Welcome back for Day 10 of Daily Dead’s fourth annual Holiday Gift Guide, readers! Once again, our goal is to help you navigate through the horrors of the 2016 shopping season with our tips on unique gift ideas, and we’ll hopefully help you save a few bucks over the next few weeks, too. For our tenth Gift Guide of the year, we’ll be showing off some spectacular artwork from Quiltface Studios, Shout Select’s recent Bill & Ted box set, horror apparel for the kids, zombie plants, Star Trek on vinyl, and a whole lot more!
This year’s Holiday Gift Guide is sponsored by several amazing companies, including Mondo, Anchor Bay Entertainment, DC Entertainment, and Magnolia Home Entertainment, who have all donated an assortment of goodies to help get you into the spirit of the season. Daily Dead also recently teamed up with Texas-based artist Dustin Pace of Duddy in Motion to create an awesome Stranger Things print (see below) that all of our giveaway winners will receive in our amazing prize packs that include movies, graphic novels, and much more. One lucky winner will also receive the limited edition box set of The Walking Dead Season 6!
For a chance to win one of our 2016 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.
Blu-rays & DVDs:
Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection (Shout Select, Blu-ray)
Wyld Stallyns couldn’t drag you away from this MOST EXCELLENT COLLECTION! From the past to the future, and to Hell and back… witness the triumphant travels of history’s most significant slackers Bill & Ted, in a bodacious, two-film Blu-ray set that’ll have you tuning up your air guitar for a stellar solo!
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure finds our non-heinous heroes (Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves) in danger of flunking History: a most odious proposition! But when the righteous Rufus (George Carlin) arrives in a time-traveling phone booth, the dense dudes discover their destiny… and call on the past’s biggest names for help!
In Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the titular time travelers aren’t making history: they are history! When an evil-doer from the future sends eviller robot twins of Bill & Ted to assassinate and replace good, non-robot Bill & Ted, the guys wind up face to face with the Grim Reaper (William Sadler)! Can the now-dead duo escape, defeat their evil doppelgangers, and win their Battle of the Bands contest?
Special Features Include NEW Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with Star Alex Winter and Producer Scott Kroopf, NEW Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with Writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, NEW Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with Star Alex Winter and Producer Scott Kroopf, NEW Audio Commentary for Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey with Writers Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, NEW Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! - A Brand-New Extensive Documentary Looking Back at a Most “Excellent Adventure," featuring Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and several other members of the cast and crew, NEW Bill & Ted Go To Hell – A Brand-New Extensive Documentary Revisiting a “Bogus Journey,” featuring Stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, and several other members of the cast and crew, The Most Triumphant Making-Of, The Original Bill & Ted: In Conversation with Chris & Ed, The Hysterical Personages of Bill & Ted, Score! An Interview with Guitarist Steve Vai, Air Guitar Tutorial With Bjorn Turoque & The Rockness Monster, Vintage EPK, The Linguistic Stylings of Bill and Ted, Theatrical Trailers, 2 Bill And Ted Stickers and Wyld Stallyns Guitar Pick.
Books:
The Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead (Reissue coming out on 12/13)
For the first time in twenty-five years, the cast and crew of all five films in the cult horror-comedy franchise reveal the stories behind the movies’ making in their own words, going into detail about life on the sets of some of the most fraught productions in cinema history, and the feuds, controversies, legal battles, and sackings that plagued the filmmakers.
Supported by dozens of cast and crew members including Dan O’Bannon, Linnea Quigley, Don Calfa, Brian Yuzna, Aimee Lynn Chadwick, William Butler, John Penny, Brian Peck, William Stout, William Munns, Ken Wiederhorn and many more, The Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead features hundreds of previously unreleased behind-the-scenes photographs and exclusive art work. This eye-catching, comprehensive and unique book is the ultimate celebration of The Return of the Living Dead franchise and all those who contributed to its creation.
Artwork:
If you’re on the lookout for some killer artwork, be sure to check out Quiltface Studios, as they have a great assortment of designs that celebrate cult and horror cinema. I pretty much dug their entire inventory, but their Night of the Creeps, Halloween II, and Silent Night, Deadly Night prints really caught my eye. Quiltface also creates enamel pins, so be sure to check out their entire online store.
Vinyl Pick of the Day:
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the legendary Star Trek franchise, La-La Land Records proudly announces the STAR TREK 50th ANNIVERSARY STARFLEET INSIGNIA-SHAPED DIE-CUT 12’’ VINYL SINGLE, featuring Star Trek: The Original Series Season One and Season Three Main Title themes on 180 gram, gold-colored vinyl, die-cut in a shape inspired by the iconic Starfleet Insignia.
In 1966, the Season One Main Title from Star Trek: The Original Series beamed throughout the heavens for the very first time, heralding the launch of the Starship Enterprise and a television program that would weave its way into the human experience forever. That defining moment is captured and celebrated on this very special, collectible release.
Die-cut from a 12’’ vinyl disc, this Starfleet Insignia-shaped single features The Main Title (Season Three – Soprano Version, long ending, stereo) on Side A (1:01), and The Main Title (Season One – Cello Version, short ending, mono) on Side B (0:51). The golden-hued single stands 10 3/8’’ tall and 6 ¼’’ wide, and is housed in an attractive jacket showcasing the iconic Starship Enterprise in fight, within the vast wonders of space.
Apparel:
Today’s clothing selections come from the fiends over at Video Nasties, who have been popping up a lot lately in my Twitter feed (which is how I discovered them a few months ago). For those of you looking for a festive gift, this Black Christmas holiday shirt should work great, or for those of you wanting something more straightforward in the horror department, check out this Doctor Loomis shirt or their excellent Freddy’s Revenge shirt (which you don’t see getting too many tributes via apparel). The design that really won me over, though, was VN’s simple Tenebrae shirt, and they have many more horror-ific designs, too.
Enamel Pins:
We’ve already showcased the artwork of 100% Soft earlier in this year’s Gift Guide, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t also share their adorable pins as well. If you’re a Mad Max lover, you may want to add their Fury Road Warboy pin to your collections, or maybe this tribute to Jack Burton or this Walking Dead 2-Piece pin set will tickle your fancy.
Collectibles:
The Zombie Plant Kit contains 6 soil pellets packed in a black coffin-like container, which perfectly suits the “zombie theme”. Also included are zombie plant seeds (Mimosa pudica), making it a complete DIY gardening pack.
The Zombie Plant grow indoors and it does not need much maintenance after watering.
Decorating is a scream with Chia Pet Zombies in your Haunted House. The perfect novelty gift for any season! Easy to grow Zombie plant.
Kids' Korner:
If you’re looking for some attire for the tiny terrors in your life, you’ll definitely want to visit Punk Baby Clothes (My Baby Rocks) which specializes in eclectic baby and toddler apparel. They feature an assortment of great clothing options, but their Halloween section is a treasure trove for anyone looking to give their kiddos some awesome horror-centric garb this holiday season.
Etsy Spotlight:
We’ve focused on a lot of women’s jewelry in our various Etsy Spotlights over the course of the 2016 Holiday Gift Guide, so for today we’re going to show a little love to those of the male persuasion (although women could probably wear these confidently, too). The creators behind Alex Fox Jewelry Studio make some killer pieces, including these Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers pendants or this striking Creature from the Black Lagoon ring.
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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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