The origins of Halloween!

Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic  and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. Halloween has long been thought of as a day when the dead can return to the earth, and ancient Celts would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these roaming ghosts. The Celtic holiday of Samhain, the Catholic Hallowmas period of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day and the Roman festival of Feralia all influenced the modern holiday of Halloween. In the 19th century, Halloween began to lose its religious connotation, becoming a more secular community-based children's holiday. Although the superstitions and beliefs surrounding Halloween may have evolved over the years, as the days grow shorter and the nights get colder, people can still look forward to parades, costumes and sweet treats to usher in the winter season.

To read more and get the details, (which really do give a better insight into this beloved and misunderstood holiday)...Click HERE!

Coolest commercial ever!

Here's a promo for the 2010 Scream Awards on Spike TV featuring a tribute to Back To The Future.

13 Ghosts #5

Bad-To-The-Bone Ghost

Cinemassacres: Top 13 Friday the 13th Moments!

Walking Dead Books

Creator Robert Kirkman is turning The Walking Dead Comics into a trilogy of novels. According to Publishers Marketplace, Kirkman made a deal for "a trilogy set in the zombie-infested world from Kirkman's New York Times bestselling comic book series as well as the upcoming AMC television show." The books will also be called The Walking Dead.

In other news...some super fan had a zombie killing scene tattooed to his leg.

 Source: io9.com

Still Undead!

Here are more shots from Undead Nightmare. (I wish they'd just release it already.)

AVGN # 95

I'm about a week behind...but here's the latest from the AVGN.

Video Games | ScrewAttack | Angry Video Game Nerd: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Re-Revisited

Tid bits on Ghostbusters 3!

Found on Filmdrunk; a source close to the Ghostbusters 3 project provided the site with these tidbits involving the sequel.

Aykroyd is involved enough that the studio will listen to his input, but he’s NOT doing a rewrite of the script, which the director (Reitman) and studio (Columbia) are already happy with.

Stupnitsky and Eisenberg are currently the only writers on the project and as of now the studio has no plans to replace them

Ramis, Reitman, and Aykroyd have all signed on, and the script is going out to Bill Murray now.

Without Murray, there’s no movie. (And he’s always seemed pretty wishy-washy on it, but that’s kind of his thing).

If he agrees, pre-production will start early next year for a late spring/early summer start date and a Thanksgiving or Christmas 2012 release.
 

Ghostbusters groom cake!

Damnit! Now why didn't I think of that! (I'm jealous.)