Happy New Year

Domenic Pisano from e.Blake Photography took this picture from my 2009 home haunt.

TRANSWORLD 2010

I'm really looking forward to attending the Transworld Haunt & Attractions Show MARCH 25 - 28, 2010 at the America’s Center 701 Convention Plaza St. Louis, Missouri.

Transworld's Haunt Show will showcase over 100 different vendors selling animations, props, special effects, lighting, fog equipment, make up, costumes, theming props, and much more. The show will span more than 100,000 square feet of the most creative stuff ever seen... if you are a serious home haunter you can't miss this show.

2010 Transworld Promotional Video

ZOMBIE SANTA

I found this great Zombie Santa card on another fellow haunters blog "Frog on the Pumpkin".

Doesn't it just put you into the Christmas spirit!

BLACK CHRISTMAS

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Black Christmas is one of my favorite horror movies of all time and I’m proud to say it was shot here in my home town “Toronto”. And, no, I'm not talking about the awful remake. I'm talking about the 1974 classic, directed by Bob Clark that was way ahead of it’s time.

It’s one of the greatest slasher movies ever made, and if a movie can still be creepy after 35 years, it's obviously doing something right. If you haven't seen this movie and you're a fan of horror, you owe it to yourself to see it.

Black Christmas is one of the more disturbing films for it's generation. A group of sorority sisters are harassed, hunted down and then one by one murdered by a mysterious killer who contacts them through a series of obscene phone calls over the Christmas break. However, unknown to the girls, the killer isn't calling from the outside. He's in their house!

Black Christmas is a tense film full of grizzly, yet subtle, murders and decent acting performances by a strange collection of mismatched actors that aren't known for appearing in horror films, including Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, John Saxon and Keir Dullea.

Furthermore, the use of Christmas music and decorations, as well as the bleak snowy cityscapes add an eerie juxtaposition to the horror presented to the audience.

This Christmas pass over It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story and pour some egg nog and turn off all the lights and get ready to scare the yuletide joy right out of yourself with this freakishly delightful holiday fare.

ZOMBIES ATTACK SANTA

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ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS CAROLS

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Just imagine a group of zombies going door-to-door singing undead carols in their best rotting choir costumes.

Imagine the look on the unsuspecting homeowners faces when they realize that the nice singers on the porch are actually the walking dead.

If a thought like that doesn’t get you in the Christmas spirit, nothing will!

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

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Season Greetings

Creepy Holly

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Halloween 2009

Our 2009 Halloween was our biggest and spookiest year to date. We had over 3,500 Trick r Treaters visit us on Halloween night, in addition to approximately 600 children from the Carville Mills Public School and Kids Come First Day Care, not to mention the hundreds of families that came during the week leading up to Halloween.

This year we had great media attention; we were featured on Party Mamas Reality TV Show (or in my case Party Papa), Global TV, and to top it all off, we won City TV’s & Rogers Pumpkin Patrol Best Haunted House contest, winning the grand prize of $500.00 which we donated to Sick Kids Foundation.

We were extremely thankful to our sponsors; Cadbury and Old Dutch who generously donated Halloween Candy & Potato Chips. Moreover, we would like to thank everyone who visited and made a donation to Sick Kids Hospital, this year we raised $3,224.00

The money raised in donations will go towards a new special Halloween fund that we have created for children who are in treatment at Sick Kids Hospital during Halloween; our goal is to provide children with costumes and Halloween candy to encourage the holiday spirit.

Lastly a heart felt thank you goes out to our family and friends for all their help and support with the set up and tear down of our display and the York Regional Police for showing up on Halloween night and controlling the flow of traffic after we brought it to a stand still on our street.