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Episode 89

Wow, this is a BIG show.  Haunt Season has officially started.  the Unknown Scare-Actor caught up with Ben Peter, from Face Off Season 8, and talks about his experiences and what it’s like to be the creative director of Springboro Haunted Hayride and Black Bog, in Lebanon Ohio.  Badger has a talk about Rock and Shock while covering the Scares that Care event in Virginia, and the USA gets a shout out from our youngest fan to date, Eric, when he came by the Big Scary Show booth at Scarefest with this mom.

Continuing some Scarefest coverage, Badger hangs out with Sal Lizard, the Vampire Santa, and gets an eyeful, as this interview turns out to be our most risqué to date, while the Unknown Scare-Actor gets to chat with 3 Girls in the Dark. Rounding out the interviews, Badger has a chat with Jen Braverman, about the upcoming Legendary Haunt Tour, coming to the Windy City this year

The Roundtable of Terror involves only 3 of the (g)hosts, as the Unknown Scare-Actor was on location, conducting an actor training class.  Badger, Jerry and Storm discuss set and room design and the give you there own takes on what makes a great room in a haunt, and even one man short, this lively talk goes a little longer than they realized.

Finally, the feature segments are here, with Badger’s Deadline News, Storm’s Haunt Minute (with an endorsement from one of his idols), USA’s Legends and Lore, starting a several episode series of Hallowe’en facts, myths and legends, and the Haunt Rocker spins a spooky selection of tunes that fit right in with the season start, and rounding it all out is Special Correspondent Eric Vysther, as his shifts over the Sci-Fi realm with his segment on the monsters of Dr. Who

We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to….

THE BIG SCARY SHOW!!   Featured Music:

Mystary – Room No. 07

The Night Keep – The Macabre Waltz

Audio Zombie – Apparition

Episode 88

It’s a Lovecraftian field day on the Big Scary Show, as Storm covers Necronomicon in Providence, Rhode Island, home of H.P Lovecraft.  in between Elder God summoning rituals he finds time to chat withe the likes of Monster Wash, Hibernacula, Feeping Creatures, the Shoggoth Assembly and other vendors who pay homage to the Eldritch Horror, Cthulu!

The (g)hosts sit down at the Roundtable of Terror and talk about the late Wes Craven, and other horror icons who left us this year, discussing favorite movies, memorable characters, and what it really takes to scare people in the 21st Century

Do we have a new Gruesome Giveaway winner?  you will have to listen to find out.

Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, while the Unknown Scare-Actor gives a nod to Storm and talks about the Chupacabra in Legends and Lore.  Storm rants on about a senseless Halloween meme, and the Haunt Rocker does some backwards masking of Ancient Gods summoning rituals, while he spins the spooky tunes, with sinister intentions.

We Hid the Body, and we just might sacrifice you to the Ancient Ones, just for listening to….

THE BIG SCARY SHOW!!

Featured Music:

Grave Tone Productions – the Final Hour

Dante Tomaselli – Dark Night of the Soul

Creature Feature – American Gothic

Episode 87

Ahh, August, the excitement builds as season approaches.  Badger takes a trip out to Pasadena California to cover Scare LA, a growing haunt convention now in its third year.  Never one at a loss for words, Badger brings us a body bag full of interviews, with Adam of Froggy’s Fog, the infamous Russ McKamey, the Decayed Brigade, Chris of Music for Haunts, author Kelly Allen, Jimmy Psycho, RoT Sponsor Necrotic Creations, LA Fear, Phantom Finder, Skull Shoppe, Spectral Illusions, and a wrap up  with Dave of Scare LA.

The Roundtable of Terror keeps a fire extinguisher close by as the Voice From Hell, Dick Terhune, talks with the (g)hosts about Marketing and Social Media, and how to increase your numbers, this is a must hear for any haunt wanting to increase attendance.

Or next Gruesome Giveaway question is in the show and this time we are giving away the full size bloody fire axe, courtesy of Screamline Studios.

As an added bonus, hidden somewhere in the show is an “easter egg” from MHC, see if you can find it.

We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to…..

The BIG SCARY SHOW

Featured Music:

Sinister Symphonies – The Hellfire Club

Music for Haunts – Church of Torment

Radio Cult – Saturday Night Double Feature

Episode 86

Well, season is getting closer and Chicago Frights’ inaugural show is a memory, and just because none of the (g)hosts could make it doesn’t mean there isn’t coverage, Special Correspondent Vysther made the trip to Chicago to chat with Mike and Vince of Master Fog, Kevin of Missing Finger Productions, Scott of Scared City Hauntiques, Adam G of Zombie Army Productions, Chris of Evil Fire Lizard, and our good friend RJ Haddy.

The Roundtable of Terror sits down with John Eslich, the owner of the Factory of Terror in Canton, OH and the President of the Haunted Attraction Association.  We go over the details and benefits of being a member of the HAA, from actors to vendors to haunt owners.

Badger brings us an interview with GWAR from Scares that Care, and an interview with the Late, great Rowdy Roddy Piper from Days of the Dead Atlanta last year

Badger brings us Deadline News, Storm rants on about killer robots, the Unknown Scare-Actor brings you the legend of BatSquatch,

and the Haunt-strementalist, Jerry Vayne, spins the Spooky Tunes

We hid the Body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to…..

The BIG SCARY SHOW

Featured Music:

Calabrese – Ghost Wolves

GWAR – Let Us Slay

Creep-a-Zoids – Dead By Dawn

Episode 85

So here we are, the end of July, haunt season is less than 2 months away, and we decided to shake it up. So, we put out a call and chained to the Roundtable of Terror are 3 masters of the extreme.  Jason Erskine of Darkness Pines, Will Puntarich of Dead of Night, and the infamous Russ McKamey, of the soon to be relocated McKamey Manor, an extreme haunt that is getting a lot of press lately.  This RoT is so long and intriguing, that we didn’t have much room left for interviews, so it’s all extreme.

Badger brings us the extreme Deadline News, Storm rants about how extreme is extreme, and the Unknown Scare-Actor digs up and extreme Legend in the Goatman.

The Haunt-strementalist, Jerry Vayne, spins the extreme tunes for this EXTREME….. BIG SCARY SHOW

Featured music: Wednesday 13 – Trick or Treat (we’re here to kill you)

Van Helsing’s Curse – Halloween

Shadow’s Symphony – The Dead are Watching

Episode 84 Well here is is, July.  time to kick the build into high gear and start recruiting for the 2015 Haunt season.  With all the controversy surrounding the Rebel flag, its seems fitting that out own Badger paid a visit to Heavy Rebel Weekend in Winston Salem, NC, and he chats with several bands, including the Creep-a-Zoids, the Recently Deceased, and Fright Barker and Sons. He also chats with the psychotic minds behind ScareLA, a west coast convention that is growing rapidly. The (g)hosts sit at the Roundtable of Terror and talk about acting, recruiting, safety and offer tips on those subjects. Special correspondent Eric Vysther talks about Frankenstein while Storm rants on in a Haunt Minute and the Unknown Scare-Actor looks up the Jersey Devil for Legends and Lore, the Haunt-Strementalist ties it all together with the spooky tunes We Hid the Body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to… THE BIG SCARY SHOW!! Featured Music: Fright Barker and Sons – Backburner Gal The Recently Deceased – It Walks Creep-a-Zoids – Dead By Dawn

Episode 83

MHC Part 2, we wind up our 2015 MHC coverage with a slew of interviews from Badger and Eric Vysther, including Ed Gannon, Deadly Grounds, Bixby Studios, Donat Insurance, Haunting FX, John Denley, Morph Store, Clear Cut, Mortis, From Art to Zombies, Slaughterhouse Studios, Ticket Leap, and Spider Hill..(phew I’m glad I’m done typing all those)

The Roundtable of Terror is all about FX Makeup with Wicked Wendy, George Simpson III, and Face Off Season 2 Fan Favorite, RJ Haddy. its a lively discussion regard practical effects vs CGI, and the future of the haunt industry.

Storm rants on about updating horror icons, Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, and the Unknown Scare-Actor brings us a cryptid from his home state of Illinois, while Jerry Vayne spins the spooky tunes.

We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to……

THE BIG SCARY SHOW

Featured Music:

Psychocharger w/ Unkel Pigors fo Toxic Toons – Channel 13

Alice Cooper – Keeping Halloween Alive

The Independents – Bloody Night, Bloody Knife

Episode 82

Wow, we have so much MHC Coverage we had to split it into two shows.  The Roundtable of Terror is recorded live on the show floor with many of our sponsors, including Screamline Studios, Von Charon Productions, Froggy’s Fog, Darkest Fears Unlimited, Haunter’s Digest and Creepy Collection.  We discuss MHC, some of the changes and get a vendor’s perspective of the ownership changes.  Some of the outtakes left us in stitches, so make an outtake segment is in the future.

The interviews are staring to flow, like blood out of a fresh corpse, as Eric Vysther chats  with Dick Terhune, Buzz from Zombie Works, Chris Ainsworth, Ed Edmunds, and Master Fog.  Badger gets his air time with Crazy Bob Turner, Jason McCollum of Morbid Fx, and Scrap Metal Studios.  The Unknown Scare-Actor dusts off the Zoom H2 for a talk with Richard from Asylum Props, and Paco Hoopingarner, the owner of Shattered Nightmares, the haunt in Terre Haute , IN destroyed by arson.

Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants on about getting a business for an essay, and the Unknown Scare-Actor goes to Pennsylvania for the story of the “Green Man”, the latest installment of Legends and Lore. And of course, the show would not be complete with the “Haunt-strementalist” Jerry Vayne, spinning the best in spooky tunes.

We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to…

THE BIG SCARY SHOW

Featured Music:

Valentine Wolfe – Black, Black Kisses

Reverend D-Ray and the Shockers – Zombie Cowboys

The B-Movie Monsters – 10-31

Episode 81

Its time for MHC! the show is being posted as most of us descend upon Columbus.  So give a listen on your way in or on your way home

the Roundtable of Terror is another great one with Midnight Syndicate. Talk about the live show, Legacy of Shadows, the upcoming Christmas themed album, and possible future live shows. Always great to chat with Ed and Gavin

Storm interviews about Dare to Scare and Vysther talks home haunting…in an apartment??

Badger has the latest Deadline News, Storm rants about costuming and fashion sense, while the Unknown Scare-Actor goes to West Virginia for the latest “Legends and Lore”, and the Haunt Rocker does his usual….nothing…except spin the best in spooky tunes

We hid the body, but you will become an accomplice, just by listening to…

THE BIG SCARY SHOW!

Featured Music:

Blackwoods – Midnight Syndicate

Born of the Night – Midnight Syndicate

Requiem – Midnight Syndicate

Episode 80

The Midwest Haunter’s Convention is just around the corner, so we rounded up all the (g) Hosts and Special Correspondent Eric Vysther, as well a Super Special Correspondent Tater(complete with red cape) to sit around the Roundtable of Terror and talk about MHC, some changes, some new events and a different host hotel, as well as the bus tour and the paranormal tour, which is headed to the former West Virginia State Penitentiary.  Badger wraps up the Haunt X coverage with Steve Colberg, Dexter Morgan, Mad Monster Masks, Tombstone Factory, and of course, Tater.

Storm rants on about dead bodies in hotel rooms, The Unknown Scare-Actor tries to up his testosterone while bringing you a new Legends and Lore, this time from Michigan, while the Haunt-strementalist Jerry Vayne, spins the spook tunes, including a new track from his latest CD, Circus of Nightmares. (Make sure you pick up a copy at MHC)

We hid the body, but you will become and accomplice, just by listening to…

THE BIG SCARY SHOW

Featured Music:

They Taste Funny – Virgil

FreakShow – Midnight Syndicate

Cirque de Macabre – Jerry Vayne