MFP Kicks the Casket Off The Second Annual Home Haunters Website Giveaway

We here at Rotting Flesh Radio are always pulling for the under dogs, the small haunts, charity events and home haunters. With that said how would you like to have your own professionally done website created and designed along with an outstanding logo? I know, I know you don’t have the money for it, but what if you could WIN it!

“HOME HAUNTERS! Matthew Freyer Productions wants you to tell us why you have the best Home Haunt and deserve your very own website to show it off to the rest of the world. Your story can be as long as you’d like but remember, we are choosing the winners by how passionate you are about your Home Haunt. We also recommend sending us links to an existing website, photo album, YouTube channel or any other network that you currently use to brag about how insanely wicked your Home Haunt is. Get creative folks because this Halloween you could be the winner of a custom, professionally designed website that will show the world you are the ultimate HOME HAUNTER!

Last years Home Haunters Website Giveaway Winner was Dan Krein, creator, owner and operator of Souls of the Forsaken. Visit the Souls of the Forsaken website to get some inspiration and to see what we can do for your Home Haunt.

Please send all entries and questions to: contest@matthewfreyerproductions.com Entries must be received by 11:59pm Saturday March, 31 2012.

For more on MFP and the contest visit: www.MatthewFreyerProductions.com

National Podcast Awards Daily Voting: Ride The Doombuggy and Help ROTTING FLESH RADIO Take the Win for Halloween Freaks!

Hey there Deadites,

Since 2005, you have been loyal Deadites, spinning RFR from the grave, visiting us at Conventions, Tradeshows, and more. And most of all, keeping The Mortician Rotting Away from the Morgue every week for the last Six Years!

Well it is because of you, ROTTING FLESH RADIOM is nominated in the national podcast awards at www.PodcastAwards.com.

Rotting Flesh Radio is the Only Haunt / Halloween Industry Podcast Nominated in the Annual Awards and this is because of YOU our Haunt Friends and Family.

So now it is time to take that ride in your doombuggy and V-O-T-E for ROTTING FLESH RADIO DAILY in the General Category. You have gotten us this far as both the Original Halloween and Haunt Industry Weekly Show and recognized in the National Podcast Awards.

Let’s see if we can show the world us Fright Freaks, Halloween Junkies, Haunt Lovers and Weirdos can take the top spot.

Spread the word Daily and THANK YOU DEADITES!!! Sit Back, Relax and Rot Away…

V-O-T-E DAILY:
Where: www.PodcastAwards.com
Who: Rotting Flesh Radio
Category: General Category

Announcing: Faces of the Great Pumpkin Art Contest from PumpkinCult.com

OK, Pumpkinauts, it’s time to show your love for The Great Pumpkin through art! The Cult of the Great Pumpkin, in association with Sinister Visions Inc., is sponsoring its very first contest: Faces of The Great Pumpkin.

The concept is simple: Draw, paint, sculpt or otherwise create a portrait of The Great Pumpkin. That is, YOUR VISION of The Great Pumpkin. Since nobody’s ever seen him (and lived to tell about it, anyway), his appearance is completely open to interpretation, and that’s what we want to see! Let your imagination run wild, commit your ideas to paper, screen, sculpt or pumpkin pulp, and send it in!

RULES:
– One submission per artist.

– The piece submitted must be an original work of art, not derivative or plagiarized. Any submission shown to be stolen or “borrowed” from another’s work will be disqualified.

– The piece must be a portrait of The Great Pumpkin, however you interpret that concept.

– The piece does not have to be exclusive to this contest.

DEADLINES
– All entries must be received by midnight on September 30th, 2011.

– Voting will begin on October 1st, 2011 and end at midnight on October 30th, 2011.

– The winners will be announced on Halloween, October 31st, 2011.

VOTING
– Voting will take place via this website; the voters will be the site’s visitors. The contest will be heavily promoted via social media and other networking avenues already in place. In the event of a tie, Sam Pumpking will make the final call.

SUBMISSIONS
– Send an image file, either as an email attachment or link, to contact@pumpkincult.com. JPG preferred, PNG is OK too.

– People will be voting on the image you send, so a crappy cell phone photo isn’t going to do you any favors.

– Sculptures or other 3D works may include up to 5 images to show multiple angles.

– Max dimensions: 800 pixels on the longest side.

– Max resolution: 72 dpi – this is a web-based contest. It doesn’t need to be larger.

– Watermarking is OK, within reason. If you obscure your own art, it may hurt your chances of winning.

Include with your submission:
Your name
Preferred email address
Website (if you have one)
Title of piece
Media
Year it was created

USAGE
– Submitted artwork remains the property of the submitting artist.

– Submitted artwork will appear in a gallery at PumpkinCult.com in perpetuity.

– Submitted artwork may be used to promote the contest, including (but not limited to) the front page blog, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Appropriate credits will always be given.

– Any usage beyond the above stated will first be negotiated with the submitting artist.

PRIZES
– Prizes awarded will be First Place, Second Place and Third Place. Honorable Mentions may be awarded if warranted. Each prize will be a pack of horror and Halloween collectibles, goodies and bits of spooky awesomeness.

– Prizes are being furnished by Sinister Visions inc., who also supply prizes for contests at Flashback Weekend, Zombie Pinups events, Retro Zombie Tiki Terror and other dark-themed contests and events.

Additional prizes will be provided by:
Zombie Army Productions
Rotting Flesh Radio
Kitty Zombie
Additional prize suppliers TBA.

The Cult of the Great Pumpkin reserves the right to amend the information on this page, if we think of a way to make the contest better, or realize we said something stupid.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD!

you can find many banner/buttons on the Pumpkin Cult Website and link to http://pumpkincult.com/contests/

Toxic Toons Unleashes Spooky Glow in the Dark Tee!

From a Rotting Fiend of Rotting Flesh Radio, ERIC “UNKLE” PIGORS

HEY FIENDS,
So I am printing your orders of the,” Poison 13 long sleeve and the EVIL GHOUL shirts” next week so they will be mailed out soon. Thanx for your patience. Also thanx for letting me know which ones of my 6 old shirts you want reprinted the most.

It was close. But most votes went to the RED FRANKENSTEIN and the MAGGOT SKULL. I still might do some of he others you liked later this year like the RED ROCKER in November. So i added these 2 reprint shirts and this BRAND NEW SPOOKY glow in the dark shirt. They are now all For Sale in the: Toxic Toons Gore Store

And like this Last batch of shirts i printed i will take your orders until August 21st and order what you buy and a few extras.Then mail them out by 1st week of Sept. So you have 2 weeks to pre order to make sure you get one.These will be only printed one time and only what you order and a very small amount extra.

*I can also print any of these 3 new designs on womens babydolls $20 – mens workshirt $40 – or a long sleeve shirt $25 if you buy it before August 31st.

My HAUNTED MANSION 4 PRINTS SPECIAL ends AUGUST 31ST then goes back to the normal price of $60 or i might just take it off for good.So if you want a set I would get them this month at: Toxic Toons Haunted Mansion Special And remember all $20 orders get you entered into my “WIN MY HAUNTED MANSION ART & 6 OTHER PRIZES” which ends August 31st. I will pick the winners Sept 1st and post the winners the same day. Good luck to all who have entered so far,and those who haven’t you still have all month to win my Haunted Mansion pen and ink and print or 6 other prizes. All entries to win my art special are from sales from July 1st thru August 31st and are for all $20 sales off my website www.toxictoons.com only {sorry Barware & Masks don’t count since they are other sites sales}

And I hear my GRUESOME MONSTER MASKS will be mailed out mid or late August for all of you who preordered one from www.TRICKORTREATSTUDIOS.com and they will have extras of him to buy if you haven’t bought one yet.

So if you want to try to win my Original Haunted Mansion Pen and Ink Art or 6 other prizes all you have to do is buy any $20 off my site before August 31st.

Visit Toxic Toons at: www.ToxicToons.com

RFR Short Story Winner: The Darkness by Deby Feeley

by: RFR Casket Crew Denise

Greeting Deadites,

It’s time to reveal the big secret. I’ve been bringing you reviews of the latest horror, suspense and supernatural thrillers from some of our generations best authors. But this time I thought I would switch it up a little. So, this time I will not be reviewing anything. This time I will be featuring a short story.

I went to the MySpace forums last week and issued a challenge to some of those who hang out in the Literature forum and who regularly have contest on their short stories. My challenge was to write a short horror story to be feature here at RFR. The winner of that contest was Deby Feeley.

Ironically Deby and I have been friends for some years. And no deadites, the contest was not rig because I asked for some outside help in judging the stories. Deby’s story was deemed to be the best.

Deby and I are ghoul friends; a title that Deby came up with. We hang out at each other’s house, watch horror movies and eat pizza. We’ve been doing this for years too, so we know our horror stories. So with permission from Deby, here is her short story. I hope you enjoy it as much as the judges did.

THE DARKNESS by Deby Feeley
“Oh, for God’s sake, here we go again!” I follow Miranda as she dashes into the dark closet, huddles in the back corner behind some old coats, and rocks her body back and forth in a twisted fetal position. She’s sobbing again, a habbit I find extremely disgusting. I let her gush for a moment and ask, “Are you quite finished?”

“Leave me alone, leave me alone. I just can’t do it anymore. Nobody loves me. I’m useless…why can’t I just die?” I can see her swollen face half covered with wet sticky hair reflected in an old mirror on the closet floor. It is eerily lit by the beam of light coming in through the open closet door.

Ahhhhhh, theatrics. I’m good at this game. “Well,” I tell her, “if you loose about 100 pounds and slap a little makeup on your face to cover those zits and run a brush through your hair, you might just be able to manage to get out there and DO something with your life you pig! How about it, eh? Just get off your FAT ASS, get out of this closet and GET A LIFE!!!”

Her sobs turn into high-pitched screams. “I hate you, I hate you, I HATE YOU!!!” she screams at me and I smile. Now we’re rolling. I bask in her anger and luxuriate in her confusion. I need her to need me. She needs me to always tell her the truth. Who else will? All of her friends lie to her. Her family is nothing but a pit of seething vipers, slithering around ready to strike. She wouldn’t know how to do anything if it weren’t for me. I am the one who puts up with her. I am the one who keeps her in her place…you’d think she might appreciate all I do for her but no. She’s yelling that she hates me again. I toss a knife down between her feet. I know I’m playing with fire now, but we’ve been through this before. Just a little game of chicken to make her think a bit. No big deal.

Miranda stares at the knife, gently lifts it and makes a small cut from her thumb knuckle to her wrist. “Is this what you were hoping for?” she asks me. I can feel her demeanor shift to something that feels like defeat. She isn’t screaming any more, but she’s still huddled in the corner watching the pool of blood grow. I hear her praying for God to help her. She’s asking him why he’s letting her do this.

I roll my eyes. “God can’t hear you,” I whisper in her ear. “Do you think he’s going to listen to you as long as you keep me around?” I gently lift her hand to my mouth and suck the warm blood from the wound. It isn’t a fatal wound. She does this sometimes to balance out the pain or so I have heard her tell her doctor. She has said in the past that I’m dangerous for her, but here I am, helping her feel better. As long as she wants me with her, I will stay because I am her darkness and I will survive as long as she keeps feeding me.

The Rotting End

As I said, deadites, I really hope you enjoyed Deby’s story. And if you would like to have a short story feature here at RFR Podcast, please send me an e-mail at: denise @ rfrpodcast.com with the details. Until next time, sit back, relax and rot away.

Zombie Manor Haunted House Open on Friday the 13th

Release: 8-6-2010

Greetings to everyone in the Zombie Nation! Well it is almost that time of the year – our favorite time of the year. Time for the haunted houses in the area to start ramping up and hopefully some cooler temps ahead for us all living in Texas.

ZOMBIE MANOR will be open for One Night of Fright next Friday, August 13, 2010 from 8-11PM. Our movie quality sets, special effects and interactive performers make this THE ZOMBIE EXPERIENCE in North Texas. Check out our reviews online at: ZombieManor.com

A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS will be made available for this event so be sure to get there early as we are offering a special event price of ONLY $10.00 to be the first in the area to preview some of the new sets and SCARE-zones for 2010. There will be coupons available to some of your favorite haunts in the area available for the upcoming season and celebrity haunters from across the metroplex so you won’t want to miss out on this special sneek preview of one of DFW’s (Dallas Fort Worth) TOP RATED dark attractions!

Witness the all new ZOMBIE ATTACK (the first of its kind in the DFW market) and the lifelike work of James McCormick from EXTREME SPFX who has been adding to our zombie cast this summer.

In addition, be sure to ask about ZOMBIE-Palooza, the first ever in north Texas at J.Gilligans in Arlington on Saturday, September 11, 2010. X5 Entertainment and ZOMBIE MANOR will be bringing you 4 FREE Bands – Pushing Daggers, Ghost Surfers, Fist Full of Oi and Subversive Underground, a zombie costume contest, celebrity judges, FREE Haunted House tickets, door prizes and more. All proceeds earned through donations and door prize tickets sold will benefit the family of one of our fallen Arlington Fire Fighters.

Hope to see you all at ZOMBIE MANOR this season where the dead live…SPREAD THE DEAD!

www.ZombieManor.com

ZOMBIE MANOR MTV COMMERCIAL

Alice Cooper Looks for Freaks for his Halloween Show!

So just in time for Halloween and the Haunt Season how about some of the Halloween Horror Icon Alice Cooper News.

Alice Cooper is going to be judging over some crazy acts to become part of a “Freak Act” to become part of his upcoming London Shows. Alice is going to be touring the U.K. and most importantly on Halloween he will be playing the U.K. Captial and also on November 1, 2010.

Right now he has asked performers to submit audition videos via digital, video, dvd, etc. to join him as part of his tour. The overall best acts will be asked to do a LIVE audition on August 9 and 10th at the London Dungeon. And YES ALICE HIMSELF MAKES THE FINAL CALL not producers or handlers or promoters.

Alice has said he wants Halloween to be as big at Christmas and this is heading towards that direction.

KEEPIN’ HALLOWEEN ALIVE

Midwest Haunters Convention: 2010 Updates

Midwest Haunters Convention PRESS UPDATES

T-Shirt Voting Happening Now: Help pick this year’s shirt!

For the first time ever MHC has opened up the design of our annual t-shirts. We received 22 awesome entries from across the country and we are asking you to pick your favorite! Please visit the T-shirt Voting page on the MHC website and vote today! The polls are open through March.

Sponsorship Opportunities: Be a part of MHC and gain more exposure for your business!

Here’s your chance to be a part of the best haunters convention of the year. The title sponsorship for the 2010 Midwest Haunters Convention is now available! Other sponsorships from the Friday night tours to classroom sponsorships are available by contacting Kelly Collins at Kelly@midwesthaunters.com or call 614-203-4626

Bus Packages Posted: MHC Offers Haunt Tours that include 18 Attractions!

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 area. This will be the best year yet for MHC Haunt Tours! See all of the details on the Bus Tour and Friday Night Activities pages on the MHC website!

Pre-Convention Workshops: Business, Makeup, Acting…Something for everyone!

So it is Thursday night and you just got back into Columbus from a two-day, 14 attraction bus tour to Northern Ohio. You can’t wait to see more haunts on Friday night but what do you do until that next bus arrives?? You sign up for one of MHC’s great extended workshops! No matter what your level or interest in the haunt industry there is a workshop for you.

Back by popular demand will be the “Getting Started” workshop. Taught by Tim and Anne Marie Gavinski this workshop will enlighten you to everything you didn’t know that you needed to know to be successful in the haunted attraction industry. Broken down into two sections this class even has an option for a lunch hosted by the state of Ohio fire marshal’s office.

Been in the business for a few years and looking to “Take Your Attraction to the Next Level?” Bob and Beth Turner will be hosting a 1/2 day seminar that is vital for all haunt operators. They will show you how to improve the profitability of your attraction and offer suggestions on safety programs for your actors and guests.

If you are an actor looking to step it up a few notches, or an owner looking for training ideas, Hauntertainer U is for you! Bob and Beth will cover everything from theming to makeup to timing. This is a class not to miss!

How about some in depth makeup instruction? Let The Queen of Horror, Bloody Mary, take you on a journey from entry level old age makeup to a transformation to a Hag or Ghoul. Next she’ll demonstrate one of her specialties; Decayed and Rotted Zombies followed by Rotted Clowns. This 3 hour intensive class will help you achieve fantastic character makeup results. For more information visit the Pre-Convention Workshops page on the MHC website.

For the first time ever the Midwest Haunters Convention will have a booth at Transworld. What does this mean for you? If you are a vendor it means that we are working hard to bring more customers to the MHC trade show floor! For everyone else it means you can win stuff!! All weekend long we will be giving away weekend packages, party passes, tshirts and more! Stop by booth 528 and enter to win. If you are wearing an MHC tshirt you will get two entries!

For more on the Midwest Haunters Convention visit: www.MidwestHauntersConvention.com

“Who is Edgar Krawly?” Win $10,000 Telling Us!

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 or less) answering the following questions:

“Who is Edgar Krawly? Where did he come from? What diabolical deed does he do with all the brains he steals? How does this strange man, circa 1900 – 1920, step into a modern day “haunted” building? Why do people who enter the “haunted” building see mind-numbing scenes of horror, of every variety? What is the significance of the cryptic number sequence “29.11”?

ELIGIBILITY: Contestants must be at least 18 years or older at time of Essay submission. Essays submitted by Contestants under 18 must be co-signed by a Legal Guardian. Contestants must submit a completed, legible entry form, a 500 words or less Essay and pay a $29.11 US entry fee either electronically, by money order or bank check for each Essay submitted.

DEADLINES: Contest is open from 09:59:33 p.m. January 16th, 2010, Eastern Time and will continue until 09:59:33 p.m June 16th, 2010 Eastern Time. Essays postmarked on or before June 16th, 2010 will be accepted after June 16th, 2010.

PRIZES: They’ve put together an exciting line-up of prizes to be awarded to the 1st Place Winner, 2nd Place Winner, 13 Finalists, Top 50 Entrants, and even a $100 “Golden Stinker” Prize for the “worst, best effort”.

CELEBRITY JUDGES: Bram Stoker Award winning authors Brian Keene and Jonathan Maberry, actress and screenwriter Brinke Stevens, actress Brooke Lewis, actress Kelli Maroney, macabre music masters Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka from “Midnight Syndicate”, director and FX artist Robert Kurtzman, “Rue Morgue” magazine creator and movie director Rodrigo Gudino, director and screen-writer Harry Bromley-Davenport, “Haunt Hottie” Jackie Steinert and Rotting Flesh Radio creator Jonathan “The Mortician” Johnson, and “Haunted Attraction” magazine creator and haunt guru, Leonard Pickel.

For more information, to register, read guidelines and more visit the official site at: www.KreepyKrawlys.com

Midwest Haunters T-Shirt Contest Voting NOW OPEN!

Each year the Annual Midwest Haunters Convention kicks off with Haunters, Education, Vendors and Fun. To make each year memorable to their guests, MHC has clothing such as T-Shirts and such. This year to make it fun, MHC had a T-Shirt Contest. Submissions were entered and now the Voting has begun on picking which design will become the OFFICIAL T-SHIRT DESIGN FOR MHC 2010

Release: Welcome to the first MHC T-Shirt Contest. There are 20 designs that have been submitted for a chance to be the official shirt of the 2010 Midwest Haunters Convention. Please take a look and Vote for your favorite.

To see all the designs and to Vote visit: www.MidwestHauntersConvention.com

NOTE FROM MHC:

Please vote only once.

Please no campaigning for a design. This contest is intended to choose the shirt people are most likely to purchase, not to get votes from people who are not coming to the show. Any activity designed to do this may result in disqualification.