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[thefactrat]

What better comedown from Phibes than some classic obscure slashers, eh? First up, HAPPY HELL NIGHT, because a. Rockin’ theme song that will render you incapable of ever forgetting the movie’s title; b. One of the creepiest never-got-a-franchise slashers ever; c. Sam Rockwell and Jorja Fox paying their pre-fame dues, and Darren McGavin, having lost a bet; d. Pre-SCREAM meta catchphrases; e. Dead frat bros!; f. Special cameo by “Weird Al” Yankovic distributed across two different people; g. The line, “We only check on this one twice a week, just to see if he’s still alive.”

[thefactrat]

What a lovely day for madness! You weirdos can Kickstarter all the gyropogocopters and coffee undecaffeinator presses you want, I'm sticking with solid, old-fashioned books. #Madhouse #DarkRegionsPress #boo

[theonion]

[thefactrat]

As a performer, I can confirm that this is absolutely true. Would you walk up to a stranger on the street who's wearing big oven mitts and a vision-impairing helmet and ask him to hold your baby for a minute? Nope, but you'll hand your little darling over to Scooby-Doo without a thought.

[thefactrat]

Join the coolest Creeps in town over at PsychotropicTheater.com, last refuge of Creepy KOFY Movie Time and future home of its legion of bastard spawn! #CKMT #PsychotropicTheater #bastardspawn #hotbastardspawn #bastardspawnbarelylegal #hotcoedbastardswanttospawnwithyou #spawnspawnspawn #octothorpe

[thefactrat]

Have you checked out PSYCHOTROPICTHEATER.COM yet? All the best Creeps are hanging out there these latter hellish days. #CKMT #hashtag #hashishim #PsychotropicTheater #keyword

[thefactrat]

Hey look, it's the first four books to be launched into my Free-Range, Open-Source Creepy Horror Library! Come get one at #EastBayComicCon, January 31st!

[thefactrat]

Belphegor's got a bug up his ass about something again. Look at him, won't even make eye contact. #NotTouchingYou

[clickholeofficial]

Heartwarming: When This Terminally Ill 6-Year-Old Wanted To Run For President, Thousands Got Together And Made It Happen

Life hasn’t been easy for Donald Trump. Though he’s only 6 years old, he’s already faced a lifetime of hardship as the result of a rare terminal disease that has left him in hospitals for much of his young life. With disturbingly yellow skin pigmentation, a prematurely deepened voice caused by thyroid abnormalities, and a grotesquely enlarged head due to cerebrospinal fluid accumulation, he will never have a chance at a normal childhood. And, sadly, doctors believe that he won’t live much longer.

But Donald doesn’t want you to feel sorry for him. Nope. What he really wants is for you to vote for him.

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[thefactrat]

Finally, the world makes sense again.

[thespoonmissioner]

[transylvaniateaparty]

so true

[thefactrat]

One of the finest shows on TV right now, cartoon or otherwise.

[iguanamouth]

fruit dragons !

click through to see whats what - fun fact the dragonfruit was the First One made but as i had no plans to make the rest of em at the time theres a noticable difference in quality and size a h h ah a

[thefactrat]

Fun Fact enclosed; I'm too awestruck by this amazing art to come up my own.

[pumpkintears]

[spooky-haunts]

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Halloween Superstitions

[thefactrat]

Fun Fact: The routine of "trick-or-treating" began as a part of Puritan Shame Holiday, in which children would be dressed in embarrassing costumes and paraded from house to house, where they would announce "switch or treat." If they had offended the household, they would receive a thwap from a birch switch; had they been good, they would receive a treat by not getting a switching.

[khaoula-zoldyeck]

[tidepooling]

this bunny wants you to reach for the stars

[amyinu-deactivated20151123]

Important itscarororo boobun

[chillyfeetsteak]

yes good this pleases me

[thefactrat]

Fun Fact: A bunny high-five, if freely granted, will cure most known fungal infections.

[toomuchhorrorfiction]

The Tenant by Roland Topor (1964)

[thefactrat]

Fun Fact: Author Roland Topor was haunted by a recurring nightmare in which a critic headlined a review with MORE LIKE RONALD TORPOR, GET IT?

[theonion]

Life-Saving Drug More Accessible To Lab Rat Than Majority Of Americans 

NEW YORK—Noting that the cost of the pharmaceutical drug places it out of reach for most of the U.S. populace, industry analysts confirmed Friday that the life-saving cancer medication Rizolafan remains far more accessible to a laboratory rat than to the vast majority of Americans. “While this drug has shown considerable efficacy in counteracting tumor growth, U.S. citizens who are currently suffering from advanced pancreatic or colorectal cancer are far less likely to obtain a desperately needed dose than any number of albino rodents locked in cages in a biotech firm’s animal lab,” said Mount Sinai chief of medicine Dr. Martin Aberg, who stated that the average rat infected with the terminal illness could expect to receive as much of the medication as needed, while the thousands of people suffering from the same disease who live in the wealthiest country in the world likely would not.

More.

[thefactrat]

I'm not implying that I have any connections with any research labs, but, uh, you know, I *am* an escaped lab rat, so, *ahem*wink*

[liartownusa]

Marple After Dark

[thefactrat]

I just can't imagine life before Netflix, which pretty much ruins time travel for me, at least pastwards. Fuck the past, yon shrieking void of Netflixless idiocy. I'm embarrassed to admit I come from there.

[thefactrat]

Back home safe & sound! Webberly and the whole dang Creepy Crew will be back next week at Santa Rosa Toy Con! (at Sunnyvale, California)

[thefactrat]

Time to pack away the monsters, napkin up the blood and entrails, and bid farewell to another creaturiffic #SonOfMonsterpalooza (at MONSTERPALOOZA)