Monster Madness - The Creeping Terrors First and only appearance: "The Creeping Terror" (1964) Appearance: Imagine a giant slug made with sewn-together bed sheets, carpet samples and joke-shop knick-knacks. Origin: Vague. Apparently it traveled from a...

Herminia Irizarry "2001 Maniacs" What do you get when you mix a blood-thirsty Confederate ghost town out for revenge with a group of Yankee college kids en route to spring break? A really bad excuse for a horror movie. "2001 Maniacs" is director Tim Sullivan's...

"No snitching." This was the theme for the third episode of the second season of "The Boondocks." The show started off with the simple story of Robert "Granddad" Freeman moving his two grandsons Huey and Riley Freeman from the South Side of Chicago to...

Members of the jazz group Panoramic will reunite this Sunday in DeKalb. The group only reunites for a handful of concerts a year, so any time they perform in DeKalb is a cause for celebration. The NIU community has an opportunity to join the party in...

"Zombie Raid" - The Arrivals Now that it's the weekend before Halloween, prepare for a "Zombie Raid." If you're at all able to find the elusive track by Chicago punk rockers The Arrivals, then prepare for the living dead. "Zombie Raid" isn't one of those...

I hate Halloween movies. Love the holiday, love the costumes, love the candy, but the movies annoy me. The genre is so reminiscent of ninth grade, where all the guys tried to out-gross each other by seeing who could go the longest without showering or...

The traditional sitcom - the staple of American television - is dead. A decade ago, there were 13 sitcoms in the Nielsen Top 30 television ratings. Now, there is one: "Two And A Half Men." The days of laugh-tracks, unforgettable theme songs and the polite...

Rating: 9 / 10 Say Anything is back with a new album, "In Defense of the Genre," a two-disc record about drugs, girls and everything in between. Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band, must be one messed-up guy, because he made a really good CD....

The Misfits are only a half-decent band with a handful of bearable songs. Today's track is a cover of one of their best, "Halloween." Davey Havok, before becoming the fifth member of "Sex and the City," used to be a shaved-head guy whose haunting voice...

Full Name: Frederick Charles Krueger Working Name: Freddy Krueger First Appearance: Wes Craven's "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984) Sequels: 7 Wardrobe: Rugged jeans, black-and-green striped sweater, brown fedora, bladed leather glove. Scars and Marks:...

Anyone who has seen a horror film in the last decade can identify the increase in graphic violence. The horror movie genre is brushing away the scares and putting blood and guts in their place. Gore has replaced terror as the dominant force of entertainment...

Track of the Day: Eminem - "Kim" There exists a song in the universe of hip-hop that no one can dance to. A rational person will never be witnessed blasting this from their dorm room or their car. It is a song that, in hip-hop, occupies a level of insanity...