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Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort

Famous villains from classic Disney movies join the festivities and add a frightfully delightful twist to Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort.

With special attractions and entertainment, in addition to familiar favorites, Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort is wicked fun for everyone!

Witness the terrifying transformation as everyone’s favorite deep space thrill-ride becomes Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy and throttles through the outer reaches of an uncannily creepy cosmos at breakneck speeds!

Venture into the revamped Haunted Mansion Holiday, courtesy of the diabolically delightful Jack Skellington and his cohorts from Halloweentown.

Get ready for ghostly encounters with phantom patrons on The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror^TM, and relive the horrific Halloween night in 1939 that has haunted the hotel ever since.

Both Parks and many of your Favorite Disney Characters will dress up in the spooky spirit of Halloween! Read the rest of this entry �

This Halloween, THE QUEEN MARY steams into a harbor of the damned, a decidedly demonic destination. With a trio of She-demons that prey on all mortals who dare enter their realm after sunset-villagers, passengers and visitors alike-the annual scare-fest takes on a horrifying new dimension.

Three shipboard and two onshore mazes confuse and ensnare visitors, and although visitors will have every opportunity to turn back, the food, drink and entertainment inside will ensure leaving is unthinkable. THE QUEEN MARY’s management has given this Long Beach Halloween tradition a macabre makeover visitors will not soon forget.

The Gory Details:
Dark Harbor haunts guests Oct. 1-3, 8-10, 15-17, 21-24 and 27-31 from 7 p.m. through midnight

http://www.queenmary.com/Dark-Harbor.aspx

By Rick A Mortis

Sandy Graham was an amazing woman that worked at Knott’s Berry Farm from the 1990’s to last year. She is best known for being the legendary and iconic Vampire Queen for Halloween Haunt for many years and then as the Fairy Queen for the Labyrinth maze. Sandy brought a sweet sexy sassy appeal to her two iconic creations, you may have even been tickled by her feather on the back of the neck or perhaps knighted as you entered her lair.

Sandy had surgery in 1996 to remove a brain tumor, in 2009 it was discovered that it was back. Surgery was done but sadly her condition got worse and she passed away peacefully this morning.

Sandy the Queen of Haunt….an amazing woman and a great friend will be greatly missed. Somewhere from above this sweet woman is on a purple colored cloud showering glitter down on us. My love, good vibes and support goes out to her family, Haunt family and fans.

A complete list of what’s coming to Knott’s Berry Farm Halloween Haunt.

Freshly dug up for 2010:

Sleepy Hollow Mountain

Virus Z

Fallout Shelter

Rising from the dead of 2009:

Lockdown: The Asylum

Slaughterhouse

Uncle Bobo’s Big Top of the Bizarre (in 3-D)

The Doll Factory

Terror of London

Dia de los Muertos (in 3-D)

The Labyrinth

Black Widow’s Cavern

Club Blood

Cornstalkers

Halloween Haunt will once again feature three spooky and creepy scare zones, including:

The Necropolis, with Victorian Steampunk vampires which is awesome for fans of steampunk will be haunting a city of the dead, replaces The Gauntlet scare zone in Camp Snoopy (New for 2010).

Carnevil featuring those happy mad zany clowns (in the Boardwalk area)

Ghost Town (in the Wild West aka Ghost Town kind redundant eh?)

Shows for 2010:

Ed Alonzo, presents magic and comedy in the Charles Shultz Theater.

“Bang” by Street Drum Corps makes music with ordinary found objects in the Camp Snoopy Theater.

“The Hanging” pop-culture comedy revue returns to the Calico Square Stage with a “Power to the People” theme that will likely be heavy on BP jokes. The annual show has satirized, skewered and sacrificed more than 1,500 celebrities since its 1976 debut. The question of course is who will be hanged this year?

De’Anna Nunez the Hypnochick offers a comedic hypnosis show in the Boardwalk Ballroom.

Hacks comedy improv takes the stage in the Birdcage Theater with “Die, Die, Die!”

The hot and fiery theatrics of “Inferno” returns to the Wagon Camp Theater.

Zamora the Torture King brings his “Sideshow of the Bizarre” to the Carnevil scare zone stage in the Boardwalk area of the park.

http://haunt.knotts.com/

Halloween Horror Nights: Universal has announced all of their mazes and scare zones for 2010

Here is the list of the Mazes, pretty much all new stuff which is cool:

A Nightmare on Elm Street: Never Sleep Again All New!
Friday the 13th: Kill, Jason, Kill. All New!
Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses in Zombievision! (3-D) All New!
Saw: Game Over New traps!
Vampyre: Castle of the Undead All New!
All-new Terror Tram: Chucky’s Revenge

Scare Zones and apparently ending everything with a “z” which is either to be super extreme or someone with a bad French accent:

La Llorona
Klownz
Freakz
Nightmarez
Lunaticz
Pigz

http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/

Info has been compiled from Twitter, Theme Park Adventure and The Los Angeles Times:

So far the following mazes from 2009 are slated to return:

Dia De Los Muerto

Terror of London

Lockdown

New scare zone to replace Gauntlet will be Necropolis: The City of the Dead an vampire steam punk theme. Concept art seen above.

New mazes to raise the dead and shake the nerves of terrified guests:

Fallout Shelter - The denizens are insane and they haven’t seen the sun in decades. True terror in the atomic age.” - Designing your fears by Daniel Miller (Lockdown)!

Sleepy Hollow Mountain - Log Ride

Ghosts and ghouls, witches and goblins, long-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night…take a dark ride through haunted Sleepy Hollow. The witching hour is at hand and the legends of long ago haunt the living. Specters and witches are on your heels as you try to out run The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Can you keep your wits? Or will you lose your head?
Brought to you by Haunt Designer, David Ortiz (Dia De Los Muertos)!

Virus Z - Fiesta Plaza explodes with a brand new zombie nightmare. The virus is out and the end is near…Virus Z - enter the barricaded town of Pleasanton where the virus has turned the entire population into ravenous zombies. Fiesta Village Virus Z - from the insane mind of Brooke Walters - designer of Doll Factory and Terror of London!

By Rick A Mortis

Awww Haunt….fog, boysenberries, screams, fog, boysenberries, screams…it’s like crack I tell you!

This year I hit up Halloween Haunt twice. I will be giving a point system out of 10 for the mazes and shows. 

10 = Pee your pants and get fetal - ok, ok The Jonas Brothers do the same for some of us.

1 = This sucked so bad it was like watching Twilight!

Also to any talent out there and may be reading this. You all rock and any grade I give is only due to talent that I experienced that night. As a monster I know some nights are good and some just plain suck.

So no more stalling away we go boils and ghouls.

PYROMANIAX (Timber Mountain Log Ride) = 4

Same theme from last year about moonshiners and firemen that mutated and there’s a fire and stuff. Talent wasn’t around much when I went through. Kudos to the guy on the harness at the end, you rocked it. I wish there was more time for this to get decked out.

BLACK WIDOW’S CAVERN (The Calico Mine Train) = 4

Same as last years about giant spiders in a mine. And like a broken record I wish they had more time to dress this. Also the second time I went this year the shows finale of the giant spider was broken, which is a shame for anyone.

Alien Annihilation = 3

The maze I hated last year. I will say the maze looked better artistically and the talent was a improvement. Of course a friend in our group got laser tag guns the first time we went, the second time did not. It is still very lame that most monsters will not interact with anyone that is not carrying a laser tag gun. I would like to see a overhaul on this maze still.

The Slaughterhouse = 7

This maze was a huge let down last season, the Slaughterhouse actually stepped it up this year. Uncle Willy’s BBQ, was more twisted this year. The only problem I did have is my second time all the girls where missing in the cages, which was a bit of a let down. Since it ruined the scene of a man selling the girl in the cage for meat. The VIP maze was awesome!

LOCKDOWN: THE ASYLUM = 7

I really wish that they would’ve just called this Lockdown. I think it made a lot of people compared it to the far superior Asylum. Talent was on the ball here. Lots of energy in here. The nurses rocked it well. The only annoyance I had was the song NWO by Ministry was on a loop and it gave me flashbacks of my days in Industrial Evil as a zombie. Read the rest of this entry �

Saturday, October 31 - 7:30 PM HALLOWEEN at the Aero Theatre

DUSK-TO-DAWN HORRORTHON
Spend your Halloween night at the Aero Theatre’s fourth annual Horrorthon! Complete with the between-film free food, giveaways, trailers, crazy shorts and surprises!

Special prices: $20 for general audiences; $18 for students and seniors; $15 for Cinematheque members.

THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, 1991, Universal, 102 min. Dir. Wes Craven. Claustrophobic terror and a savage satire of Reaganomics drive this tale of a teenager who tries to keep his family from being evicted but ends up trapped in the home of his psychotic landlords.

DAY OF THE DEAD, 1985, UFDC, 102 min. Dir. George Romero. The third film in George Romero’s “Dead” series follows a group of underground scientists and military men who struggle to retain their humanity in a world populated by zombies.

SOCIETY, 1989, Zecca Films, 99 min. Dir. Brian Yuzna. Billy suspects something isn’t quite right in his upper-class suburban neighborhood, and he’s right: Cannibalism and incest are just the beginning of the horrors going on behind closed doors.

THE BROOD, 1979, New World Pictures, 92 min. Dir. David Cronenberg. While experimenting with a way for his patients to manifest their inner rage as actual physical growths, Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) encounters Nola (Samantha Eggar), a mother distraught at having her child taken away. She soon becomes pregnant again - but this time, something horrible and homicidal grows inside her womb.

Director William Lustig in Person!
MANIAC, 1980, Analysis Film Releasing, 87 min. Dir. William Lustig. Character actor extraordinaire Joe Spinell wrote the script and plays the title role in this deeply disturbing portrait of a man whose abusive upbringing turns him into a serial killer.

TERROR, 1979, Crown International Pictures, 87 min. Dir. Norman J. Warren. A supernatural force attacks the troubled Garrick dynasty, killing the family members off one by one.

 http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2009/Aero/HalloweenHorror_2009.htm#THE

New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles, CA

Saturday October 31 go to the movies and open the gates of Hell!

Remember not to lose your lipstick, try on any masks or investigate any strange looking dripping acid like substances.

Triple Feature! One tickets admits to all three films.

Night of the Demons (1988)
7:30

Demons (1985)
9:30

Demons 2 (1986)
11:30

http://newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm

Zombie Walk this Friday, October 30.

Meet up with your fellow undead at 10pm at Portfolio Coffee House, 2300 E. 4th Street, Long Beach CA 90814.

At 10:30pm, we walk! Zombie Shots, a Zombie make-up clinic for the kiddies, and more!

Finally, watch George A. Romero’s original classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD ($10) on a great 35mm print at 11:30pm at the historic Art Theatre of Long Beach!

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