People seem to get freaked out by dolls so, with Halloween looming, I thought that’d make a good Halloween week Movie Monday offering. I tried to find some of the freakiest, creepiest doll video clips on YouTube that I could. Here’s three that I thought were great. Very atmospheric and haunting –inContinue Reading
I thought I’d do something a little different again for Movie Monday: list the horror movies I’m watching this Halloween season. It was inspired by last week’s Movie Monday Party Express stop to Nate’s Peer Review and his Part 1 review of Halloween film classics, as well as by some ofContinue Reading
THE SAGA OF HOW WE LEARNED ABOUT THE MEAN KITTY SONG If you follow HJ on Facebook you might’ve seen my posts (rants and raves) about my computer crashing late last week. Because it’ll take 7 to 10 business days for a fix-it disk to arrive, I opted to buyContinue Reading
The Daily News wrote about how the “Devil” trailer evoked laughs from the audience at an “Inception” screening, but the article ended with this glimmer of hope: “Its mysterious nature…suggest that Shyamalan is planning a return to form.” I’m hoping so. The Sixth Sense was so WOW! Unbreakable was okay.Continue Reading
Last week I received an email with the subject line “Why did Ghost Hunters do this?” Well of course that piqued my interest and I opened it, even though I didn’t recognize the sender’s ID. But let me pause here for a second. While I’m on the topic of IDs…notContinue Reading
If you’re like me, a fan of horror movies, you may know many of them get their inspiration from real life events. Examples: Robert the Doll served as inspiration for Child’s Play, and Cheeseman Park tickled Spielberg’s muse for Poltergeist. I’m not sure if the boogeyman of Staten Island knownContinue Reading
August 2 thru August 6 is designated as Psychic Week. But according to an ABC News story from 2001, many psychics don’t even know there is such a week in their honor. Or didn’t. However, I’m thinking not much has changed in the last nine years because, even as nutsContinue Reading
Linda Moffitt is my kind of author. Her book, Washington’s Haunted Hotspots, is most definitely a travel guide for restless spirits. It’s loaded with over 175 haunted locations, 17 haunted trips, and specific info (including turn-by-turn instructions) for visiting each location. I came to know of, as well as know,Continue Reading
Have you ever seen the episode “Jess-Belle” on the old Twilight Zone (the one from the 1960s)? Wendy Webb’s The Tale of Halcyon Crane reminded me a bit of that mixed with Mary Stewart’s Thornyhold. It was Gothic, full of atmosphere in a rural setting, flavored with love, and hypnotizing.Continue Reading
Once upon a time, back when I first started blogging, I created a promo video for Haunt Jaunts. I’d never really been happy with it, though. I knew it could be improved, that I could do better. So, I put it on my To Do list: “revise HJ promo vid.”Continue Reading
A little bee buzzed me about a film premiering tonight at 9 p.m. on HBO: No One Dies in Lily Dale. It’s part of the HBO Documentary Film Summer Series. Here’s the teaser I was sent that immediately piqued my interest: Located just south of Buffalo, tiny Lily Dale, NY,Continue Reading
I can’t wait until Movie Monday to talk about some movie news I have today. TONTINE MASSACRE First off, I made of point of watching the exclusive sneak peak of Tontine Massacre today. I loved the audition tapes it started out with. (Oh, and before I say more, it wasContinue Reading
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