20 Days until Halloween!

Right about this time of year is when all of the television shows start airing their Halloween specials.  One of the shows that happens to give a-lot of love to Halloween each year is Saturday Night Live.  And while the show isn't always as good as it was in the late 80's, early 90's, I do support the fact that the show has come back from a series of totally unfunny episodes about 6 or 7 years ago, and one of the reasons the show has become infinitely more funny than it was back in the early 00's is the presence of Kristen Wiig.  I've been a huge fan of her going way back to the Joe Schmo Show which aired on Spike TV way back in 2003.  Not only is she super sexy in my opinion (my wife totally disagrees, anyone got my back on this one?) but she is also one of the funniest females in the history of the show.  In what has easily become one of my favorite Halloween skits of all time, this short entittled Shanna: Halloween Party aired this past Saturday (October 8th, 2011) and deserves to be seen by all of you ghouls who may have missed it live.

Zexy!!!

24 Days until Halloween!

Let's kick the Halloween season celebration into high gear with a giveaway shall we?  For our first giveaway of this year's Halloween Countdown we have a prize from the infamous PopCap games!  Up for grabs is a download code for the full version of Plants vs. Zombies for the mac! (Sorry P.C. users)  Here are the rules for the giveaway:
1.  In the comments below tell me what your favorite plant and your favorite zombie are. (any zombie will do, cinema zombie, literary zombie, etc.)
2.  Leave your email in the comments
3.  It wouldn't hurt to go check out PopCaps website, and even "like" the Plants vs. Zombies page on facebook.  If you do happen to go over there and "like" them, let me know in the comments for a bonus entry!
(Number 1 & 2 count as one entry and 3 will count as a bonus entry)
All entries will be entered in random.org and a winner will be chosen.  The contest ends Sunday, October 9th at 11:59 P.M.!

Keep coming back to read HalloweenOverkill's 2nd Annual Halloween Countdown for more great giveaways this Halloween season!

25 Days until Halloween!

Wow, I'm falling behind already, but I'm back now and I come bearing treats.  Guess who else is back? That's right, it's Tiny!!!  If you ghouls remember I featured Tiny last year in my Halloween Countdown in the form of a short video entitled "Tiny's Halloween" from Scared Stiff TV.  If you don't remember it, or didn't get the chance to check it out today is your lucky day as I will post it again.  After you watch the first video, go ahead and watch the second video which is entitled "Tiny's Halloween 2" and continues the creepy adventures of the bizarre trick or treater!  These shorts are just too good to leave unnoticed during this year's Halloween Countdown!

Tiny's Halloween

Tiny's Halloween 2

Awesome weren't they?  Now ahead and visit Scared Stiff TV to watch more of their amazing video shorts.  I'd also like to let everyone know to check back tomorrow as we will be having our first giveaway of this year's countdown!  I'd like to ask you all, who would win a battle between an army of plants and an army of zombies?  Not sure?  Then come back tomorrow and enter for your chance to find out in the form of a Plants Vs. Zombies download code! (Mac users only this time, sorry pc pals!)

29 Days until Halloween!

For some reason this post didn't auto-post as it was supposed to last night, so we're going to be a day behind until tomorrow when I can write the catch up post.  Anyways, leave it to Greg Nicotero to bring us something so unbelievably awesome that words cannot describe it.  I know it's a year late but maybe some of you ghouls have never seen the short "United Monster Talent Agency" which is a spoof of the Universal Monsters of yesteryear.  AMC aired this short last year during their Halloween marathon and I think it's just way too delicious not to share with you ghouls.  Grab your popcorn, dim the lights, and get ready for "United Monster Talent Agency"  Oh yeah and keep your eyes peeled for cameos from Eli Roth and Jeffrey Combs!

THE UNITED MONSTER TALENT AGENCY - Greg Nicotero
Thanks to Dailymotion for the embed!

30 Days until Halloween!

Kicking off this year's Halloween Countdown is a review of Midnight Syndicate's new cd, "Carnival Arcane"!

Midnight Syndicate's new cd, "Carnival Arcane" is so infectious that I simply cannot stop listening to it!  From the moment I popped it in the cd player on the ride to school I simply knew that the Midnight Syndicate had struck gold!  Carnival even left my wife sitting in the car saying, "What is this, it is totally creepy?".
Starting with the first track, "Mesonoxian Visitors", the cd actually feels like it is guiding you through this dark and twisted carnival that has just come to your town.  I love the use of the track "Midway" as an actual introduction by way of a carnival barker to the macabre realm we have just entered.  Midnight Syndicate's use of sound effects mixed with their trademark orchestral sound is cranked up to maximum effect here, as I actually felt as if I was experiencing all the thrills and chills of a creepy carnival.  The tracks range from downright spooky to over the top carny style thrills such as, "Under the Big Top".  Some highlights I'd like to point out from the cd are the tracks, "Carousel Ride", "Kiddieland" (I guarantee this track will send chills down your spine), "Krellsig's Kastle of Fun" (in which I actually felt like I was on one of those decrepit old haunted carnival dark rides), and "Lights Out".  My favorite track of "Carnival Arcane" was "Welcome to the Carnival" with its thumping background beat and it's haunting melody! One of the most amazing things about "Carnival Arcane" is the apparent use of  "Binaural Recording"  I'm not sure if Midnight Syndicate actually recorded some of the parts this way or if it was just my brain, but I swore on some parts of the cd I felt as though I was actually walking right down the midway or sitting in on one of the shows in the carnival.  (For those that don't know what binaural recording is, it is the use of  two microphones to record sounds so that a stereo 3d surround effect is  achieved)
Since this is an official review I am going to score it with the old "Jolly Jack-O-Lantern" rating scale, which I haven't used in quite a while.  I officially give "Carnival Arcane" from the Midnight Syndicate 5 out of 5 "Jolly Jack-O-Lanterns" and can officially say it is tied for first as my favorite Midnight Syndicate cd!

Yes, 5 "Jolly Jack-O-Lanterns" is a must own for those don't know the rating scale, so please do yourself favor and click the Midnight Syndicate logo at the end of the post and purchase the cd from them.  We really need to support artists such as this who go out of their way to make sure that our Halloween (and every other day for that matter) are as creepy and macabre as we all love them to be!

Don't forget to check out all of the other amazing cds and other treats that are in the Midnight Syndicate store as well!

Halloween Countdown 2011

Keeping with the pumpkin theme from last year, I finally finished this year's Countdown logo and wanted to unveil it tonight!  This is not an official countdown post as I will be posting today's official 30 days to go post.  Think of this as an invitation if you will to join me as we count down the final 30 days until Halloween.  Unlike last year's countdown we will be posting every single day until Halloween.  So make sure you check HalloweenOverkill every day in October for this year's HalloweenOverkill Halloween Countdown which will include, book reviews, movie reviews, guest posts, interviews, giveaways, and some tricks and treats!  If you ever miss a day you can click the Halloween Countdown logo in the sidebar to be taken to all of this years posts.  Another think I'd like to mention is that if you want to see all of the blogs that have a Halloween Countdown this year, click the Cryptkeeper logo in the sidebar and that will take you to the official Halloween Countdown blog where you can see all the participants!

Zombie Blogger Walk Post II

I didn't want to just leave all the visitors today with a tiny little 3 line haiku, so I dug up another zombie related post for today.  Epic Meal Time will be providing us a video for said post.  I'm sure each and every one of you have watched at least one Epic Meal Time episode, but I guarantee you have never seen an episode like this.  Yes, EMT has an entire episode wherein they are zombies!  Check out the hilarity that ensues as they cook their zombie themed menu. WUDDUP BACON! (I'd like to point out that the production values in this video are fucking incredible.  The zombie makeup these guys use is better than 90% of most zombie films I've seen, KUDOS to Epic Meal Time for their dedication to a proper horror cooking themed episode!)

Click the Epic Meal Time logo to be brought to Official Epic Meal Time Youtube Channel!

I'd also like to let anybody who is visiting for the first time today that I did have another post earlier in the day for the Zombie Walk as well that included my foray into poetry, that's right I wrote a zombie haiku, check it out below this post. (Let me know in the comments if this is your very first time visiting HalloweenOverkill and what you think!)  I'd also like to let everyone know that the 2nd Annual HalloweenOverkill Halloween Countdown will be starting tomorrow, where I'll also be unveiling this year's new logo!  Make sure to visit HalloweenOverkill each and every day in October for some awesome Halloween posts! Check out the other participants in the Blogger Zombie Walk below!

The 2011 Blogger Zombie Walk Official Link List

Above the Norm: Bizarre Arizona

Zombies Everywhere

Holly's Horrorland

Little Gothic Horrors

Anything Horror

Katy Bennett Horror Writer and Poet

Bubba's Place

Horror Smorgasbord

Gnostalgia

Monkey Man

Words and Music

Red Shoes Chronicles

The Wolf's Eyes

My Day in a Sentence

Pixie's Horror Galore

Strange State

The Misadventures of HalloweeNut

Halloween Blues

Kweeny Todd

The California Blogging Massacre

Horror Shock Lolipop

Vanessa Morgan

Improbable Frontiers

No Really, You Can Eat It

Art By Living Dead Girl Nicole

Two Gory Chicks

A Dust Bunny in the Wind

A Ghoul's Best Friend

Zombies Are Magic

Cherry Neko Saves the World

Tall Tales

At the Mansion of Madness

The Haunted Rose

The Rotting Zombie

Halloween Overkill

Out of the Shadows

Creepy Glow Keyhole Gallery

Creepy Glowbugg

Bifocal Univision

Haiku-Koo-Koo

Sherry Soule

Anchors and Roses

Paranormal Researchers Group

Whispering Pines History

Lovely Miss Megs

Sean Thomas Fisher's Blogwash

Rise and Fight

Stump Town Horror

LoliClown's Little Blog of Horror

Zombies Can't Love

Books and Beyond

The Grave Bandits

Screaming Goregasms

Lazy Daisy Life

Icky Monster

Pretty in Fiction

Ivy's Closet

Justine's Halloween

Annie Walls

Just Johnny

When there is no more room left in Hell, the bloggers shall walk the web

That's right ghouls today is the annual "Blogger Zombie Walk"!  After reading my entry for this great event, you can check out the entire lineup of blogs participating by clicking on any of the links at the bottom of the post. Once you hit the next site in line you can keep on going down the list to keep visiting the blogs in order. (The lists should be the same order on each site)  And now I present to you my first (yes, there will be another post later in the day, so come back tonight for some more zombie action!) post in the 2011 Blogger Zombie Walk.  It's a small post, but I like it.  It was a zombie haiku I wrote last year for some reason and never ended up posting it.  Hope ya dig!

Zombie Cuisine

Brains are quite tasty
 
Skin is also delicious
 
Toenails. not so much

The 2011 Blogger Zombie Walk Official Link List

Above the Norm: Bizarre Arizona

Zombies Everywhere

Holly's Horrorland

Little Gothic Horrors

Anything Horror

Katy Bennett Horror Writer and Poet

Bubba's Place

Horror Smorgasbord

Gnostalgia

Monkey Man

Words and Music

Red Shoes Chronicles

The Wolf's Eyes

My Day in a Sentence

Pixie's Horror Galore

Strange State

The Misadventures of HalloweeNut

Halloween Blues

Kweeny Todd

The California Blogging Massacre

Horror Shock Lolipop

Vanessa Morgan

Improbable Frontiers

No Really, You Can Eat It

Art By Living Dead Girl Nicole

Two Gory Chicks

A Dust Bunny in the Wind

A Ghoul's Best Friend

Zombies Are Magic

Cherry Neko Saves the World

Tall Tales

At the Mansion of Madness

The Haunted Rose

The Rotting Zombie

Halloween Overkill

Out of the Shadows

Creepy Glow Keyhole Gallery

Creepy Glowbugg

Bifocal Univision

Haiku-Koo-Koo

Sherry Soule

Anchors and Roses

Paranormal Researchers Group

Whispering Pines History

Lovely Miss Megs

Sean Thomas Fisher's Blogwash

Rise and Fight

Stump Town Horror

LoliClown's Little Blog of Horror

Zombies Can't Love

Books and Beyond

The Grave Bandits

Screaming Goregasms

Lazy Daisy Life

Icky Monster

Pretty in Fiction

Ivy's Closet

Justine's Halloween

Annie Walls

Just Johnny

The Dark Meadow

Remember that iOS game coming out that I told you ghouls about?  Well if you didn't read that post, the game I'm referring to is "The Dark Meadow" and it's coming to the Apple app store on October 6th, just in time for the Halloween season.  Check out the launch trailer below, and then click the graphic to be taken to the official site for more info!

This Horror Short Packs a Punch!!!

This short goes to show that scares can be packed into even a very short film.  I honestly believe after watching this that there was more tension in 15 seconds of a certain scene than in most full length feature horror films of recent times.  You'll know what I mean after you watch below.  I literally left finger imprints on my legs while watching this horror short.  I'm pretty sure this short was made to be showcased in the Halloween Horror Nights short film showcase as well.  Aside from the short that is shown, the folks over at Fewdio have made several quality horror shorts worth watching.  If you visit their website by clicking here you can even purchase a DVD of their quality horror shorts!  I'd like to give Fewdio a huge shout out for their quality short horror features, keep on making them please!

Pretty fucked up wasn't it?  Go back and watch it again paying close attention to the ghoul's eyes as it lays there.  Gives me the heebie jeebies!  I'll never lay comfortably next to my wife in bed again!

More Random News

It appears as though The Official Halloween Countdown blog has posted the buttons for this year, and I think I've picked the one I want to use.

On another note, I just finished setting up the HalloweenOverkill tumblr account.  The HalloweenOverkill tumblr is located at www.halloweenoverkill.tumblr.com and I do want to note that the tumblr site is not replacing this blog!  I will be using the tumblr for various things such as quick posts, rants, and cool photos and such.  Be sure to bookmark it and check it every once in a while.  I will be adding the link to the other tumblr site which WILL be an official blog for everything not related to Halloween or Horror, just various other shit that I find cool and interesting!

A Call to Arms!

Fellow bloggers, I need your help.  Have you ever thought of something, or had a memory and you just couldn't recall all of the details?  You know that feeling of emptiness within the memory where you know the basics but just can't pin down the details.  Well, I had one of those moments about an hour ago.  I tried "googling" my memory in every way, shape, and form and just couldn't get anything to come up.  The item in question is a scratch card type game that featured a mad scientist as the logo.  These scratch cards weren't just generic scratch cards though, they featured other cool gimmicks.  One of these other cool gimmicks involved getting one of those red little filter things you could hold over certain parts of the card to reveal hidden words, kind of like the thing that came with "Outburst"  Anyways I know those are kind of vague clues but if anyone can remember what these scratch off cards were called please comment below.  Even if you don't know what they were called but at least know what I'm talking about then I'd love for you to comment as well.  Maybe one of you internet detectives, or those with photographic memories (which I usually have, I have no idea why this one is escaping me!) can help me figure out what this was that I am trying to remember!  Oh and one other clue just hit me as well, I'm pretty sure these were a little pricey back in the day and the only place I ever recall being able to buy them at were the local hobby shops.

Blogger Zombie Walk 2011

On September 30th, HalloweenOverkill will be participating in what I believe is the first ever virtual zombie walk!  Created by our friend Autumn over at Ghost Hunting Theories.  The idea for the zombie walk is for every participant to post anything zombie related that day, and then after reading a particular post on a blog you can just hop on over to the next participating blog by way of a link list every participant will have posted.  This should run very similar to a blog hop (or a "bar hop" if you will).  I myself may be posting more than one thing that day so make sure you come on by the day, maybe even more than once if you're bored.  I'd also like to mention that if anyone has any suggestions of things they might want posted let me know.  On another note, I have decided to start one or two tumblr blogs, and not these are not replacing this blog.  HalloweenOverkill will always remain as my "home" blog and my main attraction.  I just love trying new things and thought that tumblr would let me blog about some other topics that I don't really want cluttering up my Halloween/Horror themed blog.  I will be posting the links to the new tumblr blogs later tonight after I have them set up!  I'm also still looking for a co-conspirator for this year's Halloween Countdown logo, or at least some ideas or inspiration.  The theme I'm thinking about using for the logo this year would have a vintage Halloween decoration feel to it such as the pic below, if anyone wants to throw ideas at me let me know!  Another helpful contribution from any of you ghouls would be if you had any vintage clip-art or vintage pictures to incorporate into the logo.

Random News Update

Well yet again I have fallen off the wagon as far as updates go, but this full time student thing is killing me! Anyhow, with this random news update I'd just like to take some time to throw some random news out to everyone and to also make a few shout-outs along the way. First up I'd like to remind everyone that "Dead Island" is hitting store shelves in North America on September 6th, that's only 5 days away! For those across the pond, the game should be released on September 9th. Does anyone remember my post that showcased the amazing announcement trailer for the game? If not click here and relive the glory of one of the greatest video game trailers of all time! So any ghouls out there gonna pick this one up? It is definitely a release day purchase for me. Click the Dead Island logo below to be taken to the official "Dead Island" website and watch the new trailer.

Next up on the list are two huge shout-outs!  First off, I'd like to thank "The Myers House" website/blog for linking to HalloweenOverkill in their Affiliates/Related Links section.  Thank you!  Click the banner below to be taken to this amazing website which documents and shows off a full recreation of the Myers' House from the classic Halloween.  The time and dedication that went into this project is just astounding and I'm here to tell you that I have honestly spent hours on this site checking out all that went into this huge project.  Also check out their events section for listings on their huge Halloween party, other events such as Halloween night trick or treating at the house, and many other events.  Below is a picture of the poster being used to promote this year's Halloween event.  Click it to be brought to the events section of the site.

  One last thing I'd like to mention is their indie film section.  One of the features in the film section is "Judith" in which writer Kenny Caperton (owner of the Myers' House, N.C.) actually uses this film as a vehicle to explore the story of Judith Myers and dives a little deeper into the Michael Myers mythology.  On the site you can actually check out movie posters and even watch the film itself.  Again I'd like to thank The Myers' House website/blog for helping to promote HalloweenOverkill!

Another blog that I'd like to throw some love at is Cherry Neko's "The Little Blog of Blogs"  This huge undertaking is Cherry's way of organizing and cataloging all the blogs on the web that she either reads, or just blogs that contact her to be listed on the site as well.  HalloweenOverkill is listed under the Dark, Horror, Halloween, Weird section (a perfect little home for the blog!)  One other blog listed under the Halloween part of that section is the world's second biggest fan of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (haha) a.k.a. Justine of Justine's Halloween, who also gets a huge shout-out as well.  If you haven't checked her blog out yet, go and check it out right now! (click her name!)  "The Little Blog of Blogs" is going to be a great resource for all of us bloggers who are too lazy to hunt down each and every blog that deserves to be read out there, as we can now just use this centralized location as a one stop shop for all of our daily readings!  Cherry also has her own personal blog over at Cherry Neko Saves the World, which you all need to go check out right now as well!  Click the link above to visit Cherry's personal blog, and click the banner below to visit "The Little Blog of Blogs"

                                  

Here are a few other things that I will be posting about in the coming days.  No Justine, I did not forget about the "Are You Afraid of the Blog?" feature and I will still be serving up full episode recaps of every single "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" episode and even some bonus stuff from the show as well in the coming days.  I am also participating in what I believe is the first annual virtual blogger zombie walk (created by Autumn over at Ghost Hunting Theories)

             

I'm also still looking for someone to possibly help me co-create this years logo for the 2nd Annual Halloween Countdown here on HalloweenOverkill, a.k.a. HalloweenOverkill's Halloween Countdown 2011.  I'd really like to incorporate a vintage Halloween like vibe to it, if that helps get anyone's creative juices flowing.  I will also be posting a review of the new Midnight Syndicate album, Carnival Arcane in the coming days.  So keep your eye's peeled, set your monitor to HalloweenOverkill and get ready for some new updates in the coming weeks.

Halloween Countdown 2011

Sorry about the delay in posts here on the blog, but I just started my career as a full time student for the first time in about 7 years so I've been really busy.  Hopefully from today on you will see regularly posted articles again!  I do have one big question for every reader of this blog though.  What would you like to see in this years Halloween Countdown?  Blog posts about movies, reviews, video games, history of Halloween, random Halloween topics, candy, costumes, etc, etc,?  I beg of you to please comment and let me know what you want to see this year or if you have any suggestions or want to be a part of my countdown let me know.  Also I would love to know if anyone out there wants to help design the graphic for this year's countdown.  I designed last year's from scratch and it came out better than I had hoped but I would love to change it each year so.......... anyways please comment if you read this and let me know!

The Dark Meadow coming soon

As you all know I love to do stories related to games on the iOS.  Games have come a long way on the iPhone and iPad and I think they are starting to really shine as fullblown video games.  It doesn't hurt that I own an iPad as well, so it's quite easy to become engaged in this new video game platform.  One of these upcoming games for iOS devices is entitled "The Dark Meadow" which will utilize the Unreal 3 graphics engine to bolster it's graphical intentsity.  Once you check out the screenshots and trailer below I think you'll agree it appears to be one hell of a creepy game!  I'd also like to mention that I think it's totally unfair to compare some games to others, especially ones that haven't even come out yet, but I can't help but notice the similarities between "The Dark Meadow" and some of the other horror games I've played in the past.  However let me be the first to say that, that is in no way, shape, or form a bad thing, this game looks amazing!  Here is the description straight from the official website.

"The Dark Meadow"

 "You wake in the bed of a hospital long ago fallen to stunning ruin, not knowing or understanding why you are here. You are greeted by the only normal looking person in this world, who sends you on a quest to gather what you need to track down and defeat the evil presence that has you trapped in this never-ending parallel world. The decaying hallways and rooms are haunted by creatures relentlessly hounding your every move. As you explore, you learn more and more about the mystery from the world and what you find in it, evidence to be gleaned from the environment, snippets of the past of this forsaken place, words and writings from others who have been trapped here, and you look for clues of how to get out."

Sounds pretty good to me!  Check out the trailer and some screenshots below to really whet your appetite for "The Dark Meadow" which is supposed to hit the Apple app store sometime in August.

Here are some screenshots

click the title at the very top or below to be taken to the official site!

First Halloween Costume Find!!!

Check out this amazingly detailed hobbit costume f/x foot I found today.

And you'll never guess where I found it................

Grandin Road Halloween Preview

I honestly cannot believe that up until this year I had not heard of Grandin Road.  Grandin Road is an online store of sorts that sells home furnishings of the Martha Stewart ilk.  BUT......... they also sell absolutely amazing Halloween decorations as well.  Check out their preview for this year's Halloween collection that will debut on August 1st (yeah that's today, I meant to post this last night, whoops)  The preview is really high quality stuff and actually showcases some of their more awesome wares.  Check out Grandin Road (click the blue link above the video below) and see if they have anything that might up the spook factor in your home this Halloween.

Grandin Road Halloween Haven

CrazyDog T-shirts Deal of the Day!

Check out CrazyDog T-Shirts for their deal of the day today!  You can pick your Zombie Outbreak Response Team T for only $6.99 (plus s&h)  Click the shirt to get yourself one!

A Pleasant Surprise!

I was enjoying a delicious homemade banana-nut muffin today that my wife had baked and what were my little eyes staring at once this treat had been finished but this............

It's the little things in life!

New Midnight Syndicate CD on August 2nd!!!!!

Mark your calendars ghouls because on August 2nd Midnight Syndicate will be releasing another audio journey into the unknown!  This Gothic nightmare will be known as "Carnival Arcane".

"Carnival Arcane" is the 14th release from the masters of Halloween music, the Midnight Syndicate.  To get a little taste of what this release is all about, here is a preview from the CD insert: "The train smoke drifting through the pale moon light signals the arrival of the Lancaster-Rigby Carnival.  In a forest clearing, these mesonoxian visitors await your arrival.  Stroll along the midway and behold wonders both fantastic and macabre from every corner of the globe.  And be sure to ride their one of a kind carousel for an experience you'll never, ever forget."
Sounds pretty f'n sweet doesn't it?  If that preview doesn't give you goosebumps then maybe this little audio clip from the cd will!  The track featured in the preview below is titled Freakshow.

Click here to be taken to the CD pre-order page, where for only $12.00 you can experience the "Carnival Arcane" in the discomfort of your own crypt. (The $12.00 includes shipping & handling!) Also if you head over to the Midnight Syndicate shop you can purchase the official "Carnival Arcane" t-shirt! Please do yourself a favor and pick this CD up, I kid you not I have used several Midnight Syndicate CD's at my home haunt for about the last 8 years and every year several people ask me what soundtrack I am using. These guys really know how to bring that extra atmosphere to Halloween or any other rainy, dark, thunderstorm filled night for that matter!

Bath & Bodyworks Halloween

Earlier it was Spirit Halloween, now I bring you the Bath & BodyWorks Halloween collection.  Well, some of it anyway.  Now you may be asking yourself, "What is a hardcore ghoul like him doing checking out Bath & BodyWorks?"  Well if you must know, it is a place that is one of the "must visit" stores during mall trips with my wife, and in doing so I have actually come to enjoy some of the scents of their products.  If said products also come packaged in Halloween themed dispensers then count me in!  Oh, and if I need to justify myself anymore B&B does actually sell several products for men.  Anyways, I'm sure there are several other Halloween fans out there, male and female,  that don't mind picking up some of Bath & BodyWorks seasonal wares.  If you're looking for any recommendations, here are the few that I think are the best of their "stuff" this year, but this is by no means the entire collection.  To see the entire collection, click the link at the bottom of the post.

"Sour Drop" hand stuff, and yes the bottle glows in the dark.  

I'm obsessed with glow in the dark "stuff" in case you are a new reader.

"Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin" hand soap.

Not the scariest packaging ever, but it's still pretty cool looking.

"Spiced Cider" room spray.

I think every ghoul on the planet loves spiced cider scented stuff, especially when you can make your whole room smell like it, and the bottle is pretty neat as well.

"Sinful Vanilla" body lotion.

Not one dude on Earth will be buying anything labeled "Sinful Vanilla"

but I still think the bottle and vintage text are cool anyways, haha.

Haunted House Wallflower

Now this thing is a must own!  Couple this with a "Pumpkin" or "Spiced Cider" scent

and you have yourself one hell of a Halloween decoration.  Oh yeah and it glows in the dark!

"Sour Drop" Hand Sanitizer

Again not much use for myself, but you can't complain about the

awesome Halloween theme packaging.

"Gum Ball" Hand Sanitizer

Really curious what this will actually smell like once my wife buys it,

which is inevitable once these hit the stores. (She's a total Halloween nut as well!)

"Chocolate Chew" Hand Sanitizer

All 3 of these are cool packages, however they really don't compare

to last year's bottles.  Oh, and by the way, why the hell did they decide to forgo the Marshmallow

scent from last year, I'm pretty sure that was everyone's favorite? (Maybe I'll post some pics of last year's bottles in a Halloween Countdown 2011 post?)

WOW!  Never in a million years did I think that I would dedicate a post to Bath & BodyWorks!  Oh, well I guess it never hurts to get in touch with your feminine side right ghouls?  Seriously though, for my gal ghouls out there, this stuff should have you pretty excited.  And for the ghoul dudes out there, maybe I just made it that much easier for you to pick out some Halloween gifts for your honey.  Hope you really enjoyed this post because you'll probably never see hand lotion, hand sanitizer, or anything titled "Sinful Vanilla" on this blog ever again. HAHA

Bath & BodyWorks Halloween Collection

Spirit Halloween Hits a Homerun!

I was glossing over some posts at my favorite online haunt, that's Halloween Forum for those that don't know. Anyways, someone there posted that the Spirit Halloween website had been updated with some pretty wicked new Halloween stuff for this year.  After deciding to go check it out the thing that amazed me the most were these little items!




Pretty bad-ass aren't they? You can order them for $2.99 plus shipping from Spirit's website (plus S&H, which I think is like 5 or 6 bucks OUCH) but hopefully they will have them in the stores once they open as well. So which one is your favorite, and will you keep it on your car all year long or just for the season?