🎶 They're Creepy and They're Kooky 🎶

There's no better time of year to celebrate the first family of spookiness, the peerless Addams Family, my surrogate family.

Enjoy this brief selection of Mortica and Wednesday cosplays.

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Happy Halloween: A Fan Film (2020)

In this 'lost scene' from Halloween 2018, a police officer, a trick-or-treater and three high school friends have a deadly encounter with The Shape.

Jacob (A Horror Short Film)

After finding a mysterious slide projector in the attic, Nicole uncovers something sinister in her new home.

Written and directed by John Fitzpatrick, starring Sarah Nicklin and Josh McKevitt.

Halloween is Cancelled (2020)

Massive thanks to my good pal, Justin Isaac for sending me this.

Teddy Bears Picnic

Teddy Bears Picnic by Tom Hodge (The Dude Designs)

Starring:

• Laurence R Harvey (Human Centipede 2+3)
• Abby Miller (Justified, The Sinner, Aquarius and Home Before Dark)
• Lorelei Winterfrost

Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter, playing games in the forest. Somebody’s watching. Somebody’s waiting. If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a grim surprise.

A proof of concept short film for a dark re-imaging of the classic children's song Teddy Bears Picnic, as a nightmarish fable that twists the concept of childhood innocence.

Terror of Dracula (Rare 8mm Version of Nosferatu, featuring Alternate Ending)

Rare reconstructed version of the Terror of Dracula. Music by Frederick Hodges. Reconstruction by Nigel Dreiner. A YouTube Exclusive Premiere from The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.

h/t Craig Oxbrow for drawing my attention to this 25-minute (plus introduction) cut of the silent 1922 classic Nosferatu.

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Bela Lugosi Returns As Dracula In New Graphic Novel Adaptation Of Stoker's Novel...

Bram Stoker. Bela Lugosi. Two names forever bound by Dracula. And for the first time ever, Bram Stoker’s gothic masterpiece is being united with the definitive screen Dracula, Bela Lugosi, in Legendary Comics’ all new graphic novel! 

In the late 19th Century, Dracula, an ancient Transylvanian vampire, moves to England to find fresh blood and spread his evil contagion. There, he encounters two women, Lucy and Mina, who become the targets of his dark obsession.

Aided by a group of brave men, Professor Van Helsing arrives on the scene to take on the Vampire Prince in the ultimate battle between the forces of light and dark!

Doesn't this look fantastic? A graphic novel adaptation of Bram Stoker's game-changing novel, featuring, for the first time, the licensed image of Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire count.

This retelling of Dracula has been written by Robert Napton, with fantasy artist El Garing supplying the striking illustrations. 

The book is available for pre-order now, and due to be released next week.

2021 Is The Year He Comes Home... Again!

The Nazi Zombies Are Back This Halloween...

In a direct sequel to last Halloween's shocking Commandoes vs Zombies story in the brilliantly British war comic, Commando, the zombies are back for another bite this month.

Look out for issue 5379, Commando: The Home Of Heroes - Commandos vs Zombies 2, in which:

"Sergeant Leo Manktelow is a haunted man - haunted by the death of his best friend, Lionel Stone, and the things he saw on his last mission in Norway. The guilt he felt at leaving his closest friend behind gnawed away at him and wouldn't die. But now Leo is going back to Norway and something he left in the past hasn't stayed dead."

But that's not all, as Commando issue 5381, offers us Operation Silver Bullets, with a definite hint of some werewolf action.

And Commando issue 5382 tells the tale of a haunted castle in the middle of Czechoslovakia, Castle of Darkness, and a mission to save a scientist from the Nazis.

All of these issues are now on sale and, as usual, you can read more at downthetubes.net, the home of British comic book news.

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Weird Wednesday...

Wonder Woman Wednesday...

Comics Without Context...

I Don't Want Sabrina To Ever End...

... but then again, I wouldn't want it to outstay its welcome.

The final eight-part season of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina begins on Netflix in December.

Map-A-Monday: Paradise Island

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Before it was named Themyscira, in the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Wonder Woman's home was originally known simply as Paradise Island. 

Vamp Down To Halloween - Week Four...