Apologies for being so NYC centric on this blog. But then again, it’s not my fault you don’t live in the greatest and most evil city in the world!

Time to start the flurry of Halloween events happening. October can’t get here soon enough.

The annual Zombiecon NYC will be upon us soon. Get your makeup ready and practice your foot-dragging.

Anyone in or around Seattle? If you are, then on Halloween weekend you should definitely be checking out Zombcon.

This festival should be badass. You have Bruce Campbell. You have two of my favorite authors, Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) and Max Brooks (duh), and the godfather of zombie flicks, George Romero. I wish I was there.

You may or may not have known that the Devil’s Demons is originally from North Carolina. Believe it or not, North Carolina is an awesome place.

North Carolina is also home to loads of awesome haunted houses, many of which I remember fondly from growing up. Like most ruralish areas, there’s just a lot of open space, woods, and crazy people to make really awesome and genuinely frightening haunted houses/barns/schoolhouses/etc.

One place that didn’t exist when I was living there is the Myers House. What’s the Myers House? It’s a replica of Michael Myers of Halloween fame’s house. And there’s all kinds of cool stuff going on there.

[Via Evil on Two Legs]

In or around Chicago next weekend? If you are, definitely check out Music Box Massacre 6. Movies from noon to noon? Awesome.

There’s an awesome lineup of movies all day/night, plus some special guest stars who will be making appearances during the day.

AND they’re showing one of my favorite movies of all-time, Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

Well, I know why, because in general, it kinda sucks, and I hate driving, and you have to drive everywhere, but the weather is pretty damn good.

Anyways, this weekend, if you happen to be in LA, check out the Boobs and Blood Festival. (warning: VERY NSFW). It’s a festival about all things horror that involve boobs, apparently.

Someone please go and report back. This has to be hilariously funny. More funny will be the sad souls who show up trying to get laid. But whatever.

We love any and every excuse to get dressed up and drunk.

Zombiecon NYC 2010 is set for Saturday October 16th. Get ready.

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Back before Twilight and Sookie Stackhouse essentially ruined vampires’ image, there were classic versions of Dracula and the vampires. Somehow, those movies morphed into the versions of vampire movies we have today, and I don’t know where things went wrong.

Regardless of how you feel, we’re going old school with vampires.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is gearing up for their vampire fest, starting this week. If you live in Brooklyn/NYC, I suggest checking this out. We’ll be there for some of these I am sure.

From the site, the event is described as:

Sink your teeth into 33 films featuring cinema’s most dangerous—and dangerously alluring—figure. From Lugosi to the lesbian undead, Murnau to Maddin, camp-horror staple to postmodern, society-as-sickness metaphor, the vampire’s reign over popular imagination continues to seduce filmmakers over to the dark side.

Looking through the lineup so far,  I’m happy to report I have only seen 2 of the movies. The Vampire Lovers is definitely at the top of my list.

I’ve probably written about the Last Rites gallery half a dozen times on here, yet never actually went. Well, if you’re in NYC the weekend of July 10th, checking out the opening of a brand new group show called Lead Poisoning, along with a solo exhibit from artist Jason D’Aquino.

Very cool and dark stuff. Stuff you should like.

Oh yes. It’s that time of year again. Summer convention season.

Monster Mania‘s semi-annual convention is on the horizon. John Carpenter is the guest of honor. There’s a Pet Cemetery reunion. You want to watch out for that road.

Vincent and I attended this convention back in 2005, right after moving to NYC. Needless to say, we had an amazing time. We road in a bus for two hours and sneakily drank Coors Light at 7 in the morning.

We walked around buying stupid shit.

I met Adrienne Barbeau and got a picture taken with her. Hot.

We got drunk at a Bahama Breeze and TGIFridays down the road at a mall.

We laughed. We cried.

It’s good convention fun. I think we’re going to go this year.

Need a Sunday funday? Wanna dress and act like a Zombie? NYC Zombie Crawl is the place to be.