Yesterday, HeyRube readers were taken into a dark world, one that involved a tortured monkey, a crazed ringmaster and impending horror. Sound like a good time to you? I concur. This creepy carnival narrative is the backdrop for Circus of Fear, a 3D haunted house based out of Colorado. Here’s what you need to know [...]
On a moonless autumn night, in a small hamlet in Northern Colorado, the wagon train of a small traveling circus has rolled into town and set up its tents in a mostly vacant field on the outskirts of town. In their rush to unload the wagons, feed the animals and set up the circus before [...]
Calling all coulrophobes: Today’s post is a purely gratuitous look at animatronic clowns. I’ve scoured the internet for videos featuring said props, and these are listed below for your viewing pleasure. How, you may ask, did I stumble onto this topic? Don’t ask such questions; just enjoy and if you’re so inclined, vote on your [...]
Hot off the press! Director, creature actor and special effects makeup artist Tom Woodruff, Jr has just revealed an upcoming project sure to please sideshow lovers and horror fans alike. The film, which will be titled Sideshow, is being kept under wraps for now, but a few details have been leaked. The plot supposedly “involves [...]
This weekend (November 19-21), Bloomington, Indiana will host the 4th annual Dark Carnival Film Festival at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. For three days, indie horror movie lovers will come together to screen eight features and 20 shorts from across the globe including Cabine of the Dead, Recollection, Red Balloon and The Unfun House, to name a [...]
Vampire Circus is a retro horror film bound to satisfy sideshow lovers, horror movie fanatics and B-rate camp enthusiasts alike. The rather complex plot goes something like this: A little girl is brutally slain by a vampire in a tiny 19th century Austrian village. Seeking revenge, the townspeople invade the foreboding castle of Count Mitterhaus [...]
Imagine for a moment, if you will, that you are back in high school. Wait, it gets worse! Your class takes a field trip to the local morgue. When you look up on a shelf, you notice a human brain in a display jar. Then you lean in a bit closer to read the jar’s [...]
I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the unveiling of the Carnies contest winners. Here they are, the top three best carnie villain name submissions: Sarasota Slim, The Sharpshooter Dead-Eye Dimitri Ringling’s Rope Rascals, a troupe of cowboys and cowgirls Some of the great contenders include: Ol’ Deeppockets Bottomless Belly Boy, the [...]
Many of my fellow sideshow lovers out there happen to be horror movie fanatics as well. And, if you’re anything like me, a good, campy slasher film is pretty hard to beat. Well, get ready for just such a horror movie set in a traveling carnival during the Dust Bowl. A menacing force descends on [...]