Happy Wednesday everyone, and welcome back to the seventh installment of Daily Dead’s annual Holiday Gift Guide, where we put the spotlight on gift ideas for genre fans of all ages and tastes. For today, we’ve got several wacky books that might be of interest to any of you that still feel like a kid at heart and we also profile Ted Geoghegan’s directorial debut, We Are Still Here, the perfect thriller for this wintry season.
Also featured in today’s Holiday Gift Guide is the awesome apparel from Beware the Moon clothing, the killer soundtracks offered from Waxwork Records, and much more.
This year’s Holiday Gift Guide is being sponsored by RLJ Entertainment and their recent terrifying yuletide release, A Christmas Horror Story, and to help you guys get into the spirit of the season, we’ve put together 10 amazing prize packs filled with goodies, a T-shirt and your very own copy of A Christmas Horror Story to get you ready for the holiday season.
For a chance to win one of our 2015 Holiday Gift Guide prize packs, send an email to contest@dailydead.com with “Holiday Gift Guide” in the subject line and be sure to include your full name and mailing address as well.
Books:
Great Horror Movie Villains Paper Dolls: Psychos, Slashers, and Their Unlucky Victims
Cinema's greatest villains take center stage in this paper doll collection of homicidal lunatics and their intended targets. Featured roles range from masked slasher-movie assassins to Jack Nicholson's deranged caretaker in The Shining and Kathy Bates as Misery's psychotic fan, plus Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Leatherface of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jason of Friday the 13th, and others. Contains mature content.
Cthulhu's Coloring Book and Necronomicon of Sunny Day Doings
At long last, the stars are aligned and a tome of activities has arisen! Word games, mazes, puzzles and dot-to-dots punctuate dozens of coloring pages featuring horrors out of time that await your crayons! Keep the book complete for your monster reference, or cut it up to make dioramas and mobiles or puppets you can use to act out a play and keep your co-workers away. Hours of madness and mind games are found within these pages! All horror but no blood for younger cultists, unless of course they go wild with a red crayon... Human free, only pages of creatures from the depths of R’lyeh wait for you to open the portal to Cthulhu’s Coloring Book and Necronomicon of Sunny Day Doings... if you dare.
Children around the world have vomited for joy reading the rhymes of Dr. Vireuss. Three of his "sickest" stories have finally been collected into one germ-ridden volume. There's the tale of a man who would not - could not! - let a doctor save his life, a sick boy who puts healthy people into quarantine, and a little flesh-eating virus who goes on a big adventure. This hardcover volume of Dr. Seuss spoofs is highly infectious.
Horror Skulls: Coloring Book for Adults
Pretty much what you think it is- a horror coloring book for adults.
Movies:
We Are Still Here (Dark Sky Films, Blu-ray)
After their teenage son is killed in a car crash, Paul and Anne move to the New England countryside to try to start a new life. But the grieving couple unknowingly becomes the prey of a family of vengeful spirits that reside in their new home, and before long they discover that the seemingly peaceful town is hiding a terrifyingly dark secret. Now they must find a way to overcome their sorrow and fight back against both the living and dead as the malicious ghosts threaten to pull their souls and the soul of their lost son into hell with them. From the producers of The House Of The Devil and Cheap Thrills, WE ARE STILL HERE is a tense, frightening, and thoroughly haunting ghost story.
Apparel:
From the site: Beware the Moon Clothing was founded in 2010. We were bored of the T-Shirts and Hoodies other sites were offering and saw that there was a need for a new provider of designs for fans of cult followings (nerds!) - so Beware the Moon was born!
Being huge fans of both popular and sub cultures, we offer designs that are different from the mainstream sites out there for fans of cult movies, TV shows, music, horror, wrestling and much more.
We are dedicated to offering quality designs for true fans printed on T-Shirts and Hoodies that are made to last. In order to keep our customers coming back again and again we ensure the products we use are of the very best quality and printed to the highest standard.
Especially for the Scream Queens:
Another Etsy shop, The Forbidden Market creates charming gifts with a bit of a gothic twist and I love how unusual their jewelry is. You can even create a Customizable Book Charm Necklace that pays tribute to your favorite literature or check out these other great necklaces featuring The Craft and Zero from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Music & Art:
Waxwork Records specializes in releasing horror, cult and sci-fi cinema scores and have been kicking ass at it for years now. They’re currently selling amazing titles like Nightbreed, Re-Animator and Trick ’r Treat. Definitely worth checking out if you or someone you’re shopping for this holiday season are big fans of horror and cult scores.
Games & Collectibles:
From the site: Retrobrand creator and owner, Aaron Moreno, is an artist who has quickly achieved success in the field of designer toys. At the Retroband Headquarters based out of San Antonio, Texas, he meticulously hand crafts each intricate figure by sculpting, molding, casting, painting, assembling, and packaging each item individually. In 2014, Aaron was pleased to receive “Break-Thru Artist of the Year” recognition from the Designer Toy Awards. “Making toys I wish I had when I was growing up,” is the motto behind everything that comes from the artist/designer, and this focus on nostalgia shows in all of his work. With past commissions from Adult Swim, George Romero, and Clive Barker, the Retroband client base is quickly growing beyond horror movie fanatics.
For the Little Ghouls:
Ghosts Ghosts Ghosts! Johnny the Skull has a problem: he sees ghosts wherever he turns! In this arcade-like action shooting game, it's your job to help Johnny eliminate all those pesky ghosts! Get Ready! Activate and synchronize Johnny with the Ghost Gun and now you're ready for action!
The Visions! As Johnny turns his head in all directions, ghosts are projected from his eye that fly all around - they even make spooky sounds! Shoot Them Down! Each gun will count the number of ghosts shot. The player that eliminates the most spooky ghosts wins!
Etsy Spotlight:
Specializing in pop culture-inspired ornaments, pins, jewelry and more, Mayo Bass has a ton of cool items that would make for great stocking stuffers or gifts this holiday season. There’s a nifty ornament featuring the characters from The Addams Family cartoon that I thought was fun. Whovians may dig this Doctor Who TARDIS Ornament or for those of you who grew up on the Beetlejuice cartoon, Mayo Bass has you covered too.
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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