ABC Announces Haunting Halloween Programming Lineup

Throughout this month, ABC will air a ghostly lineup of Halloween-themed episodes and festive films, including spine-tingling new episodes of “9-1-1,” “Abbott Elementary,” “Dancing with the Stars” and “Doctor Odyssey,” and broadcast television debuts of fan favorites “Haunted Mansion” (2023) and “Hocus Pocus 2.”

Shout! TV Presents 31 Nights of Horror

Shout! TV and Scream Factory TV proudly present the 5th annual 31 Nights of Horror, a streaming event to celebrate this upcoming Halloween season. 31 Nights of Horror programming will stream every night of October on both Shout! TV (broadcast edited versions) and Scream Factory TV (uncensored) with fan-favorite horror films of all genres including thrillers, slashers, ghost stories, zombies, cult classics, creature features, and more! In addition, for this year’s celebration Shout! TV has teamed up with popular horror content creators and horror superfans to program every Saturday and Sunday of 31 Nights of Horror. The horror content creators and their programmed films include:

The Loyal Subjects Beetlejuice Figures Photoset

In a world where it seems toy companies pass around licenses and take turns making the same characters in their own artistic style, The Loyal Subjects has got fans in a frenzy for an action figure we've shockingly never gotten before. Beetlejuice from the self-named cartoon series!! At Toy Insider's Holiday of Play event, Loyal Subject's Head Honcho Jonathan Cathey told fans the wait was almost over as their Beetlejuice BST AXN Beetlejuice animated figure AND their Action Vinyl Beetlejuice Movie figures have shipped out and should be hitting WALMART stores this month, if the stock-gods favor you. 

Amazon Prime Video presents WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE LIVE

Amazon Prime Video, in partnership with Blumhouse Television and Little Cinema Digital, presents the return of WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE LIVE: an Emmy-nominated virtual adventure that celebrates the exclusive release of four highly-anticipated Amazon Studios and Blumhouse Television films on Prime Video this October.

A Dark Passage Opening in Philadelphia

This Halloween season, when the living and the dead come closest together, Pseudonym Productions will introduce DARK PASSAGE, an enigmatic immersive experience exclusive to Philadelphia that opens Oct. 4 and is scheduled to run through Nov. 2.

Nothing is ever as it seems in DARK PASSAGE, which invites its guests to step into a realm between life and death for a haunting evening of mystery and exploration, filled with Halloween-infused surprises and Instagram-ready moments. Stepping through a mysterious glowing portal, guests will enter a story filled with surreal visuals, intricate sets and roaming performers, winding through a maze of hidden rooms that hide secrets waiting to be uncovered. DARK PASSAGE is a different kind of Halloween experience, designed for those seeking the unusual and unexpected.

Horrible Imaginings Film Festival October 10th through October 12th

The fifth annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival is descending upon North Park’s intimate Digital Gym Cinema again this year, continuing its position as San Diego’s closest look at the dark side of cinema. The film festival will include over 40 feature and short films showcasing the best talent from around the world, informative presentations from UCSD professors, revivals of classic and influential films in the horror genre, as well as question and answer sessions from filmmakers themselves. The regular “San Diego Local Spotlight” remains a prominent feature, highlighting work done from filmmakers in and around the San Diego area.

Notable feature films include “Dead Snow: Red Vs. Dead” the sequel to Tommy Wirkola’s popular Icelandic zombie film “Dead Snow,” “Another World,” a post-apocalyptic zombie film billed as the first action sci-fi film from Israel, “Soulmate,” a beautiful and haunting ghost story produced by Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dog Soldiers) and directed by Axelle Carolyn, “Call Girl of Cthulhu,” a tongue-in-cheek play on HP Lovecraft’s popular Cthulhu Mythos, and “Hi-8: Horror Independent,” an anthology ode to straight-to-video horrors of yore featuring San Diego filmmakers.

Zombies Devour Asbury Park, NJ

We watch the films and laugh at the gore, knowing this sort of thing would never happen to us...until THIS SORT OF THING HAPPENS TO US!!! This past weekend, the sleepy sea side town of Asbury Park was completely over-run by drooling, grunting, shambling undead hordes who seemed less interested in cracking open the craniums of the local populace and more into hitting vendors selling creepy goods, watching top notch entertainment, meeting the undead stars of their favorite TV shows and films and most importantly, just being themselves on a beautiful October day! Over 12 thousand re-animated Americans hit the Undead Festival and we survived to tell the tale and came home with a flash card over flowing with images of the most polite zombie rampage ever recorded. For the full story, hit up DREAD CENTRAL ! To dive straight into the images, just CLICK HERE!