Articles for tag: Ajo, Old Tucson Studios, The Asylum

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The Legend of Nightfall, Tucson, Arizona

It is almost time for Halloween and many families will be heading to Halloween parties or haunted houses. Instead, how about visiting an entire town, which celebrates its own spooky traditions? The Town of Nightfall. The historic town of Nightfall has been a southern Arizona tradition for over 15 years. Situated on old Tucson studios, ...

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Haunted Athens, Ohio – the Ridges

The Ridges is now part of the Ohio University campus, but once was known as the Athens Mental Health Center (before that it was Athens Asylum for the Insane). As a part of the Ohio University campus, the main building has been renamed Lin Hall and contains the Kennedy Museum of Art. There have been ...

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DVD Review: “Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies”

Timeliness is one thing you can count on with the Asylum Entertainment. If there’s a big event film hitting movie screens, they’ll be one step ahead of the curve with their own version of the subject matter. This time around we learn that not only was Abraham Lincoln a vampire hunter, but he had another ...

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Top 10 Haunted Houses in Texas

We are half way through the month of October but that still leaves plenty of time for some good old fashioned hauntings. Whether you live in a major city in Texas or one of the many small towns across the state, there is sure to be a haunted house near you. 1. Haunted High – ...

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Popular Ghost Websites: The Haunted Web

In a previous article, I talked about my interest in Ghosts and the Unexplained. It all started when I was in third grade. On one of my weekly trips to the small school library with my class, I saw a book about Bigfoot that I really wanted to check out. I had seen Harry And ...

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Haunted America: The Seven Gates of Hell

Hell as we know it offers a more sinister approach to anyone thought to have been a part of the mentally insane just a few hundred years ago. In fact becoming institutionalized was easier then anyone could ever imagine during the late 1700’s and on up until the early 1900’s with adverse effects that would ...

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DVD Review: “American Warships”

Piggybacking off the domestic box office disaster “Battleship” as much as they can, The Asylum released their low-budget knock-off entitled “American Warships.” Leave it to these mockbuster makers to swoop in on the dead carcass and pick off all the flesh left on the bone after the brutal slaying it suffered. The original title of ...

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Movie Review: “12/12/12”

The year 2012 sure is getting a raw deal when it comes to being associated with catastrophic events. First, we’re speeding towards the end of the Mayan calendar which supposedly signifies the coming of the apocalypse. Now the Asylum marks the actual beginning of the end as “12/12/12.” Armageddon might occur on December 21st, but ...

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A Review of Paranormal Entity (2009)

Paranormal Entity has been referred to as a mockbuster, a term given to films which are released to trail on the success of higher budget releases. In this case, production company The Asylum released Paranormal Entity to ride the wave of excitement caused by Paranormal Activity. Paranormal Activity, which got mixed reviews, was still a ...