OMG! It's November 1st...!!!

When Michael Met Michael
Photo:
Scott Jacobs

So here I am typing this morning after straggling in around 12:30 am last night from the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. Was it fun you ask? Well I did get to meet my horror idol icon Michael Myers, and get strangled by him as you can see. So what more could a horror geek ask???

My friends Scott, Kent and I came, we saw, we made scary, not merry, yeah now that crap starts and it's still over a month away. 

Personally, and I know I say this every year, but it really applies to this one in partick, I can't believe we have hit November and then December and the year is over!

Enjoy your first day of the new month, baby it's starting to get cooler outside, hey I live in Los Angeles, cold would be an oxymoron.

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The Horror: John Carpenter's Halloween

Happy Halloween Peeps! Hope all of you have something groovy planned to celebrate the coolest day of the year! 

I personally love Halloween and am a huge horror movie fan, and those of you who know me, or have been paying attention, you know my favorite horror film of all time is John Carpenter's Halloween.

When it came out I was too young to attend an R-rated film by myself, so my Dad took me and some friends. It the first of many horror flicks I would go on to see in a theater. 

Can I tell you? This is the only movie of it's type that truly got under my skin and scared the shit outta me! We lived in the suburbs at the time and were surrounded by lots of trees and land and when my parents were gone and I was home alone I used to psyche myself out and see Michael Myer's ghoulish white William Shatner ass mask looming for me in the dark. Yeah, I had a really vivid imagination, still do actually. 

So how else did you think I was going to celebrate this most holy of days here on Entertain Me? With a montage of images from the film that freaked me out the most, naturally. To this day even though I am less afraid while watching Halloween, there is still something about it that really unnerves me. Beware of the Boogeyman tonight!!!

Peek-A-Boo, I See You

Watch Out Jamie Lee!!!

Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitters Dead

Dressed To Kill
Michael Myers

Hit Me With Your Best Shot!


John Carpenter's Halloween on IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077651/?ref_=nv_sr_2   

Sunday Schwing! Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

Naked & Bleeding
Thomas Blake, Jr.

In keeping with my countdown theme until Halloween, I present to you some Dick & Ass. Not to be confused with the song Tits & Ass from the musical A Chorus Line. 

So here for your viewing pleasure via Favorite Hunks & Other Things. Is Tye Briggs un-coverage of horror hunk Du Jour actor Thomas Blake, Jr. 

The following link includes carnage, explicit nudity and some pretty fucked up shit. Parental Discretion is advised as this is so NSFW.

Yeah, I know. This will make  you want to see it more!

Halloween is tomorrow, hell to the yes!!!

Cabin Fever 2 -  gore, nudity & weirdness here:

http://favoritehunks.blogspot.com/2016/10/horror-hunks-thomas-blake-jr-in-cabin.html 

Saturday Sinema: The Initiation

Since it's the season of the witch, shall we continue our horror countdown until Halloween? I thought you would concur, here we go with gore, gore, gore!

THE INITIATION [Blu-ray] (11/8)

HERE'S TO BEING YOUNG... STAYING YOUNG... AND DYING YOUNG.

Marking TV star Daphne Zuniga's debut in a leading role, The Initiation ranks amongst the finest of the college-based stalk-and-slash flicks - now finally restored in glorious High-Definition!

Kelly's new sorority has a special initiation ritual in store for her - an after-hours break-in of her father's department store. But what begins as a night of harmless college fun turns sour when, once inside the enormous mall, Kelly and her fellow pledges find themselves locked in for the night... with a deadly intruder stalking the corridors.

Arriving in 1984, The Initiation might have been late to the slasher party, but, alongside the likes of The House on Sorority Row and The Mutilator, it remains one of the stronger entries to emerge in the latter days of the slice-and-dice boom.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

Uncompressed PCM Mono Audio  

Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

Brand new audio commentary by The Hysteria Continues

Sorority Saga - a brand new interview with writer Charles Pratt, Jr.

Pledge Night - a brand new interview with actor Christopher Bradley 

Dream Job - a brand new interview with actress Joy Jones

Extended Scene

Original Theatrical Trailer

Original Screenplay & Production Schedule (BD -ROM Content)

Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn
  

Pre-order at the MVD SHOP or on Amazon 

The Horror: M.E. Franco

Serving Jack Skellington's Head On A Plate
Author M.E. Franco

It's that time of the year peeps when I do my annual Halloween chat with my fellow vampire, author & horror fan M.E. Franco.

M.E. is best known as the writer behind the series of popular supernatural novels called the Dion Series, consisting of the titles: Where Will You Run?, Where Will You Hide? and Where Will You Turn?
Time to take a journey into the twisted mind of M.E. You have been warned...!

MS: What's your favorite horror related erotic fantasy?
ME: Definitely The Hunger. I'm also a fan of the Dracula movie with Frank Langella...very hot!

MS: There is currently a clown scare going on across the United States care to weigh in?

ME: That's just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

MS: Freddy Kruger offers you a helping hand Pinhead offers you needlepoint, which do you choose?
ME: Pinhead is much more fun.

MS: Is "Release the Kraken" a euphemism? ME: It is for me. Heehee ;)

MS: You want to hide "Where Will You Run?"
ME: Well, not the closet, or the basement, or the abandoned house, or the hospital, or the remote cabin, or the cemetery, or the parking garage, or the barn, or the cornfield, or the summer camp, or the farm house...

MS: What monster would you put in the corner with "Baby" from Dirty Dancing?
ME: A succubus...that girl could feed a whole colony of them.

MS: Pick a succubus, the Larmia from Drag Me To Hell or Donald Trump.
ME: The succubus isn't as creepy and the Larmia has better social skills ;)

MS: Someone's knocking at your door at 10 pm with a hockey mask on, what do you do?

ME: Tell him the teenagers are next door.

MS: Have you ever seen anything that alarmed you on the wing of a plane during a flight?

ME: HA! Every time I fly, I use my best Shatner voice and say "Theeeeere's somethingontheplane." I won't ever look though. I don't want to know.

MS: You could have dinner with any five horrific figures, living, dead, fictional or non- fictional who would they be?
ME: Dracula of course (preferably Gerard Butler from Dracula 2000, yum); Pinhead (because he knows how to party), Leatherface (to carve the meat); Jigsaw (for party games); and Hannibal Lecter for his impeccable cooking and knowledge of fine wine.

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Michael's Musings

Horny For Halloween
Michael Shinafelt

This week is a special edition of my column. In case you haven't figured out that means my focus will be on Halloween this coming Monday, then I have no response to that.

Time to let loose the devil inside!

Did you know there is a line of Halloween costumes out based on the raunchy R-rated movie Sausage Party? You too can dress as a douche and offer yourself and your services up as a treat,

I am the terror that flaps in the night. That is all.

Heidi Klum always rocks the best costumes. Can't wait to see what she comes up with this year. 

“No tears please, it’s a waste of good suffering.” - Pinhead, Hellraiser 

How about that clown scare this year?

Someone decided to make Hollywood Great again and smash Donald Trump's star on the Walk of Fame with a sledgehammer the day of Hillary Clinton's Birthday. What a nice Halloween treat, and Happy Birthday Madam President!

If I were a witch, I would cast spells, kill people and stuff...

"Nothing Human Loves Forever" - tag line for my favorite vampire film, The Hunger 

Let's crack open a bottle of wine and Ouija.

My all time favorite horror film is John Carpenter's Halloween. Only scary movie that ever really got under my skin, and, well scared the fuck outta me!

This Halloween I plan on attending the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival. The amount of alcohol consumed there both scares and impresses me.

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An Exclusive Quickie With "The Pretty Reckless"

Their Here, They're Reckless, Get Used To It!
Photo: Rob Fenn

It's been a big week for The Pretty Reckless. Their album Who You Selling For came out this past Friday. The first single off of it Take Me Down is the #1 song on the Billboard Rock Chart this week! Making four number ones for the band in a row! Woot! 

Frontwoman Taylor Momsen & Guitarist Ben Phillips took time out from their crazy schedule to answer five "quickie" questions for Entertain Me. Get ready to go "Reckless!" 

MS: "Who You Selling For" definitely encompasses a lot of soul blues & rock-n-roll.  Was that an organic direction or a chosen one for the two of you?

TPR: It's always organic.  We don't have any pre conceived notions for the music.  The inspiration of songwriting dictates the direction.  We are slaves to the muse.

MS: You guys co-write all the songs. Give some insight to your writing process.

TPR: It's everything and nothing.  We basically isolate ourselves and live life looking for anything that inspires us.  Writing is an all consuming mistress, it's our favorite thing to do

I'm With The Band
Photo: Andrew Lipovsky

MS: Do you ever write solo or is it always a collaborative process?

TPR: Sometimes ideas come together, sometimes we bring them to each other, there is no set method to the madness

MS: Why the name The Pretty Reckless?

TPR: Because The Moderately Reckless was taken ;)

MS: If you were stranded in the forest with only three albums to listen to what would you choose?

TPR: The White Album, Abbey Road and Revolver/Rubber Soul by The Beatles.

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