Ghostbusters - Music Video

Complete with the clips from the movie itself here is the great video with Ray Parker Jr.!

This is Halloween - Music Video

Intro to Tim Burton's, The Nightmare Before Christmas...

This has become a great classic! Enjoy!

AtmosFX: Phantasms and Witching Hour

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What seems like the latest craze for haunters is the video projections. They've been out for several years now. I first came upon them with Hallowindow which led me to download some YouTube videos and add them to the playlist of great video projections I use on my front window for the month of October.

I then found these videos that AtmosFX has put out, Creepy Crawlies 2, Zombie Invasion, Bone Chillers, to name a few.  

The Collection Offered 

I loved these high quality videos and I have almost every one that they have out. These dvds run the gambit of cute and fun to really horrorific and down right disgusting! A haunter's dream no matter which way you bend, the macabre and creepy or the blood and guts gore. 

Recently, just a week ago, AtmosFX, or more as what I know them as, AtmosFearFX came out with two new videos: Phantasms and Witching Hour. I just got them and previewed them and I have to just say, WOW!

First, Phantasms.

I love ghosts, apparitions, wraiths, all of them! The videos are just incredible! This came with 4 distinctive ghosts. I ran thru the different set ups and options they have for each and was just stunned by the clarity and illusion they present! They have a young woman type of wraith, a reaper type of phantasm, an electrical ghost that reminded me of Slimer from Ghostbusters and then the creepy grandma. I am not too keen on the grandma, she's very creepy but doesn't really seem to fit for my haunted cave but that said, I love it when she waves her finger at you like you've been bad! LMAO!

Now between these phantasms, you have your choice to display them as a window, a tv mode, a wall mode, a hollusion and a 3D FX prop. I don't really use the TV mode but its great for parties or if you were going to put your TV maybe against a window or something. I do use the wall mode for inside the haunted cave and definitely use the window mode for my rear projections in the window.

But something new or that I had not thought of before was the hollusion. What is that? Well they took projection material and hung it somewhere outside and then projected right onto it so that it looks like these creatures show up right out of midair! WOW! That is really cool! It looks great too! The problem for me is that you can see the screen and I don't have anything that I can really tie the material to to hang it properly. I did get an idea however to put the material on the back of the garden arch that I have used in the past as an entrance to the haunted cave but didn't last year. So that is what we are going to do.

And then the last and newest mode they offered on this dvd, the 3D FX prop?!? Ooohh yessss!! You can project this image onto a cloaked prop and make it appear as a figure! A hologram! This one is just incredible! How awesome!

I was going to see about getting a mannequin as I do want to have one so I can use it to make some chicken wire ghosts for the cemetery and I thought I could use it then with this dvd effect by tossing a light gray sheet over it. But after looking at AtmosFX' site, they are going to be offering the right size and shape figure to use with their dvds and they are also selling the projection material and a more higher quality film to put on the windows instead of me using the white sheet stretched taut over a 2x4 frame! 

This is very exciting innovations and it will up the quality of my setup! :)

 Witching Hour

This dvd I found to be more whimsical and not really scary at all. It too had several modes, although no wall mode, but it had some background behind the witch or you could have her sing two songs or cast spells. this was more cute and goofy to me, not really too scary. I'll use her tho' in the graveyard arch and in the window for sure. I may also use her on the 3D FX prop mode inside the cave, I haven't decided on that for sure. 

The video below explains a bit more about these dvds and the different modes:

These two dvds however with the new mode of the 3D FX prop, are just incredible! I really wish my ToTs in Texas could have seen this but I am sure the DE military ToTs will love it too!

They are definitely worth the price and I ordered AtmosFX' prop and the projection material and will order the window film soon as it will really make it easier for me than to have to install the wood frame in the window. 

And if that wasn't enough! On their site, they give nice tips, tricks and tutorials on how to set these special FX up! :) Love it!

Tips and Tricks

On one hand, hate to give away your secrets on how you do things but then on the other, it's great to see how people use them and continue on the tradition of Halloween! :)

You have out done yourself, AtmosFX! I love it! Would love to see more of the 3D FX prop modes for other figures! They are great holograms!

Just very cool!!

Love it!

*~Bugs n Hisses~*

GP

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Beetlejuice

We recently picked up the Beetlejuice movie in Bluray and watched it again. 

This has become such a great classic movie. How could anyone not like this Tim Burton movie?!

Seeing it in bluray, with everything so crisp and clear and sharp, made this movie all the more enjoyable.

This starts out with that very catchy tune, the great banana boat song, Day-O by Harry Belafonte.

I forget how many great stars are in this movie:

Alec Baldwin

Geena Davis

Catherine O'Hara---She was in the Home Alone series as the mother.

Winona Ryder--classic!

Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse and also known as Batman!

Robert Goulet and I know not many may know him but he is a classic star and has been in quite a bit including a cameo in Scrooge.

Dick Cavett, another classic older actor.

As this movie starts out, you soon realize you are actually in the model that Alec Baldwin's character has created. With such great attention to detail and even spotted a Wise potato chip van! This is set in White River, CT. The beginning starts out with another Harry Belafonte song.

Spoiler....

The premise of the movie is a couple are spending their vacation time at home, Geena and Alec.

You can see how dated this is when Alec uses a tape cassette player for the music.

They go to town to get a part at the store and on their way home, they avoid hitting a dog and smack into the side of the covered bridge and end up going over the side into the water.

They walk back home all dripping wet and are confused and feel that something is not quite right. 

Small telltale signs take them to the conclusion that they did not survive the crash and are in fact, dead even including seeing a book entitled: Handbook for the Recently Deceased.

Not long after, we see Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse,The Bio-Exorcist.

Now an interesting note here is the spelling of the name in comparison to the title. 

Betelgeuse is the name of a variable red super giant star of the first magnitude near the eastern shoulder of the constellation Orion.

In the movie with the phonetic spelling of the name, he is depicted as a mischevious bio-exorcist or more so a rather pesky ghost. He was originally designed to be a demon but the way he ended up made him be more comical. 

Here is some interesting notes about the movie from Huffington Post:

Beetlejuice Anniversary 

The Day-O song plays in the background as the gorgeous house gets sold. Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey Jones (you may remember him from Ferris Buehler as the principal) buy the house. 

A lot of music from Harry Belafonte is featured in this movie.

So as the Deats move in, Geena and Alec try to be ghosts and scare them away.

And then the fun ensues!

It would be cool to replicate the dead help area, like a fun house checkerboard with slanted floors.

Funny to see the old Zag nut candy bar.

One of the great lines from this movie said by Winona's character:

"Live people ignore the strange and unusual...I, myself am....strange and unusual"

This movie isn't really for little kids as there are some adult references to it so I would place it more for higher teens. Just the Dantes Inferno Room, for girls, girls, girls and the whole gestures that Betelgeuse makes places this movie in a more older audience. 

A nod to the Night of the Living Dead movie in that clip above too! :)

I really adore this movie! It's just catchy and funny and with a nice ending to it. 

And you gotta love the voodoo priest!

Highly recommend it!

~*Bugs n Hisses*~

GP

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