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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Ben Cooper Halloween Costumes and Slashback Video Exhibits at Mystic Museum

Ben Cooper Halloween costumes display at The Mystic Museum

Bearded Lady's Mystic Museum is a must-see haunt located in Burbank, California that regularly hosts themed art shows and exhibits as well as selling a variety of spooky goodies! They also own Bearded Lady Vintage, which just moved in to the adjoining space (they used to be a few blocks down from The Mystic Museum). I love how they are both conveniently located next to each other now!

The exhibits currently on display the months of September and October are a Ben Cooper exhibit, dedicated to the retro costumes of past years as well as artists' representations of the famous Ben Cooper masks, and then there is Slashback Video, paying homage to horror sections of VHS rental stores of the past. Besides rows and rows of VHS horror, Slashback Video also featured artists' renditions of horror movie cover art, done on VHS boxes!

John Carpenter's Music Video for "Night"

Unless you've been living in a far off land or under a rock, you probably know that John Carpenter released a glorious debut solo album called Lost Themes back in February. Yes, that John Carpenter, the legendary director and composer behind Halloween, Escape From New York, They Live, Assault on Precinct 13, and many more!

I love the whole album, which is very evocative of the '80s and many of Carpenter's own films and film scores. Whenever I listen to Lost Themes, I feel like it's a soundtrack that's been created specifically for me and that I'm in the middle of my very own film. It's that powerful and atmospheric!

And if that weren't enough, just yesterday Carpenter released the official music video for one of his tracks, "Night". It's one of my favorite new songs off the new album, and seeing the video was such a treat I wanted to share it with you all! Check it out:

31 Days of Halloween: Vintage Halloween Magazine Covers

There is just something about vintage Halloween magazine covers that puts a big ol' smile on my face. I mean, even modern magazines with Halloween covers make me happy, but the artwork and photographs on older magazine covers have that certain something that can have me gazing at them for hours!

31 Days of Halloween: Retro Halloween Costumes from the '70s and '80s

A while back, I finally got my hands on Ossian Brown's stunning book Haunted Air (review), which is just packed with vintage Halloween costume photos. There is something both disturbing and nostalgic about these old images of witches, hobos, ghosts, vampires and monsters.

While unsettling, I could stare at photos like this every day! So I scoured the world wide web for some of the coolest and creepiest vintage photos, and decided that since Brown's book doesn't show photos from the '70s or '80s, I decided to post some here!