It’s that time of year again! Strange Kid has stuffed all the Halloween goody bags full of candy, roadkill and low caliber explosives…DANG he knows how to party! We’ve invited some of our friends over to the clubhouse to share their Halloween memories, so pull up a beanbag chair and listen to today’s horrific tales from…Kevin Gentilcore.
Kevin is half of the manpower behind Creephouse Comics…which isn’t to say that he’s part of a two-headed man-beast that only wants to tell you scary stories. He just splits the duties with William Tooker. The Creephouse imprint is responsible for such pulse-pounding pulp as The Haunter, Teenage Love Zombies and Krush McNulty. And Kevin himself? He’s best known for ordering pizza and then summoning a dark lord to eat the delivery kid (the trick is finding an evil entity who will work for half a pepperoni pie). But today, he’s here to talk to us about Halloween:
What’s your best (or worst) Halloween memory?
KEVIN GENTILCORE: I have nothing but fond memories of Halloween. I remember as a kid getting really excited for the day to come and then, of course, it would snow or be unseasonably cold and then we’d have to cover our costumes with winter coats. How is that supposed to scare anybody? Mostly I remember running around neighborhoods with my friends for hours and coming home to watch horror movies, or the “Horror Awards.” Remember that show? I think it lasted one or two years? They’d give awards to Jason or Freddy for being scary. Oh man, I’m showing my age.
Anyways, I remember one year we went out, way older than we should have been for trick or treating, dressed as KISS. We got to the first house and some kids drove by and shot us with paintballs. We just called it there and went home.
The past couple years me and my girlfriend have taken her little brother and his friends out trick or treating and it’s been like reliving my youth and realizing how much kids run. I can’t believe I used to run like that.
What are your top 5 movies (or TV episodes) to watch leading up to Halloween?
KG: 1. Monster Squad (The perfect Halloween movie for everybody)
2. Halloween III (Highly underrated. It ain’t Halloween without Tom Atkins!)
3. Trick ‘r Treat (I wish Halloween existed in reality the way it does in this movie)
4. The Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror (Any of them. They’re all good.)
5. Usually a Universal Monsters movie or a Hammer Horror movie. I change it up yearly. It’s been mostly Hammer this year since Sir Christopher Lee left us this year. Speaking of…
The dead have returned from the grave, and most of the living are zombified—including all the A-through-C-list celebrities, of course—who would you pick to eat your delicious brain?
KG: If it’s a celebrity I would have to go with Christopher Lee…I wouldn’t even put up a fight. If I saw Zombie Christopher Lee I would just be like “well, it was a good run. All for you, sir.”
If it’s just a zombie apocalypse I’d probably go out pretty quickly. I’m not pretending I could survive in that world. It would be whichever undead jerk shambled into my house first who’d get my brains for dinner. I’m realistic like that.
What are 5 songs that need to be on your Halloween playlist?
KG: This could go on forever, so I’m glad I’m limited to only 5.
1. “Halloween” – The Misfits
2. “Hallowen” – King Diamond
3. “Halloween” – Helloween
4. “Love Like Blood” – Blitzkid
5. “Never Cross the Dead” – Hooded Menace
You cross an old gypsy woman (why would you do that?!) and she curses you to turn into _________ every night. What monster/beastie/other would you choose to spend your nights as?
KG: I would choose some kind of “Frankensteined” creature. Like a Bigfoot, built out of parts of other Bigeet and brought back to life. I’m not sure if that’s within the gypsies’ power or how a nightly conversion would work but mostly I would just like to lumber through the woods by moonlight, scaring teenagers and howling at the moon, but not be a werewolf.
Our resident troublemaker, Strange Kid, wants to take you out on the town on Halloween—what kind of mischief would you kids get into? (Hint: bring bail money, whatever your response may be…)
KG: We would probably drive around all night, really fast, listening to black metal and doom metal, then go home and drink a lot and watch horror movies. That sounds pretty exciting to me! Oh, and maybe summon the desolate one or something overtly satanic.
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Our friends at 411 Underground Radio are celebrating THEIR big Halloweek 2015 extravaganza this week! We cover the geek side of the holiday, while they focus on the music community and supply some extra tunes for your party. So visit their site or join the Facebook event page, where you can find links to both our event and theirs!
