Texas Haunters Convenion 2026

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Texas Haunters Convention July 18-19th Irving Convention Center in Las Colinas, Texas !!!                     

A convention for haunters, special Fx props and make up work, Haunted house attractions, and people who are strange and unusual! So many vendors selling hand made horror/halloween/spooky things.

 

Here is our Review for this convention!

Whats up Guys Gals ghouls and pals

We have gone for the last 3 years to do media here. We have never been let down before and to be honest with you we are always in love and have such a good time at this convention. The haunt community like any other community has its bad apples but for the most part they are all so chill and so passionate. If you get to talking to the vendors and really ask them about their craft and how much they love what they do and get to know them ... they will literally talk to you all day if you want about it. It is so pleasant to see so many people love their craft. Horror community in general is like that though. It is hard to get into the community because lets face it most of us are already battling people thinking we are wierd and devil worshippers or we need to be checked out...which some of that may be true for alot of people and reasons but we are all chill if you are. We just love the macabre guys deal with it. Anyways, back to the con. this convention has always had the best vendors * cough* the Knitty Gritty Nerd * cough*. They have some very unique pieces they are selling and i am always excited to hear people singing over on the Scaryoke machine. We liked singing with them. This convention is not for the faint of heart or the queezy tummy because SFX SFX SFX everywhere. You will see gross things, bloody things, dead things, boney things, and things that crept out of your nightmares into to real life.You will meet amazing haunt owners and actors, amazing make up artists and special fx make up artists, prop makers and practical special fx builders, You will see ooozing things and the smells are not always pleasant....alot of fake blood and latex and we all know latex kinda smells like a fish market sometimes. 

Here is the contravery this year.... they let someone bring AI into a panel and teach how he uses it for his haunt. People were outraged about it. They were boycotting and banning the convention for doing so. This brought the attendance down alot this year. 

Here is our take on it. I do not like Ai it is destroying our earth and as an artist it is taking away the jobs we could be doing because its cheap and easy....it looks like shite btw...but anyways, the problem with everyone not going is most of those people who were like noooooo....still attend Anime Matsuri where their owners have allegaitions( sa and Assult on minors ) severe ones against them for SOOOO many years and yet they go but,....man ai really sucks. Ya'll trippin on that. They both suck and if you are going to not attend because of AI please stop attending conventions that have bad reps like Anime Matsuri and almost any con that is a literal cash grab like all CON live  Conventions yes that includes Anime Dallas guys. When you skip cons that the worst thing they did was let a person teach how he uses AI ( they aren't personally using it  themselves ) in their haunt, you are shitting on the people you are trying to defend. The artists and creators that work hard to make all this stuff and sell it at conventions, who paid ten times more than you did for your ticket to even vend there, are losing all that money because you decided to fuck them over. That to me doesn't make sense. I went and supported all my fellow artists and vendors and bought some stuff and learned so much from them. I didn't support the one panel that they had poor judgement on. I do hope they learned from this and decide not to do that again next year. 

Anyways, despite that...we loved it again. We saw some friends and some cooll cosplays, cool props and make up work, met some coo haunters and haunt owners, and we just really had such a chill weekend. So honestly thank you Texas Haunters for putting on a great show this year. 

Overall 7/10 this year because of the contravery 

However for the vendors,cosplayers,prop makers, haunters, and haunts....10/10 like always !! 

Check you guys here at the next spooky event. 

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Until next time stay spooky my friends!

Texas Frightmare Weekend 2026

 

Hey guys we have a video on Tik Tok here for a recap/montage https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBULeXsQ/ So we went to Texas Frightmare Weekend on Satrday only. This blog is based only on Saturday. I'll start with the bad because we like to leae a good taste innpeoples mouth if we can. As you guys know if you have been that the crowds have always been huge and if you haven't then just know every uear we become more and more Sardined. The lines of cars when we arrived were backed up to thw highway just to park. We got there at noon and it was sold out of Parking in most places near there. Luckily i have been to this Convention Center before numerous times so i knew where parking was that was cheap and in this case this year....free. Downside is you have to walk a looooong way to get there but nothing you can't walk in 20 minutes or less. I personally don't mind walking as long as i am not covered in melty face paint or bad shoes and Reid_iculous_guy well he didn't complain and it was free...Yay. Anyways, once you got in check in to get our badges was simple and quick with the qt codes and everything. The lines to the Elevators and escalators were so long and kept stopping that we missed the Scream panel because we literally were at the escalators for 30 minutes and then the line was so long it was basically too packed to get in. So instead we walked around downstairs in the Exhibit hall for a while until 2:20 ish. The Exhibit hall was so packed we couldn't breath or move and ended up having to escape for a bit. We then headed up to the panel rooms in the Grand Ballroom for the Welcome to Derry Panel. That was a blast and the kids are adorable and sweet. The entire panel was a blast so we enjoyed that very much. We then left and walked around for a minute until about 4 when we thought thwy were lining up for the Saw panel....it wasn't . The person who worked there seemed overwhelmed and lost poor girl. She told us yes it was for saw and then they started letting people in and we were like ...wait huh? It was a total different panel but luckily we liked the panel. It was the stars of Silent Night Deadly Night. That was a fun panel. We went and told them about what happened and they said just stay when the panel is over and we can just have those seats for the next panel. So that was cool we were pretty close so we were ok with that. The saw panel was excellent and Tobin Bell is so insightful you guys it is like reading a motivational book or something. He is such a great guy and the other cast and the writer of the first 3 Leigh Whannell is so funny and kind. They then told us if we were staying for the next panel we can just stay seated but we went downstairs to see the exhibit hall again which was more cleared out and we were able to actually look around. Same stuff we see at all horror conventions but we love it none the less!! Then we headed up for our last thing for the day which was the Movie Premiere for Models vs. Werewolves by Full Moon Features. They did one of our favorite series Puppet Master. That adventure getting up there was again terrible but we were able to get in by the last 15 minutes of the last panel and stayed in the front row for the movie. The movie was actually hilarious and fun to watch. So much camp but thats for another post later lol. After that we were hungry and done. Headed out to the long walk to our car. Took alot of video coming soon. So our over all thought is....its too big for that small of a space and it makes it almost impossible to get where you want to go. Other than that everything was so much fun and we can't wait for next year only this time.... we may go on a sunday for less crowds lol. Fun 6/10 crowds really were a buzzkill Guests 10/10 parking 4/10 afternoon organization 5/10 lines and everuthing were chaos accept will call and photo op virtual lines. Vendors 7/10 same vendors as everywhere else but we still like it lol Staff 8/10 they were all so kind and helpful although some seemed like they didn't know anything Overall 6.5/10 Crowds were just such a buzzkill not enough space and a bit disorganized.

Review For Obsession Focus Features and Blumhouse

 

Here is our Honest review of Obsession but first a little bit of info and synopsis. 

Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. The film follows Bear (Michael Johnston), a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy that grants his wish for his friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) to fall in love with him, resulting in horrific consequences. Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter appear in supporting roles.

A guy named Bear is in love with his friend Nikki. After chickening out on telling her again he goes to an apothacary to find her a gift and finds the"One wish Willow" a magical branch in a box. After his last failed attempt to tell her he jokingly makes a wish on the willow and breaks it wishing for Nikki to love him more than anything in the world. This hopeless romantic gets what he wished for and so much more. Be careful what you wish for. A dark, psychological horror mixed with a little bit of the supernatural and romance.

Non Spoiler review.

This movie was definately a thrilling movie. It blends really well with a psychological and supernatural horror movie. Curry Barker did a great job on his first real big project. The ending was something left to be desired for us personally but non the less still good. The withering of Nikki aka Freaky Nikki and the unravelling of Bear was hard but thrilling to watch to say the least. There were many twists and turns and things you find out that made our face scream....oh shiiiiiiite!! We do feel like it was a little over hyped because i mean we have seen this concept played out in alot of movies and well shows for example Supernatural did a good one that was very very similar " Wishful thinking" Season 4 Episode 8. In both the episode and the movie, the plot kicks off with a magical or cursed object (a wishing coin in the show, a "One Wish Willow" in the movie) that allows a hopeless romantic to make his crush fall in love with him. In both stories, the wish comes true, but it strips the girl of her free will, turning her unnervingly obsessed with the protagonist. Of course this movie was way more gory , intense and well new . However what sets this apart is the acting honestly and the ending. The actors and actresses were really stellar in this movie and we believe they are going to go very far. 

Overall we give it a 8.5/10 

Thrills: 8/10

Horror: 8/10

Originality 5/10

Acting 10/10

Cinemotography 9/10

This was a well written, directed, and played out movie. We will be watching this again.

SPOILERS BELOW PLEASE LEAVE IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT !!!

We were impressed by the movie but to be honest with you it wasnt the movie that made us go bleh... it was the people who watched it. The amount of unnessisary philisophical bickering people did over the movie was crazy. The movie was great but they were tearing it apart and made it into a whole men vs women thing and the man and the bear thing...Curry Barker said it was about co-dependency, poseessive love, and toxicity of some relationships and how far it can go. Along with that it was about being careful what you wish for and from a Simpsons episode ( Treehouse of Horror 11 ) that he had seen with a monkey paw.  He avoided making Nikki's transformation look like a standard spiritual possession, aiming instead for a deeply unsettling but realistic psychological deterioration. He didn't have a deeper meaning than that. He likes to leave things up to interpritation stating that maybe the one wish willow was not all bad it just depended ont he wish.The guy at the apothacary made a wish and his wish came true and it has worked out well for him as well as when bear forced his friend to make a wish and it was for a billion dollars and that came true. Sadly for Bear he was selfish and obsessed with Nikki so his wish of " I wish Nikki loved me more than anything in the world " was taken very serious in the willows eyes and became something possessive, obsessive, and took away her free will and the ability to live for herself... her obsession created by him became something very scary when the wish Nikki took over. Leaving the real Nikki unable to break free and be herself , who mind you she was sleeping with his best friend and neither of them told him , obviously was not in love or even liked Bear . She kept snapping into the real Nikki and at one point asked Bear to kill her because she didnt want to be a slave to the wish anymore. Bear in this aspect was again selfish and instead of wanting to reverse or fix it he kept trying to make it work event hough he knew her feelings were not real...they werethe wish Nikki...which made everything worse. UNTIL She killed the one girl that actually liked bear alot and wanted to be with him. He then started to think well now i gotta fix this. He should have done that from the start and none of it would have happened and would have went back to normal. At the end he put the one wish willow down on the table and left the room to go end it all ( overdoe on his meds) when after taking them wish Nikki breaks the willow causing bear to become in love no matter what with her...wish Nikki and Wish Bear were together....however him dying from Overdose caused the wish to leave and the real Nikki was back in the real world having to deal witht he consequenses of someone elses actions. Which for her that must really suck.

Anyways. The movie was good only one sex scene which was kinda uncomfortable because he is having sex with someone he knows is being held against her will but at the same time not. The real Nikki didn't want it but the wish Nikki did and so that part was uncomfortable to think about. In Bear's defense he didn't thhink it was actually real however he should have found a way to stop it when he found out she didn't aactually love him and it was just the wish. 

People are comparing it to the man and the bear and in this aspect i understand why but at the same time it isn't a man vs women war it is a take on toxicity in relationships when you both feel trapped by your feelings and yet you stay together when you know you shouldn't. Anyways, it is a great watch and i highly suggest people seeing it. It was alot of fun!

Backrooms A24 Review

 

 We went to see the Backrooms the past weekend and we don't have alot to say but we will say it anyways lol.

First lets give a synopsis shall we and a little backstory but i wont go into detail because i know too much and can talk about it forever.                                                                                                               

This movie is done by A24 and Kane Parsons, who is known as Kane Pixels on YouTube. Who did a bunch of found footage, movies or little shorts about The Backrooms.

Just a little back story on the Backrooms they were invented in 2019 on a thread on an image board website called 4chan , and the Backrooms were usually portrayed as like impossibly large , extra dimensional complex of empty rooms, Liminal spaces and empty and eerie vibes. They're in the creepy pasta genre. At this point there are thousands of levels. Each level has a different intensity and has different monsters in it. Some are safe zones, some are slightly safe, and then there are some that are danger zones , and then some that are just run , get out. You know , clip in , which is basically you just fall into these rooms , universes , worlds dimensions , and you never know which one you're gonna end up in , but the most known is level zero , which is that yellow toned office , liminal space that you see in the movie.

Okay, now back to the movie. So this movie had a lot of good points to it , which are they got the look and the eerie feeling down very well. They also got that since of someone is watching you feeling correct as well. The bad thing is, is they focused on this man's back story for about an hour of the entire movie and when he found the back rooms it kind of went into that a little but then it didn't really tell you anything about the place they were in unit the very end. This man goes on a journey after he's getting divorced and finds this room inside of his furniture store in the wall started glowing. So he walked through it, then he started getting curious and kept going back and then he brought other people in and then they found the monster which the monster was incredibly disappointing because I was expecting a certain thing considering we've seen and read all of the back history that I could. Then he stays and leaves this weird message on his therapist's answering machine. So she goes to find him at his furniture store and ends up finding the Backrooms where he taped a door and goes inside, ends up finding him and strange things happen and then she has to run from this monster, which was incredibly disappointing. Then she ends up where the workers are and they tell her a little bit about the space, but they also don't know much and then it just ends. They could have literally done this movie in 30 minutes. They went into none of the other spaces , really , except for a brief five minutes where they went through maybe two other zones , but it was all connected to level zero , which makes no sense but ok. It was basically, here's this guy, he's going through a hard time, he's an alcoholic, he finds the Backrooms and he goes in and goes nuts. Then this person comes looking for him and finds him and he's nuts , then she finds the workers and boom done the backrooms. This should have started. The movie should've started when she found the workers. Honestly, the entire movie could have been down to 30 minutes as an intro to the actual movie. Or if this is going to be a series, I can see it being a start to a franchise. However, It took way too long to get to the point and I literally wasted about an hour of my time. The I could have squished it together in thirty minutes would have been fine.

Aesthetically , 8/10

Eerie vibes 7/10

Cinematography. 7/10

Plot ....5/10 felt unfinished

Horror 2/10 had no horror to it really

Overall 5/10 dissapointing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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