All-New Twisted Toybox Burn Logos

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 have PERSONALIZED LATEX LOGOS to add to your shirts!

Imagine an ” I survived” shirt with a hole torn and your name cut into the skin of the person wearing the shirt! He can not only replicate your LOGO in latex, but is also able to add knife
handles, cuts, faces, bullet holes, whatever you wish…the possibilities are endless.

Just check out these samples so far:

This service starts at $175 which includes: sculpting your basic pre designed logo, mold making, and two finished sample castings. Extra castings are $4 each with a min order of only one dozen pieces. Now that is a steal!

This service is NOT yet on the TwistedTOybox.net website. Although he is offering this service now as a SPECIAL OFFER BEFORE details are posted on the TwistedToybox.net website next month. Just tell him Rotting Flesh Radio sent you.

To submit your logo or T- shirt insert idea email Chris Russell with an image of desired logo design to: flugmi@comcast.net and for more on Twisted Toy Box visit: TwistedToybox.net

MHC Offers 18 Haunted Attractions in 2010 Haunt Tours!

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 area. This will be the best year yet for MHC Haunt Tours!

Wednesday afternoon, June 2 buses will depart from the Hyatt Regency Columbus for the Cleveland area. We’ll tour attractions throughout the evening, spending the night in Hudson, Ohio. The next morning we’ll tour haunts in Northern Ohio; including returning to attractions toured the previous night for Lights-on tours. The Lights-on tours will give attendees an opportunity to see all the scene details and what goes on behind the scenes. The evening wraps up with additional haunt tours and a return trip to Columbus on Thursday late night.

Ticket prices for the two day tour start at $199 which includes all attractions, bus transportation, meals, snacks and hotel room. There will be five haunts with 14 total attractions.

Friday night the tours resume with shuttle buses transporting attendees to two haunts with four total haunted attractions in the Columbus area. Buses will start departing from the Hyatt Regency Columbus at 6:45 pm. Dinner stops are planned with special discounted meal options starting at just $3.99 and the haunt tours with a shuttle bus package for just $49. Buses return to the Hyatt for a Scary-Oke show starting at 11:30 pm.

The Midwest Haunters Convention offers fantastic haunt tours, outstanding educational seminars, exciting contests and an amazing costume party. The free weekend Halloween industry trade show is one of the largest in the country.

To Register and to Learn More Visit: www.MidwestHaunters.com or call Kelly at 614-203-4626.

Indy Haunt Fest Coming June 2010

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 feature vendors, costumes, demonstrations on prop building and performance techniques for all levels of haunt enthusiast, a haunter’s auction of new and used props, special tours of the areas creepy attractions, networking opportunities, food and much more!

Registration has begun for Vendors and Attendees and it seems like it will be shaping up to be a fun weekend and event.

Right now you can save on registration as well. If you register Before March 17 you can register for the weekend for a mere $15.00! The Weekend Pass is good for both Saturday and Sunday admission.

If purchased January 15st- midnight March 17th
Adult: $15.00, Youth: $5.00, Child: Free

If purchased March 18 – midnight May 1st
Adult: $20.00, Youth: $7.00, Child: Free

At the Gate Weekend -from May 2nd to June 26th.
No pre sale prices available after midnight May 1st, At the Gate pricing will be the only option. Adult: $25, Youth: $10, Child: Free

Daily Dose good only for one day and only available at the gate. Adults: $15.00, Youth: $7.00, Child: Free

The Vendor list is growing to be a good one as well this year including: Frighteners Entertainment, Pumpkin Pulp Productions, SCAREVANIA Haunted House, The Iron Kingdom and more.

More information will come shortly, but stay tuned to RFR for all the details in this new event in Indy. For more information visit: www.IndyHauntFest.com

Comicpalooza Charity Celebrity Auction

Houston, TX: Not content just to auction off signed photos, props, books, or the contents of celebrities’ closets for charity, Comicpalooza will host an auction where the celebrities themselves will be auctioned off – for brunch! Enjoy a meal with the celebrity of your choice while helping out a worthy cause at the same time. The current celebrity list is:

*Celebrity & Charity or Nonprofit*
Bruce Campbell – Nature Conservancy

Nicholas Brendon – Outfest

Dichen Lachman – TBA

Peter Mayhew – TBA

Tracy Scoggins – Wounded Warrior Project

The auction itself will take place Friday night, March 26 at Comicpalooza, in the George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX 77010-6099.

ABOUT COMICPALOOZA
Comicpalooza (Trademark pending) is an annual multi-genre convention held in Houston, Texas, and features comics, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, steampunk, New Media, film, and celebrities. The next Comicpalooza will be held March 26-28, 2010 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Sponsors for Comicpalooza include the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the University of Houston Creative Writing Department, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP), and MTGFanatic.com.

Startling Events, LLC is an events company incorporated in Katy, Texas, a suburb of Houston, Texas.

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.

Detail Your Haunt: Bad Boys Scenic Design Seminars 2010 and Discount Code

Long friends of Rotting Flesh Radio the Bad Boys Scenic Design who also run the Top Rated Haunt Terror on the Fox in Wisconsin have been regarded as some of the best in details in the Haunt Industry. They make rooms that can rival any Disney waiting queue and more.

For many years you have been able to pick up their How-To DVDs, see them at Conventions teaching Seminars and now the list has been announced for the Bad Boys Scenic Design Seminars 2010 so get a pen and get ready to make your haunt rock and shock all!

National Haunters Convention in Valley Forge, Pa.

Detailing your Haunted Attraction : Foam Carving & More!
Apr 30, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Are you ready to take your attraction to the next level? Here’s your chance! Sure to be a hit with attendees, this informative how-to (and hands on) seminar will give haunters of all experience levels the techniques to turn an average room design into a highly detailed Disney-level attraction. Detailing techniques, tips, tools of the trade as well as advanced methods will be demonstrated and discussed. Topics and demos will cover painting, distressing, LightScaping, rust, rotted plaster, tiger foam, and of course the Bad Boys’ signature Styrofoam Masonry. Learn how these applications have been used in attractions across the country including Nightmare New England, SpookyWorld, Reapers Revenge, Terror on the Fox and more!

Bad Boys Scenic Design is a group of designers whose artistic skills in set design have earned them the respect and admiration of the most prominent names in the haunted attraction industry. Don’t miss the chance to learn their best tricks, techniques, and methods refined during their 20 year career in the Haunted Attraction industry. Register soon to guarantee your spot in this special seminar as this 3 – 4 hour long seminar is expected to sell out.

To Register Today Visit: www.HalloweenUniversity.com

Midwest Haunters Convention in Columbus, OH.

Extreme Detailing for your Haunted Attraction
Sunday June 6, 1pm – 5pm
by: Bad Boys Scenic Design & Screamline Studios

Are you ready to take your attraction to the next level? Here’s your chance! Sure to be a hit with attendees, this informative how-to (and hands on) seminar will give haunters of all experience levels the techniques to turn an average room design into a highly detailed Disney-level attraction. Detailing techniques, tips, tools of the trade as well as advanced methods will be demonstrated and discussed.

Topics and demos will cover faux painting, distressing, LightScaping, rust, rotted plaster, tiger foam, and of course the Bad Boys’ signature Styrofoam Masonry. This year’s seminar will include special guest designer Jason Blaszczak from Screamline Studios.

Learn how these applications have been used in attractions across the country including Nightmare New England, SpookyWorld, Reapers Revenge, Terror on the Fox and more!

Register soon to guarantee your spot in this special seminar as this 4.5 – 5 hour long session is expected to sell out. Cost – $150. Save $20 if registered by May 4th – Use Discount Code “BBSD”.

To Register Visit: www.MidwestHauntersConvention.com

Midwest Haunters Convention: Workshops, Education, Contests Updated

The Midwest Haunters Convention is gearing up for the 2010 event and many things have been updated for the event.

The event itself is one of the most attended Haunt Events in the industry and everyone is gearing up for the event. And right now Registration is open for both the Miss Midwest Scary Pageant, The 7th annual competition to find the scariest female character in the Midwest. Eight contestants will be competing for this highly coveted title, along with cash and prizes. In addition the registration has opened as well for the Annual Monster Makeup Wars, this is where they offer contestants the chance to compete for the coveted title of creating the Scariest Monster! Five teams will compete (1 model and 2 make-up artists) with identical Bloody Mary make-up supplies. Teams will have 30 minutes to complete their monster from the neck up. There is also even more registration for the Scariest Character Contest, each year the panel of celebrity judges chooses the Scariest Character from those in attendance at the Saturday masquerade party. Ten invitations to participate are handed out during the party, then contestants are judges, and the winner is announce that night. The winner will receive free admission to the following year’s party as well as cash and prizes to be determined. Registration is closing in on these events. You have a little over a month and a half to get your registration in.

Now, MHC wouldn’t be complete without some Education to help your haunt or event. And the List of Seminar Speakers for the HauntBots Seminars has been updated.

HAUNTBOTS SEMINAR SPEAKERS:
MHC’s educational offerings are industry acclaimed and very affordable. We offer a variety of preconvention workshops, as well as 40+ hours of weekend seminars. Many haunt producers bring their actors and makeup artists for the reasonably priced training classes. Classes are targeted to haunt producers, scene/prop builders, makeup artists and actors. From the beginner to the professional; everyone can learn from our seasoned instructors. Stop back soon for a list of classes.

Some of the Speakers Include:
John Barrowman, Jana Beagley, Michael Davy, Virgil Franklin, Glen & Melissa Gilmore, Beth Biasella, Katie Lane, Allen Hopps, Katie “Bansheette Morningstar” Lane, George Maser, Scott Olson, Scott Schaffer, Matthew Seel, Jeff Simmons, Scott Sliger, Dick Terhune, Pam Trent, Robin Walters, MS, Brian “Gadget” Warner, Jon Williams

Now just when you thought you were done with some of the MHC Updates. The Saturday Night Activities has been announced as well. Our Saturday evening activities begin at 4:30 with Monster Makeup Wars. The infamous MHC Masquerade Party begins at 8:30. You have the following to get your Haunt On in June:
Midwest Haunters Convention Masquerade Party

Saturday June 5th 8:30 pm – 1:00 am

The party will be held in the 17,000sf Regency Ballroom at our host hotel: the Hyatt Regency Columbus.

$40 per person ($35 with weekend seminar registration).

Admission includes the following: Heavy Hors d’ ovres, DJ w/dance floor, entertainment, prizes and a place to party with hundreds of your costumed friends.

Everyone is invited; the Midwest Haunters Convention participants can showcase their favorite Halloween characters/costumes. We’ll invite the public to join us in costume too.

Listed below are approximate times for our events/contests on Saturday night:

8:30 Doors open with background music
9:00 Body Art Fashion show
9:30 Ms Midwest Scary Pageant
10:30 Costume contest
11:30 We’ll announce winners of the pageant and costume contest
Play music until 1:00 am

Midwest Haunters Convention is going to be a great time once again and we will have more information as the event draws near including the organizers stopping in on the show. For more information about the annual event visit: www.MidwestHaunters.com

CFX Launches New Upgraded Site and Masks of the Month!

RELEASE TO RFR:
The new CFX website has gotten a much needed upgrade with some new bells and whistles, more easy to view product catalog, and a few new things that we’ve added based on all those emails we’ve gotten from our customers. We’ve updated our project gallery to reflect some more recent film and TV work we’ve done outside of the haunt realm to give you a little taste of the other side of CFX.

There’s also now a customer gallery with an assortment of some of the photos our customers have sent us using our products. A totally new addition, though, is our Mask of the Month feature that showcases a different customized silicone mask every month either by public request or because we got a weird twitch in one eye during production. Last, but certainly not least, we’ve posted teaser spots for some of our new masks that will be released in March at the 2010 Transworld Haunt Show in St. Louis. As much as everybody pushes and prods us, and as much as we’d like to reveal the full photos, the unspoken ethics of customer anticipation ties our hands and only allows these tantalizing little silhouettes and titles for your viewing pleasure and frustration.

Our new mask products cover a somewhat broader spectrum than our previous releases. This diverse bunch of freaks and miscreants is in response to a collection of customer requests from different markets, spawning some more fundamental fears of the human psychosis while still keeping the company of the classic monsters and ghouls we all love so much. There will, of course, be some new gloves to go with some of the new mask releases, as well as some other various goodies, toes and fingers to chuck out on the sales table. But, the rest of those will have to wait entirely until March, when we’ll see what the constraints of time will allow.

Until then, send us your best customer photos, wipe the drool off your chin and book a hotel room for your trip to St. Louis because if you’ve actually sat through this much of this little blurb, chances are you haven’t done your homework tonight yet.”

For more visit: www.CompositeEffects.com

Famous Monsters Convention 2010 Coming to Indy

So with many Horror Conventions to attend, 2010 will be a hard year to decide which one you want to go to. Well, a good friend here at the show is throwing the perfect event for you to attend in the Famous Monsters Convention 2010 being held July 9-11, 2010 in Indianapolis.

The event will be full of meet and greets with your favorite celebrities, vendors to get some Horror Swag and more.

The site has just launched and will be updated often with the most recent guests, events and to get tickets. Stay tuned to Rotting Flesh Radio for all the details and we will also have the event organizers and friends here at the show on to discuss the event and keep you in the loop. Currently the have Derek Mears (Jason from Friday the 13th 2009), Thomas Jane (From Punisher, The Mist and more) scheduled to appear.

To see the newly launched site, join their Facebook, Twitter and other social outlets visit: www.FamousMonstersConvention.com

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., February 1, 2010 – Famous Monsters of Filmland, the original sci-fi/horror/fantasy-genre magazine that captured over three decades of imagination, announces today its foray into the horror convention circuit. The official Famous Monsters of FIlmland Convention will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, July 9-11, 2010. In attendance will be Thomas (The Mist, Punisher) Jane, a Night Of The Living Dead reunion, the cast of the 20th Century Fox release Predators and many more to be announced.

The weekend-long convention will be packed with special screenings, monstrous parties, exciting music acts, panels, a costume contest and lots more.

“We are so happy to invite you to the first in a series of horrific gatherings hosted by your friends at FM,” said Philip Kim, Senior Manger. The event will be held at the Wyndham Indianapolis West, located at 2544 Executive Drive, Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, visit www.famousmonstersconvention.com.

Famousmonsters.com represents the web entity of Famous Monsters of Filmland. Visitors can quickly and easily navigate between op-eds, video, news and reviews from our staff, exclusive interviews and columns from industry insiders and professionals, photo galleries, and much more.

The 2010 Steampunk World’s Fair

During the Haunt Season of 2009, STEAMPUNK was bigger than ever. It was seen in haunts like The Scarehouse and even had a Haunted Attraction dedicated to it solely in the Steampunk Haunted House by Third Rail Projects.

Steampunk has been growing in culture, and its popularity, and RFR is even working on a Steampunk Mortician. Well it should come to no surprise then that the Steampunk World’s Fair is set in motion to get all your Steampunking Selves into action!

“The Steampunk World’s Fair will take place on May 14th-16th 2010, at the Radisson of Piscataway, in the lovely state of New Jersey. The site you’re visiting is an evolving entity, growing like an antediluvian beast rising up from the unfathomable deeps. Visit us often as we assemble our vast army of entertainments and amusements for you!”

In addition to some great Pre-Show Entertainment the Vendors will knock your socks off and get you some sweet ideas for adding Steampunk to your Haunted Attraction. With such Steampunk Staples as:

RA Friedman of Tsirkus Fotografika will be on-site offering a chance to have your image captured in a vintage photograph!

Festooned Butterfly custom clothing, etc.

Alchemy brings ritual needs, oils and more for you to get in the Steampunk Era Mood.

Griffon’s Claw Armoury is proud to offer you a variety of swords, knives, along with steampunk friendly pouches, sunglasses, and watches.

Sunshine’ Moonlight! Handcrafted candles, soaps, bath salts, oils, sugar scrubs.

Lara Corsets & Gowns

Dr. Clockwork’s Home for Electrical and Medical Oddities

Steamedpunk Laboratories

And this ongoing list of vendors for all your Steampunk Needs:
Delicious: Boutique & Corseterie, Barker’s Herbs & Heirlooms, Claire Catherine Designs, Grendel’s Den, Horror Show Jack, 19 Moons, Jennifer Rodgers, KvO Inc, PH Factor, Foggy Night, Leather Lair, Red Falcon Armouries, R.H. Mardigan Enterprises Adornments and Gadgetry, Emrys: Handcrafted Finery, Jolly Rogue Studios, PROJEKT, Emperor’s Needle Leather, Fantasia/McGraw Kilt Company, Dress Your Dreams, Shady Emporium, Enchanted Glen, Tea & Absinthe Materials

In addition there is some great performers like The incomparable Professor Elemental! A resident of the Sceptred Isle, he is travelling from his native Great Britain to make his very first appearance here in the New World!

One of my favorites, Black Tape for a Blue Girl is a dark cabaret musical group.

Coming to us from Connecticut, we have historian and steampunk author/speaker G. D. Falksen.

Brigid Ashwood, a steampunk artist and sculptor of “winged things and improbable machines”.

To add to our music collection, we are bringing from New York the steam-goth band Platform one!

The Absinthe Drinkers have spawned catchy, original pop-funk-rock songs from works of literature both ancient and modern!

And more!

For more information about this event, and all the steamy details about the Steampunk World’s Fair be sure to visit: www.SteampunkWorldsFair.com I know RFR will be there full in Rotting Swing to bring some Steampunk Fun to the show!