Big Scary Show – Episode 294 – Douglas Tait

Big Scary Show

Episode 294
As July begins to wind down, we are one more month closer to October and the Big Scary Show Episode 294 continues to bring you all the latest news, information, and music you need as you kick things into high gear. After all, it’s less than 100 days until Halloween.

Storm is ranting about lighting accessories for your 12-foot skeleton in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim talks about the Penalties for Piracy in yet another installment of Between the Corpses. Badger reads the latest in Deadline news, and the Old Crone discusses beating the heat this time of year. We’re also playing you some rockin’ tunes to keep you going as we head into August.

The Roundtable of Terror invites actor and director Douglas Tait to join us and talk about his 30-year career in the film industry. Who else do you know has appeared on-screen as Jason Voorhees AND Michael Myers? He’s also been in the Hellboy, Annabelle, Star Trek, and Star Wars franchises, and more. And as a bonus, he’s a HUGE fan of haunted houses. Be sure to catch him and buy an autograph at a convention or haunted attraction this year. All this, and so much more on Episode 294 of the Big Scary show.

We hid the body, but you’ll become an accomplice just by listening to……..the BIG SCARY SHOW. (And please stay hydrated)

Featured music: (The Rhythm Coffin)                                                                                        Yeah Yeah
Tombstoned
The Monster Mash                                                                                                                         Coffin Creep

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Big Scary Show – Episode 231 – 13 Questions of DOOM!

Big Scary Show

Episode 231

While we hunker down and try to ride out this long cold winter, the Big Scary Show is keeping things warm with some of the hottest things going on in the haunted house industry,  Grab a cup of coffee, tea, or hot toddy, settle into your favorite couch, cover yourself  with a blanket and let the Big Scary Show keep you warm.

Storm is ranting as usual, in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim takes you someplace warm in Between the Corpses, Badger reads the  latest in Deadline News, the Haunt-Strumetallist Jerry Vayne spins a trio of spooky tunes guaranteed to make your blood run cold, and Vysther returns  with his take on ‘The Stand’.

The Roundtable of Terror brings us the 13th edition of the haunt industries’ favorite game show, the 13 Questions of Doom, with very special guest contestant David Howard Thornton. How does he do against our reigning champion?  Stay tuned and find out.  All this plus much more.

We hid the body……..but you will become an accomplice just by listening to….. THE BIG SCARY SHOW!

Featured music:

Audio Zombie – Rainbow Flavored Nightmares

Gathering of Darkness – Souls of Black

Virgil Franklin – They Taste Funny

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Big Scary Show – Episode 193 – Haunt Season and Horror Authors

BIG SCARY SHOW -Episode 193 – Let the haunt season…begin

After months and months of waiting, it’s finally here. Haunt Season 2019 is starting to creep across the nation as some haunts are opening their doors this Friday the 13th weekend. Remember to get out there and support your local haunts.

Badger is still at Creepycon in Knoxville, TN speaking with several haunt owners from Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, and…Arizona?. Get the inside scoop on some of the coolest haunts in these states. In addition, he talks to Tony Clark from Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio about its upcoming Hall-O-Weekend event (featuring Midnight Syndicate Live!), and speaks with Jen Braverman about the Legendary Haunt Tour’s 10th anniversary event coming to the Atlanta area in November.

The Roundtable of Terror is all about Horror Writers, as we sit down with authors Christine Lajewski, Nic Brown, Bryan Nowak, and Winslow Swan.

Storm is ranting about his ideas in a Haunt Minute. Meathook Jim goes off on Friday the 13th, The Haunt-strumetallist Jerry Vayne spins a trio of rockin’ tunes (including a world premiere of an old Halloween classic). Badger reads the Deadline News, and Vysther talks about Halloween’s most beloved character. (Yes, it’s probably who you think it is.)

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

Featured Music:
The Rhythm Coffin – Monster Mash (With Davey Suicide and Calico of Beasto Blanco)
The Tremors – Demon Boogie Fever
The Graveyard Boulevard – Pay to Get In, Pray to Get Out

Big Scary Show – Episode 155 – Transworld

Episode 155

Well, Transworld 2018 is in the books, and Badger has brought us back some amazing coverage. we have interviews with Brain Child Creative, Wicked Amusements, CFX, Ticket Leap, Creative Visions, Scare Innovations, Darker Collection, Mel Products, Dead Farm, Marlon Taylor, Don’t Be a Monster, Haunt Pay, Forgotten Yard, Haunter’s Against Hate, Fright Find, Haunt Shirts, Halloween Attraction Association, and Halloween Aid.  Ok now I have Carpal Tunnel from all that typing.  but there’s more!

Badger brings us the latest Deadline News,  Storm rants about Transworld, Jerry Vayne spins a trio of horror inspired tunes, including the title track from Blackmoon Asylum, while Meathook Jim brings you a 5 minute excerpt from his recent interview with Rosemary and Allie from Impact Wrestling, a team known as Demon Bunny, and we get the latest on their upcoming appearance at WrestleCon in New Orleans next weekend.  Stay tuned for the full, almost hour long interview on April 28th!   We gave Vysther the week off with all this coverage but he will be back next episode.

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

THE BIG SCARY SHOW!!

 

Featured Music:

Jerry Vayne – Blackmoon Asylum

Jimmy Psycho Experiment – The Munsters Theme – Demo Lounge Version

Memphis Morticians – Halloween Socks

Big Scary Show – Episode 144 – Halloween 2017

Episode 144

Well, its kind of bitter sweet, but Kiddies, Halloween is almost upon us.  Meathook Jim,  Jerry Vayne and Badger made the trek to Cedar Point to see Midnight Syndicate Live!  Ed and Gavin have really upped the ante, as their first show in 2014 was a hit and in 2017 it’s even better.  Always a treat to see them perform live and if you ever get a chance it the future, make it happen.  We chat with Ed and Gavin about the show, and whats on the horizon for them.

Shortly after, we chat with Tony Clarke of Cedar Point, about a possible return for Midnight Syndicate, as well as the popular Halloweekends.

Badger stays close to home after this as he interviews several haunts in North Carolina, including Hallowed Grounds, The Haunted Mill, Lake Hickory Haunts and Zombie Hollow.

The Roundtable of Terror is about unusual Haunts, as we offer chairs up to Dan’s Haunted House, (the only Japanese themed haunt in the country),Grim Trails (based on Fairy Tales and Folklore), and Thriller Retro Haunted House( an 80’s themed haunt)  be prepared, some of the language does slip into the R -rated realm, so cover the kiddies ears!

Badger brings us the latest Deadline News, Storm rants on, in a Haunt Minute, the Unknown Scare-Actor talks about Samhainophobia in Face your Fears, the Haunt-strementalist spins a trio of Midnight Syndicate tunes, and Vysther is back with “What I did on my Halloween Vacation, Part 2.

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

THE BIG SCARY SHOW

 

Featured Music:

Midnight Syndicate

Born of the Night

Haunted Nursery

Shadows ( Haunt Rocker Remix, with Jerry Vayne)

Big Scary Show – Episode 143 – Friday the 13th

Episode 143

it’s Friday the 13th and Drew Badger is back with a quartet of interviews from Scarefest in Lexington, KY. , as he chats with the Ghost Brothers, Halloween 24/7, the Paranormal Genealogist, and the Western Kentucky Ghostbusters.

The Roundtable of Terror is your favorite rewind and play along game show, the 13 Questions of DOOM!

Badger brings us the latest in Deadline News, Storm is back with Lair of the Marketing Weezel, addressing Social Media, and Haunt Minute is about a child left overnight in a corn maze.  The Unknown Scare-Actor is back with Pediophobia on Face Your Fears, The Haunt-strementalist spins a trio of Midnight Syndicate tunes, and Vysther brings us a piece on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.  and the Gruesome Giveaway question AND answer are hidden somewhere in the show.

I hope you don’t have triskaidekaphobia

 

Featured Music:

Midnight Syndicate:

Serenade

A Slight Miscalculation

Haverghast Asylum

 

Big Scary Show – Episode 85 – Extreme Haunts

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

Big Scary Show – Episode 82 – MHC Wrap Up, Part 1

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

Big Scary Show – Episode 81 – MHC

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

Big Scary Show – Episode 80 – Something Wicked This Way Comes..

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