original Weekly Show? Have something to Share with fellow Haunters or Vendors?
We are looking to expand more content in rotation on Rotting Flesh Radio.
We are looking for a person or team to do any of the topics below for a segment on Rotting Flesh Radio. Or if you have any ideas in mind, let me know as well.
How-To, Props, Tips and Tricks, Make Up, Technique, Horror News, etc.
Interested email us at: rfrcasketcrew@rfrpodcast.com
8th Annual Rondo Awards
To Vote Go To: www.RondoAward.com and follow the directions to get your votes in.
ABOUT THE RONDOS:
The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards were created by David Colton and Kerry Gammill at the Classic Horror Film Boards in 2002. The awards are fan-based, and have no connection to any commercial sponsor. Anyone in fandom can vote or propose nominees.
The ‘Rondo’ award itself, shown at right, features a bust sculpted by illustrator Kerry Gammill, and cast by modeler Tim Lindsey.
The statuette is a miniature version of the bust of Hatton seen in the Universal film, HOUSE OF HORRORS (1946). The Rondos have been praised by recipients for their quiet beauty and evocation of classic horror.
February 18 at 8:12am, Jonathan and his family welcomed his new son into the world!
Tyler Henry Johnson, 10lbs. 1 oz and 21 inches long, is destined to be one of Disney’s next biggest fans and will be joining the Dark Prince and the Dark Princess (his brother and sister) in this happy world of haunting.
CONGRATULATIONS to Jonathan and Carrie and welcome Dark Prince Tyler!
Greetings Film Fiends and Deadites,
During this past haunt season Rotting Flesh Radio asked its listeners what their favorite haunted attraction snack was?
As someone who watches “way too many” horror films, I am trying to come up with some ideas and recipes for appropriate food items while watching macabre movies (beyond the obvious of popcorn).
The winner of the recipe I pick will receive a DVD of an unusual and unique horror film.
Submit your ideas and recipes to jigsawjim @ rfrpodcast.com and Good Luck!
Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away….Casket Crew Jigsaw jim
by: RFR Casket Crew Storm
Greetings Deadites,
Over the past few years, the popular opinion of what a ghost looks like has had some major changes. The days of Casper the Friendly ghost are gone, and no more cutting holes in the bedroom linens or spray painting a zombie costume white to have a ghost terrorize visitors to you haunt. Here are some of the challenging new forms ghosts have taken and how to incorporate them into haunt designs.
Orbs: Maybe it’s Uncle Marty, maybe its dust and a camera flash, regardless there are enough believers out there that haunt owners can put away the lemon Pledge and add more strobe lights anyplace for an instant Orb Ghost room when patrons are present
Voices: Disembodied voices and EVP type effects have always been a staple of haunts, but with this growing ghost phenomenon haunters have to be more creative with the content. Gone are the tried but true deep growling “Get Out” , and more common are the soft garbled sounds that resemble a bad drive through speaker. That might be good for concessions when patrons go through asking “Did you just say you died here or asked me if I want fries?”
Shadow People: These creepy ghostly shadows like to dart behind things in abandoned buildings and lighthouses, but they make the haunt budget happy when you can have a dot room without dealing with painting any dots.
Heat Signatures: Apparently the Predator could have also scored a role in the sixth sense with this new technology for Ghosts to reveal themselves. While the FLIR goggles for patrons might be expensive, the actors will appreciate the new sauna you install for them to relax in before running through the haunt ahead of the patrons touching and sitting in props.
EM Fields: Is there an evil presence in the basement or should you fire your electrician. While both scenarios are scary just hope your patrons know to look for Electromagnetic spikes when you send them into your new Basement of Spirits attraction with the prop EMF detectors.
Blurry Glowing Things: Was that a moth on the camera of the gas station or a restless Pony Express rider? The real fear will take place as you paint a thousand June bugs with phosphorescent paint and let them loose in your haunt.
Moving Stuff: What goes bump in the night? Well in your haunted house it can be everything if you loosen some floor boards and cut 1 leg on each table and chair a little short. The pain will be hiring actors to play the role of haunt pin monkeys for the reset.
Mist: Anyone gets creeped out by the low crawling fog that begins to take unearthly shapes. Only one good way to accomplish this on demand… Remote Control Fog, I’m sure there is some military research already on that one.
So until next time Deadites, Sit Back, Relax, and Rot Away…
by RFR Casket Crew Storm
Greetings Deadites,
I was at the gym the other day fighting through the mass of humanity that have suddenly shown up because there was a New Year’s Resolution membership sale, and I realized nobody was wearing any haunt shirts. I figure there are just not enough good haunt related gym slogan T-shirts. Here are some of my ideas for T-shirts to start showing up at the gym.
“My Other Workout is Scarring the Piss Out of Someone”
“I Can Bench Press My Weight In Evil Clowns”
“Each Mile on the Treadmill Lets Me Run Faster With a Chainsaw”
“Feel the Burn Now, Play in the Blood Later”
“Sweating to Rotting Flesh Radio”
“Fast Zombie in Training”
“It Was Either Go to the Gym or Buy a Bigger Straightjacket”
“Pain is Just Inspiration for Better Haunt Scenes”
So until next time Deadites, Sit Back, Relax, and Rot Away…
We have to give a thanks to both Scott from The Scarehouse and also Neat O Rama for this one.If you love horror and The Shining then you will want to decorate your walls with this one. The Shining Cuckoo Clock
Created by Chris Domino, this clock has Jack Nicholson’s head poking through the door every [...]
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by: RFR Casket Crew Denise
Greetings Deadites,
It’s time for the next installment of Reading Between the Pages. In this segment, I’ll be looking at Jim Butcher’s Proven Guilty.The White Council of Wizards has drafted Harry Copperfield Blackstone Dresden as a warden in Chicago. A warden is like the non-magical version of a police officer, [...]
Hey Deadites, a friend of ours over at Twisted Toybox let us in on his newest creation for you Haunt Owners, Vendors and more.
TwistedToybox.net is now offering a new service in 2010, LATEX LOGOS. We all have seen the shirts with latex parts glued into them over the years, but NOW YOUR HAUNT can [...]
Spook House Logistics Ltd. needs your brains and creativity to help create “Edgar Krawly”, the creepy horror host of their major, under construction, haunted house attraction.The Grand Prize Winner will take home $10,000 and Thirteen Finalists win an amazing prize package with a retail value exceeding $650 dollars!
HOW IT WORKS: Write an essay (500 words [...]
The Haunted House Association (HHA) is moving its organization forward for 2010. So far there are many things to come of the newly formed association for haunted and these are are couple of the items we can expect to see to help move Haunters forward with support, networking and more.
Release:
PR Campaign:The HHA is embarking on [...]
Release: The Midwest Haunters Convention has been offering pre-convention bus tours of haunted attractions for six years. This year the tours have been expanded to include 7 haunts with 18 total attractions. Tours include a two day overnight bus trip to Northern Ohio and a Friday evening shuttle bus excursion to haunts in the Columbus [...]
We all remember Dream a Little Dream, License to Drive and most of all The Lost Boys, one of the best Vampire films of my generation. And with that came the two Coreys. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. The duo made pop culture history in the 1980s with screaming girls and fun slapstick films.
As of [...]
by: RFR Casket Crew Denise
Greeting all you Deadites, it’s time for the next installment of what I like to call Reading Between the Pages.
Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor and avid book reader Wesley Smith is haunted by his ex-girlfriend’s harsh and hurtful parting words. He buys an e-book reader and soon finds he [...]
Since the end of Ironstock, Indy has been without a Haunters Event now. Well, fear not there is a new event for you Haunters in Indy and surrounding areas. The All-New Indy Haunt Fest 2010 is coming June 26-27, 2010.
This all new event is going to be the First Annual Indy Haunt Fest and will [...]
