If you’re going to do a haunted house a week after Halloween, it needs to be something pretty special. Last year, Bloodshed Deathbath Productions fused a film festival with a traditional haunted house for its post-holiday horror fest. This year the company went even weirder, bringing us the HorrorHouse Pinball…
Give thanks for being a geek. Even though October’s bounty of geek goodness is behind us, November brings a cornucopia of its own, stuffed with much more than just turkey and Mystery Science Theater 3000 reruns. Here, in chronological order, are Denver’s ten best geek events in November. See also:…
By the time you read this, I will be 29 movies deep into my seventh annual zombie movie marathon month. This year, in defiance of both common sense and my own advice, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and clear out my backlog of unwatched zombie movies,…
There aren’t many love stories as beautiful and strange as Harold and Maude, and when the stage adaptation of the classic film opens tonight, you’ll find its unique wonder intact. Not that there aren’t some obstacles to staging the tale of a love affair between a septuagenarian with a zest…
Decades ago, a golden era of TV horror hosts flourished. Every UHF channel with access to a hammy local actor and a box full of old, cheap monster movies would put the two together to fill those late-night hours. Those days are long gone, but the men of the Werewolf…
If the only thing that really scares you about Halloween is figuring out where to spend your precious partying time, put your anxieties to rest. With Nightmare on LoDo Street, you don’t have to choose. “A pub crawl gives you the ultimate experience on this night — a variety of…
John Carpenter is a goddamned genius. Throughout the late ’70s and well into the ’80s, the best B-movie director to ever live cranked out a startling number of classic films. Not everything he touched during that period turned to gold — his adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine is pretty mediocre,…
When MileHiCon returns this weekend for its 46th year, the literary science-fiction convention will have more than eighty authors in attendance. That lineup is headlined by Hugo and Nebula award winner Michael Swanwick and the writing duo of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, creators of the Expanse series coming to…
With Dismember the Alamo, a four-movie marathon of undisclosed films, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is aiming to re-create that feeling of discovery and joy that came from surfing late-night TV for horror in the pre-digital days. “When we came up with this concept, we wanted to go back to when…
During the ninth annual Denver Zombie Crawl on Saturday, more than 20,000 undead are expected to descend on the 16th Street Mall to strut their decaying stuff. In a crowd like that, it can be hard to stand out; fortunately, there’s a near-infinite number of zombie movies from which you…
Despite its name, you don’t have to wear a backwards baseball cap and cargo shorts to enjoy the Bro Show. As long as you’re a guy, or even a woman who likes “guy” things, you’ll find something to love at the event. “You have the sports guys. You have guys…
“Denver has a thing for Halloween and a thing for zombies, and it shows every year,” says Danny Newman, founder of the Denver Zombie Crawl. “It’s our ninth year doing it, and it keeps growing.” This year, Newman expects as many as 35,000 ardent fans of the undead to descend…
It’s October in Denver and that means zombies — lots and lots of zombies. From zombie crawls filling the mall to sexy zombies strutting their stuff, there’s no shortage of weird, wild and fun ways to celebrate your love of the walking dead. To help make sure you don’t miss…
Certain things just seem tailor-made to work together. Take gin and tonic, for example: They both basically suck on their own, but damn, are they a delight when taken together. Other things stand just fine solo, but combine into a thing of sublime beauty, like peanut butter and chocolate, or…
Behind every classic horror movie is a great score. From the eerie synthesizers of Halloween to the ominous two-note riff from Jaws, it’s impossible to imagine a great scary movie without its distinctive music — and you only need to hear a few notes to get chills running down your…
No matter how you like your horror, this year’s Mile High Horror Film Festival has something to frighten your fancy. Not only are there plenty of new films like Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, V/H/S: Viral and Exists to please hardcore horror fans, but this year a plethora of…
Remakes are always dicey business, and horror remakes seem to be especially awful, despite — or perhaps because of — their ubiquity. Still, not every horror film remake is a total shit show. Every once in a while, one manages not to embarrass itself — or even the film being…
Growing up, people used to signal their broad and presumably good taste in music by stating, “I like everything … except country and rap.” It’s hard to say why country and rap got the short end of the stick, other than that these supposedly musically adventurous souls were actually pretty…
Romance and mad science make for strange bedfellows, but what else would you expect from David Cronenberg? When he remade a schlocky, ’50s B-movie The Fly into a modern masterpiece, he put his own spin on both the terrors of science and the relationship at the movie’s center, with gruesome…
The scariest time of the year is here, and what better way to celebrate than by giving your loved ones the gift of terror? Denver’s premier haunted houses are making that easy to do with Family Night at The Asylum and The 13th Floor. For one night, you can treat…
The best month to be a geek is here at last. October brings a heady selection of horror movies, costume opportunities and other top-notch opportunities to get our geek on. Between now and Halloween, our city is offering up everything from a literary sci-fi convention to a visit from the…
I’m a night owl. I love staying up until ungodly hours doing pretty much anything at all, then sleeping until noon or later. I’ve always been this way, thanks to my mom. She told me she used to keep me up late as a baby so I’d sleep in and…
