Halloween pinball ios game review - Ghoulie get your game on!

Take away the bells and whistles of any tables theme and ultimately the success of said table depends on how the table plays, and with Halloween pinball we have a table that offers an easy to play yet hard to master game of pinball with a clear bonus structure and challenges of accuracy that both excite and entice.

Halloween pinball is lovingly themed and is a very pretty table indeed!
If you can imagine a fairground ghost train then this game is that ride in pinball table form!
All the colours of halloween are here, presented with a bright neon glow. The graphics are a combination of moving 3D objects such as a witches cauldron and haunted house, with the flat surfaces of the table decorated beautifully ghoulishly with ghosts and pumpkins galore.

The main soundtrack is a devilish delight, mixing some occasional subtle drum and bass with eerie piano and haunting violins. In game phonics help to further set the tone, with a creepy male voice issuing warnings of impending danger and either praising or mocking your efforts. An old hag also chimes in with some witchy rhymes and gruesome details of her cauldrons contents!

To get some really high scores out of the table you need to complete one or all of the five main challenges that the table offers which are the “witches cauldron”, “walk of death”, “the spider web”, “haunted manor” and the “grave yard”. Access to the “spider web” challenge is only available once the “Grave yard” task is complete and the “walk of death” becomes accessible once the “haunted manor” mission is accomplished. Invariably each challenge means being accurate enough to repeatedly hit the ball into the appropriate target areas or to hit pop up targets as they appear. Ball mechanics are spot on and your success or failure will depend entirely on your own skill.

Camera options allow the player to view the game from a top down angle or for a more tilted
view where the camera also follows the movement of the ball. Both play great
but the tilted view offers a better view of the graphics.

Its true to say that there are a lot more complicated tables out there that may appeal more to the hardcore pinball aficionado but even members of those lofty ranks would have to be pretty cynical not to enjoy this atmospheric and ultimately a joy to play game. Halloween pinball is fast, furious and frightful fun that i heartily recommend to casual gamers, dedicated pinballers’, halloween homies and fright fans alike!

Get your fang on! Vampire gathering world record attempt at Tulleys Farm, West Sussex - Saturday October 5th, 2013

Dedicated fang fans should get themselves over to Tulleys farm this weekend.
As part of the shocktober festivities, the organisers are asking you to get your vamp on and become part of the vampire world record attempt!

The vampire world record attempt will run from 6 to 7 pm with the overall aim being to gather a larger legion of the glorious undead together than even a Tory lords social club could muster!

Budding vampires are asked to dress suitably for the occasion and costumes for the world record attempt need to include the following:-

Male – black cape, black trousers, white shirt, waistcoat, neck frill OR neck tie, black shoes and vampire teeth.

Female – black and red coloured dress, dark eyes make up, red lips, black shoes and vampire teeth.

Individuality is however encouraged and as long as your ghoulish getup includes all of the above you can accessorize and customise as you see fit! If you need a little help with your horribleness there are even makeup artists on standby ready to apply the necessary vampire chic to your fanged fizog! 

Vampires will receive a free street pass entry and £5 off haunt passes.

The vampire world record attempt takes place at Tulleys farm, Turners Hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4PE

Related links

1:- Vampire world record attempt information pack

2:- Vampire world record attempt official page

3:- Tulleys farm Shocktober fest 2013 official site

More on upcoming ios horror game - Chucky "Slash and dash" from slimstown studios

No word of a release date yet for upcoming ios game Chucky "slash and dash" but regular tribune of terror readers will know we are super stoked about this game!!! Here is one of the character models produced for the title. Do do do do do....im loving it! More news as we torture it out of the developer!

Related post:

http://thecreepycritter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/chucky-ios-game-slash-and-dash-coming.html

Smarties Pumpkin and the Milky bar ghost haunting your taste buds again for Halloween 2013!

Over the weekend Old Critter sniffed out his first little halloween treats for 2013!
Discovered haunting the isles of a Wilkinson’s store near to my crypt, were these delightful sweet treats from nestle! Ghoulfiends and gentlecreeps meet the smarties pumpkin and the milky bar ghost!

The Smarties Pumpkin naked but pre nom nom!!!

The Milkybar ghost!!!!

Ive noticed these tasty terrors appearing seasonally for a few years now, and they have become a staple part of Critter’s Samhain nom noms! Both provide a good blast of chocolatey goodness (the ghost is white chocolate and the pumpkin milk chocolate) with the pumpkin having the added bonus of smarties hidden inside! Critter always likes a bonus!

Extra creepy kudos must also go to Wilkinson's for being the first store i have found in the UK to have started putting their halloween goods on display.

Horror classics mystery mini's series from Funko!

Oooh arh me harties!
Mini monstermendousness ahoy!!!

Horror classics collection, New from funko and the latest in their line of “mystery minis”.
For those not in the know mystery minis are a range of collectable 2.5 inches tall vinyl figures that are sold blind boxed and based on characters from popular films and tv shows.

So far some of the best figures in the range have included a walking dead series, nightmare before christmas and the big bang theory! I cant wait to get my gnarled hands on these horrid little blighters!

The series includes some of yours and mines fearsome favourites like good ol Sam from trick r treat, pennywise the clown, ash the army of darkness version, jason vorhees, freddy krueger, michael myers and good old lovely leatherface!

Expected to be released world wide in mid September 2013, we will cover this series in more detail once we manage to grab a few!

Shocktober fest - Scream park 2013 - At Tulleys farm, Turners hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4PE - Selected dates in October and November 2013

Shocktober fest returns to Tulleys farm for the halloween season 2013!
Beginning on the 5th of October with a vampire world record attempt this fearsome festival runs until the 2nd of November where the ripped and bloodied curtain comes down on the show with a festival finale firework display! Tulleys farm has run an annual halloween festival for the last 15 years. Beginning as a simple affair of selling pumpkins to the local populace, the festival has now grown into an award winning behemoth of a haunted attraction!

Shocktober fest 2013 is an interactive and immersive horrifying journey through a series of six main haunts which includes the infamous haunted hayride, twisted maze, wood shock, hell-ements, the cellar and the creepy cottage. Those that survive these terrible trials may attempt to numb the inner turmoil of their now fractured souls with a beverage at the after life bar which is open from 9pm until 11pm. As well as the main haunts, Shocktober fest is a celebration of street theatre as undead denizens and demented creatures of every kind wander around the shocktober fest park, looking for members of the public to harrass, torment and indulge in some banter!

Shocktober fest has become a much beloved event to fright fans all across the UK and is considered by many to be the best event of its kind in England. Clearly the people behind the festival have a great deal of love for the horror genre and this results in the attention to detail and quality of scares on offer that has led to various awards in the haunted attraction industry.

Whilst there is no strict enforced age limit for the Tulleys farm shocktober festival, it is not recommended for children under the age of 12. People need to be aware that this is a genuinely frightening and at times shocking event and are urged to use common sense in regards to what they should expect! Whilst recommended for adults and older children, younger kids are admitted to the park and any child under the age of five enters free of charge, of course parents will need to use their discretion as to how much of the frights on offer they expose their younger children too!!!  

Tickets are already on sale via the Shocktober festival website.
The festival is open on the following evenings:

Various levels of passes are available with prices starting from just £7.95, see below for full pricing details and contact details for Tulleys farm and the Shocktober festival 2013.

Event info summary:

Name of event: Shocktober Fest 2013 Scream Park.

Date of event: Selected dates in October and November 2013 (See post above)

Location: Tulleys farm, Turners hill, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 4PE

Booking office telephone number: 01342 710 471

Booking online: http://www.halloweenattractions.co.uk/shocktoberfest/prices

Event website: http://www.halloweenattractions.co.uk/shocktoberfest/

Chucky iOS game "Slash and Dash" coming soon from Slimstown studios

To coincide with the release of the new Chucky film “Curse of Chucky”, developer Slimstown studios have very recently announced a new iOS and android game featuring everybody's favorite erstwhile serial killing demonic doll! Little is known about the game thus far but with the current title of “slash and dash” i think we should be expecting an endless runner. Whilst the app store has more endless runners than AMC's Walking dead has zombie extra! as this title features “Chucky” i think there is definitely room for at least one more! I dont have a solid release date yet with the title currently slated as “coming soon”. More news as we have it.

Up coming vampire game - Shadow Vamp! - Looking monstermendously awesome!!! - Ghoulie get yer game on!!!

Now this looks very interesting indeed!!!

Shadow vamp, listed as “coming very soon” from developer games mould, employs a rather unique game mechanic, whereby you the vampire must make your way home during the daylight hours using shadows to protect your delicate undead skin from the sun!
From what i can tell from the trailer you are able to rotate and manipulate the world around you to create shadowy paths to travel down. Of course the proof is in the pudding but so far this title is looking monstermendously awesome!!! Incidentally games mould is the publisher of one of my favourite ios games "spooky hooves" which gives me even more reason to have high hopes for this.

Check out the screenshot and gameplay trailer below! Review from the Ghoulie as soon as this launches!

The Conjuring (2013) - Horror movie review (No Spoilers!)- The Creepy Critter

I have to start this review by giving credit where its due! I watched "The Conjuring" with a casual cinema goer and they were suitably absolutely terrified and unnerved! Certainly they got what they came and paid for, and in that respect therefore "The Conjuring" is a success. How does the movie hold up however, under intense scrutiny from the bloodshot beady eye of the dedicated horror fan?

"The Conjuring" supposedly recreates the real life events as experienced by members of the Perron family and paranormal investigators / demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. The PR for the film would have you believe that this is a case file so horrendous, that the Warrens’ kept the details hidden from the public eye for many years! The case in question concerns the demonic infestation of a house with a long history of tragedy and murder, that was once inhabited by a satanic witch! The Perron family purchase the house completely unaware of this horrible history, and ready to start their new lives in the country. Of course its not long before all hell comes a’ knocking! and the family are forced to turn to the Warrens’ to try and save their souls! The main story arc is interwoven with the story of another famous Warren case file, concerning the demonic inhabitation of a "creepy as feck" old doll.

"The Conjuring" is very well acted throughout, with Vera Farmiga (Lorraine Warren) and Patrick Wilson (Ed Warren) deserving special mention for their depiction of the Warrens. The chemistry between the two actors is completely believable and endearing. Indeed you will care about all of the main characters in this film, and that is a very important part of the what this film does so right.

It is totally fair to say that "The Conjuring" does nothing new, in fact it contains every haunted house movie cliche in the book, and as with so many demon inspired movies of late, much of the space between the truly scary parts of the film are filled in with much demonic door slamming from the unseen entities! I mean jeez if i was a paranormal investigator i would solve half the problem by removing the doors in the house and shouting “how you like them apples!” loud enough for all of hell and its pesky demons to hear. Let me suggest a drinking game for you to play whilst you watch "The Conjuring"! Make a check-list of every haunted house movie cliche you can think of and then take a shot of vodka, tequila or whiskey whenever you see one of these cliches in the film. I can assure you that you will be as drunk as a skunk before the half way mark of the movie!

Creepy basement - Check
Spooked pets - Check
Stopped clocks - Check
Child playing with unseen friend - Check
Reluctant priest - check!!!! etc etc etc

You get the picture!!!

For me the film was particularly reminiscent of “Amityville” and “The haunting in Connecticut” which of course are two other horror films based on supposedly true events that involved the warrens'. One could therefore argue that many of the haunted house cliches the film contains are actually the typical signs and symptoms of a home gripped tight in the grasp of demonic forces.

So there you have it "The Conjuring" is 112 minutes of cliche after cliche......................
All of them used superbly! and boy is "The Conjuring" ferociously fantastic for it!!!!!

As with the recent "Evil Dead" remake, yes "The Conjuring" is nothing new, but its something old remixed, relaunched and tweaked almost to perfection! There is no filler in "The Conjuring", no dead space at all, the pacing of the movie is absolutely spot on, you are always unnerved, constantly worried for the Perron family and the Warrens' which keeps you intently focused on the film and therefore the scares as they start to come thick and fast in the last half of the film have all the more impact and jump effect! Its all in here! Witches, demons, exorcisms, ghosts and possessions all held in place by a tight script that slowly reveals the mystery of the house and just how big a demonic kahuna the Perron family and Ed and Lorraine are facing! The creepy Annabelle doll subplot works really well and is seamlessly interwoven with the main storyline despite initially beginning as a very separate story, this in itself a sign of a really well written and directed film.

Is "The Conjuring" the best haunted house movie of all time? i wont answer that right now, but the fact that i a seasoned, battle scarred horror film veteran is even thinking about that question, should tell you just how brilliant this movie is. 8.7 Skulls out of ten!

Knightmare Tower! IOS Game review - Ghoulie get yer game on!

Whilst the iTunes app store continues to see a rise in more complex proper console type gaming (x-com, grand theft auto, final fantasy), it remains for now overwhelmingly the spiritual home of casual gaming! Many of the most successful and highest grossing games on the App Store are played with controls that require little more physical input than repeatedly tapping the screen with a single finger at the appropriate moment! Knightmare tower the latest offering from developers Juicy Beast is certainly of this ilk.

With such simple game mechanics, ultimately these type of games live and die by the quality of their presentation and addictiveness! That elusive “just one more go factor!”. Well i can tell you ghoulfiends and gentlecreeps that Knightmare tower has both in abundance with big shiny cherries on top!

You are the titular Knight of Knightmare tower! Your job is to reach the top of a treacherous and terrifying tower rescuing princesses and generally being a medieval bad ass along the way! You begin the game free falling down through the tower after launching into the air atop an iron rocket and must attempt to rise back up by slamming down on a myriad of flying beasties, monsters and demons! Every monster you hit in succession results in an increase of speed of ascendancy and takes you further away from a fiery lava that is also climbing the tower literally “hot” on your tail! Movement of your Knight is achieved by tilting your device left or right and touching the screen to perform a downward attack on your monstrous legion of enemies! Every so often you will reach and smash through a ceiling, freeing the princess of that part of the tower. As with all the best examples of casual games, there is a hidden tactical depth to the gameplay of Knightmare tower and as the game progresses quick thinking and good hand eye coordination will certainly be needed to see you through! As you reach greater heights within the tower you are confronted by an ever widening array of beasties to slay and not all of them are simple sword fodder! Many will take multiple hits to destroy, wizard types will attempt to bring you down with magic orbs, dragons will fill the screen with fireballs and other creatures are only temporarily vulnerable displaying for the rest of their time on screen large sharp spikes eager to take one of your lives if you slam down on them at the wrong moment! The higher you rise the more the action intensifies and soon you will find yourself with every type of monster to deal with on screen at once and the deeper tactics of monster time management come into play!

 Having just one go on Knightmare tower would be the equivalent of helping yourself to just a single pringle from a newly opened tube...it just aint gonna happen! This game is stickier than bubble gum dipped in honey! The action is fast and furious with each play lasting an average of just 2 or 3 minutes. The rate of progression is paced perfectly and you find yourself constantly wanting to inch closer to different achievements and goals or collecting enough money to level up your character! The game contains a shop, where gold you have collected during gameplay can be spent on more lives, potions, stronger attacks etc.

Monster fans will love Knightmare tower! It features a lovingly crafted menagerie of creatures, all depicted in a detailed and colourful art style that to me was almost reminiscent of eighties british comics such as whizzer and chips and the likes of OINK!. The game doesn't credit the artist but i believe its a person referred to as “J-P” on the developers website. The games soundtrack supplied by “HyperDuck soundworks” also deserves special mention, its an absolute perfect fit for the game. Heroic and jaunty with medieval overtones conveyed by an occasional choir of maidens.

As with all these casual type games Knightmare tower does of course have a limited shelf life. Such simple game mechanics can only afford a game so much longevity before actions start to feel repetitive. However for a period of a good few days i literally played nothing else and for the paltry sum of just £1.99 the level of enjoyment you will get from the game represents brilliant value.

So there you have it! Dag nabbit! Knightmare tower is a great example of casual gameplay executed with style and aplomb! Ghoulie recommends you get your game on!

Click here for Iphone version of "Knightmare tower" on the app store

Click here for the Ipad version of "Knightmare tower" on the app store

"The Kraken" new sea monster inspired artwork from Giant monster kid and the entity

"The Kraken" by Giant monster kid and the entity (Names on the artwork for protection purposes only & do not feature on the actual painting or print

New artwork from giant monster kid and the entity inspired by a love of sea monsters and this sonnet from Alfred Tennyson published in 1830:

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

Giant monster kid and the entity specialise in horror and sci fi themed artwork and this piece was originally painted with acrylics on canvas.

Close up of some of the detail on "The Kraken" by giant monster kid and the entity

limited edition signed and numbered prints are available from their etsy store

http://www.etsy.com/shop/ghosttrainshop

"Tales to Tremble by" - A classic collection of horror - It came from the attic! part 1

As a young child and fervent ”monster kid” when i needed a big ol’ dose of horror i had a “go to book” that had a place in my heart that could be held by no other and that revered tome was “tales to tremble by”. I still remember discovering the book on the shelves of Whsmith and being equally terrified and yet fascinated by the wonderfully creepy front cover. From the outside, the book promised a trove of terrible treasures and it certainly did not disappoint!

"Tales to tremble by" hardback front cover (1984)

Not to be confused with the better known “tales to tremble by” published in the sixties by the whitmans classic imprint which was a collection of short stories and prose from the likes of Bram Stoker and Charles Dickens. My “tales to tremble by” was published originally in 1974 and then as a second edition in 1984 both times by World International Publishing Ltd.

"Tales to tremble by" hardback back cover (1984)

The hardback second edition features much of the original content from the 1974 edition but also includes reprints of stories from the Dracula spine chillers annual released in 1982 also from World international publishing limited. Interestingly these comic book adaptions originally appeared in the pages of house of hammer magazine, so they are certainly well travelled.

Dracula annual

Various "The house of hammer" magazine covers.

The book is a bumper collection of short stories and comic strips and includes the comic-book adaptions of sherlock Holmes and the hound of the Baskervilles, as well as hammer horror’s Dracula and twins of evil. The book runs to 189 pages in total.

The full contents are:

Plants of Doom

Jettison Pod

Macabre Miscellany

The hound of the Baskervilles ( comic strip)

Tunnels of Terror

Warworld

Superior Science

Terrors of the Kalahari

The lions Mane

The Night Creatures

The frightening tale of Jamie McGregor

Life or death for Jerry

Dracula ( comic strip)

Sole survivor

Carnival at war

Death in dunstable creek

The fiery point incidents

Two in the bush

Twins of evil ( comic strip )

The body stealers

Village of fear

Computerad

And the children are quite fond of him really

The volunteer

Charles A Milverton

What has made me comeback to this book again and again over the years is that it is all chiller and no filler! The highlights for me are the comic strip adaptions which are all beautifully illustrated, highly cinematic in style and perfectly paced but this is not to take anything away from the collection of short stories. These stories cover a wide range of supernatural & sci fi staples including the ghost of a teacher in “the children are quite fond of him really”, the devil worshippers of “the night creatures” and the alien civilizations of “tunnels of terror”. Also included are three stories from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame, these are the aforementioned “hound of the Baskervilles”, “Charles .A. milverton” and finally “The lions mane”.

Interestingly not all the stories in the book are credited and the hammer horror comic adaptions feature no credits at all, however with some in depth and obsessive research i think i have been able to pin down the artist of Dracula as Paul Neary and the collaborative artists for “twins of evil” as Chris Lowder and an artist who became better known for his fantasy paintings, Blas Gallego.

Frame from "Twins of Evil" comic book adaption

In conclusion, any horror addict that owns this book will have secured a piece of horror gold! They just dont do collections like this anymore. The collection feels like it was put together by someone will a real love for the genre, and the choices in stories really thought through. Now over 35 years old the book has become an excellent nostalgia trip including as it does the hammer horror film adaptions, but also in the fact the other stories concentrate on building suspense and sinister atmosphere through proper story telling that includes a beginning, middle and end rather than just hitting readers with an endless torrent of gore for gores sake.

As a little present to my ghoulfiends and gentlecreeps, i have uploaded the "twins of evil" comic adaption in PDF format, available to download and read here: http://www.ghost-train.co.uk/twinsofevil.pdf

Book review: Gris Grimly's wicked nursery rhymes

Gris Grimly is an artist and story teller whose style is dipped deeply in some hot horror sauce! Well known for his macabre slant on traditional children’s fairy tales, Mr Grimly has also tried his hand at short movies including “cannibal flesh riot” (2006) and music video’s. It was recently announced that no less than Guillermo del Toro will be co-directing a stop motion adaption of one of Gris Grimly’s first books “Pinocchio” with Gris serving as an executive director.

The book i am covering here today is called “Gris Grimly’s wicked nursery rhymes” which was published in 2003 by baby tattoo books (ISBN 0-9729388-7-7). My copy is a hardback that features a wonderfully illustrated sleeve by the man Gris Grimly himself. Behind the sleeve on the actual book cover is an engraving style motif of a witch atop her broomstick! The back cover features a wonderful recommendation from no less than Clive Barker himself, the words of which you can see in the first image below.

Hardcover front for "Wicked nursery rhymes"

Wicked nursery rhymes is a fairly short book but it does manage to pack in 8 different nursery rhymes that have been brought back to life by the mad artistic scientist that is Mr Grimly and just as is always the case with such diabolical experiments, these tales have returned far darker and twisted than their original twee selves! 

Grim Grimly's Wicked nursery rhyme outer inlay

The eight stories included are:

Father Grim

Miss Muffet

Fuzzy Wuzzy

Jack and Jill

Mistress Mary

Jumping Joan

Little Bo Peep

Nimble Jack

Every page features one or more illustrations from Gris, and they are simply spooktacular!
They just scream with character, and whilst cute retain a proper edginess and folksy feel that is lacking in much of the chibi kawaii type horror art that is fashionable at the moment. Many of the plates within the book would make excellent prints in themselves. I have included some of my favorite examples below:

"Fuzzy wuzzy" by Gris Grimly

"Jumping Joan" by Gris Grimly

"Miss Muffet" by Gris Grimly

All but the youngest of readers will finish the book within 10 minutes without pausing to admire the artwork considering that the book is only 32 pages long from start to finish. None the less packed within those 32 pages is an incredibly rich dark humor that will often produce an evil chuckle in the reader. The book manages easily to walk that very thin tightrope of being dark and dirty enough to appeal to adults whilst being silly and fantastical enough to appeal to young children. This is definitely a book you will regularly come back to and read with your sprogs again and again. My favourite story in the book is called "fuzzy wuzzy" which i include here to give you an idea of the twisted and humorous writing style:

"A poor wretched bear was named Fuzzy.

Still the question remains, but was he?

Born with no hair.

He was oddly bare,

and a little bit stinky and scuzzy"

Fuzzy Wuzzy - By Gris Grimly from "Wicked Nursery Rhymes"

Gris Grimly is a helluva artist and once you know his style you will recognize it anywhere! If one were to be hyper critical you could say his writing whilst good is not on the same par as his artwork, but none the less as a whole package gris grimly’s wicked nursery rhymes is a book well worth owning and i highly recommend it to horror fans and monster mates both young and old!

Night of the Demons (1988)! Horror movie review

The eighties are quite rightly revered as a golden decade of horror. What stands out in so many of the horror films made during this period is a genuine love for the genre carried through in movies with budgets both large and small.

Right from the off with its introductory animated sequence you can see that “night of the demons” is a horror film that has been lovingly crafted. The storyline itself is nothing ground breaking involving as it does a group of partying teenagers beseiged by evil spirits in a spooky house with a history but its just done with such aplomb and character that you cant help but enjoy the hell ride!!! The story takes place on the night of the halloween as a group of young un’s travel to an old house in the middle of nowhere to attend a party being thrown by party girl suzanne and her friend Angela, who just so happens to have a strong interest in the occult. The group decide to hold a seance as part of a party game which needless to say unleashes a savage group of demons that are hungry for fresh meat, murder and mayhem!

Special effects and make-up duties were carried out by Steve Johnson and they are simply monstermendous! This is one area of the film that on recent viewing has not aged at all. The blood looks real! The demons are suitably rotten! and i would not expect anything less from a man with this guys pedigree seeing as he has provided special effects and makeup duties for a ton of terror tales including the howling, ghostbusters, the fog, nightmare on elm street and bad moon to name but a few. An interesting piece of trivia for fright fans is that Steve Johnson ended up marrying Linnea Quigley who plays the part of Suzanne in the film.

A couple of standout scenes from the film include Angela performing an erotic dance to the bauhaus song “stigmata martyr” as she slowly becomes possessed by a demon and the character suzanne proving her nipples are as practical as they are pert! by using them as storage for her make-up!!! You really need to see the latter to understand this properly!

Angela as the demon begins to take hold!

Suzanne about to get real freaky with her nipples!!!

Audio is superb for the film throughout and makes excellent use of traditional haunted attraction type sound effects that really add to the halloween atmosphere of the film.

Night of the demons does suffer a little from the variance of acting ability on display! Without naming names, whilst there are some standout performances this invariably draws even more attention to those not quite on the same par as their fellow thespians!!!

In conclusion, Night of the demons is not a master piece and it never sets out to be! But it most certainly is a frightfully fun filled rotten romp of a horror movie, that was clearly put together with love and an intention to detail. Final score: 7.5 skulls out ten!

Happy Wendigo Wednesday, ghoulfiends and gentlecreeps!

The Wendigo also known as (windigo, weendigo, windago, waindigo, windiga, witiko, wihtikow) is a monster born of native american traditions and folklore. Should a person happen to partake in cannabalism then they run the risk of being possessed by an evil spirit that curses them with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Whilst the descriptions from different tribes do differ invariably the appearance of the afflicted becomes demonic and in time they become a full on furred, furious and frightful beast! 

In some cases the Wendigo like werewolves are for the most part able to keep a human appearance and only change under certain conditions but in most tales of the Wendigo the change from human to beast is a permanent one and once fully transformed they head for forests and caves to live, hunt & store bodies! The more humans on which the Wendigo feasts, the bigger it becomes and so to does its appetite!

Some psychologists recognize a mental disorder known as wendigo-syndrome, where a person craves human flesh even when other food is readily available! The psychosis is considered to be culture bound amongst aboriginal people. In the 20th century reported cases of Wendigo syndrome are virtually non-existent and most experts question whether it actually really existed.

Traditional Native American depiction of a "Wendigo"

Recently a Wendigo featured in an episode of the popular, long running tv show “supernatural” (series:1, episode:2, September 20th, 2005) . While trying to find their father, John Winchester, Sam and Dean help a family whose brother has gone missing on a camping trip. He has been taken by a Wendigo, but they find him alive in a cavern where the Wendigo stores its victims as living food sources. Dean kills the creature by shooting it with a flare gun.

"Wendigo" as featured in an episode of the "Supernatural TV series"

More scenes from the "Supernatural tv series" featuring a "Wendigo"

A particularly great use of the wendigo legend is seen in the short-lived tv series “fear itself”. In a genuinely horrible , disturbing and well scripted episode called “skin and bones” (series:1, episode:8) Rancher Grady Edlund returns home to his family after being lost in the forest for a number of days. He is possessed by a Wendigo, and the episode follows his descent into madness and monsterdom as he invariably ends up trying to eat his whole family!!!

Scenes from the "fear itself" episode called "skin and bones"

A wendigo also makes a fleeting appearance in the monstermendous brilliance that is “cabin in the woods”. The creature is seen briefly on a surveillance monitor attacking members of the security forces.

"Wendigo" on the rampage in "Cabin in the woods".

The wendigo has appeared in many marvel comic’s story-lines, with various humans being affected by the curse and then doing battle with the likes of Hulk, Wolverine and Alpha flight.

So there you have it! A little homage from the creepy critter to the wonderfully worry-some Wendigo! Hope you enjoyed it ghoul-fiends and gentlecreeps and have a fangtastic wendigo wednesday!!!