'Ghost Adventures' Celebrates 100 Episodes

Tonight, the "Ghost Adventures" crew celebrated 100 episodes of lock downs and ghostly confrontations and interactions. Whether you believe in the evidence that Zak, Nick and Aaron (and Billy and Jay, of course) have collected over the last five years, there is no denying the impact the guys have had on the entertainment realm.

To celebrate this, I reached out to a few celebrities and a lot of friends of the paranormal reality show to extend their well wishes and congrats to the guys. From Eli Roth, Loretta Lynn and Kane Hodder to Dave Schrader, Jeff Belanger, Chip Coffey and yours truly, head over to the Travel Channel website to read the nice things we all had to say about 100 episodes of "Ghost Adventures."

-Aaron Sagers

Interview: Adam Green On 'Holliston' Season Two Premiere

BY AARON SAGERS
(Originally reported at MTV Geek)

It feels like a classic opening setup for most sitcoms: Buddies Adam and Joe bicker as they rush to prepare the big anniversary dinner double-date before the girls arrive. The laugh track responds in kind to the buffoonery. That’s when the blood starts to spill. Fingers are cut to the bone, faces are melted off, a corkscrew screws a Corri -- then there’s a bad banana cream pie incident. And still the laugh track responds, growing in a maniacal intensity.

Such is the set up for Holliston, FEARnet’s comedy that is something of a Big Bang Theory for horror nerds.

Created and starring director Adam Green (Frozen, Hatchet, Hatchet II, Chillerama), the show plays with situational comedy conventions but turns them on a decapitated head by introducing gore and scary movie tropes, such as in the scene described above. Holliston, which has its second season premiere tonight at 10 p.m., also stars director Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2, the much-anticipated Knights of Badassdom), as well as Corri English and Laura Ortiz. Oh yeah, and then there’s Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider as Adam and Joe’s boss and GWAR’s Oderus Urungus who is Adam’s imaginary friend, Oderus.

The show revolves primarily around Adam and Joe’s attempt to get their zombie soccer movie Shinpads made whilst working as horror-show hosts as a low-rent local cable company, and during their adventures, a rogues gallery of scary movie icons appear as skewed versions of themselves. For instance, in the Season Two premiere, the imposing Kane Hodder (the Hatchet series and Friday the 13th parts 7-10) appears as a sensitive and precious actor who attempts suicide when he hears he’s been replaced as Jason Voorhees.

Granted, a segment of the population may not know who Hodder is or, for that matter, other guest stars such as Danielle Harris, Tony Todd and Derek Mears. Hopefully they at least know who John Landis is, but that’s not what Holliston is going for. Loaded with horror movie quotations and background Easter Eggs from the genre, there is a sense that if you get it, you’re one of “us,” but if not, well … you really won’t get it.

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FEARnet announces Halloween line up

Sam, courtesy FEARnet

The month horror fans wait for all year is finally here! October tends to be filled with spooktacular programming on other channels, but at FEARnet, they deliver the goods 12 months straight. So, when October arrives, they really need to ramp up their game.

According to a recent press release, "This is the only time of year that other networks concentrate on the horror realm, while we do this all year long," said Sarah Shannon, FEARnet’s director of programming. "So, we put together a schedule that stands out—a monthlong bender of some of the best programming we’ve ever had and some of the best features we’ve ever aired. From the world premieres of Quarantine 2 and Dolan’s Cadillac, to acquired classic TV shows like Tales from the Crypt and The Real Ghostbusters, there will always be something for fans to watch. Not just all month long, but all year long."

Celebrate Friday the 13th

This is what happens when
Friday the 13th lands right after Easter

While it is a day of bad luck and superstition for much of the world, here at Paranormal Pop Culture, Friday the 13th is a holiday.

To celebrate Friday the 13th, Part Two of 2012 (remember there are three this year: Jan. 13, today and July 13 - all exactly 13 weeks apart), we encourage you to read up on Amanda Poole's history of the cursed day as well as revisitng our interview with the king of Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees himself, Kane Hodder. 

Speaking of Voorhees, no Friday the 13th is complete without a visit to its capital, Voorhees Township, NJ. Check out our video below where we visited Voorhees, and asked residents about their take on unlucky number 13 - and what it's like to live in a town that shares its name with a famous movie killer.

Kane Hodder: 'Friday the 13th's Jason on acting, ghost hunting

BY AARON SAGERS

Despite being 6-foot-3, and having been in show business for three decades, most casual audiences wouldn’t recognize Kane Hodder, but they know his work. The stuntman and actor has appeared in more than 100 films and TV shows, and has left a mark on popular culture – and more often than not, it has been a big, bloody mark.

Although he has worked on blockbuster thrillers (Se7en), super hero flicks (Daredevil) and Oscar-winning films (Monster), Hodder’s most enduring legacy is his time behind a hockey mask hacking through fornicating teens.

He portrayed killer Jason Voorhees in the classic slasher flicks Friday the 13th, parts seven, eight, nine and 10, and is the only actor to play the undead, deformed maniac more than once. More recently, the actor’s role in the Hatchet films - as Victor Crowley, another undead, deformed maniac– has allowed Hodder to originate his own character in a cult franchise, the third entry of which was just greenlit in March. The result is a spot in the pantheon of actors who repeatedly left their mark on horror, alongside Robert Englund, Anthony Hopkins and Anthony Perkins.

But what’s a guy to do after making a killing in Hollywood? Hunt for ghosts, naturally.

While filming the 2006 supernatural horror film Fallen Angels at the reportedly haunted Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Hodder and fellow stuntmen Rick McCallum (Hatchet, The Devil’s Rejects) and R.A. Milhailoff (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, Hatchet II) – all of whom who potrayed demons in the movie - decided to form the Hollywood Ghost Hunters paranormal investigative group. The team appeared on a January 2011 episode of Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures and also organize events where fans and amateur investigators can join the hunt. Like other ghostbusters, Hodder’s crew ain’t afraid of no ghosts, but as “horror film professionals stalking the supernatural,” the ghosts may just be afraid of them.

On June 10-11, 2011, Hodder will get a chance to spook the spooks at Rolling Hills Asylum (www.rollinghillsasylum.com) in East Bethany, N.Y., where he’ll be leading ticketed investigators through the famous haunted site, which has been featured on numerous paranormal programs.

A big, grizzled dude with intense eyes who looks too comfortable wielding a machete or with his hands around someone’s neck, Hodder is actually a likable man who’s just hacking and strangling for a scene or fan photo, and joined us to talk about his upcoming investigation and his work in the entertainment industry.