Starting off October with a bang! We have an extensive (but by no means exhaustive) list of some events around the northwest to help you get your spooky on this season including interviews with members of Seattle horror/comedy improve troupe Blood Squad and the Scream Team from the Stocker Farms Field of Screams. We also have our reviews of the Revenant Film Festival, Pandorum and Zombieland, we talk about our experience seeing Surrogates at the Gold Class Cinema in Redmond and desperately try and say something about our experience playtesting Left 4 Dead 2 that won’t cause Valve send hired goons over to break our kneecaps.

All that and geek news and Seattle geek events.

Our Geek Week

♦Audiobook of The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind
♦My Weight Loss Coach for the DS, but NOT DSi (guess which one Shannon has)
♦Eastwick
♦Mario Kart
♦Flashforward
♦Pandorum
♦Game Night at Metro Seattle Gamers

• Yesterday
• Hell Patrol
• Plague
• Zombies of Mass Destruction
• Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated

You can still can buy Revenant Magazine #0 on their website
And finally, thanks to Brother D and Miss Bren of Mail Order Zombie and Steve and Skamama from Bonebat for, well, basically being awesome!

♦Left 4 Dead 2 playtesting. Short version: IT IS AWESOME!
♦Surrogates at Gold Class Cinemas
check out the comfy, comfy seats! (click to embiggen)

♦Zombieland

SpooOoOoOOooooky Madness!

♦Pumpkin Prowl at the Woodland Park Zoo
♦Maple Valley Dark Hollow
♦Boo Costume Extravaganza at Fremont Studios
♦8th annual Ultimate Halloween Bash at the Showbox
♦Remlinger Farms Harvest Fest
♦Hoot n’ Howl at Northwest Trek
♦Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum Pumpkin Train
♦Carpinito Brothers Corn Maze

♦Stocker Farms Field of Screams

♦Scream Fair Haunted Houses – Light Horse Barn in Lynden, WA
♦Hauntownsend in Port Townsend, WA
♦The Halloween Show – Live Planetarium Show at the Pacific Science Center
♦Haunted Hikes at the Pacific Science Center
♦Halloween Sleepover at the Pacific Science Center
♦SIFF Hitchcock series
♦Spooky Organ Music at the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus
♦Annual Halloween cruise with Argosy Cruises and KZOK
♦Enumclaw Pirate Corn Maze
♦Wild Waves Frightfest
♦Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho with Seattle Symphony

♦Blood Squad

More Spooky Events
♦Find pumpkin patches in Washington and other states
♦Directory of haunts in the NW including BC
♦Halloween club nights near you at Clubzone.Com

October Horror Movies

This week Shannon reviews
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) recommended by @donbcivil

and Grace (2009) recommended by @posiegirl

The movies for the rest of the month are (in no particular order)
• Le locataire (aka The Tennant) (1976) recommended by @gamewatcher
• The Children (2008) recommended by Jenna
• Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (aka Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) (1974) recommended by @RevenantMag
• The Attic Expeditions (aka Horror in the Attic) (2001) recommended by @KaneBlaireau
• The Barber (2001) recommended by @CassieTownsend
• Alien Raiders (2008) recommended by Joe C
• Murder Party (2007) recommended by Captan Slinky
• Carnival of Souls (1962) recommended by Wayne M

News

♦‘The Prisoner’ Miniseries showing on AMC this November
♦Viz Media Gets Vampire Knight Anime Rights
♦Real-life Spider-Lizard is the hot new Spider-Man collectible

♦Sign Up For Star Wars: The Old Republic Beta. Requires registration and a system scan to determine if your computer will run the game.

Events

Conventions
♦October 1 – 4, 2009 – BrickCon – Seattle, Washington
♦October 2 – 4, 2009 – VCon 34 – Vancouver, BC, Canada
♦October 3 – 4, 2009 – ConQuest Oregon – Hillsboro, OR

Events
♦October 2, 2009 Open Satellite 989 112th Ave NE Suite 102, Bellevue – Blood Squad vs. Godzilla. Blood Squad, Seattle’s masters of slasher film inspired comedy, return to Open Satellite to tackle the nuclear monster film genre, a nod to SIMPARCH’s “exhausted” (the 50-foot Godzilla in the room). Armed with four folding chairs and serious improv chops, Blood Squad will improvise a full-length show on a theme selected by the audience members. As always, nothing will be sacred. And most of the many characters these nimble minds piece together – and play in turns – will die a gruesome, hilarious death. Do not miss this!

♦October 2 – 4, 2009 Hollywood Theatre, Portland OR – H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival

♦October 2 – 4, 2009 – Governor Hotel 614 SW 11th Ave Portland, OR – 2009 Browncoat Ball. The Browncoat Ball aims to bring fans from around the world together to celebrate Firefly and each other. The vision for the Browncoat Ball is to be an affordable fan-run event to be held in a different city each year to maximize convenience and attendance. This is the fifth year for the Ball and marks its first visit to the west coast!

♦October 2 – 6, 2009 Siff Cinema 321 Mercer St, Seattle – Alien & Aliens. SIFF Cinema celebrates the 30th Anniversary of Ridley Scott’s landmark of science fiction and horror with new 35mm prints of both Scott’s Director’s Cut of Alien and James Cameron’s hair-raising followup–Aliens.

♦October 3, 2009 Dreamstrands Comics 115 N 85th St Seattle – Magic: The Gathering Zendikar launch party

♦October 4, 2009 Blue Highway Games 2203 Queen Anne Ave N Seattle – Magic: The Gathering Zendikar launch party

Contests

The EPIC PAX SWAG BAG giveaway contest. The swag includes several t-shirts, game demos, full versions of a couple of games, stickers, buttons, lanyards, temporary tattoos, download codes for the exclusive PAX09 t-shirt for your XBox Live avatar and a ton of other stuff.

“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST telling us what game you are playing currently or what game you WISH you were playing. Please only comment once, we’ll delete any multiple posts or offensive posts.

The contest will end at 11:59 PM, October 4, 2009 and we’ll be picking the winner October 5, 2009. We will notify you by email that you’ve won! Please use a REAL email address when you register so we can find you! If I get an “undeliverable” message, we’ll have to pick a new winner!

Music

Music this week was the live version of Creepy Doll by Jonathan Coulton from the Best. Concert. Ever. album and DVD.

Next Week’s show: Author roundup: We talk to 4 authors next week Rob C Rogers author of Devil’s Cape, A.P. Stephens author of The Stolen Moon of Londor, Mark Henry author of The Amanda Feral, Celebrity Ghoul series, and Cherie Priest author of various Tor books including the recently released Boneshaker.

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