These days Halloween is all Naughty This and Sexy That, but the roots of our spookiest holiday's traditions—from pumpkins to trick-or-treating—run deep, their origins reaching back thousands of years to pre-Christian pagan festivals and superstitions. These quirky bits of trivia about the history of Halloween should help you better appreciate all the ghouls and witches wandering about (and your hoard of candy):
October 27, 2014 Just when you think Halloween was in it's prime, you can't help but deny the fact that the holiday juggernaut known as Christmas is just around the corner. Downtown Grand Rapids is no stranger to the merry season.
It feels like common sense: of course the horror movie released a week before Halloween is going to win the weekend war at the box office over the action movie. And yet, most horror movies continue to get released as far away from the season of the witch as possible. Can the recent success of 'Annabelle' and this weekend's 'Ouija' change that?
October 26, 2014 What makes a movie a classic? Every Holiday season, you have a movie that you must absolutely watch right? During Christmas time, you most likely watch 'A Christmas Story' at least 1,048 times. During Halloween though, what do you watch? Internet YouTuber the Nostalgia Critic lists out what he thinks are the newest Halloween classics.
The roots of our spookiest holiday's traditions—from pumpkins to trick-or-treating—run deep, their origins reaching back thousands of years to pre-Christian pagan festivals and superstitions.
We had the chance to speak with the horror rock icon about his upcoming flick, '31,' which pits unlucky captives against a group of gladiatorial clowns.
Butcher Babies are ready to put a scare into you with their new video for 'They're Coming to Take Me Away.'
Come see more masters of cosplay and their fine work on display in the Greatest Game Cosplay Ever (This Week).
The Halloween slate of scary movies continues this week, plus we see Keanu Reeves get back into hard-boiled action on the big screen once again.
October 23, 2014 Carving pumpkins isn't just for the kiddos. Sure, you could go the classic route and try to show off your arty side with some sweet witches or zombies, or the standard jack-o-lantern toothy grin.
Or you could do something cooler. And tastier. You could turn your pumpkin into a keg.
Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach offers a new album update as well as details on his other various projects.
October 18, 2014 I don't know what it is about JonTron, but he cracks me up every time he releases a video. I have heard of the game named 'Clock Tower' many times in the past, but I never heard of the Super Famicom release ever! Thanks to JonTron through, I now know of the existence of this mediocre game.
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