Bloody Mary or the King of Halloween?

I logged onto my email today and saw a few updates from the Chainsawwolf page staring at me. "Bloody Mary makes an appearance!" Chainsawwolf is a site run by the legendary scareactor Chainsawolf who has been HHN forever, and they have the devoted followers that scour the net for any info they could get. Today, Jared from the wolf boards posted this:

"So after staring at the skull on Tab III, I saw the two figures of people in there and it reminded me of that classic optical illusion of the two people playing poker, that is also inside of a skull. Then I thought, this can't just be coincidence. So I went back and looked at Tab II and it has a very similar round > shape to Tab III, with things being places in similar spots. So I then thought, what if you stack all of the Tabs together in photoshop? I think you guys would like to see the result."

Here's the result.

Great find Jared...fucking amazing thought, something I dont have the patience for. And this is what true horror fans do...they spend every waking moment looking for some kind of clue to whats next. I guess I'm not as true blue as some...then again, horror dont pay my bills.

Halloween Horror Nights is starting to pick up full steam. Most of you really have no idea what its all about, but dont worry.....you will. I'll make sure of that, and I hope to convert at least one of the Crew into a bloodletter or goregetter. Well, what you dont know, and may not hear is what almost was. Sure, we're not 100% of what the hell to expect this year, but so far, so good. We have what looks like a lady icon, and a serious lady icon. She has the brains, she has the nerve, and most of all...she has the blood lust. She's going to be putting people into vicarious positions of danger while enjoying every minute of it, all in the name of...science....right. She was a shrink that did research on phobias and had an unorthodox way of studying them...by putting her patients into their fears and seeing how far they would go to avoid them. We dont know how they'll string all of these fears together, or how effective the good doctor will be, but we do know her name....or at least what we think her name will be....Bloody Mary.

But the one thing that you really dont know is the HHN that almost was...or is it still there? Universal has so many creative minds working for them, such as the great J. Michael Roddy (who was on In The Loop) Mike Aiello (who has excellent taste in movies...Death Proof KILLS!) And T.J. Mannarino (the mastermind of the macabre celebration for quite sometime now). That, however, doesnt convince marketing because they conduct countless surveys every year on what people would like to see. One such survey asked about Urban Legends and which one would scare you......hmmmm....seems like people liked that idea.

Another survey that went around had four possible ideas for themes, each revolving around an icon in horror.

1.)George Romero's original Night of The Living Dead, having it's 40th anniversary.

2.)Lions Gate films, including Saw, Halloween and Hostel

3.)Jill, an all new icon who ran away to the circus and was the main squeeze of another HHN Icon...

4.)The many books of Stephen King

All of these were somewhat good ideas, with one great one...but they all presented problems

1.)An event full of zombies? Great in theory, but one zombie house or area is enough. Now make Marvel Zombies and I'm there.

2.)Last year we had New Line films with Freddy, Jason and Leatherface. The movie thing has been done, and it had people screaming "sell out". Besides, these films are less horror and more slasher...blood doesnt neccessarily equal scary.

3.)Jill..Jack and Jill. We've had enough clowns. Sure a female icon would be great, one thats scary, but not another damn clown!

4.)Stephen King is a smart man. Maybe too smart. He'd want an awful lot of money for the rights to his books.....but most of his really scary books have been movies...some of which werent so scary. Some stuff from his books were translated different in the movies...(example: The hatchet in the Shining was originally a denver croquet mallet...whats a denver croquet mallet...it's like a regular mallet, only really fucking big.) So people may be confused when they go to the book versions....then again, they could go with the movies...but the studios who made the movies owns those rights, not Stephen King...they'd have to pay twice...so that tossed that idea out the window. Or did it?

Now this is pure speculation, and purely based on the rumored names of all the houses and the site coming from the site. With that said, my esteemed friend Preston S. Popp(esquire! And I am Erik Erikdore Logan, and together we are WYL....sorry...) and I started looking at some of the imagery and how the King may not have disappeared after all.

Case #1-We are shown pictures of symbols and scarecrows. The rumored house that goes with this is "The Hallow". The book...tough call there, but I'm thinking kind of Pet Semetary. Preston pointed out the ritualistic drawings and the whole "druid" feel to it....kind of like a lost ancient Indian Tribe. What gets me is the headless man...his head is ate in half and he seems to be walking....like someone who's come back.

Case #2-We are shown drawings of alien type symbols and told an astronaut is scared of the end of the world. This is a long shot, but a lot of folks believe this to be "Interstellar Terror" which to me screams space....and aliens. Stephen King book? Tommyknockers or Dreamcatcher. Both have to do with aliens wanting to enslave humanity and end our way of life....but Dreamcatcher has buttworms....dont know...I'm leaning Tommyknockers on this one.

Case #3-I SEE DEAD PEOPLE! ON CAMERA! This one is kind of hard, the only real Stephen King story to deal with something similar is Cell. Basically a cell phone signal turns people into zombies....I know stretching it, but still....It's more likely based on "Shutter" which is not a King story. So we'll have to wait to see what "Dead Exposure" is.

Case #4-This one is obvious. You look at a comic book and in it there are spined tentacles. This one is obviously "Creatures" which is obviously "The Mist" in which other worldly creatures with huge spiny tentacles are let loose. The book, actually, is more about religion and the fact that people are sheep than big scary creatures....funny how things work. Kind of like how Night of the Living Dead is really about Racism.

Case #5-Here's where we're upto at this point on the site. The rumored house is "Scary Tales" and in it we hear of a lady who is afraid of stories...like fairy tales. So the good doctor has a bunch of lunatics chant stories ritualistic. I am at a loss on this one, but Preston seems to think it's Children of the Corn. There are reports that Cornfields are being grown in the house for this one, and we'll be lost inside of them while unseen forces walk among them. Kind of makes sense...but why fairy tales?

Other house names include Doomsday, Bloody Mary, Body Collectors. Doomsday, I hope is a take on "The Stand" which is an apocolyptic look at good and evil. Preston is leaning towards Bloody Mary being Misery...I dont see that one.....

But it is clear that some of the King's works were borrowed from...just a tiny bit....which is definately not a bad thing. After all, if it keeps you awake at night and engrains terrible visions in your head and keeps me looking to the closet for the ghost of a serial killer....then I dont mind the borrowing. But, could you only imagine an entire event? Walking down the halls of the hotel i Shining? Seeing two little girls and a river of blood? And Jack? He aint got shit on Pennywise! We All Float Down Here...

Til next time...Keep your pants on....scaredy cats.

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