Rick Grimes is a sheriffs deputy and a family man. After being injured in a shoot-out Rick awakes from a coma to find that the hospital he is in has been abandoned and that something terrible has happened. It seems the dead have risen and Rick has no idea how or why. All he can [...]
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Cover of the Week: Secret Avengers #6
The pattern for the past couple of weeks in our COW column has been Marvel‘s vampire variant covers. Halloween keeps this pattern going. Amanda Conner crafts this hilarious Secret Avengers #6 vampire cover. I think that this is the perfect way to cap off a month of vampire covers. It has a classic feel when [...]
5 Films That’ll Get You In The Halloween Mood
Halloween, to me, is a lot about childhood. As a kid, I loved going door to door collecting candy and seeing all the cool costumes everyone had. There’s also the scary movies, which provide a unique type of entertainment. Now, as a grown up, I look back on the holiday with a childlike sense of [...]
Cover of the Week: Deadpool #28
Mike Mayhew returns for a second week in a row with his vampire cover for Deadpool #28. Marvel is doing vampire variant covers this month for most of their titles and Mayhew seems to be the go to guy for this. The piece that he as drawn here is exactly what I would expect from [...]
5 Musts for Zombie Fans
Halloween season is in full swing; movie theaters are getting horror movies, the grocery stores are packed with costumes and candy, and every child is getting excited for sugar highs and nightmarish dreams. With the witching season upon us, a lot of fans of the ghoulish and scary have their favorite aspects of the holiday. [...]
Awesome Fan-Made Intro for THE WALKING DEAD
My anticipation for THE WALKING DEAD is boiling over. I can almost hear the moaning of the undead and taste the flesh in my mouth. If that statement doesn’t freak you out I don’t know what will. Via MTV we have this brilliant interpretation of how the beginning credits of the show could look thanks [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 30 – Paranormal Activity
One of the best success stories at the Box Office this year is the small scale horror flick Paranormal Activity. Directed and starring Hollywood nobodies, and made on a budget of less than $20,000, the movie uses simple visual effects to give the audience good horror chills. Even Stephen Spielberg has said he experienced some [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 29 – Child’s Play
My brother used to have a toy that looked very similar to Chucky from Child’s Play, and it scared the hell out of me. A doll that is possessed with a killer’s soul is something that even kids can even understand. It is both funny and disturbing to see an innocent play toy murder people [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 28 – Shaun of the Dead
One of the best zombie movies of all time, Shaun of the Dead mixed comedy and horror in a way rarely seen in film. You laugh just as much as you squirm. British comedy men Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play two guys seeking shelter with friends from a zombie outbreak in the safest place [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 27 – Hocus Pocus
Witches suck, especially when it’s witches who are looking to suck the souls of children to feed their eternal youth. In Hocus Pocus, three Salem witches were put to death for stealing the life-force from children 300 years ago, but when youthfully stupid Max lights a magic candle, they come back to life on Halloween [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 26 – Hard Candy
Disturbing and shocking, Hard Candy is so psychologically sickening that it deserves to make the Halloween list. It does not have the ghosts and demons we see in supernatural flicks, but instead shows the audience true monsters that exist in our world. Themes of voyeurism and pedophilia are treated accurately, which is why it is [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 25 – Gremlins
As a kid, I really had a hard time enjoying Gremlins. A kid down the street had a stuffed animal that looked like Gizmo, and for some reason I had this fear that it was somehow actually a gremlin. Needless to say, I never got near that stupid thing. But for Halloween, a good creature [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 24 – Misery
Crazy people make Halloween fun. When author Paul Sheldon is rescued from the snow after his car gets in an accident, he quickly learns the Good Samaritan is such a fan that she never wants him to leave. Being helpless in the hands of a total stranger is scary enough, but when the stranger is [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 23 – Jaws
Although it isn’t exactly a Halloween-inspired pick, Jaws is by far one of the most scariest movies of all time. A movie so intense that vacation resorts saw a hit on revenue because people were afraid to go into water. My family has said people did not even swim in the Great Lakes back in [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 22 – Scream
Although it comes across as spoof of horror/slasher films, Scream still maintains a great eerie feel. The killer’s costume, the calling motif, and playing up the staples of other slasher movies keep the audience guessing if the victims will continue making the same mistakes their counterparts do in other films, or wise up. The opening, [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 21 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Estimated to be portrayed a record 160+ times in film history, Dracula is practically a genre of film to itself. One of the best adaptations of the Count’s foray into bloodsucking is 1992′s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Starring a list of some of Hollywood’s biggest names, Dracula tells the story of the classic vampire as he [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 20 – The Mist
I get so much crap for liking this movie, but I think it’s worth mentioning on this list. Starring Thomas Jane, The Mist puts a group of confused and scared survivors trapped in a supermarket isolated from a strange fog outside. What’s inside the mist is the question of many of the people, as the [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 19 – Hellraiser
Visually disturbing and graphically entertaining, Hellraiser showed the world one of the most demonic and evil visions of the supernatural realm. When a man unknowingly purchases a demonic puzzle, he soon discovers it opens our world to the monsters that the puzzle entraps. Clive Barker’s horrific film still remains in cult status today, as with [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 18 – Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis got her career started by being chased by a murderous lunatic. Not Gary Busey, but her insane brother Michael Myers. In Halloween, Michael escapes a mental institution after years of incarceration for murder as a child, to find his sister. Directed by horror genius John Carpenter, the movie is a classic slasher [...]
31 Days of Halloween: Day 17 – 30 Days of Night
Based on the graphic novel of the same name, 30 Days of Night puts vampire horror in one of the best suited places for the bloodthirsty monsters to roam: Alaska. Since the Northern Territories experience extended periods of perpetual sunlight/darkness, it would not serve to be a great place to live, but more like a [...]
