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An interview with Kane Hodder, the man behind the mask.

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Local team studies paranormal activity

By Jason Mack Toledo Free Press Star Web Editor jmack@toledofreepress.com

The season for haunted houses wraps up this week, but for the members of Lake Erie Paranormal, it’s a year-round activity.

Paranormal investigation teams are common — several have their own TV shows. What makes Lake Erie Paranormal unique is that the members go into each investigation as skeptics.

“We don’t go into an investigation because somebody calls us saying their doors close or they hear creaks and assume it’s ghosts,” lead investigator Jason Schneider said. “We try to prove why the door is closing on its own or what the creaks are. We don’t go into any investigation thinking there’s activity. We do our investigation then conclude with what we have. Ninety percent of the time there is a logical explanation for what is happening.”

“Jason is the worst skeptic in the world,” investigator Vicki Schramm said. “When we get something and he believes that we got something, then you know we got something.”

Another unique fact is all the members, except for medium Dani Wurzell, are in law enforcement. Schneider, founder Steve Rogers, team leader Shawn McMahon, tech manager Dan Hannon and Dave Howell are all sheriff ’s deputies. Schramm and Todd Althouse are former police officers.

“Being a police officer, I was skeptical on a lot of things,” Schramm said. “That’s just the way we’re taught. You have to work it out and figure what is truth and what isn’t before you make a conclusion.”

Schramm and Schneider both said they joined the team to overcome fears.

“I never believed in paranormal stuff,” Schramm said. “My father committed suicide in our house, and I went into the Air Force after he passed away. My mom kept writing me letters and telling me that my dad was there and things

were happening. When I got out of the service, I bought the house. There was a lot of activity. We’d come and lights would be on. If we’d lose something, it would appear on a bed. I think it was for him to remind us he was there. That’s when I started believing and reading about it.”

Lake Erie Paranormal is a nonprofit group, and Schneider said a true paranormal team never charges for an investigation.

“We started this group to help people,” he said.

“We’re all in law enforcement, so we want to give back and help people with these problems. People don’t feel comfortable and think people will think they are crazy. There are a lot of people that have experiences and keep them bottled up. I stay in contact with the people we help to make sure there is no activity. We build a bond with our clients.”

The team has been around for two years and does two or three investigations per month using equipment such as night vision cameras, temperature gauges, voice recorders and electromagnetic field detectors. The voice recorders yield the most evidence, picking up voices that Schneider said operate on a different frequency than we are able to hear.

“We’ve been doing this for two years, and when I get one it’s like the first time,” he said. “It’s still neat to catch it.”

The voices captured are often just responding yes or no to a question, but sometimes they capture full phrases. A few notable captures are “Help me,” “You afraid?” “Hi, Mom” and “Hey motherf---er, come and get me.”

The team has been much more selective with its visual evidence, posting one video in two years.

“It has to be something that we can’t explain,” Schneider said. “We’ve gone over every possible explanation for it. We know where everyone is at in the building. You see a shadow or something go across, and we know it’s nobody else.”

The posted video is from an investigation of a house where a 9-year-old boy said he had been followed by a ghost called Doc since he was two.

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“We were setting up in the kitchen, and Vicki saw something go down the hallway,” Schneider said. “I marked the time. We didn’t see anything in the hallway on video, but in the room there’s a little ball of light by the side of his bed. As it goes toward the headboard, it gets bigger then shoots straight back. There was nothing in that room that would cause the light to do that. Nobody has been able to figure it out.”

The group has several other notable incidents, including an investigation of the Old South Hospital in Pittsburg, Tenn., where a sock monkey

was moved around at the nurse’s station in the pediatric ward. Another was at Prospect Place Mansion in Trinway, Ohio, where members got sick.

“We were up on the third floor asking a lot of questions and asking for activity,” Schneider said. “It got real hot and real hard to breathe. It was an unpleasant experience, but an experience nonetheless. We all left, and as soon as we got outside it all went away.”

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Unmasked

“All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy. All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy.”

Actor Kane ‘Jason Voorhees’ Hodder visits Toledo.

By Zach Davis Toledo Free Press Staff Writer zdavis@toledofreepress.com

During the Halloween season, few images are as iconic as the hockey mask of Jason Voorhees, the murderous character portrayed in the “Friday the 13th” horror franchise.

Kane Hodder, the man behind the mask in four of those movies, will visit Ault Acres in Toledo on Oct. 26 to promote his new biography “Unmasked: True Life Story of the World’s Most Prolific Cinematic Killer.”

Life as Jason

When Hodder entered the motion picture industry, he never envisioned the success he would have with the “Friday the 13th” franchise. Hodder originally planned on just being a stuntman.

“I went into this business with the idea of being a working stuntman,” Hodder said. “I loved the idea of doing stunts for a living and that’s all I expected to do. I never thought in a million years that I would be in the position that I am now with the Jason character and the notoriety.”

The 56-year-old had a small part in the 1988 movie “Prison,” for which he also was the stunt coordinator. In the movie, Hodder was dressed up in prosthetic makeup as a rotted corpse, a costume which took between 3 to 4 hours to create.

Hodder’s performance made an impression on Special Makeup Effects Coordinator John Buechler, who later that year was named the director of “Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood.” After Buechler got the job, he wanted Hodder to follow him and take the role of Jason. “[Buechler] liked how I worked in the makeup,” Hodder said. “It’s not easy to work in full prosthetics. First of all, it’s very physically tough but it is also a challenge to make facial expressions read properly when you have all that stuff on your face. He just liked how I worked in the makeup and thought I did a good job.”

Hodder went on to star in the next three “Friday the 13th” movies, the only actor to play

Jason in more than one film in the series’ history.

“I feel very fortunate and very lucky to be in this position,” Hodder said. “I always considered putting that hockey mask on as an honor.

I had watched the character for years. I just wanted to do whatever I could to bring something new to the character and make it believable and evidently I did.”

Hodder soon found out that the challenges of acting in full prosthetic makeup, however, were nothing compared to playing Jason. While in his previous role he needed to exaggerate facial expressions in the makeup for them to be apparent, Jason’s mask hid all expression on a character who already didn’t speak.

“If you ask any actor the two main tools that you use in your performance are your voice and your facial expressions,” Hodder said. “If you take both of those away and then say ‘Now I want you to be scary‚‘ it is intimidating. It’s like, ‘How?’ “I was able to be convincing enough that people said ‘Wow, that’s what we have been looking for‚ and they kept me around for a while.”

The road to becoming a stuntman

Hodder grew up on an island in the South Pacific known as Kwajalein. Even as a child, Hodder loved to scare others. Whether it was pranks or stunts, Hodder enjoyed fear and instilling it in others.

“I love [scaring people], I have always done it,” Hodder said. “I mean really scare them to where they thought I was going to do something crazy. I love doing it, I really do. Even scaring an audience with something I shot months before is pretty satisfying.”

Once, while Hodder was on a trip to Hawaii with his high school basketball team, he and a group of teammates were climbing the stairwell of their hotel, which had a balcony at each level.

When Hodder and others got to the 35th floor, he decided to scare into the rest of his group.

“We were up so high that everybody was a bit nervous,” Hodder said. “I said ‘What do you mean? What’s so scary?’ To prove that I wasn’t

Actor Kane Hodder appeared as Jason in four “Friday the 13th” films.

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nervous about the height I went over to the railing on the outer side of the railing. My feet were still on the outer deck of the railing and my hands were on the railing but I was on the outside.

“My friends started getting scared. They started saying ‘Don’t do that‚‘ so I would briefly take my hands off the railing and put them up in the air [gesturing] as I said ‘What? What’s the matter?

They about s--- themselves. They went back into the hotel and didn’t want to watch anymore.”

That experience was not only a look into Hodder’s future of frightening others, but also demonstrated his lack of fear. He quickly realized that it was something he could capitalize on.

“That was not only fun, but the danger part of it was exciting,” Hodder said. “I realized that people get paid a lot of money to do that type of thing and I do it for fun. That’s what made me start thinking about doing stunts.”

Severe injury sidelines stunt career

Hodder’s career got off to a rocky start. In his first year as a stuntman, he worked on a fire stunt which required his body to be engulfed in flames. The stunt went out of control and Hodder suffered third-degree burns on about 50 percent of his body. n HODDER CONTINUES ON 5

“All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy. All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy.” n HODDER CONTINUED FROM 4 “Obviously the physical part was traumatic,” Hodder said. “The pain was ridiculous and I can say quite confidently that getting burned is the worst pain you can suffer. I know there are other pains that are as severe, there’s a lot of painful stuff that you can go through, but most of the time the pain is localized in one spot. With burns you have that same pain over such a large area of your body.

“Emotionally, it was ridiculous. Here I was, 22 years old and thinking that even when I get through this horrible pain then I have to carry those terrible scars for the rest of my life. It’s really hard to mentally get through knowing that even when the injury is healed you are not done yet. You have to deal with people staring at your scars and stuff like that. It has got to be one of the worst things a person can go through.”

Hodder was hospitalized for the next 5 to 6 months. He still wears gloves on occasion to cover up the scars on his hands. Despite that experience, however, Hodder would not give up on being a stuntman. He even returned to fire stunts during his career.

“I still carry the scars from it,” Hodder said.

“That was my first year in stunts but I still went back to it and still went back to fire stunts because I just loved the business so much.”

As for his stunt career, Hodder has had 93 roles as a stuntman or stunt coordinator. Among the features he has been involved in are “Batman Forever,” “Enemy of the State,” “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “Lethal Weapon 3,” “Monster,” “Se7en,” “Spawn” and “Under Siege.”

“I love every aspect of doing stunts, I always have,” Hodder said. “It’s such a great job because every day you go to work it’s going to be something different. You certainly never get bored doing stunts. You may get killed, but you don’t get bored.”

Early troubles with bullying

Burns weren’t the only obstacle he would have to overcome before stepping into the shoes of one of the most intimidating characters in the history of horror. When he was a young boy between the ages of 10 and 12, Hodder struggled with being bullied.

“I was bullied severely to the point of getting beaten badly,” Hodder said. “It’s so prevalent and so horribly destructive of a kid’s psyche.

It wasn’t the physical pain, even though I was getting beaten with fists, it was the humiliation and how you feel about yourself not doing anything to stop it. That’s what drives kids to suicide sometimes.”

Hodder said he still remembers the names of the kids who beat and abused him so long ago.

He has not forgotten what they did and is not ready to forgive them for it anytime soon.

“One day I would love to run into them, and I know it sounds like I’m trying to be a tough guy but I would smash them right in the face.”

Hodder said. “I would just so love to run into those motherf-----s again. I have a job where my criminal record has no bearing on my success. If anything, it would probably enhance my career.”

Passed over for ‘Freddy vs. Jason’

After starring as Jason in installments VII through X of the “Friday the 13th” franchise, Hodder was set to once again don the goalie mask in the 2003 feature “Freddy vs. Jason.”

But New Line Cinema chose Ken Kerzinger for the role instead.

Hodder’s biggest problem with the decision was how it was handled. He said he had a lunch meeting with a New Line Cinema executive who told him, “We are finally doing this,” and handed him the script for ‘Freddy vs.

Jason.’ The studio then hired director Ronny Yu and Hodder said they began ignoring his phone calls before he discovered they gave the part to Kerzinger.

“I got f----- over with the whole deal in ‘Freddy vs. Jason’,” Hodder said. “I thought I was doing it and suddenly I wasn’t. I was never given a reason for that.

“If they didn’t like the performance, if I was difficult to work with or if it was about the money then I would say ‘I kind of had a hand in being replaced.’ There was nothing like that. I still haven’t been given a reason.

Just give me a reason, even if I don’t agree with it. Just give me a reason because the fans weren’t happy. They had grown to like how I played the character, so it was kind of a slap in the face to them too.”

Regardless, Hodder still would jump at the chance to play Jason again in any future films.

“If it was offered to me again I would absolutely put that mask back on because I wasn’t done wearing it in the first place,” Hodder said.

“Even though I think I was slighted, I would still do it. That’s how much I love the character.”

Recent projects

With future “Friday the 13th” installments now in question, Hodder has focused on his biography, “Unmasked: True Life Story of the World’s Most Prolific Cinematic Killer.”

“The burn story in itself is a book,” Hodder said. “Then you have 35 years in the motion picture business with all kinds of cool, funny and ridiculous stories on the sets. That’s almost another book in itself. I always knew I had an interesting story, I had just never ran across the right author to help me tell the story.”

That changed when he met author Michael Aloisi, who agreed to write the book in the way Hodder wanted the story to be told.

“I’m very happy with the final product,” Hodder said. “It’s just exactly how I want it to be. A lot of reviewers are kind of saying the same things, that at one point they had tears in their eyes and had to put it down, which means it’s pretty powerful, and then later they were laughing out loud. To me, that sounds like a pretty good effect to have on a reader.”

As far as films, Hodder is planning to resume his role as Victor Crowley in the third installment of the “Hatchet” franchise in early 2012. He also finished shooting “Robin Hood — Ghosts of Sherwood” in Germany over the summer, in which he was cast as Little John.

Hodder also has an upcoming part as a bisexual sadist in “Tag” as well as the short film “No Rest for the Wicked: A Basil & Moebius Adventure” starring Zachary Levi of the NBC show “Chuck.”

Hodder will sign autographs from 8-11 p.m.

Admission to the event is $20 and includes a meeting with Hodder and an autographed poster. Ault Acres is also offering a $30 ticket, which includes a Haunted Trail ticket and an outdoor movie ticket for “Friday the 13th: Part VII,” Hodder’s first movie as Jason. To reserve your spot, visit www.AultAcres.com. O

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Cinematic nightmares Director John Landis authors book on movie monsters.

By Jason Mack Toledo Free Press Star Web Editor jmack@toledofreepress.com

Director John Landis explores the evolution of monsters from Edward Scissorhands to Edward Cullen in his book “Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years of Cinematic Nightmares.”

Landis is best known in the United States for comedies such as “Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers” and “Spies Like Us,” but in England his 1981 horror-comedy “An American Werewolf in London” is a cult classic.

“While shooting ‘Burke & Hare’ in London and Edinburgh, I was approached by several publishers to write a book on horror films,” Landis said. “I was separately approached by Lauretta Dives of the Kobal Collection, the largest collection of film stills in the world, and thought of this book. Monsters appear not only in the horror genre, but in science fiction, fantasy and suspense, and it is a much broader subject than just horror.”

The 320-page book is separated into categories based on type of monster. It features photographs from the Kobal Collection as well as interviews with those involved with monster movies, such as Sam Raimi, Guillermo Del Toro and Rick Baker. Baker won an Oscar in makeup design for his work on “An American Werewolf in London.”

The transformation of the main character from man to werewolf was done without the use of CGI. Their work landed Landis and Baker the job of creating Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, and Landis later embraced CGI when he directed the video for Jackson’s “Black or White.”

“Computer-generated imagery is just another tool in the filmmaker’s box,” Landis said. “From the earliest cave paintings to the most sophisticated CGI, humans still feel the need to paint monsters.”

He enjoys using CGI, but Landis was happy to have made “An American Werewolf in London” before the technology was readily available.

“It’s a different time, and so many films later it would be received differently by a contemporary audience,” Landis said.

It’s only natural for Landis to chronicle the evolution of monsters since his favorites range from giant gorillas to reanimated corpses.

“I have many favorites when it comes to monsters and all for different reasons,” Landis said. “As [‘Gremlins’ director] Joe Dante points out in the book, monsters are metaphors. Joe suggests a game; name the monster, name the metaphor! A few of my favorite monster movies are ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Island of Lost Souls,’ ‘King Kong,’ ‘The Exorcist,’ ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘The Re-Animator,’ ‘Jason and the Argonauts,’ ‘The Monster and The Girl’ and ‘Mighty Joe Young’ and so many more.” O

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Downey Productions The local Hip-Hop has brought top-quality scene in Toledo doesn’t exentertainment to Toledo. actly have the best reputaImagine that: a Hip-Hop tion. With all the violence event at a club with real occurring in and around Tosecurity, no fighting and ledo, a lot of it gets blamed seasoned performers. Ever (sometimes unfairly) since Eminem’s protégé and on the Hip-Hop scene, D12 member Bizarre asked LIL much in the way national Downey to throw a party for media blames Hip-Hop him, he has been profiting off for violence. The stigma of his skill for packing venues. may be unfair, but the conDowney knows the cartinuous fights, shootings dinal rule of event-throwing: and arrests do nothing but establish relationships. In the perpetuate that stereotype. entertainment business, but This is why it’s so important Hip-Hop especially, relato carefully plan out a Hip tionships are everything, -Hop event. But not evand a person’s reputation always precedes him or her. Downey’s relation- eryone heeds that warning.

Downey doesn’t discriminate against ship with Mickey Finn’s Pub has earned him the freedom to throw events on a regular basis, and anyone but nonsense will not be tolerated at any of his events. He makes it a point to steer venture to other clubs.

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clear of artists who have a reputation for violence and/or trouble. Believe it or not, there is a plethora of artists in Toledo who simply want to make music and spread their movement without doing something ignorant to earn “street cred” that doesn’t matter anyway.

Going to an event that is thrown by Downey Productions is having peace of mind, knowing you will leave in the same condition in which you arrived.

Besides an unsafe environment, the other biggest complaint about local artist showcases is that fans aren’t allowed to just dance and have a good time.

Some of these showcases are performance after performance, with no DJ or music in between sets. In case you’re wondering, it’s boring! No one wants to see 13 artists and their eight-person entourage on stage, doing a 10-minute set of music they have never heard. That is not how you get fans.

Downey took care of that problem as well.

He may have five performers tops, and he also has a DJ playing real music. He realizes that the most important aspect of any event is the happiness of the people who paid their money to come. Also, because of his spotless reputation, Downey is able to throw events at nicer venues, so the club-goers’ expectations are not unrealistic.

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As Halloween draws near, it’s helpful to remember vampires weren’t always associated with angsty pre-teen novels. Classic and modern literature is full of compelling bloodsuckers whose “camps” anyone can be proud to be part of.

O Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” is famous not only for being one of the earliest novel-length vampire tales — published in 1872, 25 years before Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” – but for having female protagonists (vampire and victim) in a quasi-lesbian relationship. It has been a strong influence on both vampire and lesbian fiction since its publication.

O The classic vampire novel, Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” (1897) may be long by the standards of today’s novels, but its epistolary (in letters) format makes it easy to read. Film adaptations simply cannot capture all the social themes Stoker weaves into his writing, so if you only know Count Dracula from the silver screen, you need to give the novel a thorough reading.

O “I am Legend” (1954) by Richard Matheson takes vampirism and makes it a pandemic dis-

ease, creating an apocalyptic world that should appeal to today’s zombie-crazed culture. Matheson’s tale moves quickly and builds suspense like few authors of his era did. The novel was the basis or inspiration for several films, most notably “Night of the Living Dead.”

O Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot,” (1975) the author’s personal favorite of all the novels he’s written, is one of the better books centered around a town where all the residents are turning into vampires. King has woven the story into his “Dark Tower” novels, and also wrote short stories based on “Salem’s Lot” early in his career, leaving a wealth of material for readers who enjoy the original.

O No list of novels about vampires is complete without Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles,” particularly “Interview with the Vampire.” (1976).

If you only associate Lestat with Tom Cruise, you need to read Rice’s crisp and chilling prose, little of which was captured in Cruise’s bland portrayal in the film adaptation. Later novels in the series fail to quicken the heart like the first, but are still must-reads for vampire aficionados.

O Poppy Z. Brite’s first novel, “Lost Souls,”

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(1992) contains one of the most compelling modern vampire characters in fiction, the young Nothing. Also featuring Brite’s beloved Steve and Ghost tandem, “Lost Souls” turned the vampire genre on its head when it was first published and still stands up today as enthralling, engrossing fiction.

O Kim Newman’s “Anno Dracula” (19920 revisits Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” universe, creating an alternate timeline where Count Dracula is not destroyed by Jonathan Harker, but rather

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O One of the more successful comedic skewerings of the genre, Terry Pratchett’s “Carpe Jugulum” (1998) is readable without extensive knowledge of Pratchett’s Discworld series in which it’s set, but is more accessible to Pratchett fans than newcomers.

O “Let the Right One In” (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist focuses on the relationship between a human boy and a young vampire to explore modern issues like bullying in a dark and gripping way. The themes may be too dark for some, but those who can stomach Lindqvist’s strong writing will be rewarded.

O “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” (2010) by Seth Grahame-Smith contains the same mash-up of literature and comedy first made famous by Grahame-Smith’s bestselling “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” Not bogged down by the latter’s necessity to follow 19th century literary conventions, this books moves at a much faster pace, ideal for modern readers. O

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Vital vehicle checks for winter

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Darker mornings and shorter days are sure signs colder weather is on its way, meaning it’s time to start making sure your vehicle is in top shape for winter.

Antifreeze is typically the first area of general maintenance that comes to mind for winter car care, said Bob Kazmierczak, enterprise development manager at AAA Northwest Ohio.

“Antifreeze is obviously very important because if there’s not the right mixture of antifreeze in the engine, freezing can take place and you don’t want that to happen,” Kazmierczak said. “Antifreeze is also what provides the heat in the car. The car is designed to make sure there’s always antifreeze in the engine, so if it’s too low, it won’t allow you to have heat in the car.”

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The average life of a battery is three years, although some are under warranty for longer.

“You want to have it checked to make sure it passes the test,” Kazmierczak said. “If it’s weak it should be replaced. There’s really no way to stop a battery from failing and it will fail in extreme cold. Actually, it loses half its cranking power in the extreme cold.”

Tires are also important to check going into winter, said Mel White, owner of Mel’s Automotive in Point Place.

“New tires have tread depths between 12/32 and 13/32 inches and you really don’t want to go beyond 4/32 or 5/32 inches,” White said. Tires are technically bald when you can see or touch the wear bar at 2/32 inches, Kazmierczak said.

If only the outer edge of a tire is worn, there could be an issue with the vehicle’s alignment, Kazmierczak said.

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“When that is the case, the tire will not have the ability to bite in the snow or properly get rid of water,” Kazmierczak said. “Replacing the tire in that condition will not alone take care of the problem. Those other issues also have to be addressed.”

Air pressure should also be checked to make sure tires are properly inflated.

“In wintertime we see a lot of flat tires,” Kazmierczak said. “Tires do lose air when the temperature changes.”

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Also make sure your vehicle has adequate wiper fluid because salt residue can coat your windshield and obstruct vision, White said.

Make sure headlights and turn signals are in working condition and replace them if they’re not, Kazmierczak said.

It’s also a good idea to make sure your oil has been changed, since oil viscosity changes with heat and cold, Kazmierczak said.

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Emergency kit can make winter traveling safer

By Sarah Ottney TOLEDO FREE PRESS SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR sottney@toledofreepress.com

When winter weather leads to accidents on the road, having an emergency kit in the vehicle can mean the difference between a minor inconvenience and a serious emergency for stranded motorists, local emergency service personnel say.

“Winter is one of the most hazardous times of the year in this region because storms can emerge quickly and with little warning,” said Jason Copsey, communications specialist with the American Red Cross of Greater Toledo, in an email.

“The reality is that winter months are hazardous, especially for drivers, and some incidents will be unavoidable, but steps like putting together a vehicle emergency kit, winterizing vehicles and keeping gas tanks full are responsible ways to keep families safe. Taking a few moments to put together a vehicle emergency kit is one of the easiest

steps anyone can take to prepare.”

Blankets are good, but sleeping bags are better, said Tom Barnhizer, deputy director of Lucas County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) and the EMA’s emergency program manager.

“You can crawl inside and stay warm and comfortable and don’t have to run the heater so often,” Barnhizer said.

If stranded, Barnhizer suggested starting the car once an hour and letting the heat run for 10 to 15 minutes, or running the heat for five minutes every half hour.

While heat is important, food and water are more important, Barnhizer said.

“The way we generate heat is not to stick blankets over us; we generate heat because we eat calories,” Barnhizer said. “So food and water is really important all the time, but especially in winter. People can freeze to death with a zero bag over them if they don’t have enough to eat.”

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Before cold weather hits, make sure your vehicle has been serviced and is in good working Recommended items for a winter order. It’s also a good idea to keep at least half a emergency kit in your vehicle include: tank of gas in the vehicle.

“That’s because if you run off the road someO Cellphone and car charger where in a remote area and you have to depend O Blanket, foil emergency blanket on the car heater, there is enough gas to keep it or sleeping bag up until help arrives,” Barnhizer said. Gas in the O Hat and gloves tank also prevents the fuel lines from freezing.

O Bottled water Whenever you leave the house, think about where you are going and what you might need if O Nonperishable, high-energy foods, anything were to happen on the way, Barnhizer said. such as granola bars, raisins and “Don’t just go outdoors in a T-shirt and flip peanut butter flops because you’re only going to the mall or O Red or flourescent distress flag just running to the store to pick something up O Flashlight quick, because you never know what could happen,” Barnhizer said. “You could hit black ice O Extra batteries and slide into a ditch. Then what are you doing?

O Chemical hand/foot warmer packets You don’t have any warm clothing. I see people (if the vehicle’s heater cannot run) do this all the time. It’s fine if you don’t want to O Shovel wear a coat at the mall, but stick it in the car O Sandbags or kitty litter for traction anyway. It’s just a little bit of common sense.”

Always let someone on both ends of your O Windshield scraper destination know your plans, including when O Maps you are leaving, what route you will be taking O First aid kit and manual and when you expect to arrive, Barnhizer said.

O Tire repair kit It’s also a good idea to keep emergency supO Jumper cables plies inside your vehicle if possible instead of the trunk, said Bob Kazmierczak, enterprise develO Battery-powered radio opment manager at AAA Northwest Ohio.

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Yes, winter is soon upon us and I can’t wait for all those early morning drives through the snow and ice to get to work. What could be more fun than plowing the snow out of the drive in the wee hours of the morning? I, too, will be servicing my equipment this weekend in preparation for the upcoming winter — if I can find my tractor keys! I’ll run through the winter checklist as quickly as I can.

O Snowblower: Drain the old gas and oil and replace with fresh. Check the spark plug and replace as necessary. Pull the side covers off and check for slop in the main rotor bearings. If the main shaft has grease fittings, make sure you lube them. Don’t forget to lube the throttle cable as well. Check all the bolts for tightness. Those high-RPM snowblowers tend to rattle the bolts loose. If your blower has a battery, then load test it as well. Make sure you start the blower and let it run for quite some time until it warms up good. Now might be a good time to put the snow-removal clothes together, too. No sense in waiting until the last minute to find your scarf and mittens.

O Lawn mower: Fill up the fuel tank with fresh fuel and add fuel stabilizer to the tank.

Run the mower for a few minutes until the stabilizer has time to enter the carburetor. Shut it down and let it cool. Pull the spark plug

and squirt a bit of oil into the combustion chamber. Pull the hand crank a couple times with the spark plug still removed to ensure the oil coats the chamber walls, then reinstall the plug. Set the choke to the “on� position and store the machine.

O Generator: You pretty much deal with the generator the way you dealt with the snowblower with a couple exceptions. After you have serviced the generator set and begin running it, you should load the generator set with as much electrical load it is rated for. Leave it run for several minutes with the electrical loads applied. I like to start my generator every couple of weeks in the winter to make sure all is well.

O Diesel equipment: Change all the fluids and make sure to put winter weight oil in the crankcase. Definitely replace the primary fuel filter as well. Put fuel stabilizer in your equipment’s fuel tank and leave the tank full. If you are storing any fuel, make sure you put stabilizer in that as well. Most diesel equipment has lots of grease fittings. Push grease through the fittings and don’t wipe off the excess; Mother Nature will do that for you. If your equipment comes with glow plugs, then operate the glow circuit system and make sure it cycles properly. O Nick Shultz is an instructor of Automotive Technologies at Owens Community College.

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“All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy. All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy.”

Compiled by Whitney Meschke Events are subject to change. Parents should determine if events are too scary for their children.

Family-Style Frights Toledo Museum of Art

Halloween-related activities at the Toledo Museum of Art 2445 Monroe St. (419) 255-8000 or toledomuseum.org.

O “The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb” exhibit, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Fridays and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sundays, Lower Level Egyptian Gallery, $5-$10.

O Create a glass mini pumpkin art hours: 6, 7 and 8 p.m. Oct. 28 and 4 and 5 p.m. Oct. 29-30, Glass Pavilion, $25. Register: (419) 254-5771, ext. 7448.

O Night in the Museum after-hours flashlight tours: 10 p.m. Oct. 28, Little Theater. $10. (419) 2558000, ext. 7448.

O Madness and Mayhem tours: 6:30 and 7 p.m.

Oct. 28 and 2 p.m. Oct. 29, Libbey Court.

O Halloween at the Museum: The galleries will become an enchanted land of mummies, fortunetellers and princesses as staff members recreate works of art and visitors follow a map to find special places in the museum. Costumes are welcome. 1-3 p.m. Oct. 30.

O Youngsters can make and decorate masks or marionettes using a variety of materials. Noon5:30 p.m. Oct. 30, Family Center.

O Halloween Spooktacular family concert: The Toledo Symphony will haunt the Peristyle Theater. 3 p.m. Oct. 30, $20-$25. (419) 246-8000.

Spooktacular Halloween

“Count Wakula’s” will entertain with ghoulish gags and magical treats. 4-5 p.m. Oct. 26, South Branch Library, 1736 Broadway, (419) 259-5395; and 2-3 p.m. Oct. 29, Main Library, Huntington Meeting Room, 325 N. Michigan St., (419) 259-5207. toledolibrary.org.

Halloween Boo Cruises

This nonscary cruise for kids of all ages will feature treats, no tricks. Costumes are welcome. 5, 5:45, 6:30 and 7:15 p.m. Oct. 26-28; noon, 12:45, 1:30 and 2:15 p.m. Oct. 29, Jefferson Avenue Docks, Jefferson Avenue and Summit Street. $5. (419) 537-1212 or www.sandpiperboat.com.

Safe Halloween Spooktacular

A costume parade, haunted hallway, pumpkin decorating and trick-or-treating are planned. 6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 27, Heartland-Holly Glen, 4293 Monroe St. (419) 474-6021 or www.hcr-manorcare.com/heartlandnursing/hollyglen.

Halloween Pumpkin Train

Costumed riders are invited to share cider and doughnuts, take part in an activity for the kids; small pumpkins will be take-home favors. 7-8:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Old Road Dinner Train’s depot, 301 E. Adrian St., Blissfield. $15-$20. (888) 4672451 or www.murdermysterytrain.com.

Owens Community College Halloween Party for Kids

Kids 12 and younger can participate in free games, arts, crafts and activities, as well as trick-or-treat and traverse a haunted house. 6-8 p.m. Oct. 28, Student Health and Activities Center, 30335 Oregon Road, Perrysburg. (567) 661-2994 or www.owens.edu.

Hallowe’en in Greenfield Village

Trick-or-treaters of all ages can follow paths lined with handcarved jack-o-lanterns to themed stations manned by costumed characters handing out goodies. Storytellers, spectres and gold-hunting pirates will accompany treat-seekers. Departures every half hour, 6:30-9 p.m. Oct. 28-29 and 6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 30, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, Mich. $15. (313) 982-6001 or www.thehenryford.org/events/halloweenEvent.aspx.

Jumping Pumpkins

Gourds will be provided to the animals at the Toledo Zoo for enrichment activities this week. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 28-29, 2700 Broadway. $8-$11. (419) 385-4040 or toledozoo.org/events/pumpkinenrich.html

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Trick-or-Treat hours Toledo:

Napoleon:

Archbold:

Northwood:

Bedford Township, Mich.:

Oak Harbor:

Blissfield, Mich.:

Oregon:

Bowling Green:

Ottawa Hills:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

5:30-7 p.m. Oct. 31.

Downtown businesses, 4-6 p.m. Oct. 27; residential, 6:30-8 p.m.

Oct. 31.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Pemberville:

6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Perrysburg:

Delta:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Elmore:

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-7 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Erie, Mich.:

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

Findlay:

6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 27.

Fremont:

5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 30.

Port Clinton:

Rossford:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Spencer Township:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Springfield Township:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Genoa:

Swanton:

Grand Rapids, Mich.:

Sylvania:

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 31, followed by parade at 7 p.m. in front of fire station.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 29.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

Sylvania Township: 6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

Holland:

Walbridge:

Leipsic:

Washington Township:

Liberty Center:

Waterville:

Maumee:

Wauseon:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-7 p.m. Oct. 27.

5-6:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

Children ages 1-13, 3-5 p.m.

Oct. 31, uptown from police station courtyard; residential, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Monclova:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6:30-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

6-7:30 p.m. Oct. 31.

Whitehouse:

6-8 p.m. Oct. 31.

Woodville:

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“All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy. All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy.”

Halloween Hike

Kids 12 and younger (with adult accompaniment) can collect treats and stories in a friendly, nonfrightening setting. 6 p.m. Oct. 29, Olander Park, 6930 Sylvania Ave., Sylvania; park at Tamo-Shanter, 7060 Sylvania Ave. $1. (419) 882-8313 or www.olanderpark.com.

Fall Activities

(Sort of) Spooky Songs and Stories

Costumes are welcome at this melodic meditation on the season for children 6 and younger.

10-11 a.m. Oct. 29, Sanger Branch Library, 3030 W. Central Ave. Registration: (419) 2595370 or www.toledolibrary.org.

Tombstone Derby Casket Racing

Hayrides will be offered, and all kids will get pumpkins to decorate and take home. 3-6 p.m.

Oct. 29, Town Center at Levis Commons, 3201 Levis Commons Blvd., Perrysburg. (419) 9318888 or www.shopleviscommons.com.

Hope those coffins don’t backfire: Kids and adults can grind their ghoulish gears in this daylong celebration of all things Halloween. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 29, Depot Park, 353 Ottawa St., Elmore. (419) 260-1282 or www.elmorehs.tripod. com/tombstone-derby.html

‘Goodnight Goon’

Spooky Science

Guest reader Dave Gruwell will read “Goodnight Goon” for a holiday storytime. Crafts and cookies will round out the event. 11 a.m. Oct. 29, Barnes & Noble, 4940 Monroe St. (419) 472-6164.

Great Pumpkin Blow

Nadine Saylor and Matt Paskiet will demonstrate glassblowing. 7-10 p.m. Oct. 29, Firenation, 7166 Front St., Holland. (419) 866-6288 or www.firenation.com.

Boo! on the Boardwalk

Visitors are welcome to take part in a costume parade and can learn about wildlife during a walk to stations along the boardwalk. 6-8 p.m. Oct. 29, Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Oak Harbor. (419) 8980960, ext. 31, or www.friendsofmageemarsh.org.

Halloween Weekend

Halloween Hullabaloo

Costumes are welcome at this party filled with scary stories, gory snacks and a costume parade. 2-2:45 p.m. Oct. 29, Oregon Branch Library, 3340 Dustin Road, Oregon. (419) 259-5250 or www.toledolibrary.org.

These demonstrations are “filled with selfcarving pumpkins, wispy ghosts, boo bubbles, magic potions, ooey gooey slime and many more spooky illusions all scientifically mastered to put the scare in scary.” 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Oct. 29 and noon-5 p.m. Oct. 30, Imagination Station, 1 Discovery Way. (419) 244-2674 or www.imaginationstationtoledo.org.

‘The Amityville Horror’

‘Cannibal the Musical’

Garrison Ghost Walk at Fort Meigs

‘Nosferatu’

Movie vampires originated with this movie, to be screened with live organ accompaniment.

7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St., Ann Arbor. $12-$15. (734) 7688397, (734) 668-8463 or www.michtheater.org.

‘Repo the Genetic Opera’ & ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ double feature

An hour’s tour of the War of 1812 fort reveals the sights, sounds and spirits of the nearly 200-year-old site. 7-9 p.m. Oct. 29-30, Fort Meigs, 29100 W. River Road, Perrysburg. Reservations: (419) 874-4121, (800) 283-8916 or www.fortmeigs.org/ghostwalk/.

ADULTS

ADULTS

Halloween Dance Party

Swingmania will put the boo in big band. 7:30-10:30 p.m.

Oct. 28, Maumee Elks Lodge, 139 W. Wayne St., Maumee. (419) 708-0265, (419) 874-0290 or www. swingmania.org.

‘Evil Dead: The Musical’

A live production based on cult classic horror films. 7 and 10 p.m. Oct. 28; 2 and 5 p.m. Oct. 30, Valentine Theatre, 400 N. Superior St. $15.

(419) 242-2787 or www. valentinetheatre.com.

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A couple moves into a home with a horrific history. Who knew homeownership could be so scary? 9 p.m. Oct. 27, Rave Motion Pictures Franklin Park 16, 5001 Monroe St., second floor, Sylvania Avenue side. $1-$5. (419) 4722324 or www.ravemotionpictures.com.

‘Cujo’

St. Bernards are known rescue dogs — but this one’s different. 2 p.m. Oct. 30, Ritz Theatre, 20 S. Washington St., Tiffin. $3. (419) 448-8544 or www.ritztheatre.org.

SIDELINES

Costume contests will be held for kids ages 1-10 and adults, plus hayrides, a corn maze and music by a bonfire will be presented. 7-9 p.m. Oct. 29, Erie Orchards and Cider Mill, 1235 Erie Rd., Erie. (734) 848-4518 or www.erieorchards.com

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A miner’s gold fever is transformed into blood lust. 10 p.m. Oct. 28, UT’s Center for Performing Arts Lab Theatre, Tower View Boulevard and West Campus Drive. $3. (419) 5302202 or www.utoledo.edu/cvpa/theatrefilm.

Both shows will be performed by shadow casts while the movies are played in the background. 9 and 11:15 p.m., respectively, Oct. 28, Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Blvd. $10 per show. (419) 917-2226 or www.collingwoodartscenter.org.

The Three Corpse Circus Independent Horror Film Festival

6:30 p.m. Oct. 28, Michigan Theater. $10. www.threecorpsecircus.com. O

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“All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy. All work and no play makes Michael a dull boy.”

Halloween Vineyard Adventure

Wine tasting, appetizers, socializing, dancing?

Doesn’t sound scary to me; maybe with some macabre masks … 7-11 p.m. Oct. 29, Toledo Zoo Nairobi Pavilion, Anthony Wayne Trail. $8$11. Reservations: (419) 385-5721, ext. 3092, or toledozoo.org/events/halloween_vineyard.html.

Sinful

“Toledo’s official halloween party” will purportedly host the “hottest costume contest in the city.” 7 p.m. Oct. 29, Toledo Event Center, 23 N. Summit St. (419) 410-6769 or www.halloweentoledo.com.

Witches Ball of Toledo

Corn Mazes The Corn Maze at The Butterfly House

5-10 p.m. Oct. 27, 5 p.m.-midnight Oct. 28, noon-midnight Oct. 29 and noon-8 p.m. Oct. 20, 11455 Obee Road, Whitehouse. $7-$8. (419) 350-9640 or whitehousecornmaze.com.

Country Lane Tree Farm maze

4-7 p.m. Oct. 28 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 29-30, Country Lane Tree Farm, 3525 N. Bolander Road, Genoa. $5-$10. (419) 4611298 or countrylanetreefarm.com.

Fleitz Pumpkin Farm

10 a.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 26-31, 7133 Seaman Road, Oregon. $1-$2. (419) 836-7613 or www.fleitzpumpkinfarm.com.

Jason’s Pumpkin Patch

10 a.m.-7 p.m. Oct. 26-31, 12629 West Salem-Carroll Road, Oak Harbor. $2.50$5. (419) 898-3215 or www.facebook.com/ jasonspumpkinpatch.

The Maize at Leaders Farms

7-10 p.m. Oct. 28, 2-10 p.m. Oct. 29 and 2-9 p.m. Oct. 30, Route 24 and County Road 16, Napoleon. Maze, $6-$8; additional activities priced a la carte, $1-$8.50. (419) 966-3148 or www.leadersfarms.com. O

Celebrate Samhain with the Northern Spirits Coven of Witches, who have invited drummer Alex Wedmedyk and members of the “Circle of the Sacred Truth” to participate. Contests, vendors and readings will be offered. 7 p.m.-midnight Oct. 29, Collingwood Arts Center, 2413 Collingwood Blvd. $12$20. (419) 481-1285.

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Tavern Terrors Bar 145

5304 Monroe St. bar145toledo.com.

O My Sister Sarah will perform at this Halloween/costume party: Oct. 29.

The Blarney Irish Pub

601 Monroe St. (419) 418-2339 or www.theblarneyirishpub.com.

O Halloween Bash with Pilot Radio: Oct. 29.

The Distillery

4311 Heatherdowns Blvd. (419) 382-1444 or www.thedistilleryonline.com.

O Halloween Bash with Johnny Rocker & the Hitmen: Oct. 29.

Frankie’s

308 Main St. (419) 693-5300 or www.

FrankiesInnerCity.com.

O Hit the Lights, The Dangerous Summer, Such Gold, Divided by Friday, The Fight Within, Lets Keep Quiet will perform for this Halloween show. 7 p.m. Oct. 31, $12-$15.

Headliners

Blind Pig

The Dance Clinic will play a variety of music for ghouls and boos to dance to, while a costume contest and edibles are provided. 9 p.m.-midnight Oct. 29, The Hungry I Restaurant, 6060 Renaissance Place. $13. (419) 475-3055, www.thedanceclinic. com or www.hungryitoledo.com.

HalloFest

A Halloween rave overrun by devilish DJs and performers. A VIP “tomb” and costume contest are part of the party. 10 p.m. Oct. 29-2:30 a.m.

Oct. 30, The Ale House, 2633 W. Bancroft St. $15. (330) 592-5746 or hallofest2011.com.

Glass City Singles Halloween Costume Bash

Costumes are optional at this party, but with up to $400 in cash to be awarded, why not go for it?

5 p.m.-midnight Oct. 30, Premier (formerly Gladieux Meadows), 4480 Heatherdowns Blvd. (734) 856-8963 or www.toledosingles.com.

TOLEDO

Go ahead get your Wolf on!

4500 N. Detroit Ave. (419) 269-4500 or www. headlinerstoledo.com.

O Lil Wyte and Sixx Digit will ignite this Halloween Blowout: 9 p.m. Oct. 28, $12-$15.

208 S. First St., Ann Arbor. $3-$20 unless noted. (734) 996-8555 or blindpigmusic.com.

O Halloween Band Masquerade: Counter Cosby will impersonate Nirvana; Suicide by Cop will pose as the Ramones; Lord Centipede will embody Motorhead; and Fists of Love will transform into Big Black: 9:30 p.m. Oct. 28, $7-$10.

O The Blood Bang: 9:30 p.m. Oct. 29, $8-$11.

Mainstreet Bar and Grill

141 Main St. (419) 697-6297 or www. toledomainstreet.com.

O Video DJ Mark Mixx will spin the tunes as raffles and a costume contest take place. Free before 11 p.m. Oct. 28.

Cheers Sports Eatery

7131 Orchard Centre Dr., Holland. (419) 491-0990.

O Name This Tune Halloween party: 9 p.m.

Oct. 29.

Omni

2567 W. Bancroft St. (419) 535-6664 or omnimidwest.com.

O The Boo Ball will feature performances by Ghosts of August, Dirty Americans, OnceOver, In Theory, Glory to Judge, The Comeback, Before We Fall, Edge Water Drive and Stinky Pete & The Prospectors.

7 p.m. Oct. 28, $8-$10.

Clazel Theater

127 N. Main St., Bowling Green.

(419) 353-5000 or www.clazel.net.

O Annual Halloween Bash: 7 p.m. Oct. 29-2:30 a.m. Oct. 30.

Dégagé Jazz Café

301 River Road, Maumee.

(419) 794-8205 or www. degagejazzcafe.com.

O Costumes are welcome at these holiday performances by The Quick Trio: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28-29.

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Ottawa Tavern

1817 Adams St. (419) 725-5483 or www.otavern.com.

O This bar’s Adams Street Zombie Crawl has grown

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to legendary status. Netherfriends and WWDTM will perform. 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28. Other participating venues: Wesley’s Bar & Grill, 1201 Adams St., (419) 255-3333 or wesleysbar.com; Manhattan’s, 1516 Adams St., (419) 243-6675 or www. manhattanstoledo.com; the Attic on Adams, 1701 Adams St. (above Manos), (419) 243-6063 or www. theatticonadams.com; Bretz Bar, 2012 Adams St., (419) 243-1900; after 1 a.m., Glass City Cafe, 1107 Jackson St., (419) 241-4519 or www. glasscitycafe.com.

O Michelle Duni Halloween Extravaganza: 10 p.m. Oct. 29.

Spicy Tuna

7130 Airport Hwy., Holland. (419) 720-9333 or spicytunasushi.com.

O Frightening voices and costumes are welcome at ScaryOke. Door prizes, drink specials and special drinks will be available, and winners of sexiest/coolest costumes will be crowned. 10 p.m. Oct. 29-2:30 a.m. Oct. 30.

Tequila Sheila’s

702 Monroe St. (419) 241-1118.

O Triple H Show, Concrete Muzik, DJ Ghost: Oct. 28.

Yeeha’s

3150 Navarre Ave., Oregon. (419) 691-8880 or www.yeehas.com.

O Costumes are encouraged for this Halloween party: Oct. 29.

Haunted Spots

HAUNTED ATTRACTIONS

Ault Acres Haunted Attraction

Outdoor horror flicks and haunted trails. 7:30-11 p.m. Oct. 26, 28-29 and 31; 7:30-10 p.m. Oct. 27 and 30, 10446 Dowling Road, Perrysburg. $4-$15. (419) 740-1184 or www.aultacres.com.

Dimensions of Darkness haunted house

7 p.m.-midnight Oct. 28-29, 7-11 p.m. Oct. 30 and 7-10 p.m.

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I’m a monster! That is to say, for one night I was a monster. I didn’t ride any roller coasters in my latest trip to Cedar Point, but it was by far my most memorable time at the park. I got to spend

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a day in the life of a monster at HalloWeekends.

For the transformation, I spent 30 minutes with first-year makeup artist Joe Wasserman. I had to stuff cotton balls in my ears and keep my eyes and mouth shut while he applied a base coat of copper latex acrylic paint with an airbrush.

The airbrush is cold and the process is awkward and uncomfortable but once you get used to it,

it’s oddly relaxing. Wasserman used stencils to airbrush gears onto my face then touched everything up with a brush.

“It’s a pretty good challenge to do makeup for the wide selection of all 10 fright zones,” Wasserman said. “It keeps you on your game, especially since you want each zone to look different from the others. On any given night, each artist

can see 18-25 monsters, each needing an individual look different from the others. Previous research on each of the zones is very helpful, so you can adapt your early ideas to meet individual monster’s wants and needs. It’s amazing what you can accomplish in 15 minutes with a trusty airbrush, some hand-cut stencils, a liner brush and paint.” n MONSTER CONTINUES ON 23

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n MONSTER CONTINUED FROM 22 Once I was painted up, they completed the outfit with a puffy shirt, an overcoat, a hat with LED goggles, gloves and a can filled with metal to use for making noise. The result was a golden robot with a disdain for man rivaling that of any machine before me. After a monster pep rally, we all marched to the middle of the park for a sort of opening ceremoy speech from the head monster, after which we all sprinted to our assigned scare zones, mine being Maniacal Mechanical Screamworks.

I received some contradictory advice prior to the opening of our zone. One leader warned me about invading patrons’ personal space. Then he paired me with a monster who explained that one of his favorite tactics for scaring is to get right in patrons’ personal space. One strategy he taught me was scraping my can along the ground near people. Another was sneaking up behind someone, shaking the can on one side of them and popping up on the other. Both methods were successful.

I had a hard time keeping my smart aleck attitude out of my character, popping up at people on the phone and yelling, “Who are you talking to?” and sneaking up on people who had just been scared and yelling, “That monster’s pretty good!”

Two scares stand out above the rest. The first was in the entryway to the scare zone. I jumped out of the mist at a woman, and she leapt to the side directly onto a woman in a wheelchair. It was like something out of “Scooby Doo.” For a moment I thought I might have brought a lawsuit upon Cedar Point, but after a couple of seconds of shock the woman in the wheelchair laughed it off and kept moving. The second scare was when a teenage girl moved alongside a fence in an alleyway to get away from the action. As she called to her friend to come over to her, I snuck up from behind and yelled, “Why so scared?”

She screamed and was nearly curled up into a

ball fighting tears as I apologized while fighting back tears of laughter.

Not all of my attempts were that successful.

There were plenty of people unaffected and there was some ridicule involved, including a group of teenagers imitating a dance from a character called Party Boy on “Jackass.”

Two hours and a rip in my jeans later, I was exhausted, all scared out and ready to go home.

One monster I met has been with HalloWeekends a lot longer than my two hours. Gabe Russell, a Toledo resident since 2005, has been with HalloWeekends for seven years and has been in the haunted house industry for 19 years.

“I love the job, but I think what keeps me coming back is the people,” Russell said. “I get to have fun with all my friends, act silly and get paid to do so.”

Russell performs in Maniacal Mechanical Screamworks as a slider, which involves special knee and elbow pads designed for sliding across the ground in front of guests.

“It’s a very hard job, but it’s fun and rewarding,” Russell said. “It was a little overwhelming at first.

There’s a great risk for danger. We start practicing every year with the old and new sliders in March so we don’t run into problems when the park is full of people.”

After so many years with HalloWeekends, Russell is an efficient monster.

“I’ve seen it all,” he said. “I’ve seen people urinate, defecate, vomit and pass out. Not all at once though. Peoples’ reactions are priceless.”

HalloWeekends is open from 6 p.m. to midnight Oct. 28, noon to midnight Oct. 29 and noon to 9 p.m. Oct. 30. Tickets are $49.99 for adults and $24.99 for juniors and seniors. Visit CedarPoint.com for more information. Check out Facebook.com/ToledoFreePress for more photos from HalloWeekends. O

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Love classic monster movies? “Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon” (D3 Publisher), a third-person action game, offers endless ant armies to slay as the military gradually advances through the city grid to repel the foreign invaders. Destruction, terror, mayhem, and a lower price make this fun game an ideal pic — even if players don’t love classic invasion/monster movies. Weapon reloads add some real tension because game developers use a status bar that must fill instead of the quick reload noise in most shooter games.

Hardcore players should complete the game through all three difficulty settings to gain access to the most powerful weapons. The large unlockable weapon cache (over 300), four upgradable armor types and four soldier classes create some distinction, which is unnecessary overall. The split-screen cooperative multiplayer option, three player online multiplayer mode, and six-player survival mode expand the entertainment inside an easy jump-in-andjoin format that also includes add-on content.

The real fun is in the destruction, especially the structures. Better sound effects and better visual variety would have improved this entertaining game, which continues the Japanese game series and is a sequel to the Xbox 360 game “Earth Defense Force 2017” (***, available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, rated T for animated blood, mild language, mild suggestive themes and violence). O — Michael Siebenaler

Few things put you in the Halloween spirit better than bashing in the skulls of a few zombies. Since preacher Harold Camping was once again wrong about the world ending, “Dead Island” serves as a nice consolation.

The open-world gameplay of ‘Dead Island’ takes you everywhere from a beach resort to the slums to deep in the jungle, and the environments are beautifully designed.

Banoi, the fictional island located off the coast of Papua New Guinea, looks like it would have been a nice place to visit before all hell broke loose.

The highlight of the game is its immersion into emotion and the psychology of battling a zombie infestation. This includes insanity, contemplating suicide and debating how to deal with infected loved ones. A character who killed her own infected father tried to reason with another character facing a similar situation with his wife. She said, “It’s easy killing a million faceless nobodies, isn’t it? But what about killing someone you love?”

Unfortunately, the game’s biggest strength is also its biggest shortcoming. It does a great job of getting into the emotions and stories of secondary characters, but the main characters and their backstories are almost untouched.

The storyline could have been put to better use, but the emotion, environment and realistic feel of “Dead Island” make it stand out as the best zombie game to date. O — Jason Mack

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The corpse pose H

alloween is one of my favorite holidays.

Regardless of your religious affinity, childhood costumes or opinions on chocolate, it’s very difficult to avoid conjuring up images of skeletons and ghosts around the Day of the Dead (which, by the way, is Nov. 1 and 2, not Oct. 31).

In celebration of Halloween’s ghoulish apparitions, we’ll dig a little deeper into corpse pose.

Corpse pose is the most Jennifer difficult yoga pose that exists, and no, I’m not kidding. Lying on your back as still as death is yoga’s most complex posture.

Let’s look at why.

For most of us, getting into this posture is simple, but accessing that limbo-state between awake and asleep is what presents the challenge. Savasana is typically, and more pleasantly, translated from Sanskrit as “final relaxation,” but sava literally means corpse. However, the real problem arises when we begin to define “corpse.”

Not all belief systems see a corpse as something completely inanimate. Many believe in the existence of something more, something less tangible. Obviously, though, most would not argue that when dead you are not truly “alive” in the common physical sense. This is the general idea behind corpse pose. When taking corpse pose, the yoga practitioner is trying to drift away from being actively mentally and physically alert, without falling asleep.

With this in mind, corpse pose’s difficulty becomes more understandable.

Let’s take a stab at corpse pose. Lie on your back with your heels a few inches apart and let your toes simply fall out and away from each other. Lengthen your tailbone toward your heels, but retain your spine’s natural curvature. Momentarily reach your arms up toward the ceiling

to help broaden your back body. Allow your shoulders to drop away from your ears as each arm rests alongside your torso at a 45 degree angle, palms facing up. Tuck the chin slightly and find length in your neck as you lift the base of your skull away from the release of your shoulders. Consciously find symmetry throughout your entire body before letting go. Make sure your nose points straight up and is not tilting to one side, feel both hands rest on the same knuckle; experience openness in your collarbones and a slight lift of the heart.

Scanning your body slowly, let tension go from every cell of your being — including but not limited to your forehead, cheeks, tongue and jaw. Scan your body a second time, and this time let each soft inhale bring new life into your still body. With each exhale imagine residual stress and tension leaving you. Feel your body become heavy, your eyelids so heavy that you cannot open them.

As your body becomes more relaxed, allow yourself to welcome the thoughts and emotions that come to you. Without judging, feel every sensation and then let it go.

Corpse pose has more to offer than any other pose, hands down. Letting go of attachment to our bodies is not easy, but we are so much more than our physical selves. We play dress up every single day, whether it’s in a princess costume, suit and tie or yoga clothing. This Halloween, I invite you to take a moment (even if it’s in bed right before you fall asleep) to welcome awareness of the deeper you with corpse pose. O

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or many horror fans, Halloween wouldn’t be the same without the works of John Carpenter to keep them company.

The influential director helped sire the modern slasher genre with his seminal 1978 horror classic “Halloween.”

But he also continued to bring his wonderfully twisted cinematic vision to the screen in the two decades that folJEFF lowed. “The Thing,” “Escape from New York,” “Big Trouble in Little China,” “They Live” and on and on — Carpenter’s work commands a huge cult following and much of it can be described as being definitively ahead of its time.

Then, in 2001, he just stopped. Following the release of his sci-fi feature “Ghosts of Mars,” Carpenter, who had been one of the most prolific and consistent directors in Hollywood, dropped off the map. He wouldn’t direct a feature film again for nearly 10 years, until the recent release of “The Ward,” a film about a haunted mental hospital.

Why the decade of delay?

“I was burned out. Toasted. Exhausted,” Carpenter said in an interview with Toledo Free Press Star. “I’d been working steadily since the 1970s.

I needed a break. ‘The Ward’ was the first movie ready to go when I decided to go back to work.”

He said the new film’s structure intrigued him.

“My experience working with an ensemble cast was the biggest attraction to this little ghost story. Every day I spend on the set I learn something. The talented actresses, the advances in digital technology, the challenges of low-budget filmmaking ... every aspect of directing ‘The Ward’ gave me enormous satisfaction,” Carpenter said.

During his career, Carpenter has worked with numerous young actors who would go on to bigger stardom — Jamie Lee Curtis, a postDisney Kurt Russell — and “The Ward’s” casting of Amber Heard, who with roles in “Drive Angry” and “The Rum Diary” seems poised to break through to the next level, falls right in line with that trend.

“Amber is very beautiful and very talented.

Like everyone else in the movie business, she has to deal with what’s offered. It’s a treacherous business and I think she’s navigating the storms quite well,” Carpenter said.

The storms do not except Carpenter from their wrath, however. Entertainment’s everchanging business model is always looking for the next big thing, often at the expense of the legends who came before. Now, as streaming video begins to reign, the options for filmmakers are becoming more limited — even for Carpenter.

“These days, the DVD market has shrunk

from what it was,” Carpenter said. “Downloading movies from the Internet has shaken the traditions of the movie business. It’s getting harder out there.”

But another facet of entertainment is its desire to cash in on valuable franchises. Such is the case with one of Carpenter’s most popular films — his 1982 horror opus “The Thing,” about a group of researchers in Antarctica who face an alien entity which can imitate other living forms.

On Oct. 14, a new version of “The Thing” was released, ostensibly a prequel to Carpenter’s version, though he said he had “no input” into the new film.

“I thought the idea of the Norwegian camp was interesting,” Carpenter said of the new film’s setting.

“I wish the filmmakers well and hope their version of ‘The Thing’ is a success.”

Carpenter’s “Thing” first received a cool reception from critics and audiences, though as time passed the 1982 film garnered a cult fol-

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“The hopelessness of the situation in ‘The Thing’ was evident in the story,” Carpenter said of his film’s bleak, unforgiving tone.

“Other stories provoke different emotions and ambiCARPENTER ence. There are really no general rules about horror.

It all depends on the story.”

He rejected the suggestion that on-camera, practical effects, such as the ones used in his 1982 film, are more convincing than digital ones.

“Used correctly, digital effects are most powerful and a major breakthrough in special effects.

I think of the dinosaur charge across the valley in ‘Jurassic Park.’ Breathtaking,” Carpenter said.

As for Carpenter, it appears fans won’t have to wait another decade to see another work by one of the true masters of the macabre.

“I have projects I’m developing,” Carpenter said when asked what was next for him. “And I’m in mourning for the NBA season that won’t be.”

Asked if he had any advice for young filmmakers, Carpenter kept his words short and true.

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