Corey Haim Dies at Age 38

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 today the 1980s child star Corey Haim has been found dead in Los Angeles. He was a mere 38 years old. The Los Angeles coroner’s office said that Haim died Wednesday morning at the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and they are awaiting an autopsy for cause of death. Although rumors have been tossed around that it may have been a possible drug overdose.

Haim began his acting career in 1984 with the film “Firstborn” and then moved on to some of his most famous roles in “Lucas” and “The Lost Boys”. Once drugs entered the scene of his career it pretty much tanked it. And in the recent years with 80s making a nostaliga comeback, he was in some lower budget films and in the popular television series “The Two Coreys,” again with Corey Feldman.

Corey Haim & Corey Feldman

The show lasted two seasons and Feldman declined to do another due to Haim’s drug use.

Haim was currently working on a comeback to his career with films currently in production that also starred Mischa Barton in “The Science of Cool” and “The Dead Sea”.

Overall, Haim will be lost forever to Hollywood’s often childhood tragedies and us fans can remember him as part of the Lost Boys Team.

R.I.P. Corey Haim: 1971-2010.

SPFX Masks NEW Nosferatu Mask Sale!

SPFX Masks have created some of the most realistic masks you will find in the Haunt Industry. From Zombies to Old Men, we have seen what Rusty and his crew can do. The masks have been featured in Feature Films, and celebrities like Dick Van Dyke and others continue to purchase them and tour the facility.

Well, just in time to get your blood juices going for the upcoming Haunt Season, they released their newest mask and have it at a Discounted Sale Price!

Right now the all new Nosferatu Mask, that is made from the highest quality silicone to fit the form of your head, movies with your body and give that realistic impression can be purchased for $50 OFF the normal price! That means you can get this mask for only $795 until February 15! So if you get your order in you can take advantage of this offer.

The mask based on the film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror” will make your haunt actor come to life with incredible believability. Just check out the Video below!

If you’d like to find out more about all the masks offered, or to take advantage of the Sale Going on Until February 15, you can visit their official site at: www.SPFXMasks.com

Transworld Haunt and Attractions Show FREE Registration

The 15th Annual Transworld Haunt and Attractions Show is kicking off March 25th in St. Louis. This annual event has become a must-see for the newest products, props, education and more in the Haunt Industry and now you can get FREE General Admissions to the Haunt Show!

Right now is you register by March 5, 2010, you will receive free show admissions and the Opening Night Celebration at the Dubliner! After March 5, admissions will be $20 per person attending the show. Now that is a way to save on money you can spend on extra Fog Juice!

In addition the Haunt Show has created SPEED SEMINARS for those of you who cannot attend or like faster paced education. The Speed Seminars are on March 24 from 12:00 p.m. through 5:30 p.m. Pricing on these are as little as $50 to attend all 10 Pre-Show Seminars!

Seminar 1: Showmanship
Seminar 2: Props for Actors
Seminar 3: Quick Tips to Successful Marketing
Seminar 4: Stilts and Suits
Seminar 5: Creating a Crisis Plan
Seminar 6: Use Of Celebrities
Seminar 7: Timed Ticketing
Seminar 8: Terrifying Textures
Seminar 9: The Interactive Game Haunted House
Seminar 10: Pyrotechnics!

Now these classes will get you pumped, educated and help you create new insightful ways to run your haunt or event.

For more information about Registration, the Transworld Haunt Show and more visit: www.HauntShow.com

“The Annual Halloween & Attractions Show continues its tradition of creating a unique business environment designed to allow buyers to meet face-to-face with exhibitors. Our exhibitors bring all the newest products and classic designs, providing buyers with a one-stop shopping experience. With thousands of products in hundreds of categories, buyers will find everything they need to stock their businesses and make their time at the show a success. Products at the Annual Halloween & Attractions Show include:

Props, Animatronics, Games and Crowd Pleasers, Concession Supplies, Tickets and Crowd Control, Masks and Costumes, Lighting and Special Effects, Make-Up and Prosthetics, Fabric Paint and Décor, Gift and Novelty items, Haunted House Design and Installation, Sound/Visual Electronics and Effects, Mobile Haunted Houses, Educational and Instructional Videos, Spooky Music and SFX, Wristbands, Visitor Automated Tracking Systems, Haunt-Oriented Graphic and Web Design, and much more!

Networking events, award ceremonies, local haunted house tours, industry relevant seminars and an expanded Dark Zone make this the best Halloween & Attractions Show yet!”

Haunted Attraction Magazine Issue #52 Published and Mailed

Haunted Attraction Magazine issue #52 is in the mail! You will see more changes to the magazine and content as we continue to add new sections and fine tune how we deliver news, information and inspiration to Haunters around the world.

If you would like to learn more about the issue or have the issue and want to learn more about the articles in this issue, keep reading and you’ll find even more information about your favorite articles!

In this Issue:
Haunted Attraction Magazine’s 25 Must See Haunts

Commercial Haunt Spotlight: Nightmare New England

Charity Haunt Spotlight: CHAOS Haunted House

Home Haunt Spotlight: DC Cemetery

Icon Characters: “Morgana” of Wisconsin Feargrounds

Truly…Bloody: The Story of Elizabeth Bathory

Business as Unusual

Artist Spotlight: Mariano Villaba…The Midnight Clown Show

Industry Spotlight: Grignard Fog

Scene Autopsy: Crafting a Bathroom Scene That Will Make Their Skin Crawl

This is another 80 page issue chock-full of information and stories for the Haunter so get your copy today! There is never enough room in the magazine to include everything we want to, so this section of the website gives us a chance to share additional content and/or resources we thought you might enjoy!

To find out more about the publication visit: www.HauntedAttraction.com

In Colorado? Head out to Nocturnal Nightmares Haunted Attraction

As the Haunt Season is coming to a close, we continue featuring some Haunted Attractions throughout the United States for you to enjoy. Moving aside from the Midwest and East Coast lets head over to Colorado. It is there you will experience the Nocturnal Nightmares Haunted Attraction

The Nocturnal Nightmares is a Fort Collins Haunted Attraction located in Northern Colorado. It originated as way for Non-Profit Groups to earn some extra funds for their projects, charities and more. Starting in 1999, the event has grown to be one of the most enjoyed in their area. They focus on theatrics, and not the excessive blood, guts and gore. They continue in the old age tradition of Skeletons, Vampires, Zombies and more, putting a focus on the actors bringing the scares to life.

This year’s event has continued to scare its patrons and the event has worked with such local Non-Profits as the Wellington Fire Department, Wellington Community Action Committee and The Fort Collins Jaycees. In 2006 Nocturnal Nightmares had the opportunity to put on a large “professional” haunt. While it was an incredible experience they decided that they had more fun, had a better haunt, and made more of a community impact when we worked with non-profit groups.

The event one that you will enjoy and help the local community. So if you are in the Northern Colorado area visit the event before Halloween at: NocturnalNightmares.com. Tickets are only $10.00 and there is a Children’s Matinee : $5.00, Lights On For the Kiddies (Halloween, October 31st, 12-3pm only)

Deputy Struck By Car While Working at a Haunted House Passes On

In the Haunt Industry, much of the Haunted Attraction teams are volunteer based. Actors, Staff, Production and more. And for one volunteer Deputy, the outlook posed to be grim in the end. Mike Wilken was the on site traffic duty patrol when a Car struck him while the event was going on. His injuries were critical, and he couldn’t pull through and passed on early Sunday Morning.

courtesy: Star Tribune
Outside the entrance to Fright Farm in Maplewood, black tape covered the sheriff’s emblems on the doors of a patrol car Sunday. Flowers and notes on the windshield paid tribute to Mike Wilken, a Ramsey County reserve deputy and regular haunted house volunteer who had died just hours before. Wilken, 56, of Newport, was on traffic duty for the event when a vehicle driven by a “common Joe Citizen” struck him at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of White Bear Avenue and Frost Avenue, said Maplewood police Sgt. Kevin Johnson.

Wilken suffered multiple critical injuries and was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where he died early Sunday morning.

Sunday was a tough day for the volunteers at the haunted house, which the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office runs to raise money for the D.A.R.E. drug- prevention program.

“I feel horrible. He was a member of the family,” said Ramsey County sheriff’s Cmdr. Brad Camitsch, who started Fright Farm in 1996. “We’re kind of trying to keep a stiff upper lip. People are coming, expecting to have some fun, and we’re trying to give them that.”…..

Continue Reading the Full Article at: www.StarTribune.com

Want a Wish or Fortune this Halloween? Get it from Zoltar!

Growing up we remember many things, from pop culture to films that influenced us. I clearly remember a film with Tom Hanks called BIG. In this film, Hanks makes a wish to be a grown up at an old Coney Island Fortune Teller stand. I often wanted something like that to happen to me.

Well, since that was never bound to happen, how about the next closet thing? Zoltar! Zoltar is a fortune teller inspired from the movie BIG. Zoltar was a staple at many piers across the nation from Coney Island to Florida’s Daytona Beach and more. And this interactive actor portraying the role makes it even more creepy by having the Fortune Telling Box mounted on a segway! So now he can torment, read the future and entertain people as they try to run in fear, or follow along in curiosity. Zoltar took FIRST PLACE in the 2009 Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and is gaining his own following of admirers.

Now you can also have Zoltar at your event as well anytrime of the year! You can hire Zoltar to tell fortunes, creep people out, and entertain those guests at events. Zoltar’s master, Jonathan Gleich, has a real job and management frowns on side work, so Zoltar is only available for Friday-Saturday-Sunday appearances. If you need Zoltar for an extended period in strange and wondrous lands, Jonathan has three weeks vacation sometime in the year.

So for some Halloween fun and fortune, ASK ZOLTAR and maybe, just maybe in true Tom Hank style, it may come true!

For more besure to visit his Official Site at: www.SegNYC.com

Stand Back and Let the Real Psychos Show You How Its Done at Dreamreapers Haunted House!

Back at the Transworld Haunt Show in 2007, RFR was vending there and we had a chance to visit the Dreamreapers Haunted House in Illinois. Now this haunted attraction blew us away. In detail, scares and dead-on actors, the place was for sure one of the top rated in the nation! So it comes as no surprise that now, almost two years later, we have a chance to visit the attraction once more this weekend.

Nightmares Inc. decided to fabricate a haunted house using a new genre of haunt. One of old technology, dark, misdirecting and actor based scares carefully merged with that of new technology. High tech. animatronics, high detail and touching 4 of your 5 senses. The end result was Dream Reapers.

Dream Reapers Haunted House is over 14,000 SqFt. of sheer terror. With over 22 rooms, 40+ animatronics, over 40 actors and actresses and something rarely duplicated in the industry, scents based upon the theme of the room. And has wheelchair accessibility.

Dream Reapers was rated the #1 haunted house in Illinois for three years in a row. And continues to be one of the top rated events nationwide. Since there are only a few more days left until Halloween, this is a must-see if you are within driving distance or in the Illinois area. You can get some great deals online, like a Fast Pass, or discounts just for eating pizza and bringing in the labels! And if you just want to attend on a whim, it’s only a mere $16 bux to get in!

So if you want some sheer terror this Halloween, visit the Dreamreapers Haunted House in Illinois! And as they put it….“STAND BACK AND LET THE REAL PSYCHOS SHOW YOU HOW ITS DONE!”

For more on the Dreamreapers event visit: Dreamreapers.com

Home Haunt News and Reviews FREE October Edition Released

Since October is here and full in swing for Halloween, aside from all you pro haunters, let’s talk to you home haunters we all know and love as well.

THe newest edition of Home Haunt News and Reviews is out for your reading enjoyment. In this jam packed October Edition they are chock full of articles to help you get your haunt on this season. This edition features such top articles as: Pumpkin Saver Tips, Bodybag Creations, Haunt Music for your Home, Actor Based Props and more. This issue is sure to help your Home Haunting needs in time for the Halloween Night of Spookiness and Creepiness.

To get your FREE Online Edition in the form of PDF, Flash, or Classic Online be sure to visit: HomeHauntNews.com

About Home Haunt News:
The only online magazine dedicated to the home haunter! Home Haunters News and Reviews is to be released every other month. With how-to guides, make-up tricks, party ideas, and everything else related to home haunting!

The Uncle Zombie Show

There are many Horror Hosts out there, and very entertaining they are. From The Midnight Monster Hop, To Elvira, and many many others. Well here is a new twist, a Zombie as a host!

The Uncle Zombie Show is a new twist that has just debuted. They really utilize the mask they have purchased from a friend here at RFR, SPFX Masks and Rusty Slusser. Uncle Zombie has a good host persona, and his graceful speaking makes him even more funny. He decides to go on about the under appreciated Zombie and the mis-interpretation of Zombies all together.

This is the first episode to appear so far, so let’s see where this one goes. We for one think if Uncle Zombie progresses at a decent speed, he could stir up the undead airwaves.