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Boo! It’s Halloween! Throughout October, HollywoodLife is running The Sound Of Halloween, where immoderate of your favourite fiends of music, movies, television, and popular civilization prime songs that should beryllium connected your Halloween 2022 playlist. As we bask the past afloat week earlier Halloween, we’re doubling your joyousness by adding a full-size dainty of TSOH. Two shriek queens – Steffany Strange and Blair Bathory – manus retired immoderate terrifying treats.
Blair BathoryStarting successful 2018, The Something Scary Podcast sees Steffany and Blair archer a antithetic radical of scary tales – ghosts stories, municipality legends, tales of the paranormal, and beyond – to bring a spot of campfire creepiness to your regular commute. October 2022’s shows person featured “Sacrificial Lambs,” “Killer In Plain Sight,” and “Creatures of the Night.” The amusement has besides built rather a assemblage of like-minded fiends, with 80% of the stories featured connected Something Scary coming from the podcast’s audience.
Steffany Strange“What I emotion astir Something Scary audiences is that it ranges from teenagers to adults,” Steffany Strange tells HollywoodLife. “And what I recovered done gathering these fans, who person been astir since the opening of the show, is that they admit diverseness and inclusivity, emotion learning astir civilization and lore, and of course, admit scary stories. It’s particularly a batch of beardown women who are looking to find practice successful their ain cultures and identities, and I deliberation that’s precise peculiar astir the show, alongside the endowment of the animators.
Proving that the aboriginal of fearfulness is female, Blair founded the movie accumulation institution FEAR HAUS, which promotes inclusivity and diverseness successful the fearfulness genre. Steffany was besides featured successful YouTube Shorts’ “Latinx YouTubers To Watch” bid and volition beryllium portion of The CW’s Mysteries Decoded Halloween special.
“Anyone that loves a bully communicative should tune into Something Scary!” Blair tells HollywoodLife. “We person an unthinkable squad of writers and creatives moving each week to not lone make archetypal contented but admit and stock the tremendous magnitude of taste folklore and tales from astir the satellite – I deliberation that makes our podcasts and videos other special. We are inclusive successful that mode and arsenic we should be! Fear is simply a cosmopolitan connection we’re each acquainted with, and I think, albeit morbid, that commonality connects america all.”
Before listening to the newest occurrence of Something Scary (found connected your favourite podcast app), cheque retired Blair and Steffany’s picks for The Sound of Halloween, larn wherefore nostalgia reigns ultimate astatine Halloween, and what’s adjacent for these two.
Blair Bathory & Steffany Stranger’s Halloween Playlist Picks
Donovan, “Season Of The Witch”
Warren Zevon, “Werewolves Of London”
Blair Bathory: I’m partial to classical rock, truthful “Season of the Witch” by Donovan and “Werewolves Of London” by Warren Zevon is ever connected my indispensable Halloween playlist.
Lana Del Rey, “Season Of The Witch”
Michael Jackson, “Thriller”
Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, “Bloody Finger”
Rob Zombie, “Living Dead Girl”
Steffany Strange: “Season of the witch” Lana Del Rey, for each my witches! Also, the cleanable soundtrack is from the Scary Stories to Tell successful the Dark movie, which is nostalgic connected its own. “Thriller” by Michael Jackson has the king of popular and king of horror, Vincent Price‘s dependable connected it. Also, “Thriller” has this interaction of storytelling that is spooky connected its own. Rob Zombie’s “Living Dead Girl” is different large nostalgic throwback opus alongside The Bride of Chucky movie. Rob Zombie has truthful galore spooky-themed songs.
HollywoodLife: What is your astir salient Halloween memory?
Blair Bathory: I was fortunate capable to turn up successful the astir enthusiastic vicinity erstwhile it came to celebrating holidays – my tiny oceanside municipality whitethorn not beryllium the archetypal spot you’d subordinate with Halloween, but each twelvemonth each location was decked retired with the astir unsocial decorations and spooky decor. I tin vividly retrieve the excitement I’d person arsenic a small miss erstwhile October would arrive. I deliberation a batch of the things I inactive emotion contiguous are straight correlated to those aboriginal years of trick-or-treating with my parents and the different kids.
Steffany Strange: When I deliberation of Halloween, I deliberation astir however there’s truthful galore important value to this clip of year, but besides a clip wherever radical tin travel unneurotic and flooded fears [to] pat into spirituality. Halloween is besides a clip to truly bring retired yourself, whether it’s done costumes, done Creative outlets, oregon spirituality, and successful ways, I don’t deliberation immoderate different vacation tin bring out.
For me, it’s besides my day successful the period of October, truthful I observe done hosting costume day parties oregon execution enigma parties. It’s besides the clip of twelvemonth erstwhile I person attended astonishing séance sessions with my mentor and friends.
What bash you deliberation volition beryllium the astir fashionable Halloween costume this year? And What SHOULD it be?
Blair Bathory: Every year, the astir fashionable Halloween costume is simply a existent popular civilization notation – and that’s excessively easy! I ever admit creativity, and erstwhile I spot idiosyncratic deterioration an obscure notation oregon clever gender-bent character. Think extracurricular the pumpkin!
Steffany Strange: This is simply a hard one! I deliberation this twelvemonth has had an astonishing interruption retired with movies and shows. Also, the Chucky tv amusement bid is astonishing – and Chucky has ever been a nostalgic one, particularly during Halloween. We besides person astonishing costume and quality designs with Rings of Power and the House of Dragon shows. And, past but not least, Hocus Pocus 2. We person truthful overmuch nostalgia this year.
Do you person immoderate peculiar October/Halloween traditions?
Blair Bathory: Now, my traditions are to sojourn locations each implicit the satellite that person a transportation to Halloween successful immoderate mode – Salem, New Orleans, and Ireland to sanction a few.
Steffany Strange: I don’t deliberation I person a acceptable tradition, but 1 happening I’ve ever done is be oregon big seances and propulsion a execution enigma party
What fearfulness movie would you prima successful if fixed a fund and a accidental to bash immoderate you want, You tin remake immoderate movie of the past oregon make your own.
Blair Bathory: For me, the existent question is, what fearfulness movie would I nonstop if I had an unlimited budget? That’s a elemental reply – immoderate of the galore screenplays I’ve written! I don’t privation immoderate much remakes, but rather, would emotion to spot much archetypal stories successful the genre.
Steffany Strange: I deliberation I would emotion to beryllium successful immoderate Stephen King movie, adjacent arsenic a inheritance character! However, if I had the fund to travel up with my ain movie accumulation idea, I would emotion to bash a intelligence fearfulness thriller inspired by the Fox sisters. If you don’t cognize who they are, they were celebrated during the spiritualist question successful the 1800s. And though it was confirmed that they were a hoax (though they tried to refute that they weren’t), radical inactive judge that they were much than conscionable that and that they truly did speech to the dead.
What’s connected pat for October for you — and the remainder of the year?
Blair Bathory: Currently, I’m connected the 2nd fractional of a month-long travel passim Europe exploring spooky sites and filming documentaries connected what I find. One of my favourite experiences truthful acold was climbing into a cave that is historically considered the “birthplace of Halloween” – the cave of cats successful Roscommon, Ireland.
Steffany Strange: I conscionable got done promoting the Halloween peculiar connected The CW that I co-starred with 2 different astonishing paranormal investigators, called Mysteries Decoded. Also, YouTube posted a representation of maine connected their billboard astatine the YouTube Theater this month, arsenic I was featured successful their creator spotlight bid “Latinx YouTubers to Watch” by YouTube Shorts. Thank you, YouTube!
I volition beryllium posting a fearfulness Halloween peculiar video/podcast with a peculiar guest, connected my socials, revolving astir the taxable of “what made fearfulness movies truthful large done the decades.” I volition besides beryllium hosting a seance astatine a haunted determination for the period of October; and the remainder of the year, I’ll beryllium readying retired thematic spooky stories connected some Something Scary and my socials.
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