The Castle of Chaos is opening it’s doors this evening, free to the public.
If you have not experienced a haunt in recent years, this would be a fun opportunity.
On one hand, you have to congratulate Castle of Chaos for this event.
One the other, they have done a VERY poor job of getting the word out and advertising it. I was just on the websight last week, looking for spring scare dates, and there was NOTHING. (the whole website is a mess right now, anyway. They need a better designer)
I’m seeing that the 2009 story-based haunt is closed for the night, so it will be the 3D haunt, and the “extreme” haunt.
You can read more about our experience at the Castle last year over here.
I DO know a bit more about the “Extreme Terror” haunt this year, however.
IF you sign the waiver, you get a badge (or whatever they’re using this year) signifying to the actors that THEY CAN TOUCH YOU. Or throw buckets of blood on you. Or whatever. However, this is not REQUIRED to go through that haunt. NOT signing the waiver simply makes that haunt more akin to the standard fare you’ve come to know and love. I’ld probably take the kids through it this year, as a result.
If only to listen to Alec talk about how many levels he gained by making it through each room, after screaming appropriately, of course. (He’s always fun in haunts)
Ya know. I once worked with this mechanic. He was SO superstitious of Friday the 13th, he’ld actually NEVER work one.
I’ve never really understood the fascination. I remember paying attention to it as a child for a year or two, and nothing odd ever happened. Same with black cats, ladders, mirrors, and etc.
Anyhow. Firgured maybe AMC would pull out all the stops in leiu of it being Friday the 13th and all?
This happens to be the FIRST Dracula I saw as a child. As such, there is this special place in my heart for it. The first Dracula to get the full Hollywood special effects treatment, A very cool black and white set, and Frank Langella as Dracula are the primary draws for this film. But, at the end of the day, it’s not the classic 1931 Bela Lugosi version, nor is it as well done as the 1992 version. Thus, it’s just kind of there.
Still, it’s not every day you get to watch SKELETOR play Dracula. (Just for you Spud…can’t believe you made me sit through THAT film…)
Claude Rains and Fay Wray. What more reason do you really need?
The Evil Mind is a quite pleasant film where Claude Rains plays a con artist clairvoyant whose predictions start coming true. A fact which begins to obsess the poor bloke.
Yes, the story has been imitated many times since. From movies to Twilight Zone episodes.
The Witches Skull has been a long journey in coming.
Beginning years ago with a trial on the traditional concept of what is meant by the skulls lighting Yaga Baba’s hut, and coming through to my own interpretation.
Over a month’s worth of work to get to this last step of lighting it…
Simple idea, really. Let’s make my existing tiki torches LOOK like a candle on the skulls…
A little plaster skulpting, a little hot glue, and a little paint. (for the REAL ones, I’ll buy BLACK hot glue and skip the painting, thus avoiding many mistakes)
Yes, it lacks color, yes it’s rough, and yes, that’s my thumb hole in the side of this skull. Doesn’t matter for this prototype.
I would say I had never seen anything like that before…but that would be incorrect. Makes sense, the general shape I created is a smaller version of what creates the Island King.
The QUESTION is, ARE THEY SAFE???
We’ll be doing a couple burns to see. And, we might spray some of that fire retarding foam to attach the skulls better just to be sure, even.
In the mean time…I do believe we have found a suitable means of lighting Spider Woman’s domain.
This weather is not quite as warm as I’m used to for making molds, so it’s taking a bit longer than normal. HOPEFULL that we’ll have a finished mold by next weekend, and get a prototype out to mutilate into something of a final form.
Often, I’ld record such gems as Tarantula to watch with the kids.
There’s just something SPECIAL about giant radioactive bugs.
HOWEVER…
This past week, AMC royally pissed me off.
I get this day and age when we get commercials for Erectile Dysfunction along with our sports broadcasts. And yeah, they are OH so subtle as to show how the guy’s football won’t go through the hole till he takes his pill…
And, along with that, you have to have the Smiling Bob commercials as well. Again, OH so subtle as they are with their campy style and cheesy puns.
I even fully understand that Crappy Movie Friday Night is on LATE, when laws reguarding what’s on are a bit loose, and have put up with the occasional “party” 900 number commercial.
And, I get that, as a Direct TV customer, we get AMC on it’s Eastern Time schedule, not local mountain time, so the 10 PM dropoff allowing ‘late night’ programming is 8 PM our time.
This last Friday, AMC was playing Thunderheart prior to Fear Friday.
I LOVE Thunderheart. Underappreciated show with lots one can reference for Halloween. Figured, may as well let the boys watch. It’s 7 at night, they’ll see the end by 9, get to bed…
Well, ExtenZe has dropped it’s late night porn star infomercial format, and was airing anything-but-subtle commercials every break. This, at 7 PM local, 9 PM ET, prior to the latenight cutoff.
This made a typical commercial break: Enzyte, commercial for some AMC feature, Bowflex “size matters” commercial, ExtenZe, Commercial for AMC Feature.
Didn’t take many of those to make me switch channels.
Just a fair warning to parents out there. AMC might be going down the only watch when the kids are asleep, or the record-and-skip-the-commercials route.
This week, AMC drug up some actual classics for a change. Not a crappy movie night after all.
First, Night of the Living Dead (1990). I’m NOT a remake fan, typically preferring the originals. And, as with Psycho last week, here we have another going shot-for-shot remaking the original. Meh. Just give me the original….(wonder where we put that….)
Then, Bride of Frankenstein. SUPERB film. Not the traditional Crappy movie stuff they feed us. A must see for anyone out there who possibly has not.
Finally, in a rare TRIPLE feature, SON of Frankenstein. Completing the Frankenstein Trilogy is a good, but not quite up to snuff as the prior two, movie. Those of you more familiar with Young Frankenstein will get a lot of good chuckles watching this, as Young Frankenstein borrowed extensively from this film as it’s source to spoof.
UEN on the other hand is so thrilled SciFi Friday is being mentioned over here as part of Crappy Movie Friday Nights, they’re sending us some free gifts!
Ok, ok, you can get some too by clicking over here…
Just let them know how much you like SciFi Friday, and you might get some free stuffs. Let them know you heard it right here, too.
And, perhaps they knew AMC was bringing in good films for a change, because UEN has STEPPED UP IT’S GAME!
