Frozen State is a 2013 survival-based horror role-playing computer game being developed by Snow Arc Studio, which immerses players in a bleak Siberian, post-apocalyptic wasteland. The game takes place within the crumbling ruin of a partially destroyed Soviet city.

Players have to learn to stay alive while facing vicious alien hybrids, ruthless bandits, and other survivors of the disaster, all of whom will stop at nothing in order to survive. While exploring new areas, scavenging for vital supplies, and fighting for your life, players have to make hard choices between greater goals and their own personal objectives. These choices lead to different outcomes and may have wide-ranging consequences.

The inspiration for Frozen State comes from many sources: games like Fallout 1 and 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl, Metro 2033, Half-Life 2, Resident Evil; films such as  The Thing, Alien(s), Prometheus, and The Road; and writers such as Isaac Asimov, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Stanislaw Lem and Richard Matheson.

Snow Arc Studio are currently seeking funding via pledge site Kickstarter.com

Gossamer is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster’s main trait, however, is bright uncombed red hair. In fact, a gag in the 1980 short Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century lampoons this by revealing that Gossamer is, in fact, composed entirely of hair. He was originally voiced by Mel Blanc and has been voiced by Joe Alaskey, Jim Cummings, and Dee Bradley Baker.

The word “gossamer” means any sort of thin, fragile, transparent material — in particular, it can refer to a kind of delicate, sheer gauze or a light cobweb. The name is meant to be ironic, since the character is large, menacing, and destructive.

Animator Chuck Jones introduced the monster character in the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare. In it, Bugs Bunny is lured to the lair of a mad scientist as food for Gossamer. The monster (unnamed here) serves as the scientist’s henchman. Part of this plot was repeated in the 1952 Jones cartoon Water, Water Every Hare, in which the monster’s character was referred to as “Rudolph”. The mad scientist in need of a live-brain for his giant robot, released Rudolph from his chamber for a mission to capture Bugs Bunny in order to obtain a living brain, to which Rudolph showed a sudden burst of joyousness and quickly set out when the mad scientist promised the reward of “spider goulash” for capturing the rabbit.

Gossamer has also appeared in a cameo role in a number of recent Warner Bros productions. He appeared in 1990s episodes of  Tiny Toon Adventures, including a prominent role in a Frankenstein parody segment in the Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery special. He appears briefly in the 1996 movie Space Jam (in a car before the big game and after Bugs gets crushed by one of the Monstars). Gossamer appeared in the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode “Monsters are Real” where he was shown as one of the best monsters to scare people and animals. He appears in the Videogame Looney Tunes Collector Alert as a boss in the Count’s Castle.

Most recently, Gossamer was one of the Warner Bros characters reinvented for the 21st century in the 2011 The Looney Tunes Show.

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The Trap Door is a claymation-style animated television series, originally shown in the United Kingdom in 1984. The plot revolves around both the daily lives and the misadventures of a group of monsters living in a castle. Although the emphasis was on humour and the show was marketed as a children’s programme but also for family entertainment, the show drew much from the genres of horror and dark fantasy. The show has since become a cult favourite and remains one of the most widely recognised kids’ shows of the 1980s. Digital children’s channel Pop started rerunning the show in 2010.

There were a total of 40 episodes of the show produced and, despite the show’s success, no more episodes were made. Character voices were provided by Willie Rushton, an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded Private Eye, the satirical magazine. He died a decade after the show was halted.

The world of The Trap Door is completely inhabited by monsters, and almost all action takes place in the monsters’ castle, and especially the pantry or cellar where lives Berk, the castle’s servant and central character of the show. Beneath the castle are a series of dark and mysterious caverns inhabited by all manner of “horrible things”, accessible by the eponymous trap door.

The master of the castle, “The Thing Upstairs”, resides in the attic of the castle and remains an unseen character throughout the entire show, shouting orders to Berk when hungry or annoyed – “BERK!! Where’s my dinner”. Berk has two companions, Boni and Drutt. In most episodes, Berk accidentally leaves the trap door open, admitting a more troublesome monster than himself.

The television series spawned a video game in the mid-80s called The Trap Door and a sequel called Through The Trap Door. These games were available for the ZX Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC and the Commodore 64. In addition, a board game was released entitled Berk’s Trapdoor Game which involved going around the board while trying to knock one’s opponent off the edge with a die hidden behind a trapdoor in the game board.

The introduction of The Trap Door was a parody of many of Vincent Price‘s horror film introductions:

“Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place, lives Berk (Allo!), overworked servant of “the thing upstairs” (Berk! Feed Me!) But that’s nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door, for there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out…

The outro went:

“Creepy, crawly, slimy things, that stick on to your skin… Horrid beasts with tentacles, that want to pull you in… Squirmy worms, slugs and snails, that lie there in a goo… They’ll wait down there forever, ’till they get their hands on you… Stay away from that trapdoor, ‘Cos there’s something down there….

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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King is the twelfth in the series of Scooby-Doo direct-to-video films produced by Warner Bros. Animation. This movie, along with the next film Samurai Sword were both produced and completed in 2008, but Goblin King was released first in time for the Halloween season.  All the main voice actors of Mystery, Inc. reprise their roles. This is the first Scooby cartoon produced entirely without either one of the original creators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Unlike the previous seven movies, this outing is similar to Zombie Island, Witch’s Ghost - which previously also featured Tim Curry - Alien Invaders and Cyber Chase, by making all the fantastical elements of the story real. It is also significant in the fact that it shows Shaggy and Scooby being the main characters, something that has not been seen since the television movies of the 80′s. The film is a bit more light-hearted than others. It is the 5th, as well as the 2nd-to-last, movie that involves Scooby and the whole gang where the monsters all turn out to be real, instead of a person in a costume, and was not well received.

The Mystery, Inc. gang visit a Halloween carnival on Halloween night. When the magician “The Amazing Krudsky” (voiced by Wayne Knight) does not allow Scooby to see his show, Shaggy and Scooby expose Krudsky as a fraud. Later, the rebellious fairy Princess Willow (voiced by Hayden Panettiere) enters Krudsky’s tent, where he secretly reveals his wishes to become a real magician. The fairy inadvertently causes Krudsky to notice an entry on the Goblin Scepter in a spell book. The Goblin Scepter can be combined with fairy magic to control Halloween. Krudsky then gets an idea to obtain the scepter and rule the world with it. The fairy decides to toy with him, but while flying, the fairy accidentally slams her small body against a metal chair knocking her out; Krudsky then crushes her with his flyswatter. When he notices her cry of pain from being crushed, he sees that she is a real fairy, kidnaps her, and absorbs her magical powers, becoming a real magician.

Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby trick-or-treat all night. Their last stop is a spooky looking house which claims to be a “genuine magic shoppe”. However, a very loud thunderstorm also begins, frightening our heroes. Inside, they meet the kind Mr. Gibbles (voiced by Wallace Shawn), who reveals that magic really does exist. At that moment, Willow enters being chased by Krudsky. Krudsky captures the Princess, turns Gibbles into a rabbit, and steals the magic equipment before leaving. Mr. Gibbles explains to an astonished Shaggy and Scooby that Krudsky, after capturing the good magic of the princess, will now want the bad magic held in the scepter of the Goblin King, which will cause an imbalance in the supernatural order. Shaggy and Scooby must go into the world of magic via the Grim Reaper Railway, get the scepter before Krudsky can, and return home before sunrise or else they will be trapped in the magic world forever…

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‘The interaction of the whole cast is one thing that made these later movies so interesting. Even the recurring character of Del Chillman gave the older characters someone interesting to play off of. Getting back to just Scooby and Shaggy leaves only two predictable jokes – the two are either really scared or really hungry … In one of the better visual jokes of the film, the two take a magic potion to sneak closer to the Goblin King to steal his sceptre. Scooby turns into Velma and Shaggy turns into Daphne. Unfortunately, the scene is wasted. In what quickly becomes cheap and lazy plot turns, the two are revealed to be themselves before they can steal the sceptre.’ Musgo Del Jefe.  Read more at: BlogCritics.org

‘By bringing in magic and real life ghosts and witches, it loses its charm somewhat. The plot is also a little all over the place, seemingly more interested in packing as many monsters in as possible rather than focusing on a story … The animation, it has to be said, is excellent, although the sight of an animated Daphne dressed up in a skintight cat suit was a little more pleasing than it perhaps should have been. The 5.1 surround sound track adds to the whole atmosphere and the vocal work is great, the drafted in Hollywood talent of Tim Curry, James Belushi and Lauren Bacall adding some weight to proceedings.’ Mark Oakley. Read more at Den of Geek

In the scene where Shaggy & Scooby-Doo enter the monster bar when the monsters are singing, some monsters from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, What’s New, Scooby-Doo?, The Scooby Doo Show, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire are sighted. Here’s a list of the featured monsters:

• The Werewolf Ghost from “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf”
• The Phantom Shadow from “A Night of Fright is No Delight”
• The Creeper from “Jeepers! It’s the Creeper”
• The Mummy of Ankha from “Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too”
• The Snow Ghost from “That’s Snow Ghost”
• The Ghost of Mr. Hyde from “Nowhere to Hyde”
• The No-Faced Zombie from “The No-Face Zombie Chase Case”
• The Ozark Witch from “The Ozark Witch Switch”
• Penguin‘s Troll disguise from “The Caped Crusader Caper”
• A blue version of The Roller Ghoster from “Roller Ghoster Ride”
• A Kelp Monster from “Scooby-Doo, Where’s the Crew?”

Cast:

• Frank Welker - Scooby-Doo, Fred Jones
• Casey Kasem - Shaggy Rogers
• Mindy Cohn - Velma Dinkley
• Grey DeLisle - Daphne Blake, Cat Witch, Honeybee
• Wayne Knight - The Amazing Krudsky, the main antagonist of the film.
• Jay Leno - Jack O’Lantern, a magical pumpkin who aids Shaggy and Scooby on their adventure
• Wallace Shawn - Mr. Gibbles, the eccentric owner of a magic shop
• Tim Curry - The Goblin King, who is the ruler of Halloweenland
  • Tim Curry also voices the Werewolf Bar Owner, but that role is uncredited
• James Belushi and Larry Joe Campbell - Glob and Glum, the Goblin King’s bumbling palace guards
• Hayden Panettiere - Fairy Princess Willow, the insubordinate and feisty princess of the fairies
• Lauren Bacall - The Grand Witch
• Thom Adcox-Hernandez - Sparkplug
• Russi Taylor - Owl Witch, Tiddlewink

The Prize Pest is a 1950 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. It was directed by Robert McKimson, and written by Tedd Pierce. It was originally released December 22, 1951.

This is considered by some to be one of the last screwball Daffy Duck cartoon, as all of the directors eventually stuck with the greedy, self-centered Daffy that emerged in Rabbit Fire (1951). This cartoon was included in the 1988 movie compilation Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters in which Daffy hired Porky in his “Paranormalist at Large” company. The cartoon was shortened in the movie, with a mix of new animation. Daffy reprises his “crazy” look from this short in the Looney Tunes Show episode “Devil Dog” when trying to distract some SWAT team guys.

After listening to one of his favourite radio programs, Porky Pig receives a grand prize from the station. Out of the gift box pops Daffy Duck, who insists on living in Porky’s house. After numerous attempts to throw Daffy out of the house, Daffy devises a plan to stay. He tells Porky that he has a split personality (á la The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) When people treat him badly, he turns into a hideous monster, which he does by messing his hair up and putting in fangs, whereas when treated with kindness he becomes sweet and cuddly. When Porky realizes he’s been had (after coming out scared from a closet with a skeleton in it, presumably put in there by Daffy), he now has to outsmart this psychotic duck and get him out of the house by dressing up as a monster. When Daffy sees the monster, he becomes so scared, he falls apart (literally) and runs out of the house screaming (putting himself back in the gift box in the process). When Porky accidentally sees himself in the mirror in his monster costume (which he stated that only a craven little coward would be scared of), he scares himself so much that he jumps onto a chandelier (“So I’m a craven little coward”).

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The Arksville Homicides is a planned American computer generated animated web series created by Lewis Roscoe. The project is currently seeking online crowd-funding via indiegogo,

Prologue and teaser trailer:

1541: Famed Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is heading through what is now modern day Kansas on a mission.  A box containing unknown contents that has been kept sealed under lock and key by the Vatican has been delivered to him to take far from civilisation and bury as deep in the Earth as possible, never to be found again.

1967: Arksville lies within the forests of Pennsylvania. It is a large town on the verge of being a city. Since the closure of the local coal mine in 1931, and sighting themselves as a ‘get away from it all’ hamlet, tucked into rural Pennsylvania alongside the Susquehanna River the town has thrived on tourism.

Frank Wepps and his family escape from a horrible dark event in Frank’s police work in Pittsburgh, hoping to start afresh in Arksville, Frank has a new position at the Arksville Police Department. Frank’s superior – Lieutenant Eidalman, a cynical and jaded cop, once idealistic but now just sick of the bureaucracy, control and corruption of the town council. Chief Gardner of the Police Department is deep in the council’s pocket and in an effort to keep the image of the town pleasant, his department only reports a fraction of the actual crimes. Mayor Adinberry’s only concern is money, and the grand image of the town. But something is wrong from the start of Frank’s arrival – the feeling someone is stalking his family. Sure enough a figure that has a strange unearthly feel is seen following his daughter – Patricia, and his wife – Lucy. Soon bodies begin turning up around the town, locals being dispatched brutally and horrifically, mutilated beyond imagination…

Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space is a 2009 Halloween television special, based on the film Monsters vs. Aliens. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Peter Ramsey. Released on DVD along with Scared Shrekless, it received a Blu-ray release on August 28, 2012, as a part of Shrek’s Spooky Stories.

One night, a UFO drops a green goo substance into a large pumpkin field (apparently they were flushing their toilet). Farmer Jeb, the eccentric owner of the patch investigates but is taken by something offscreen.

Meanwhile, Susan and her monster friends prepare for Halloween celebrations; Missing Link practices scaring, B.O.B. tries to decide what he will be for Halloween and Susan has a “zombie cheerleader” costume ready. Dr. Cockroach however has no interest in Halloween because of a childhood trauma on that same night. Their prospect of Halloween is cut short when General W.R. Monger tells them that aliens have been detected in Modesto and orders them to investigate, on the provision of a need-to-know basis (“It’s Halloween, after all. We don’t wanna go around scaring folks.”). At Farmer Jeb’s patch, pumpkins are mysteriously being given away for free, with one family taking the largest one…

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This short sequel easily passes the full length original with a perfectly compacted plot, already familiar characters — and therefore, in-jokes galore — a glittery gauche Halloween setting (with a few seconds of John Carpenter’s theme to boot), wonderfully extravagant vibrant animation and the sheer pleasure of the actors’ voices clearing enjoying themselves. Thoroughly recommended.
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“Like most of DreamWorks’ animated features, the premise for the Monsters vs. Aliens pic surpassed the execution. Boiled down to a half-hour, however, the concept works just fine, with plenty of action, a terrific look and the most meagre possible plot.” Brian Lowry, Variety

Casper’s Scare School is a 3D computer animated TV film starring Casper the Friendly Ghost (Devon Werkheiser). It was directed by Mark Graves and concocted by four (!) scriptwriters: Kirk De Micco, Robert Mittenthal, Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers. The cast features the voices of James Belushi (Little Shop of Horrors), Dan Castelleneta (Homer and various Simpsons characters’) and veteran comedienne Phyllis Diller (Mad Monster Party?, Doctor Hackenstein,The Boneyard and The Silence of the Hams).

It was produced by The Harvey Entertainment Company, released by Classic Media and premiered on October 20, 2006. A TV series of the same name followed in 2009. There is also has a video game of the same name.

As a result of Casper being too friendly when playing with a boy named Jimmy, Kibosh: The King of the Underworld has Casper enrolled into a Scare School headed by the two-headed headmaster Alder and Dash. He befriends Ra, a mummy with unraveling issues and Mantha, a zombie girl who keeps falling apart. When Casper discovers the two-headed headmaster’s plot to use a petrification potion to turn Kibosh into stone and take over the Underworld and Deedstown, he and his new friends must stop him…

“The look of Casper’s Ghost School is often excellent, with smooth, velvety blacks and purples and grays creating an evocative, spooky backdrop. Several action scenes standout, particularly the arrival of the pirate ship to the Scare School, with a giant sea monster rising out of the ocean to attack it. All of the figures are attractively modeled, although Casper and The Ghostly Trio often look unnecessarily dark – almost sooty – for no apparent reason other than overenthusiastic shading. And quite a few of the jokes at the Scare School are funny, with some of the faculty members (Dr. Thurdegree Burns and Frankengymteacher) good for solid laughs.” Paul Mavis, DVD Talk

“Casper’s Scare School is as bland, banal, and homogenized kiddie entertainment as you can get. Though stated from an adult’s perspective, I can’t see a parent getting excited and wanting to sit down with his or her child to watch this one once, let alone the numerous times obsessive, televisionized kids are apt to do these days. Yet from a kid’s viewpoint, I would have to venture this wouldn’t be that much more appealing to them. The story is thin — but still teaches lessons about friendship and being one’s self; the jokes fall flat; and the CGI style is average, without any special flair.” DVD Verdict

“The film was one that I felt was probably great for the kids but lacked the nuances an adult audience would look for in a kid’s film that would make it enjoyable at both levels. However it did feature a vampire (and a vampire who bites his own tongue at one point, for that matter).” Taliesin Meets the Vampires

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The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone is a 45-minute Halloween television special featuring the Flintstones. It was produced in 1979 by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

When Fred Flintstone wins the big prize on the “Make A Deal or Don’t” game show, he and Wilma plan a vacation with Barney and Betty Rubble to Count Rockula’s spooky castle in Rocksylvania which has now been turned into a tourist resort. Unfortunately, during the trip, Fred and Barney accidentally stumble across Rockula’s old laboratory, where his unfinished Frankenstone monster sleeps, and forget to close the window when they leave the lab. Lightning subsequently strikes the machines in the lab, and provide Frankenstone with life. Frankenstone awakens Count Rockula (who has been asleep for the past five hundred years, thus explaining his disappearance) from his secret crypt, and the two scare everyone out of the hotel, except for the Flintstones and the Rubbles, who had gone to bed early due to jet lag…

“As a Halloween special, it’s just okay. However, it’s not BAD, either. It’s certainly a damn sight better than The Flintstone Kids Meet Frankenpebble, made less than a decade later, and I especially enjoyed the ending. A must-have for Flintstones fans, and not a bad thing for Halloween fans to have, either…” Halloween Specials

“With a lot of running around the castle and discovering trap doors and hiding places, this outing is kind of “Scooby Doo”-ish compared to the franchise’s usual “The Honeymooners”-inspired domestic family sitcom makings. Both specials, however, offer fine entertainment that is able to sustain the longer runtimes.” Luke Bonanno, DVDizzy.com

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Groovie Goolies (originally Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies) is an American animated television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1972. Produced by Filmation, Groovie Goolies was a spinoff of Sabrina the Teenage Witch Show (itself a spinoff of The Archie Show). Like most Saturday morning cartoons of the era, Groovie Goolies contained an adult laugh track. In 1972, a curious one-off special saw Warner Bros characters Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies.

The Goolies were a group of hip monsters residing at Horrible Hall (a haunted boarding house for monsters) on Horrible Drive. Many of the Goolies were (in look and sound) pop-culture echoes of the classic horror-film monsters created in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly by Universal Pictures. The group sang a pop song each episode.

• Drac – The short-tempered vampire who is the head of Horrible Hall. He plays the organ piano in the Groovie Goolies.

• Frankie – An easygoing Frankenstein’s Monster who headed the Muscle-leum Gymnasium. He plays the bone xylophone/drums in the Groovie Goolies. Often would be zapped by lightning, revealing his inner mechanical workings and then remarking “I needed that!!” Frankie also had a dual identity as the inept superhero “Super Ghoul” (as seen in the song of the same name).

• Wolfie – A hippie werewolf that speaks in a combination of beatnik, surfer, and hippie slang. Wolfie plays a lyre-like instrument in the Groovie Goolies. Wolfie is always out for a good time (often by running wild, surfing, or driving his Wolf Wagon). He especially gets on Drac’s nerves.
  • Fido – Wolfie’s pet piranha that eats anything and can fly when necessary.

• Hagatha – A plump witch who served as resident chef. She also has a living broom named Broomhilda and is the aunt of Hauntleroy.

• Bella La Ghostly – A vampire who works as Horrible Hall’s switchboard operator.

• Dr. Jekyll and Hyde – The two-headed resident doctor who often fought as to which one of them was Jekyll and/or Hyde. The right head is a normal “human” doctor while the left head is a green-skinned “monster” doctor. He’s his own second opinion.

• Mummy – A bandaged mummy who dabbles in First Aid. Mummy serves as the newsman for “The Mummy’s Wrap-Up” newscasts. He would often became unraveled.

• Boneapart – A skittish skeleton in a Napoleon hat who had a tendency to fall apart.

• Ghoulihand – A giant, disembodied glove.

• Batso and Ratso – Two fanged imp-like brats with a penchant for coming up with plans for swiping treats as well playing mean practical jokes that often backfired.

• Hauntleroy – A rotund, conniving and selfish two-faced sissy kid in a sailor suit who was often the primary foil for Batso’s and Ratso’s tricks. He is the nephew of Hagatha.

• Icky and Goo – Two gargoyle-like creatures that seem to be the main pets of Horrible Hall. Icky is a blue gargoyle-like creature while Goo is a red gargoyle-like creature.

• Tiny – A diminutive, long-haired mummy with a high-pitched voice. He is the cousin of Mummy and a member of The Mummies and the Puppies.

• Missy – An enigmatic spook whose face was a large single eye and whose body was hidden by her long, pink hair. She is Tiny’s wife and a member of The Mummies and the Puppies.

• Mama Casket – A plump green mummy who is a member of The Mummies and the Puppies.

• Orville – A large thing-eating plant.

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Avengers Assemble is a 2013 American animated television series, based on the fictional Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, which has been designed to capitalize on the success of the 2012 film adaptation. Falcon (the newest member of The Avengers) is the main eyes and ears of the viewer as he fights evil and saves the world with his teammates (consisting of Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Thor). Dracula appears, voiced by Corey Burton.

Super villain Red Skull brings together his team of power giants called the Cabal where his invitational transmissions are shown to have been received by Attuma, Doctor Doom, and Dracula.

Plot:

Dracula was an uneasy ally of Captain America back in World War II when HYDRA invaded Transylvania. In the episode “The Avengers Protocol” Pt. 2, the King of Vampires is seen receiving a holographic message from Red Skull to join his Cabal.

In the episode “Blood Feud,” Dracula has converted Black Widow into a part-vampire and sends her with a group of vampires to infiltrate Stark Tower where they attack the Avengers. After the vampires are hit by the UV lights and Captain America unmasks the disguised Black Widow, Dracula offers her life in exchange for Captain America’s life. Captain America suggests that the Avengers should go to Transylvania to find the vampire that transformed her.

In Transylvania, Dracula unleashes his vampire minions as he makes off with Black Widow. Captain America leads Hawkeye and Falcon into infiltrating Dracula’s castle. When Falcon and Hawkeye find Black Widow knocked out by Dracula, Captain America surrenders. Dracula states that he can get the Super Soldier serum from Captain America’s blood and gain enough power to destroy HYDRA. Before Dracula can suck Captain America’s blood, the Avengers attack and he ends up sucking Hulk’s blood instead. Hulk becomes a vampire version of himself!

Soon, the Hulk’s blood proves too much for Dracula since gamma radiation is similar to sunlight. Dracula escapes away as his castle collapses while Iron Man uses a synthesized version of Hulk’s blood to restore Black Widow to normal. A recuperating Dracula ponders Red Skull’s offer to get revenge on the Avengers…

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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is the seventh incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 7, 1985 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. Thirteen episodes of the show were made. It replaced Scary Scooby Funnies, a repackaging of earlier shows; another repackaged series, Scooby’s Mystery Funhouse, followed.

In the initial episode, the gang are thrown off course on a trip to Honolulu in Daphne’s plane, landing instead in the Himalayas. While inside a temple, Scooby and Shaggy are tricked by 2 bumbling ghosts named Weerd and Bogel into opening the Chest of Demons, a magical artifact which houses the 13 most terrifying and powerful ghosts and demons ever to walk the face of the Earth.

As the ghosts can only be returned to the chest by those who originally set them free, Scooby and Shaggy, accompanied by Daphne, Scrappy-Doo, and a young juvenile Mexican con artist named Flim-Flam, embark on a worldwide quest to recapture them before they wreak irreversible havoc upon the world. Assisting them is Flim-Flam’s friend, a warlock named Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by Vincent Price), who contacts the gang using his crystal ball and often employs magic and witchcraft to assist them. The 13 escaped ghosts, meanwhile, each attempt to do away with the gang lest they be returned to the chest, often employing Weerd and Bogel as lackeys.

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo differed greatly from most previous incarnations of the series, in that it pitted the Scooby-Doo characters against actual supernatural forces. The concept of capturing real ghosts was one that was already familiar in mid-1980s culture after the debut of the film Ghostbusters in 1984; indeed, two other ghost-busting series the Real Ghostbusters (an adaptation of the film) and a Filmation production known as GhostBusters, were also soon to debut.

Story editor and associate producer Tom Ruegger led the overhaul of the property, and the irreverent, fourth wall breaking humour found in each episode would resurface in his later works, among them a Pup Named Scooby-Doo. Of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Ruegger recalls not being fond of the Flim-Flam character (‘Definitely the product of network focus groups’) or the other added characters in the cast. As with most of the other early-1980s Scooby-Doo entries, original characters Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley do not appear.

13 Ghosts was canceled and replaced by reruns of Laff-a-Lympics in March 1986, before the end of the season. It became the final Scooby series to feature Scrappy-Doo.

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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (also known as Mystery Incorporated or Scooby-Doo! Mystery, Inc.) is the eleventh incarnation of Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby-Doo animated series, and the first incarnation not to be first-run on Saturday mornings. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network and premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on April 5, 2010.

Mystery Incorporated returns to the early days of Scooby and the gang, when they are still solving mysteries in their home town, though it makes many references to previous incarnations of the franchise, not least among them many cases and creatures from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. Episode by episode, the series takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the classic Scooby-Doo formula (similar to A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!), with increasingly outlandish technology, skills and scenarios making up each villain’s story, and a different spin on the famous “meddling kids” quote at the end of every episode. Contrasting sharply with this, however, are two elements that have never been used in a Scooby-Doo series before: a serial format with an ongoing story arc featuring many dark plot elements that are treated with near-total seriousness, and ongoing relationship drama between the characters.

The series pays extensive homage to the horror genre, drawing on many works from film, television and literature in both parodic and serious ways, from horror movie classics like A Nightmare on Elm Street, modern films such as Saw, television series Twin Peaks, and the works of H. P. Lovecraft, alongside the classic monster horror movies shown in previous series. Other Hanna-Barbera characters occasionally guest-star, including Captain Caveman, Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, The Funky Phantom, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, and more.

As was the case with the previous three installments in the franchise, Mystery Incorporated redesigns the main characters, this time into a retro look that returns them to their original 1969 outfits, with some small changes (such as Velma now wearing bows in her hair). The series is also the animated debut of Matthew Lillard as the voice of Shaggy, after he portrayed the character in two live-action films, Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004). Casey Kasem, the original voice of Shaggy, now voices Shaggy’s father. Linda Cardellini, who played Velma in the live-action movies, is the voice of Hot Dog Water, a recurring character in the series.

Fred Jones, Jr., Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Norville “Shaggy” Rogers, and Scooby-Doo are a team of teen mystery solvers who live in the small town of Crystal Cove, the self-proclaimed “Most Hauntedest Place on Earth”. The allegedly “cursed” town’s long history of strange disappearances and ghost and monster sightings form the basis for its thriving tourist industry; as such, the adults of the town (chief among them being Fred’s father Mayor Fred Jones Sr. and Sheriff Bronson Stone) are not happy that the kids are debunking all the supernatural goings-on that bring in so much revenue as the overwrought schemes of charlatans and criminals.

In addition to the traditional cases they always solve, the team finds itself being nudged into the uncovering of a dark secret that is hidden in the past of Crystal Cove. Following cryptic hints from a faceless mystery-man known only as “Mr. E.” (a play on “mystery”), the gang unearths the legend of a cursed Conquistador treasure, the secret history of Crystal Cove’s founding Darrow Family, and the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of four mystery-solving youths and their pet bird—the originalMystery Incorporated. Standing in the way of their solving this mystery, however, are the romantic entanglements pulling the kids apart: Shaggy finds himself unable to put his new romance with Velma ahead of his longtime friendship with Scooby, while Daphne pines for a trap-obsessed Fred, who obliviously struggles to realise he shares her feelings, too.

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Frankenstein’s Cat is a 1942 American cartoon that was part of the Mighty Mouse series. It is a Terrytoons production, directed by Mannie Davis.

This 6 minute long story opens with mice and birds living in a cat-free paradise, until one unfortunate bird is blown to a dark, sinister castle that is haunted by ‘fiend of darkness’ Frankenstein’s Cat! This is an electricity-surged, square bodied but surprisingly cheery looking monster, who sets out to capture the intruding bird. This pursuit leads him to the cat-free haven, where he terrorises the avian and rodent residents, and after some mild vandalism, snatches a bird and is chased back to the castle by angry, torch-wielding villagers (i.e. mice). Only one mouse can save the day – the superhero Might Mouse!

This early entry in the Mighty Mouse series sees our hero wearing a different colour costume than seen in later cartoons – here, he is in the familiar blue and red of Superman. In fact, the character was originally called Super Mouse, and his new name has been all-too-obviously redubbed later.

This is one of several cartoons that featured ‘Frankenstein’ (or, more accurately, the monster) in the 1930s and 40s, made when the popularity of the character was at its peak thanks to the Universal films. The monster would also have encounters with Bugs Bunny, Betty Boop, Porky Pig and Woody Woodpecker amongst others.

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Night of the Living Carrots is a 2011 Halloween short animated film, based on Monsters vs. Aliens and produced by DreamWorks Animation. Following the 2009 short, Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, a mutated carrot has spawned hundreds of zombie carrots taking control of the subject’s mind. Dr. Cockroach determines that the only way to defeat them and free their victims is for B.O.B. to eat all of the carrots.

The short premiered in two parts exclusively on Nintendo 3DS. It was released to a general audience on August 28, 2012, as a part of Shrek’s Thrilling Tales DVD and DreamWorks Spooky Stories Blu-ray.

Plot:

In a theater, B.O.B. introduces the story in a manner similar to many horror films. He recalls the events of Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, saying “it all started with a spooky spaceship, mutant pumpkins and monsters saving the day. But that was only the beginning.”

The scene then shifts to the twist ending of the previous special. The Zombie Carrot emerges and charges at the camera but is stopped short by a gate. Carl Murphy announces to the children of the Modesto suburbs that a costume contest was about to start and that the winner got their weight in candy. B.O.B., dressed as a pirate, takes interest and comes inside but takes all the candy meant for the contest. Outside, he hears a strange voice and is initially frightened by the zombie carrot, but he mistakes it for a child in a costume. Believing the carrot would win the costume contest, he throws it inside where it immediately bites Carl, turning him into a zombie.

All the guests flee the Murphy house and not long after, the carrot is blasted by Dr. Cockroach’s scanner. Doc theorizes that the carrot was contaminated by the mutant pumpkins and that the curse could only be lifted by eliminating the infected carrot. However, the remains of the carrot replicate themselves into more zombie carrots. Before long, all three monsters are completely surrounded…

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The Mad Doctor is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released in 1933. The short’s horror overtones made it unusual for a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Some theaters refused to show it, believing it to be too scary for kids. At one time, for this reason, it was banned entirely in England.

The short’s title character later had a cameo in the Roger Rabbit short, “Tummy Trouble”, in which he was seen on a picture. The Mad Doctor was also the basis for, and title of the second level in the game, Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse (for Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega CD and PlayStation (as Mickey’s Wild Adventure); a depiction of the Mad Doctor level is used as the cover art for the game.

This cartoon is in the public domain, and can be found on many low budget VHS tapes and DVDs

Plot:

A mad scientist, Dr. XXX, has captured Mickey’s dog, Pluto. Mickey tries to rescue him before the doctor can perform his grotesque experiment: attaching Pluto’s head to the body of a chicken in order to see if a puppy will hatch from an egg (that is if the end result will “bark or crow or cackle”). Mickey battles his way through booby traps and animated skeletons before eventually getting caught and strapped onto a table to get cut open by a buzzsaw, forcing Mickey to suck in his belly, trembling. The scene then fades to Mickey asleep in bed and suddenly woken up by a fly, whose buzzing resembles the whirring of the spinning blade. Not yet realizing the events were only a nightmare, Mickey shouts for Pluto, who eagerly jumps onto Mickey’s bed with his doghouse and chain still attached to collar.

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Spook Train 3D is a 2014 claymation animated British horror film in development by director Lee Hardcastle. The film is currently seeking online funding via Kickstarter and the intention is to shoot it in 4K and 3D.

Lee Hardcastle’s previous work includes The Evil Dead in 60 Seconds (2010):

Ghost Burger (T is for Toliet 2):

His short Toliet was included in The ABCs of Death.

Scooby-Doo! Glow in the Dark Puzzles have been available for a number of years in the UK in various incarnations via Paul Lamond Games and as part of the many Cartoon Network/Warner Bros tie-in products. With themes such as ‘The Case of the Haunted Woods’ and ‘The Case of the Haunted Tomb’ these jigsaws are merely one example of the multifarious TV-inspired spooky offshoots that kids have been lapping up since the 1960s onwards, with masses of Munsters, Dark Shadows and Addams Family toys issued too. The additional glow in the dark element of these puzzles is obviously an added attraction that even childish adults can’t resist!

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire is the seventeenth film in the direct-to-video series of Scooby-Doo films. This installment is notable for being the first of the films to be a musical. The film was released to rent through Amazon Instant Video and iTunes on December 22, 2011.

Plot:

Tulie, a bayou dweller, sings the story of Valdronya and the Mystery Inc. Gang. After solving the mystery of a Cockroach Monster that terrorized a factory, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby decide to take a much needed vacation. Velma drives everyone to Chauve Sourie Ville, a small town in Louisiana which is hosting a vampire festival called “Vampire Palooza.” They meet Lita Rutland, the festival organizer, who explains that tourism is down and the festival is losing money. They also meet their host, Vincent Van Helsing, who runs a vampire museum and is an aspiring author, although his books are not selling. Jesper Poubelle, an anti-vampire agitator, is also stirring up trouble by protesting the festival. Van Helsing takes the Gang back to his museum and shows them various jewelry and a glass-faced casket containing the inert body of Valdronya, a centuries-old vampire…

Reviews:

” … between the movie’s snazzy color-curdling animation, the cast’s (spoken) voice work, and all of the spooky vampire stalking and mystery solving Sheppard and director David Block are able to conjure up, the latest direct-to-video Scooby-Doo offering will keep kids laughing, humming and bouncing in their seats. I may have grumbled at times, but my son didn’t do anything other than grin. I may have winced when Lord Valdrona burst into song, but he thought it was hilarious. I may have pegged the culprit from the beginning, but he was shocked. Thankfully, Music of the Vampire redeems its lyricist’s sins with a solid mystery, a sharp sense of humor, and the Mystery Inc. gang, who would need to do far, far worse to earn the wrath of a lifelong Scoobyfan.” Kenneth Brown, Blu-ray.com

” … isn’t an entirely weak entry into the franchise but it’s not the strongest one either. It had the tried and true elements you want from a Scooby-Doo mystery with a musical twist which, for the most part, was fine but hardly special. I do give them points for at least attempting to do something different… In any case, if you’re a fan of the franchise, this one is entertaining enough even if it doesn’t stack up with previous entries.” Movieman’s Guide to the Movies

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Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo

Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King

Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster

Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost

Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare

Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster

Scooby-Doo! Glow in the Dark Puzzles (toys and games)

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (animated TV series)

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island

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“Hell Is Other Robots” is the ninth episode of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on May 18, 1999. The episode was written by Eric Kaplan and directed by Rich Moore. Guest stars in this episode include the Beastie Boys as themselves and Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson) voicing the Robot Devil.

The episode introduces the Robot Devil, Reverend Lionel Preacherbot and the religion of the Temple of Robotology, a spoof on the Church of Scientology. The episode received positive reviews, and was one of four featured on the DVD boxed set of Matt Groening‘s favorite episodes: “Monster Robot Maniac Fun Collection“.

This episode contains a large amount of religious parody. The episode’s title is itself a pun of the famous line “Hell is other people” from Jean-Paul Sartre‘s one act play No Exit. The punishments in Robot Hell are similar to the levels and rationale which are portrayed in Dante‘s The Divine Comedy, specifically the Inferno. The “Fairness in Hell Act,” where the damned may engage in a fiddle battle to save his soul and win a solid gold fiddle, is taken directly from The Charlie Daniels Band song The Devil Went Down to Georgia. The inclusion of an upbeat song in a version of Hell also allows Bender to take swipes at inappropriate musical numbers in popular entertainment.

Plot:

After a Beastie Boys concert, Bender attends a party with his old friend, Fender, a giant guitar amp. At the party Bender and the other robots abuse electricity by “jacking on,” and Bender develops an addiction. After receiving a near-lethal dose from an electrical storm, Bender realizes he has a problem and searches for help. He joins the Temple of Robotology, accepting the doctrine of eternal damnation in Robot Hell should he sin. After baptizing him in oil, the Reverend Lionel Preacherbot welds the symbol of Robotology to Bender’s case. As Bender begins to annoy his co-workers with his new religion, Fry and Leela decide they want the “old Bender” back. They fake a delivery to Atlantic City and tempt Bender with alcohol, prostitutes and easy targets for theft.

He eventually succumbs, rips off the Robotology symbol and throws it away, causing it to beep ominously. While seducing three female robots, Bender is interrupted by a knock at his hotel room door. He opens the door and is knocked unconscious. He awakens to see the Robot Devil and finds himself in Robot Hell. The Robot Devil reminds Bender that he agreed to be punished for sinning when he joined Robotology. After discovering Bender is missing, Fry and Leela track him down using Nibbler‘s sense of smell. Eventually, they arrive at an abandoned New Jersey amusement park where they find the entrance to Robot Hell…

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