I feel comfortable talking about this now, because it's actually going to happen. This franchise is so near and dear to my heart that I din't want to get my hopes up until it really started to come together. A FRIDAY THE 13TH game is being developed, and it has the potential to be amazing. Right now, there is a Kickstarter project in it's final week, and the funding goal of $700k is almost 90% funded. I would be shocked if it did not reach its goal now. (although you can help it by getting on board here if you're interested). Check out the intro vid[...]
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0 Eeeeeek! It’s almost Halloween! This final week of October we, here at The Midnight Society, are celebrating Halloween traditions. There are five traditions that make Halloween… Halloween. At least for me. First… costumes. Halloween was always a special day when I was a kid. My mom made us our costumes every year and did her best to make our dressing-up dreams come true. Second…pumpkin carving. Every year Dad carved a pumpkin, and each Halloween night it would shine from our front window. When we got old enough, my sisters and I got to carve o[...]
My October Fear Fest series of let's plays continues this week with the second installment of UNTIL DAWN. For those that missed the first couple episodes, you can watch them here. If you haven't heard of UNTIL DAWN, it's essentially a game where you as the player are directing your own slasher film. Every choice that you make has a ripple effect on the story, and who lives and dies will do so because of your decisions (or lack thereof). For #OctFearFest, I'm doing a let’s play series with UNTIL DAWN, and I’ll be posting the episodes both here are over[...]
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) has a simple premise: Five friends drive out to where Sally and Franklin's grandparents used to live, in order to check out reports of grave robberies. It's when they continue the journey to visit their grandfather's house in the country, that the teens are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals. Just the text at the beginning of the film combined with the soft reading by John Larroquette does what so many older movies did…create tension and fear with little gadget[...]
Happy Slasher Week!!! Wait, that sounds weird when I say it out loud. *shrug* Happy slasher week! As most of you know, slasher horror is one of my favorite kinds of horror. Growing up, I absolutely loved Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy Krueger, and everything in between. Cabin in the Woods was A-MAZ-ING. Scream is still one of my go-to favorite movies of all time. Our love for the slasher genre is what led to Brian and I writing our book together. What is it about slasher books and slash[...]
This week's theme is slashers, so you'll read a tributes to our favorite villains and learn what makes a good slasher movie. As the first writer of the week, I decided to take the long view. What are the slasher's origins? What typified the slasher's heyday? How have filmmakers varied on the slasher theme since its inception? Let's take a look at slashers from before then to then to now. Before Then: The Slasher's Origins Slasher plots originated in the mystery genre as films where people were killed one by one until the killer was found. The Terror (1928): Gu[...]
I have seen the premiere of ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and it is glorious. Before we get into that thought, allow me to set the scene. I attended New York Comic Con this past weekend, and ASH. VS. EVIL DEAD pretty much ruled the entire show. Smack dab in the middle of the front lot was an exhibit that allowed fans to go into the trailer that Ash lives in on the new show. On Saturday at 3pm, over a thousand EVIL DEAD fans filed into the historic Hammerstein Ballroom for the ASH VS. EVIL DEAD panel. Moderated by Kevin Smith, the panel featured the cast of the[...]
This week is Ghosts Week for Midnight Society's #OctFearFest, and today I want to talk a bit about the ghost of the Springwood Slasher. Perhaps you know him by a different name--Freddy Krueger. When people think about what Freddy is, the word ghost doesn’t immediately jump to mind. And over the course of the Nightmare on Elm Street series, he became something much more than a ghost (we can chat about the Dream Demons another time). But at the start of the Elm Street saga, Freddy Krueger was definitely a ghost. Specifically, a vengeful spirit. Like the spiri[...]
To kick off October Fear Fest at The Midnight Society, Brian LeTendre hosted a live tweet of Sam Raimi's 1981 classic, EVIL DEAD. You can follow Brian on twitter @SeeBrianWrite, and follow @Mdnight_Society and #OctFearFest for more activities throughout October! [View the story "EVIL DEAD LIVE TWEET 9/30/15 #OctFearFest" on Storify] Join Brian for the tweet along of Evil Dead 2 with the hashtag #OctFearFest![...]
Welcome to October Fear Fest here at The Midnight Society! It is our favorite month of the year when all the ghosties and ghoulies come out to play. Mwahahahahaha! Horror history week! I give you a glimpse of 80s horror. I remember the horror in my history. I am a child of the 80s and there are a few movies I watched as a kid that stuck with me, that still give me chills, that left images permanently burned into my mind. I can't say that I knew I liked horror back in the good ole days. I only knew that if my dad was watching it, it must be cool. And no matte[...]