Legendary Haunt Tour – Chicago! November 12-14, 2015
Each year the Legendary Haunt Tour visits a different city in the USA and tours 2 to 3 haunted attractions that have achieved “legendary” status with the haunted attraction industry, the media and the public. More than just a haunted house tour, the LHT has evolved into a destination social event for haunters all over the world, providing a unique vacation & networking opportunity just after the Halloween season. If you’re a haunted house owner, actor, makeup artist, costumer, merchant or if you just love haunted houses and Halloween, the Legendary Haunt Tour is the place to wrap up the season, relax, unwind, have fun, celebrate, see what your fellow haunters have to offer… and start getting ideas for next year!
The 2015 Legendary Haunt Tour will be visiting Chicago the second weekend in November, specifically Statesville Haunted Prison & City of the Dead, the Wisconsin Fear Grounds and the 13th Floor Haunted House. With this tour, you don’t just get to go to the haunted houses – you travel with hundreds of haunted house enthusiasts and owners, get VIP treatment and behind-the-scenes tours, on-site after-parties, educational seminars and much more – visit http://www.legendaryhaunttour.com for full details and to get tickets.
PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for hotel reservations (should you need to stay at the host hotel) has just been extended through Wednesday, November 4th – full information at http://www.legendaryhaunttour.com/travel/hotels/
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Skeletal Shenanigans in Chicago band Hemmingbirds’ music video “Mess of Things”
Living skeletons make for bad boyfriends (or do they?) in the darkly comic new video for “Mess of Things” by Chicago’s Hemmingbirds.
The clip was directed by Daniel J Clark and written by Megan Green, Joe Kwaczala, Joe McAdam and Chris Stephens who also star. They’re part of LA’s The Wheel Show, where they’ve had guests Eddie Pepitone, Martin Starr, Mikal Cronin, Kumail Nanjiani, Todd Glass and Lisa Loeb, and formerly from Chicago where they did The Late Live Show and Creative Control. The troupe also does an online sketch called “Does Dave Know We’re Here?” that’s on IFC.
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SEINFELD Meets THE WALKING DEAD…Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That!
Manhattan is overrun with a zombie apocalypse and the cast from television’s ‘Seinfeld’ is right in the middle of it! Is Jerry’s girlfriend stringing him along, or does she really possess an anti-zombie vaccine? Will George successfully trick Mr. Steinbrenner into thinking he’s a zombie, just to gain access to the executive washroom? Why is Kramer acting like a father from a 1950s television sitcom? Will Elaine learn the truth about David Puddy – whose either turning into a zombie or just incredibly, incredibly dense? One thing’s for sure – this hilarious parody is hardly a ‘show about nothing’!
“Zombie Seinfeld” runs Saturdays 17th and 31st at 7:30 pm and Sunday, October 25th at 6:00 pm at Gorilla Tango Theatre Bucktown (1919 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago IL 60647). Tickets are $20. Prizes will be raffled off each week. Ticket price includes one free raffle ticket. Advance purchase recommended due to limited run: www.gorillatango.com or (773) 598-4549. Suitable for All Ages. Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.
Originally performed in Skokie, IL in June 2013 to sold-out crowds, “Zombie Seinfield” makes its Chicago premiere in October 2015 starring the original Jerry, George and Elaine! Featuring a haunted story seemingly ripped straight from the small screen and master impersonations of your favorite TV characters, yadda yadda yadda, this show proves that even surrounded by the undead, Seinfeld is still master of his domain.
Chicago Film Festival After Dark Lineup
From the Chicago International Film Festival, currently in progress:
We’re thrilled to announce the lineup for After Dark! Plunge into paranoia, witchcraft, and soul-wrenching stand-up comedy with our lineup of horror and flinch-inducing fringe films! Featuring eight full-lengths from the U.S., Canada, Taiwan, India, and Japan, and a shorts program from Austria, Romania, UK, Mexico, and South Korea, the After Dark program boasts a diverse lineup for fans of the bizarre.
In Tag, Sion Sono, Japanese cinema’s most entertaining shockmeister, delivers his craziest picture yet. A young schoolgirl (who’s actually three different people) must fight killer winds, machine-gun-toting teachers, pig-headed monsters, and fate itself to escape a strange, deadly reality. The terrifying Ludo matches hypnotic imagery with sinister mythology to create a truly frightening experience. In Entertainment, Gregg Turkington (a.k.a. Neil Hamburger) delivers a memorably disturbing performance in this absurdist road-movie oddity co-written by Tim Heidecker (Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim) and throbbing with angry humor. The Laundryman, is a kinetic horror/kung-fu mash-up featuring innocuous-seeming dry cleaners fronting for a hitman-for-hire operation. A modern-day Taxi Driver, Other Madnesses plumbs the seedy underbelly of New York through the eyes of a man slowly losing his mind. Like a marital twist on The Fly, Bite incisively uses body horror to uncover the true terror of humanity’s mating rituals. The Abandoned is a claustrophobic, bone-tingling thriller that merges visceral scares with slow-burning mystery, a haunted house that turns into a chilling psychological portrait. A disturbingly intimate take on paranoia, the debut of They Look Like People will leave you on high alert, taking a good look at your co-worker, your neighbor… and even your best friend. In our Drawn to the Blood – Midnight Program, prepare for the sexy, the horrifying, and the abnormal with these boundary-pushing short films.
For additional details and film schedule, visit http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/chicago-film-festival-announces-after-dark-lineup/
Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind from the Neo-Futurists, 10/31
Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind
- Curated by Trevor Dawkins
- Saturday, October 31
- Doors open at 7:00 p.m., Show begins at 7:30 p.m.
- ADVANCE RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED ($25)
- Costumes encouraged!
- The Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland
- For tickets and information visit www.neofuturists.org or call 773-275-5255
The Neo-Futurists brutalize your senses with Too Much Fright Makes the Baby Go Blind, a special Halloween horde of 30 plays performed in 60 merciless minutes that explore the macabre, the strange, the unknowable terrors of the back of your mind. Expect dark humor, heavy metal, and existential dread. Also, expect candy.
Ensemble member Trevor Dawkins says, “It’s Too Much Light but about a billion times scarier. We’re still playing ourselves, we’re still doing 30 plays in 60 minutes, but we’re also going to give you a crazy case of the heeby-jeebies. It’s like a haunted house but everything we do and say is true which is way scarier. Oh, and we’ve got a real ghost. Did you hear about the ghost? Yeah, we have one. Who wouldn’t want to kick off their Halloween with a spooky night of performance art?”
The cast for Too Much Fright includes Ensemble members Ida Cuttler, Bilal Dardai, Trevor Dawkins, Tif Harrison, Nick Hart, Jeewon Kim, Kirsten Riiber, Leah Urzendowski, and Malic White.
