Monday, October 30, 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Great Pumpkin'd
So, after a full day of running around prepping for the big day (and tying stuff down in anticipation of a giant wind/rain storm tomorrow), I was on my way back home and saw something up ahead that made me smile - a jack o'lantern in the exact spot as the one I placed for The Great Pumpkin Project two years ago. Couldn't believe it.
Here's mine... the current jacko had circular eyes and a big grin (didn't have a camera to get a shot).
Friday, October 27, 2017
I Don't Want To Talk About It, Sara
Now Playing: Someone Chasing Someone Through A House
Off today prepping for the big day... listening to insane stuff like this (on a Pandora GOBLIN channel).
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Watching Weather
Hoping this storm moves forward and doesn't slow down and linger...
Was toying with doing the photo shoot on Sunday this year. But after doing this for this many years, you really can't even LOOK at the weather until a day and a half before.
Michael Dougherty Hopes To Make ‘Trick ‘r Treat 2’ His Next Project
Praying this happens.
Click below for details...
The Curse Of The Wreath Witch
Not lying or embellishing in any way...
The large mechanical doors in the front of the wing in my department are now malfunctioning. The door with the wreath is actually stuck in the closed position whilst the door without the wreath is propped open with a door jam.
No one in here feels there is anything odd about the timing of this mechanical failure with the exception of me (the doors have NEVER malfunctioned in the years I've been here).
Advice: Do NOT carry on and on ranting that if there's a fire in here that we're all going to die like in the chained-doors Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. Apparently it's too soon. Just too soon.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Random Things
Went to a favorite Mexican restaurant and walked into a haunted house. You have to love when a severed head is dangling from the ceiling in an eatery. The entire ceiling was covered in three layers of spider webs. There were giant spiders everywhere. On the way out I looked back to make sure I didn't leave anything (paranoid) and as I turned back around my face clipped a large spider's leg and its big furry butt. A proud moment in a crowded restaurant.
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Drove around the neighborhood one night this week trying to find Halloween decorations. Not too many as yet, but found this fun house...
And saw this creepy scarecrow in the front of a school that normally does a scarecrow event, and this year had more scary ones than previous years...so there's hope.
Invasion On Chestnut Ridge
Again I'm giving my highest recommendation to a Small Town Monsters documentary - Invasion on Chestnut Ridge. Amazing production value and some truly chilling tales. And another incredible film score by Brandon Dalo.
Click below for the trailer:
Friday, October 20, 2017
That Old Integrity Discussion Again
Been seeing this guy's pictures popping up more and more in my searches for Halloween images for the blog. After checking out his website, instagram, and facebook accounts and seeing absolutely no mention of my site anywhere as the source material, well, I wanted to call him out on it.
I simply do not get how someone can feel that they are truly creating if the entire premise of their works, the very end product of their hard work, exists solely because they saw it elsewhere. And I'm not even going to get into the issues I have when that person starts selling these works. Is it legal? Sure it is. Is it honest? Absolutely not.
Here's a photo of his "Guardians of the Gate" (Sentinels):
The scarecrows and corpses you see on this website were designed for this event and I have continued to produce them in varying forms and sizes. They are a culmination of my study of the natural effects of time and the elements on various materials and surfaces, while at the same time designed to have a classic, bygone era appearance that in a curious way simultaneously invites and repels. Using photos I have taken of these creatures, I have designed Halloween greeting cards featuring composites of them on the property and combined with sunset photos I have taken to create a style that is uniquely my own.
"Uniquely"... This guy has some chops.
Anyway, below is the source material for this guy's existence. My Pumpkin Sentinels. I love these guys, and am very proud of them.
Here's the guy's site...
Slight update on this issue: The builder of these Guardians of the Gate, Kerry Lawton, claims that any resemblance to my Pumpkin Sentinels is, and I quote, "purely coincidental."
Unreal.
A Haunting On Dice Road: The Hell House
Bought Small Town Monsters' Invasion on Chestnut Ridge this morning to watch tonight, and while on amazon I spotted this gem available for streaming with Amazon Prime. Dear God does it look great...going to watch this as well.
Click below for the trailer...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
Porch Decor
The pre-Halloween "normal" decorations...
Put up the ol' scarecrow from the 2014 display and added some more lights to the garden.
The Skeleton Key: Halloween Playlist
I do believe this is The Skeleton Key blog's finest year...
Click below for a wonderful playlist by K.O. (loved the cover of the Stranger Things theme):
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
October 20th
A great day for releases....John Carpenter's Anthology album and Small Town Monsters' Invasion on Chestnut Ridge.
Click below to stream some tracks from the album (with a great cover/revisit of HALLOWEEN which will surely please Sara)...
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