From time to time I make concepts for haunts that don’t get accepted and those concepts usually get scrapped or modified. Hey, it happens! The artwork to the left was made for a haunt last summer but it wasn’t what the client wanted so it was scrapped. This week I went back and looked at this concept again and really liked it! In fact its one of my favorites from the last year. So instead of scrapping it I’m doing a special discounted package for this piece of art that will go to the first haunt that contacts me about it. The art is ready to go all we have to do yet is make the site template and flash header. This Special Brain Chomping Zombie Package includes the following:

- Full lifetime license on the Haunted house artwork pictured
- Creation of logo for your event or we’ll add your pre-existing logo to the artwork
- Flash enhanced website with animated flash header using the artwork and logo
- Full website with up to 9 pages of content
- Mobile version of site
- 1 year of web hosting
- Flyer, coupon, ticket designs with up to 1 more designs based on licensed artwork or artwork you provide.
- Service and support ending 11/30/2012*

This package is our popular Brain Chomping Zombie package and normally costs $2100 but this ready to go package with the artwork pictured is being offered at just $1500.00! That’s $600.00 off!!

The package is being sold as is with all the features listed and the artwork pictured and that’s not negotiable. If you’re a first year event then this package will give you everything you need to make a big impression this year and save some big bucks in the process. HOWEVER You need to act fast because I only have one of these packages and once its gone, its gone. I don’t resell artwork to separate markets like some of my competitors! This artwork will be yours and yours only if you purchase this package! CALL ME NOW AT 614-408-3137 or email me here!

Give this Art a Home and act now!

You may have noticed that a lot of things are changing around here. I recently updated the look of the site to a simpler design and I’ve been working hard on getting Christmas Nightmares up and running in a bigger way. I started a tumblr page for Christmas Nightmares as well as a Twitter and Facebook presence. I encourage you to follow and like them as soon as possible!

I’ll be updating it as we prep for our 2011 video shoot. Last year we came up with Xmas Nightmares on a whim about a week before Christmas and shot the “Here Comes Santa” video in one afternoon at my parents house. It was fun and silly but this year we want to do so much more with it. So far the script has been finished and we’re now working on Storyboards. We are shooting sometime in the next 2 weeks and I’ll no doubt be working like mad to get it edited and finished right after. We have some cool ideas on this one and are really expanding it into a storyline this year. Start following us and keep up with the updates. We want to get anyone who’s doing something spooky for the holidays to tell us about it! Post it on facebook or on our tumblr page to let us know!

The spooky Halloween season may be over but things haven’t really slowed down any here at Rogues Hollow. First up you might have noticed I’ve spruced things up a bit on the site with some new graphics. Its still a work in progress but I’m pretty happy with where its going. I’ve tried to simplify things a lot and streamline my menu.

Brian Lashchuk at Beyond the Grave Productions and I have started working on a new film project that will be our biggest so far. I won’t go into any great detail on it but you can see some screen shots on my flickr account from the shoot as well as the photo on this post. F/X genius Jon Shroyer took his one day off of a big Hollywood production to come and help our little teeny, tiny production and it was awesome! We had the best make up ever on any of our videos so far! Its going to be great!

There’s still lots more filming to go and I’ll post bits and pieces of what we’re doing as we go but you’ll just have to wait till we’re done to see what it all means! Until then, enjoy this severed head

My ears are still ringing from 4 days of way too much music, loud scares and prop sounds and my voice is about shot from trying to yell over all of it. But I made it back home from the 2011 Transworld Trade show safe and sound. As I expected I’ve managed to book up our whole season at the show and its very doubtful I’ll be able to take any new jobs this week. The show was a lot of fun, it was great seeing so many familiar faces and some new ones I hadn’t met yet. The show itself seemed like the largest Its ever been since moving to St. Louis. There were a lot of new companies making their debuts and showing off some new products. Lots of older companies that brought in some great new stuff as well! My good friends at Beyond The Grave Productions have a whole new line of zombies and props that are simply the best they’ve created to date and highly recommended. I’ll be posting more information about it this week. Ok I got to get some sleep and I have a lot of work to do! Check back this week as I add more updates regarding Transworld.

I’m happy to announce that the 2011 “FearCast” Haunt Marketing Packages are now available for purchase! What is FearCast? With Rogues Hollow’s Marketing Packages you can get a full marketing assault for print, web, video, SEO, Social Media and so much more! We have Packages ranging from affordable flash enhanced website packages to full on marketing plans that include print, web videos, social media, and lots more! We have a plan that can fit almost any budget! Check out all the plans we offer by clicking here and then contact us as soon as possible to lock in your marketing package for the 2011 Halloween season soon!

So with Xmas just around the corner we decided to have a little fun and make a funny and creepy holiday greeting! Check it out below and have a safe and happy Holiday season!

Frank Darabont has been a favorite director of mine since Shawshank Redemption, but even before that he was getting horror cred for co-writing Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors with Chuck Russell and since he’s never strayed to far away from the beloved Horror Genre for too long. When it was announced he was working on a TV series based on a popular comic book called the Walking Dead, I was psyched! Every video I watched just made that anticipation grow and when the first episode was aired on AMC on Halloween, I wasn’t disappointed! It had action, amazing zombie effects and violence that I was surprised the show was able to get away with.

The problems started with the second episode. We’re introduced early on to a racist character that is so broadly painted that he might as well be wearing a hood and robe. While other characters were more likable they all suffered from the same thing, they were broad characters with stereotyped personalities. Anyone knows that for a zombie movie to work the characters have to be interesting because you’re supposed to root for them. While I understood and Like Rick, the main character of the series, the rest of the characters I didn’t care about. As the show progressed we’re introduced to another broad stereotype of a wife beating, possibly daughter raping, racist redneck that thankfully doesn’t last too long before succumbing to a zombie attack. There were the tough Latino gang thugs that turned out to be really good people trying to protect a whole old folks home and if that isn’t a total cliche I don’t know what is.

The fact is we know nothing about the group of survivors we’re stuck watching for this series. The way Lost got around this was with flash backs, which I had half expected to see in this series. Flashbacks to before the zombie outbreak or even during the beginnings of it, would go a long way in helping us understand these people and care about them. One of the most interesting characters, a father and his son that Help Rick in the premiere episode, is never heard from again.

The shows did get better as they went on but again, the horror movie / zombie movie cliche’s piled up. Such as the girl that talks about her birthday at the beginning of an episode and like any good horror cliche she’s zombie food by the end. Its stuff like that that are keeping The Walking Dead from being a great horror series. Last week it was reported that Frank Darabont had fired most of the writing staff and that the show runner had left. I hope this means the Darabont, a good writer on his own, will be able to take a more active hand in the second season and give us a zombie series that rises above the cliche’s of horror and offers up some drama to keep us interested in this series. Since filming hasn’t even begun on a second season yet, it will be likely next Fall before we find out.

The Walking Dead is a new series that only got 6 episodes to get it right and I enjoyed most of it. It has its problems but I hope that with a full 13 episode second season these problems will get worked out and we’ll finally get the great zombie TV series we deserve!

It never fails that the artwork thieves crawl out from under their rock this time of year and steal my artwork. Today’s offender is www.scare-factory.com which is apparently owned by one Chris Moss. The homepage of the site scare-factory.com is using artwork from Haunt of the Living Dead not only on his webpage but also on his facebook page. He’s obviously taken this image from my downloads page and removed my logo and copyright notice from it. On top of that he’s taken a background image from frightfactory.tv and is using it as his back ground. You can see below the screen shot of scare-factory.com’s thievery and my artwork below it.

An update 10/27/2010
The company www.scare-factory.com has taken down the artwork taken from this site. Also I want to make it clear that this scare-factory.com is not THE ScareFactory that makes large scale animatronics and props and is one of my clients.