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Can We Build It: Dani vs The Haunted House Cookie Kit

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Christmas blows. But you know what doesn’t? Making a gingerbread house. If only there was some sort of haunted cookie house made especially for Hallo- ……….wait a minute.

Haunted House Chocolate Cookie Kit from Trader Joe’s

Holy heck. The nostalgia and fun of building a gingerbread (in this case chocolate cookie) house, but with bats, bones and ghosts instead of gumdrops and candy canes? Yes yes yes. Are you excited too? Keep scrolling and build a haunted cookie house with me!
What’s in the box
The kit includes everything you need to scare up a haunted house. We have precut walls, a roof, and a base all with traceable lines for details like shingles, door and windows. There’s a sweet cookie ghost, black and orange icing, and candy accoutrements including bones and bats.
Candy accoutrements
Close up of the candy bat
Let’s get started.
Cookie pieces
No, Dumpster.
Shoo, Pickles.
Get your pieces ready and your kitties off the table. I thought lining the base board first would be a great idea. It’s not. Don’t do it. Save it until you’re putting up the house.
Make your front and back walls instead! Line those doors and windows and put up some decorations.
Please don’t mind my poor battered fingernails.
You can’t help either, Joe. Go sit with Dumpster.
Time for the side walls! But…uh oh.
Oh no.
Patch that sucker up and keep going
Now that everything’s decorated, put the icing on your baseboard and try to stand this bad boy up.
Wall repair seems to be holding…
This looks decent…
Crap.
Damn it.
After a long stream of cursing, icing, and judgemental cats, we have a house that is dubiously standing.
What a disaster. Maybe it’ll look better once we get the roof on.
I shall call you Gappy.
Haunted houses are supposed to look  dilapidated right?
….maybe…more icing will fix this…
No, no it won’t.
If that won’t work maybe the chocolate ghost and some more candy can save this
No, Dumps.
All in all, if you don’t look at too close, it’s not terrible! It was fun, inexpensive and I’ll definitely enjoy looking at it until it either starts attracting ants or the cats knock it down. This would make a great gift for a tiny human or a really fun thing to do at a Halloween party with a scary movie on the TV and a drink in your hand. Would you make this for Halloween? Think you can do better than I can? (I do too…) Drop a comment and leave a picture of your favorite Halloween crafts.

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’28 Years Later’ Trilogy Taking Shape With Serious Star Power

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Danny Boyle is revisiting his 28 Days Later universe with three new films. He will direct the first, 28 Years Later, with two more to follow. Deadline is reporting that sources say Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Ralph Fiennes have been cast for the first entry, a sequel to the original. Details are being kept under wraps so we don’t know how or if the first original sequel 28 Weeks Later fits into the project.

Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes

Boyle will direct the first movie but it’s unclear which role he will take on in the subsequent films. What is known is Candyman (2021) director Nia DaCosta is scheduled to direct the second film in this trilogy and that the third will be filmed immediately afterward. Whether DaCosta will direct both is still unclear.

Alex Garland is writing the scripts. Garland is having a successful time at the box office right now. He wrote and directed the current action/thriller Civil War which was just knocked out of the theatrical top spot by Radio Silence’s Abigail.

There is no word yet on when, or where, 28 Years Later will start production.

28 Days Later

The original film followed Jim (Cillian Murphy) who wakes from a coma to find that London is currently dealing with a zombie outbreak.

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Watch ‘The Burning’ At The Location Where It Was Filmed

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Fangoria is reporting that fans of the 1981 slasher The Burning will be able to have a screening of the film at the location where it was filmed. The movie is set at Camp Blackfoot which is actually the Stonehaven Nature Preserve in Ransomville, New York.

This ticketed event will take place on August 3. Guests will be able to take a tour of the grounds as well as enjoy some campfire snacks along with the screening of The Burning.

The Burning

The film came out in the early ’80s when teen slashers were being churned out in magnum force. Thanks to Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th, filmmakers wanted to get in on the low-budget, high-profit movie market and a casket load of these types of films were produced, some better than others.

The Burning is one of the good ones, mostly because of the special effects from Tom Savini who had just come off of his groundbreaking work on Dawn of the Dead and Friday the 13th. He declined to do the sequel because of its illogical premise and instead signed on to do this movie. Also, a young Jason Alexander who would later go on to play George in Seinfeld is a featured player.

Because of its practical gore, The Burning had to be heavily edited before it received an R-rating. The MPAA was under the thumb of protest groups and political bigwigs to censor violent films at the time because slashers were just so graphic and detailed in their gore.

Tickets are $50, and if you want a special t-shirt, that will cost you another $25, You can get all the information by visiting the On Set Cinema webpage.

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‘Longlegs’ Creepy “Part 2” Teaser Appears on Instagram

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Neon Films released an Insta-teaser for their horror film Longlegs today. Titled Dirty: Part 2, the clip only furthers the mystery of what we are in for when this movie is finally released on July 12.

The official logline is: FBI Agent Lee Harker is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes unexpected turns, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again.

Directed by former actor Oz Perkins who also gave us The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Gretel & Hansel, Longlegs is already creating buzz with its moody images and cryptic hints. The film is rated R for bloody violence, and disturbing images.

Longlegs stars Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, and Alicia Witt.

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