News and Reviews

• Holy Toledo, A Dexter Video Game!

  submitted at Jun 24, 2009 at 4:35 PM by Tim Haskell

  

  Not much of a gamer myself for I have a wife and kid, neither of whom would ever let me spend more than 20 minutes doing anything for myself, but I am an enormous Dexter fan (both the books and the tv show). So, when i saw this posted on 1up.com I lifted it immediately! This makes me think I have to buy some sort of gaming system (ssh, I actually own a PSP so that I can play games secretly in a cave. But, alas, I doubt they’ll have the Dexter game). Check out the preview video:(read more)

• First Ever Haunternet Girl's DVD Now Available

  submitted at Jun 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM by Tim Haskell

  You can now buy the extended videos on DVD that features our first 5 Haunternet Girls behind the scenes from their photoshoots (more skin is to be had) in the Nightmare Store. It’s only $12, too. Buy it fool, it’s scary hot.(read more)

• Pot-Smoking Mailman Burns the Mail

  submitted at Jun 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM by Marissa C.

  A postal worker too lazy to deliver mail after smoking too much weed has been charged with multiple counts of “claiming payment for undelivered mail” in Britain.

  

  The postal worker, who was found with $13,000 worth of marijuana plants in his home, set fire to over 10,000 pieces of junk mail that he decided no one would want anyway (he …(read more)

• Carrot "Bombs" Scare Sweden

  submitted at Jun 17, 2009 at 12:45 PM by Marissa C.

  An art exhibit featuring fake “bombs” made out of 15 bunches of carrots in black tape with blue and red wires and a ticking clock fooled residence into thinking that the town was under siege by terrorists.

  

  But in reality, the “bombs,” which were placed in various locations around the city, were harmless: they were made of edible veggies. Conny Blom’s exhibit, “The Bunny Project – Bombs,” done at the request of the local Orebro Art Gallery, aimed to create an illusion of danger from organic material.

  Police officers, called to the local library by a …(read more)

• Tattoo MIshap Gives Girl a New Face Scarred With Stars

  submitted at Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10 PM by Marissa C.

  An 18-year-old Belgian girl in Courtrai has filed suit with a local tattoo artist for the “graffiti that has ruined her life.” According to her version of the story, she asked for three small stars to be tattooed beneath her left eye, but instead, she left the tattoo parlor with 56 tattoos covering the entire left side of her face.

  

  “It is terrible for me,” Kimberly said. “I cannot go out on to the street, I am so embarrassed. I just look horrible. I think he didn’t understand what I wanted. He spoke only fractured English and French,” she told MailOnline. She …(read more)

• Correction: Vampire Museum Is Not The First

  submitted at Jun 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM by Tim Haskell

  Okay, oops. I was recently informed that our story on May 21st about the first vampire museum in the country was wrong. Here is a note that I received:

  “You know, of course, that Dr. Jeanne Youngson, president & founder of THE VAMPIRE EMPIRE created and curated a Dracula Museum at No.1 5th Avenue from 1990 through 2001. The museum contained the largest collection of Dracula and vampire-related material in the world. Nearly ten thousand people visited the museum through the years. The collection was purchased near the beginning of this century by a theatre complex in Vienna, Austria, to be shown in tandem with Roman Polanski’ …(read more)