FULL MOON CHALLENGE

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It's a full moon tonight, and that means it's time for our monthly Full Moon challenge. As usual, you can incorporate this challenge however you see fit - tell us tales of madness, shifting tides, werewolves, lunar goddesses, whether the moon landing was real or fake or simply a mass hallucination.

WIP Wednesday

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What have you been working on this week, Eerie fans? Now's the time to spread the word about any fannish treats you've got cooking: a line of dialogue from an upcoming fic, linework for your latest art piece, the yarn colours for a new toy. Let us know in the comments!

The List: The Cast Of Hocus Pocus Has Changed A Lot Since 1993

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Watch it here.

Best night in plans!

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Cool, said to E about games soon, and also Eerie Indiana!

— Sara Hawthorn (@saralhawthorn) October 24, 2018

New crossover on the horizon!

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I have the sudden urge to draw mosley and Bill as marshall teller and simon holmes

Or for those 4 to meet in a crossover episode or to make the holl childhood of Mo and Bill based on Eerie Indiana

I want this

— Sophie Bergers (@sophiebergers) October 23, 2018

Starting plans on Eerie Ouigee pic.twitter.com/lcG7UlgpSe

— Sophie Bergers (@sophiebergers) October 23, 2018

THE 100 BEST HORROR TV SERIES OF ALL TIME

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With season 1 of Netflix’s newest horror offering Chilling Adventures of Sabrina burning up the Tomatometer — currently 96% on 27 reviews — we thought we’d make a list to see how she measures up against the best horror TV of all time. Our ranking includes the Friday release’s Netflix brethren The Haunting of Hill House, which is Certified Fresh at 92% (with 63 reviews of season 1) and lands at No. 9 on our list of 100 binge-worthy horror shows.

But choosing the best ever horror TV show can make your eyes twitch and head spin until you take a chainsaw to your computer — debating whether Lucifer belongs in the horror genre or is more of a crime procedural finally put us over the edge.

For one, horror bleeds into so many other genres; it sometimes dabbles in star-crossed romance like in HBO’s True Blood and conjures the dark humor of Starz’s Ash vs. Evil Dead. It even takes a stab at social commentary through the FX anthology American Horror Story. And, for a genre that so often portrays death and carnage, it has an amazing ability to endure – even if shows like CBS classic The Twilight Zone don’t make today’s audiences kick over their TV-dinner trays as much as it did their parents and grandparents. Horror even brings cultures together, as evidenced by Netflix’s popular German sci-fi thriller Dark, Indian series Ghoul, and director Lars von Trier’s Danish mini-series Riget (The Kingdom). These and many more shows are on this list.

You may wonder why we slashed others: The blue-eyed Night King and his ilk are certainly terrifying on HBO’s Game of Thrones, but with those dragons and Red priestesses, “best horror TV show”? Not exactly. GoT falls more into the fantasy category. The Magicians, Dead Like Me, and Lost Girl met the same fate. Similarly, Black Mirror falls under sci-fi; in fact, it turns up as No. 9 on our list of the “100 Best Sci-Fi TV Shows of All Time.” True-crime documentaries and dramas — like Netflix’s Making a Murderer or its serial killer drama Mindhunter — are left off this list even if the acts depicted there are more terrifying than anything we might see on AMC’s zombie series The Walking Dead (which, of course, is included).

To rank the scary TV shows in this monster list, we took the critics’ Tomatometer score (where available) into consideration, plus the rankings of a number of reputable “best of” lists, and then applied some editorial discretion, asking ourselves which horror TV series have stood the test of time, inspired spin-offs and copycats, and even made their influence known on the big screen. We also had a look at your own audience scores on each of the series.

89: Eerie, Indiana: A boy and his pal investigate the eccentricities of their town and its odd residents. The series played like headlines from a supermarket tabloid, with plots involving werewolves, a canine revolt and Elvis.

Ten Things You Never Knew About ‘Hocus Pocus’

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It’s almost time for Halloween which can only mean that it’s the perfect time for your annual Hocus Pocus screening. It truly is the perfect film for the occasion, especially if you’ve got younger ones at home.

Things You Never Knew About Hocus Pocus

As everyone knows, the Disney film tells the tale of new kid on the block Max Dennison (Omri Katz), who inadvertently unleashes three dangerous Salem witches, the Sanderson Sisters, upon his new town. Together with his younger sister Dani (Thora Birch), high-school crush Allison (Vinessa Shaw), and immortal talking cat Binx (Jason Marsden), he must find a way to stop the sisters once and for all.

This year is a very special year for Hocus Pocus as it turns twenty-five. That’s right, the 1990’s are now a good twenty years ago, well and truly in the past. In a bid to soften that blow, and celebrate this landmark birthday for a gem of a film, we’ve compiled a list of facts that you probably never knew about the Halloween classic.

1. It’s not just us that loves Hocus Pocus, in several interviews over the years, Bette Midler, who plays lead sister Winifred, has stated that this is one of her favourite films of hers.

2. The part of Max Dennison is played by Omri Katz, whom nineties children will know from the brilliant television series Eerie, Indiana. He almost didn’t get the part due to being rather ill during his first audition. He also had very strong competition from a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo however, passed on the project in favour of starring in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

3. Another role that could have been very different is that of youngest Sanderson sister Sarah. In the final film, the character is of course played by Sarah Jessica Parker, but another young, and then unknown actress called Jennifer Lopez also auditioned for the part.

4. Hocus Pocus has some great music and was meant to feature one more track. Roxette’s Almost Unreal was originally part of the soundtrack, but was removed. It later appeared as the title song from everyone’s favourite computer game movie – Super Mario Bros.

5. Despite being about Halloween, Hocus Pocus was released in the summer. This was so that it didn’t clash with Disney’s other Halloween film that year – The Nightmare Before Christmas. That film is definitely more of a Christmas film, so it seems Disney like to operate a season ahead. Hocus Pocus made it to number four on the box office charts, but was hindered by its out of season release, as well as having competition in the form of fellow family film, Free Willy.

6. Everyone’s favourite man in a monster suit, Doug Jones, plays Hocus Pocus’ resident zombie Billy. He spends most of the film seemingly chasing our heroes, but once he finally speaks, it’s clear that he’s on their side. Once he finally manages to unpick his sewn together mouth there are a handful of moths that fly out. The super-gross thing is that they were real moths, not CGI ones. Doug Jones is certainly an actor committed to his craft.

7. The part of Thackery Binx is played by two different actors. The human version we see at the beginning and end is Sean Murray, whilst the cat incarnation is voiced by Jason Marsden (who also appeared in Eerie, Indiana). To ensure consistency across the character, Marsden dubbed over Murray’s lines.

8. The married couple of Satan and ‘Medusa’ are real-life brother and sister, Garry and Penny Marshall.

9. After believing they have burned the Sanderson Sisters to death, Dani and Allison begin happily dancing in front of a fountain. That fountain would go on to become one of the most famous fountains on television. It’s none other than the fountain from the Friends opening credits.

10. The initial script for the film was titled ‘Disney’s Halloween House’ and was completed in 1984. All the protagonists were aged twelve and it was very akin to an Amblin film; it was apparently much darker and scarier. Over the next eight years it was molded into the softer and more light-hearted affair that we all know and love.

Hocus Pocus is currently available to buy on a snazzy 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray.

Upcoming Julie Condra film

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Arriving in Thailand straight from the set of Netflix upcoming Wu Assassins and a little movie named John Wick 3, Mark Dacascos (Drive, Crying Freeman) gets behind the wheel and back in action for his latest project, The Driver.

The film is directed by Wych Kaosayananda, whose credits include everything from Balistic: Eck Vs Sever, Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge, and Angels which was reborn as Zero Tolerence. The film features fight and stunt choreography by martial arts maestro Brahim Achabbkhe whose skills in front and behind the camera have been brought into play on Man of Tai Chi, Boyka: Undisputed 4, Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, Donnie Yen's Big Brother and the upcoming Abduction with Scott Adkins and Andy On.

Dacascos stars opposite his wife, Julie Condra (Crying Freeman, Eerie:Indiana) and their daughter Noelani, while a villainous Achabbkhe faces off against Dacascos as one of his most formidable opponents.

Kaosayananda has a number of projects set for imminent release including the recently wrapped post apocalyptic Two of Us, and the highly anticipated Max starring The Lost Boy's Jason Patric and Kane Kosugi (Muscle Heat, DOA: Dead or Alive) featuring action choreography by Tim Man (Accident Man, Boyka: Undisputed 4).

Kaosayananda's International debut Ballistic: Eck Vs Sever starred Antonio Banderas & Lucy Liu, but suffered from post-production politics which severely affected the finished film, leaving some very impressive action sequences but little of Wych's original vision for the movie. This is a movie we'd love to see get a special edition release featuring his original cut of the movie.

From the TVTropes No Fourth Wall page:

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In Eerie, Indiana, there was a entire episode about Marshall's life suddenly becoming a television show, and finding out that he isn't even Marshall Teller at all, but somebody they keep calling 'Omri Katz' (which is, of course, the real name of the actor playing Marshall). Dash X is still a villain in the tv-show world rather than his actor, but acknowledges that the only reason he is one is because he's a fictional character.

KiperBlue on what caught their attention in the Eerie, Indiana opening

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W tym stylu oglądałam serial "Eerie, Indiana", który czasem przytaczam, bo w czołówce Elvis wychodził po gazetę. https://t.co/6O4DNKYgU8

— Kiper Blue (@KiperBlue) October 24, 2018

Liz McFie pledges allegiance

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Hail to Thee, O Ears of Splendor,
Joyously we pledge our job
We declare our staunch allegiance
to protect your kingly cob.
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PS. - the Loyal Order of Corn, Eerie, Indiana, 1992.

— Liz McFie (@liz_mcfie) October 24, 2018

Hnnhcpr on funeral plans...

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When I die I want to be buried in Tupperware.

— Digital Coop (@hnnhcpr) October 24, 2018

I quite like the idea of one massive one though. Eerie Indiana style.

— Digital Coop (@hnnhcpr) October 24, 2018