Episode 75: Bipolar Vortex

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Winter’s bite has latched on tight so hold on to your snowballs, kiddies, ‘cuz we’re sticking this frozen treat right in your polar vortex.

HAUNTING GURU INTERVIEW

The King of Cringe, Chris Baker welcomes Greg Packard of Restless Souls Manor to the icicle crusted dungeon.

THE BONE PHONE

Greg Wallace of Wallace Manor dials in for a chilly chat.

THEATER OF THE MIND

Now haunting in 3D... Distort, Distract, and Disorient. Revenant looks at ways to use confusion and mind-f**kery to keep the audience off balance.

SHOCKTAILS

More stone cold shenanigans with Baker and Thunder in the Last Bar on the Left featuring reviews of Escape Room, Terror Tales, The Clovehitch Killer, Rust Creek, and Revenge.

SOMETHING WICKED

Wick-Ed Gannon chills you to the bone with what constitutes… “The Scary”.

THE BLACK MARKET

Author Mark Muncy joins Baker to talk frigid facts and points of interest featured in his books, Eerie Florida and Freaky Florida.

GHOULIE GROOVES

Blistering the dungeon walls with hot tracks from Murderock’s latest release, Demonia.

THE DARKEST WEB

Morbid Mariah drops more well-preserved links featuring Halloween and horror inspired Valentine’s Day cards, Halloween prop tutorials, costume retrospective book, art & illustration, and horror TV series.

Until next time — Stay Scary!

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FEATURED LINKS

The Darkest Web

Monster Tutorials: realistic maggots, realistic guts, Facebook, Instagram

Halloween How-To: breathing grave, living tombstone, website

Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costumes and Masquerade retrospective book

Techy Artworks by Kevin Asher

French illustrator DZO: website, Facebook, Instagram

Amazon Prime Video series The Living and the Dead

Etsy Shop Valentine’s Cards: Lowkee Creations, YeaOh Greetings, and The Painted Peep Show horror cards

Episode 74: Decade of Debauchery

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Season’s Greetings, lycanthropes! Skully’s swept up all the stray werewolf hairs and hung his severed toes by the chimney with care because it’s an extra-joyous season this year in the Dungeon. It’s the 10th Anniversary of Hauntcast and we’re celebrating with a holiday episode sure to bring out the haunting beast in you. Here’s to 10 more years you’ll never get back. Enjoy the show and Happy Holidays That Aren’t Halloween, freaks!

HAUNTING GURU INTERVIEW

Baker howls it up in the Dungeon with guest Josh Quillin, producer/director of the feature film documentary Epic Home Haunts now showing on Amazon Prime Video.

THEATER OF THE MIND

Revenant displays a flair for the chromatic as he explores the many applications of color in haunt design.

SHOCKTAILS

A full moon, a few growlers and Baker & Thunder sprout hair in funny places while snarling their way through reviews of President Evil, Johnny Gruesome, Scarecrows, Elves, Krampus Origins, and Overlord.

SOMETHING WICKED

Wick-Ed Gannon puts on his teaching cap and schools Baker with a feasibility study as our G/host foolishly considers starting his own pro haunt.

MARKETING MORGUE

Dick Terhune dissects Baker's Big Brain plans for marketing and advertising a start-up haunted attraction.

GHOULIE GROOVES

Music by The Young Werewolves with throat-ripping tracks from their album “Sins of the Past”.

THE DARKEST WEB

Morbid Mariah serves up more tender, juicy morsels of fresh link meat featuring Halloween-inspired holiday decor, horror shows, books, articles, and tattoo art.

MAD PROPS FOR PROPS

We like big booms and we cannot lie. Thunderous mad props for Wallace Manor Haunt’s Civil War cannon and cannoneer.

Until next time — Stay Scary!

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Episode 73: Klaatu Barada Nikto

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Hail to the King, baby! It’s our mostly-annual Halloween Hootenanny Spectacular! Even in the midst of repairing and revitalizing the Hauntcast Dungeon, we still found time to bring you a little treat for your haunting work throughout the year. Get your Necrocondomon ‘cuz it’s cosplay, cabins, and cobwebs this time on Hauntcast. Happy Halloween, freaks!

HAUNTING GURU INTERVIEW

Master prop maker Evil Ted Smith worked in the movie industry doing visual effects, prop, and model making for 28 years. He worked on films and television shows such as Hunger Games, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Trek, Walking Dead, Titanic and Batman to name a few. He’s known around the world for his YouTube tutorials teaching cosplayers how to make foam armor and props.

THE BONE PHONE

Who’s that ringing in? It’s Steve & Don Doleshal of Jack’s Hollow, collaborators on an Evil Dead 2 replica cabin, complete with deer head, bleeding walls and pieces of the actual film set.

THEATER OF THE MIND

What do you, haunter, have to offer? Revenant thinks it's probably more than you're aware.

SHOCKTAILS

Primitive screwheads Baker & Thunder conjure up more swilling and swearing as JT unloads a huge batch of horror books, novels, comics, TV, and movie reviews including Hotel Transylvania 3, The Night Eats the World, E-Demon, Animalistic, and The Church.

SOMETHING WICKED

Wick-Ed Gannon returns with ways to make Halloween Night at a Haunted Attraction extra special for both the patrons, and the staff.

GHOULIE GROOVES

Music by Nox Arcana’s Buzz-Works with cuts from their album “House of Nightmares”.

HAUNTCAST IDOL

Do you even want to know what it takes to be the next Hauntcast Idol?

THE DARKEST WEB

Freshest of the freshly dead, Morbid Mariah shares links to some of her favorite Halloween and Horror related blogs, artists, shows, decor, and more.

MAD PROPS FOR PROPS

A stringy, sticky serving of Mad Props for Bob Kowal’s Radioactive Mutant Spider prop.

Until next time — Stay Scary!

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Episode 72: Creature Double Feature

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HAUNTING GURU INTERVIEW: Jon Cooke aka Johnny Plague infects the dungeon with his haunt backstory and journey through Knott's Scary Farm to Queen Mary's Dark Harbor.

THEATER OF THE MIND: Revenant returns from the grave with News from Beyond and he is shoveling out VIP passes to Theater of the Mind.

BLACK MARKET: Nelson Bairos of LifeApe swings by the dungeon to discuss their new controllers and have a banana.

SHOCKTAILS: Fresh back from Blobfest 2018, and NO he wasn't the main attraction, Johnny Thunder drinks and drinks and reviews: The Basement, Blood Clots, Forest of Lost Souls, and Who's Watching Oliver.

GHOULIE GROOVES: Winds of Plague blow into town and spill "Blood of My Enemy".

Enjoy the show and Stay Scary!

 

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