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Halloween potpourri
Pimped-out pumpkins, films, blogs and costumes Great pumpkins
Frightening (ass) films
Pumpkin Gutter
pumpkingutter.com
Frightening Ass Film Festival Mise En Scenesters, a Chattanooga-based film club dedicated to screening obscure, classic, arthouse and genre films, presents the Frightening Ass Film Festival at Collective Warehouse, 4015 Tennessee Avenue in St. Elmo. Visit the Facebook page at facebook. com/ MESFilmClub.
Extreme Pumpkins extremepumpkins.com
Panic! loves us some JackO-Lanterns and these sites take pumpkin carving to the X-factor! If you’ve got the tools and the time, these sites will inspire you to pumpkin-carving greatness with galleries and tutorials. Pumpkin Gutter is the Louvre of carved pumpkin art from Perryton, Texasnative Scott Cummins, the Michelangelo of 3-D JackO-Lanterns. Tom Nardone at Extreme Pumpkins is no slouch, either. Nardone hosts an annual carving contest online. Just send him a photo and he’ll pick a winner and “send you some sort of prize.” Heh. Our favorite? The Lionel Richie Pumpkin.
honest music
Friday, October 14 All the Boys Love Mandy Lane 8:30 p.m. Friday, October 21 The Signal and The Loved Ones 8:30 p.m.
local and regional shows
The Black Cadillacs · The Formidables ($3)
Thu, Oct 13
9 pm
Molly Maguires
Sun, Oct 16
7 pm
The Velvet Hand · Gasoline Heart · Don’t Panic ($3)
Wed, Oct 19
9 pm
12th Annual All Hallows Eve Bash Sat, Oct 29 Dead Confederate and The Bohannons Tickets on sale now!
First Halloween Variety Show Mon, Oct 31 Shock Theatre Orchestra, Odist, Opposite Box, Subterranean Cirqus Magic from Scott Fillers & Horror Movies!
Great blogs
Chuck Norris Ate My Baby chucknorrisatemybaby.com
Sample post: Bad Trick or Treat Ideas: Loose Change Nothing says grubby quite like someone else’s slightly warm loose change. Though, if you want to kick the grub factor up a notch, putting that loose change in an old, wrinkled plastic sandwich bag and handing it out to trick-ortreaters should just about do the trick. It’s disgusting, dude. Might as well give out a bagful of your toenail clippings. Do yourself and the rest of humanity a favor, spend the ten spot and pick up a bag of candy, you know, so I don’t have to be plagued by your grotesque germs.
ONLY ONE OF US CAN BE THE COP! This happens every year, so get it together, people: Only ONE of us can be the Cop from the Village People*. And you must wear the Officially Licensed VP Cop Costume, which has a blue patch sewn onto it along with the screenprinted words: “Village People Officially Licensed Merchandise.” If you see a VP Cop Costume without this, tell your Officially Licensed VP Biker or Construction Worker friend to beat the shit out of them. Victor Willis will thank you. Village People Cop Costume $81.99 halloweencostumes.com *We know nobody wants to be the Chief, but they don’t have it anyway.
What 35 Patten Parkway was meant to be. Full food menu serving lunch and dinner. 11am-2am, 7 days a week.
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UPDATED WEEKLY
HAUNTED HOUSES BAR & CLUB PARTIES
SHOCKTOBER 13 • 2011
CHATTANOOGA’S ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN GUIDE
Halloween potpourri
Pimped-out pumkins, films, blogs and costumes Great pumpkins
Frightening (ass) films
Pumpkin Gutter
pumpkingutter.com
Frightening Ass Film Festival Mise En Scenesters, a Chattanooga-based film club dedicated to screening obscure, classic, arthouse and genre films, presents the Frightening Ass Film Festival at Collective Warehouse, 4015 Tennessee Avenue in St. Elmo. Visit the Facebook page at facebook. com/ MESFilmClub.
Extreme Pumpkins extremepumpkins.com
Panic! loves us some JackO-Lanterns and these sites take pumpkin carving to the X-factor! If you’ve got the tools and the time, these sites will inspire you to pumpkin-carving greatness with galleries and tutorials. Pumpkin Gutter is the Louvre of carved pumpkin art from Perryton, Texasnative Scott Cummins, the Michelangelo of 3-D JackO-Lanterns. Tom Nardone at Extreme Pumpkins is no slouch, either. Nardone hosts an annual carving contest online. Just send him a photo and he’ll pick a winner and “send you some sort of prize.” Heh. Our favorite? The Lionel Richie Pumpkin.
honest music
Friday, October 14 All the Boys Love Mandy Lane 8:30 p.m. Friday, October 21 The Signal and The Loved Ones 8:30 p.m.
local and regional shows
The Black Cadillacs · The Formidables ($3)
Thu, Oct 13
9 pm
Molly Maguires
Sun, Oct 16
7 pm
Wed, Oct 19
9 pm
The Velvet Hand · Gasoline Heart · Don’t Panic ($3)
12th Annual All Hallows Eve Bash Sat, Oct 29 Dead Confederate and The Bohannons Tickets on sale now!
First Halloween Variety Show Mon, Oct 31 Shock Theatre Orchestra, Odist, Opposite Box, Subterranean Cirqus Magic from Scott Fillers & Horror Movies!
Great blogs
Chuck Norris Ate My Baby chucknorrisatemybaby.com
Sample post: Bad Trick or Treat Ideas: Loose Change Nothing says grubby quite like someone else’s slightly warm loose change. Though, if you want to kick the grub factor up a notch, putting that loose change in an old, wrinkled plastic sandwich bag and handing it out to trick-ortreaters should just about do the trick. It’s disgusting, dude. Might as well give out a bagful of your toenail clippings. Do yourself and the rest of humanity a favor, spend the ten spot and pick up a bag of candy, you know, so I don’t have to be plagued by your grotesque germs.
ONLY ONE OF US CAN BE THE COP! This happens every year, so get it together, people: Only ONE of us can be the Cop from the Village People*. And you must wear the Officially Licensed VP Cop Costume, which has a blue patch sewn onto it along with the screenprinted words: “Village People Officially Licensed Merchandise.” If you see a VP Cop Costume without this, tell your Officially Licensed VP Biker or Construction Worker friend to beat the shit out of them. Victor Willis will thank you. Village People Cop Costume $81.99 halloweencostumes.com *We know nobody wants to be the Chief, but they don’t have it anyway.
What 35 Patten Parkway was meant to be. Full food menu serving lunch and dinner. 11am-2am, 7 days a week.
Ghost tours: A walk on the weird side Ready to take a walk on the weird side? Chattanooga Ghost Tours offers a walking ghost tour through downtown Chattanooga. Along the way, your guide will regale you with ghost stories, entertaining tidbits about various sites— and don’t forget your camera. Ghost orbs, mists and even fully formed figures frequently appear in photos at some sites on the tour. Tours begin nightly, rain or shine, at 8:15 p.m. on the downtown side of the Walnut Street Bridge and proceed at a leisurely pace to the Read House, home of the infamous Room 311 and its permanent inhabitant, Anna Lisa Netherly, with numerous stops along the way. Chattanooga Ghost Tours, formed by former attorney and ghost enthusiast Amy Petulla (who co-authored Haunted Chattanooga, profiled in last week’s Panic!), has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Ghost Tours in the Country, according to TripAdvisor.com and has been called “the city’s only REAL haunted attraction.” For diehard ghosthunters, the tour also offers electromagnetic field dectors to detect otherworldly spirits and phenomena. For more information about the tour, visit the website at chattanoogaghosttours.com or call (423) 821-7125 for reservations. Tour tickets are $14 for adults, $9 for children 12 and under. Discounts are available for groups of eight or more.
Halloween costume contest
Chattanooga’s North Shore Santa is gearing up for Halloween with a costume
contest from 5 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29 and Sunday, Oct. 30 at Santa’s NorthShore Workshop, 436 Frazier Ave. Entrants will be divided into adult and children groups from 5 to 9 p.m. on both days. Entry fee is $20 for adults, free for children. Staffers will photograph costumed contestants. Photos will be posted on the store’s Facebook page where visitors can vote for best costume. Copies of the photos, which will be set against a Halloween-theme background, are also available for purchase. Santa will turn Wizard for the event and is happy to pose with any Harry Potter fans. Prizes include gift certificates and merchandise from area restaurants and shops. For more information, contact “Santa” Richard Bonnington at (423) 255-0024.
Nazis vs. zombies
In Zombies vs. Nazis: A Lost History of the Walking Dead, zombie expert—a much-ignored field of pursuit, in our estimation—Scott Kenemore unearths a collection of lost top-secret documents from the era (originally intercepted by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1941 and presented to Franklin Roosevelt in a confidential memorandum), describing the efforts of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (or SD) to harness and weaponize Haitian voodoo and zombie-creating techniques in an attempt to create an immortal army. While the Nazis initially dream of creating an army of bloodthirsty, automaton super-zombies to march across Europe, they soon learn the walking dead are not as obedient and
malleable as they’ve been led to believe. Nazi agents quickly find that the walking dead of the Haitian backwoods are braineating, flesh-rending dynamos who go for the jugular with little loyalty. Can it be true? Only Kenemore knows for sure, but zombiezonenews.com—the arbiter of all things zombie— gives it two thumbs up, calling the book “engaging, entertaining and so plausible that it will make you think.” Kenemore is no newcomer to the zombie genre. The Chicago writer is the author of The Art of Zombie Warfare: How to Kick Ass Like the Walking Dead and a slew of other volumes devoted to the undead, including his recent novel, Zombie, Ohio.
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HAUNTED HOUSES & EVENTS Panic! listings are updated weekly. If you operate a haunted house or event and would be like to be listed, or your listed event changes, submit information as formatted here and email to creative@ chattanoogapulse.com. Key: † New ‡ Family friendly a tale of 4 souls: a haunted spirit ball Delta Queen on the river Hours/Dates: 7-midnight, Saturday, Oct. 29 Tickets: $65-125 Info: (423) 757-5259 Acres of Darkness Haunted Trail†‡ Chattanooga Audubon Acres 900 N. Sanctuary Road Hours/Dates: 7-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October. Tickets: $15 Web: chattanoogaaudubon.org Blowing Screams Farm 271 Chattanooga Valley Road Flintstone, Ga. Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. every Friday and Saturday night in October. Tickets: $15 (Forest of Fear); $15 (Ghost Ride); $25 for both. Web: blowingscreamsfarm.com CHATTANOOGA GHOST TOURS 100 Walnut Street Features: Walking ghost tours, ghost hunts with the talking Ovilus X and extended tours with an inside visit to a haunted location. Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. every Friday and Saturday night in October. Tickets: Tour $14 adults, $9 kids; Hunt $20 adults only. Web: hattanoogaghosttours.com Dreamnight: Boo in the Zoo!‡ 301 North Holtzclaw Avenue Hours/Dates: 5:30-8:30
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p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27 Tickets: Free with reservations Web: chattzoo.org Enchanted Maize‡
271 Chattanooga Valley Road Flintstone, Ga. Features: “Another Y-Ear of Corny Fun.” Hours/Dates: Thursdays-Sundays through Oct. 30. Tickets: $9 adults, $7 children Web: enchantedmaze. com Halloween Eerie Express‡ Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum 4119 Cromwell Road Hours/Dates: Fridays and Saturdays Oct. 1420; trains depart at 5:45 and 7:45 p.m. Tickets: $22 ages 2 and up Web: tvrail.com The Haunted Barn 5107 McDonald Road, McDonald Hours/Dates: 7:30 p.m.midnight, Fridays and Saturdays in October. Tickets: $15 Web: hauntedbarnchattanooga.com Haunted Cavern Ruby Falls 1720 South Scenic Highway Hours/Dates: 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in October (including Oct. 31). Tickets: $20 online; $22 at the door; $17 Sundays Web: hauntedcavern. com haunted depot & hayride 155 Depot Street, Ringgold Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. Oct. 21-22 and 27-29 Tickets: $5 (Depot); $3 (Hayride) Web: ringgoldhaunteddepot.com Haunted Hilltop 8235 Highway 58 Hours/Dates: 7 p.m.-1 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October (includ-
ing Oct. 30 and 31). Tickets: $18 for the Haunted House, Haunted Maze and Haunted Hayride. Free parking. Web: thehauntedhilltop. com House of Horrors 140 Edwards Street. NE, Cleveland Hours/Dates: 7 p.m.midnight, Sept. 30, Fridays and Saturdays in October (including Oct. 31). Tickets: $10 Web: wewillscareyou.com Lake WinnepaSPOOKah‡ 1730 Lakeview Drive, Rossville Hours/Dates: 6-11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October. Tickets: $24 Web: lakewinnie.com monster barn 4431 Shackleford Ridge Road, Signal Mountain Hours/Dates: 8-10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October. Tickets: $10; $5 Haunted Hayride Web: monsterbarnfun. com Mystery Dog Ranch 975 Wooten Road, Ringgold Hours/Dates: 7 p.m. Oct. 14-15, 21-22 and 28-29 Tickets: $10 Web: mysterydoghauntedranchandhayride.net RETURN OF HERE COME THE MUMMIES The Public Library 1001 Broad Street Hours/Dates: 7-11 p.m. Oct. 14 Tickets: $75 (general admission); $110 (VIP) Web: clublibevent.com Sir Gooney’s Haunted Carnival 5918 East Brainerd Road Hours/Dates: Doors open at 7 p.m. every weekend in October through Halloween. Tickets: $20 Web: sirgooneys.com
BARS & CLUBS
Dead Confederate at The Honest Pint on October 29. Panic! listings are updated weekly. Listings are updated weekly. If you operate a bar or club and are hosting a Halloween-specific event, or your listed event changes, submit information as formatted here and email to creative@chattanoogapulse.com.
the honest pint
35 Patten Parkway (423) 468-4192 thehonestpint.com • Saturday, Oct. 29 12th Annual All Hallows Eve Bash featuring Dead Confederate with The Bohannons. Tickets on sale Sept. 30. • Monday, Oct. 31 Halloween Variety Show featuring the Shock Theater Orchestra, Odist, Opposite Box, Subterranean Cirqus. Magic from Scott Fillers and horror movies.
JJ’s Bohemia
231 E. MLK Boulevard (423) 266-1400 reverbnation.com/ venue/jjsbohemia • Friday, Oct. 28 The KISSFITS and Rocky Horror Picture Show • Monday, Oct. 31
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The Unsatisfied
sluggo’s
501 Cherokee Boulevard (423) 752-5224 facebook.com/sundayslashers Sunday Slashers a lineup of cult, offbeat and blastfrom-the-past horror and slasher movies downstairs at Sluggo’ from 7 p.m. to midnight every Sunday in October. The restaurant is serving homemade vegan pizza, popcorn and $1 Pabst beer all evening.
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Chattanooga Choo Choo Campus 1400 Market Street (423) 521-2929 track29.co The Nim Nims, Glowing Bordis and Tone Harm all playing separate sets
and converging together on stage for a full-album cover of the Beastie Boys’ Ill Communication. Tickets on sale Friday, Sept. 23 for $10. 21+ show. • Saturday, Oct. 29 9-9:45 p.m. The Nim Nims; 10-10:45 p.m. Glowing Bordis; 11-11:10 p.m. Costume Contest 11:15 p.m.-Midnight Ill Communicators 12:15 a.m.-1 a.m. Tone Harm
“One of the top 10 ghost tours in the country” — TripAdvisOr.cOm
WAlkiNG GHOST TOURS ANd HUNTS
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