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How Does A ‘Halloween’ For Halloween Giveaway Sound?

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What movies come to mind when you think of the Halloween season?

Hocus Pocus? Trick ‘r Treat? Terrifier? The spooky season has tons of great picks that just hit that much harder when the leaves have turned and brisk winds blow through the air.

While enjoying a cup of warm apple cider in the foyer of the Horror Press estate, a gentle knock came from my chamber door. Wrapped in a warm cardigan and Goosebumps Cavity Color pants, I investigated. Set before my feet was a gift that would warm the heart of any horror fan.

What was this gift? Well, it was the gorgeous Halloween 4K Collection: 1995 – 2002!

Since it’s the best time of year to watch Halloween films, we’ve decided to share this gift with you, our readers!

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To see what your favorite Halloween movie says about you, click here!

Enter Our Halloween 4K Collection (1995 – 2002) Giveaway!

HOW TO ENTER

Since it’s Halloween we’ve made it even easier to enter!

Just follow the steps below!

Step 1. Make sure to FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM!
Step 2. LIKE the giveaway post!
Step 3. Tag a friend who LOVES Michael Myers!

The giveaway will begin on Wednesday, 10/16/24, and end on Monday, 10/21/24.

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If the winner does not respond on Instagram within 24 hours, we will randomly select another winner.

What You’ll Win

If you’ve been pining to watch OG Michael Myers tear through the residents of Haddonfield, now is your chance! This gorgeous Shout! Factory collection is comprised of the 4K theatrical and producer’s cut of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, a 4K scan of Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, a 4K scan of Halloween: Resurrection, and some stunning special features:

  • Audio Commentary With Screenwriter Daniel Farrands And Actress Marianne Hagan, Moderated By Filmmaker Michael Perez
  • The Cursed “Curse” – An Interview With Producers Malek Akkad and Paul Freeman
  • Acting ScaredA look at The Film’s cast with Actresses Mariah O’Brien and J.C. Brandy
  • The Shape Of Things – A look at Michael Myers’ Murders and Mayhem with Special Make-Up Effects Artists John Buechler and Brad Hardin and Actor George P. Wilbur (Michael Myers)
  • Haddonfield’s Horrors – The sights of Halloween 6 with Director of Photography Billy Dickson, Production Designer Brad Ryman, and Director Of Photography (Additional Scenes) Thomas Callaway
  • Full Circle – An interview with composer Alan Howarth
  • Cast and crew tribute to Donald Pleasence
  • Scenes with John Ottman’s original score
  • Haddonfield North – An interview with Production Designer Troy Hansen
  • Sister, Scream Queen Sister – An interview with Stunt Coordinator and long-time Jamie Lee Curtis stunt double Donna Keegan
  • Hell Raiser – An interview with Special Makeup Effects Coordinator Gary J. Tunnicliffe
  • The Youngest Shape – An interview with actor Gary Clayton
  • The Butcher And The Blade – An interview with Actor Sean Patrick Thomas
  • Tales From The Script – An interview with comic book Author Stef Hutchinson
  • And SO MUCH MORE!!

**Giveaway entries are limited to addresses in the United States.**

**All entries must be 18 or older to enter**

Brendan is an award-winning author and screenwriter rotting away in New Jersey. His hobbies include rain, slugs, and the endless search for The Mothman.

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‘Death Becomes Her’ 4K Giveaway: Live Forever with This Cult Classic!

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We’re back with another killer giveaway! This Oscar-winning, campy Robert Zemeckis flick, shot by the always incredible Dean Cundey, has re-rocked the queer community with its recent Broadway adaptation. A few simple steps can put you in the running to receive this genre classic.

Enter Our Death Becomes Her Giveaway!

How to Enter:

Step 1. Make sure to FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM!

Step 2. LIKE the giveaway post!

Step 3. TAG A FRIEND who you’d like not to get old and decrepit with. 

Luckily for you, we’re not asking for a $200,000 check for an elixir that grants eternal youth and immortality.

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If the winner does not respond on Instagram within 24 hours, we will randomly select another winner.

What You’ll Win

  • 4K transfer of the original 35mm camera negative
  • Presented by Dolby Vision
  • The Making of Death Becomes Her: featuring interviews with Robert Zemeckis, writer David Koepp, Director of Photography Dean Cundey, Production Designer Rick Carter and Special Effects Artists Lance Anderson and David Anderson
  • Vintage Making-of Featurette
  • Photo Gallery
  • Theatrical Trailer

Celebrate Pride with this gorgeous 4K copy of a bona fide cult classic! What are you waiting for? Your rejuvenation potion to kick in? Go on, do it, it’s the completion of your physical media collection! SEMPRE VIVE!

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Demon Twinks: Horror’s Deadliest Skinny Boys

Ranking the top 10 deadliest twink horror villains! From Corey Cunningham in Halloween Ends to Lee in Bones and All, these slim slashers bring terror with style.

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When one is ideating horror-related topics for Pride Month, it shouldn’t take too long for the phrase “demon twink” to pop into one’s head. Naturally, it took me three years to come up with this idea. I never said I was a genius. But once it got into my head, I couldn’t get it out. Twinks don’t have a reputation for being imposing or menacing. They’re usually young, slim, etc., and as such can be quickly written off.

But horror villainy is an equal opportunity business, and there are plenty of demon twinks to be had, if you know where to look. Twunks need not apply. So I took the time to do some exhaustive research and break down some of the deadliest skinny boys in the business (ranked by deadliness, of course – their body type is part of the foundation of this discussion but not attached to any sort of value judgment).

Warning: Some of these movies are whodunits, so there will be spoilers.

Top 10 Demon Twinks in Horror

#10 Orphan: First Kill (2022) – Gunnar Albright

Demon twink number 10 is low on the list because he doesn’t actually kill anybody during the events of Orphan: First Kill, but (VERY SPOILER ALERT) the fact that, prior to said events, he murdered his own kid sister and conspired with his mother to cover it up very much earns him a place on this list. That’s demonic as hell.

#9 He Lives by Night (夜驚魂) (1982) – The Stocking Killer

This Hong Kong movie is probably the least well-known of the titles on this list, but it shouldn’t be. Well, it is a touch transphobic, as are so many early post-Psycho slashers, so be warned. But the killer – whose mind snapped because of his cheating wife, leading him to murder women by strangling them with stockings – pulls off a heap of brutal, protracted, often beautiful murders, including one that I would accuse of ripping off Tenebrae if it hadn’t actually come out before the Argento classic.

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#8 Terror Train (1980) – Kenny Hampson

Kenny racks up a pretty solid body count for an early 1980s slasher villain, helping 10 people shuffle off this mortal coil. However, the flair that he has for changing costumes is not reflected in the kills, which can be a little samey, landing him a little lower on the list than he maybe should be.

#7 Scream VI (2023) – Ethan Landry

Like all Scream movies, the exact body count that each Ghostface is responsible for in Scream VI is a little unclear. However, given where he is at certain times in the movie, he could have perpetrated at least five of the New York City slayings, which is more than his dad (three, tops) or his sister (who maxes out at four). He’s also pretty clearly the Ghostface behind the notorious ladder scene, which results in one of the most gruesome deaths in the movie. Poor Anika. We hardly knew ye.

#6 Cutting Class (1989) – Brian Woods

See, this demon twink 1980s slasher killer has a more compact body count of 6, but he knows how to have fun with it. He’s out here baking people into kilns and inspiring Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving with a deliciously preposterous trampoline murder.

#5 Angst (1983) – K

K may not have a lot of meat on his bones, but what he does have to offer is an uncontrollable urge to torture and murder people. This bleak, shocking motion picture has a relatively low body count, because it primarily follows him tormenting one isolated family. However, the sheer intensity of what we do see cannot be denied, as is the intensity of the way K does everything in his life, including eating a sausage in what might actually be the most disgusting scene in the movie.

#4 Fade to Black (1980) – Eric Binford

When it comes to a small body count with flair, look no further than Eric Binford, who stages five spectacular murders inspired by classic films, namely Kiss of Death, Dracula, Hopalong Cassidy, The Mummy, and White Heat, all while trying to get with a Marilyn Monroe lookalike. Commitment to a theme will get you far in Pride Month, and we must all pay respect.

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#3 Bones and All (2022) – Lee

Lee’s onscreen kill count isn’t especially high, but he gets extra points for style (Slitting a dude’s throat in the middle of a hookup? This demon twink brings the drama) and for canonical cannibal murders that have taken place before the events of the story, including those of his father and babysitter. Plus, Timothée Chalamet is the ur twink of our day, and that is what pushes him so far toward the top of the list.

#2 Children of the Corn (1984) – Malachai

Although he does not figure very much in the opening scenes of the movie when the town’s children turn on the adults, Isaac’s second-in-command makes up for lost time once the main thrust of the story kicks in. In fact, he’s really the only person who commits proper, non-supernatural murders from that point on, and he takes to his job with terrifying gusto.

#1 Halloween Ends (2022) – Corey Cunningham

I know, I know. He’s not technically Michael Myers, and we’re all mad about that. This is something I’ve written extensively about for Horror Press in the past. But he is the primary killer in this movie, like it or not. He’d already get points for the accidental but spectacular murder of that beyond irritating kid he’s babysitting in the opening sequence (which I’ve also written about previously), but he later adds nine bodies to that count, as well as a homoerotic assist for a Michael Myers slaying. And some of those kills are pretty damn gruesome! This is a deadly, demon twink if there ever was one.

Runners-Up: Jesse Walsh from A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Alex from My Soul to Take, Charlie Walker from Scream 4, Arne Johnson from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, and Norman Bates from Psycho IV: The Beginning

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