Author: Head Candy Corn

It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you W.T.F. Gothtober’s, a restaurant with creepy crawly cuisine at your bloody fingertips for the Fall Season. Ratty the Rat is patiently waiting for you to make a selection from our tasty menu.

Today’s first course comes from The Here & Now, dynamic duo Lisa Marr and Paulo Davanzo from The Echo Park Film Center. The piece is called “Bride Will Survive” and if you like monster feminist sing-alongs like I do, you’re going to have a rollicking time around the ol’ monitor tonight!

You can learn about media arts at the Echo Park Film Center, watch films, rent equipment, telecine your old movies, check out the book and film lending library or just pop in and say hello at the spot on Alvarado Street.

But if you also might run into the EPFC on the road! Their cinema and film school on wheels may be visiting your neighborhood soon! It’s the Echo Park Film Mobile! 

This will be the 10th anniversary of Gothtober, mark my words. This year’s Gothtober theme is “Chain Restaurant.” It doesn’t matter if it’s sit-down or drive-thru, the more Cheesecake Factory-Olive Garden-T.G.I. IHOP-IN-N-OUT-Pizza Hut-Taco Bell-Red Robin ridiculousness you can channel, the better.

The Gothtober Franchise is being built and packed with combo orders with supersize horrors for 31 days of unpalatable thrills.

More info as the year unfolds, but I couldn’t keep it to myself any longer, I wanted to get your wheels turnin.

-Head Candycorn

It’s the perfect ending to another fantastic Gothtober. Team Little Green Dog has given us that friendly, warm graveyard feeling with some good ol’ fashioned fall fun. There’s no need to fear the Pooper (or the reaper) as you hang out with kitty Brudders, Sgt. Marshmallow and Toullie, and their human sister, jamming with the band in the late night hours.

As they rock out to a familiar tune, make sure you listen to the lyrics, which aren’t that familiar! Nothing brings that fall feeling like stringed instruments. This song’s got it all: ukelele, guitar, harmonica and COWBELL.

All you have to do is visit the dial that says “31” on Gothtober’s Boom Box.

And if you want to know more about Little Green Dog, why not visit Little Green Blog?

Check out today’s extra colorful and amazing piece by Barry Morse! Woo! Day 30!

We’ve got stop motion, we’ve got live motion, we’ve got miniatures and pyrotechnics and classically trained animal movie stars! Coral Lobera’s mini film “The Fifth Rider of the Apocalypse” is chalk full of enough intriguing visuals to make you have weird dreams for months. It is so very tempting describe in full the surprises this film has to offer, but Gothtober doesn’t like spoilers, so mum’s the word, you’ll just have to go check it out.

Something we can definitely reveal is that this piece is accompanied by THREE types of metal music: Heavy Metal, Death Metal, and Instrumental Metal. It’s like having your very own college metal primer, worth 2 Gothtober University units!

And if you want your very own Ghost Pirates from Playmobile, they are available online, and big gross chain toy stores… and they glow in the dark. SO COOL.

This especially harrowing and monster-laden adventure in the park was put together by Mother and Son team Michele East and her son, Caleb. Keep an eye on Aunt Connie, she’s played by none other than Barry Morse, Gothtober artist DAY 30, coming right up in just three days!

In the meantime, enjoy DAY 27, and don’t let the vampires bite!

Alyssa Sherwood with daughter Lily have teamed up to make this wild and crazy music video that will most certainly leave you possessed! Keep an eye out for blue and green snakes, shoes in the dirt and pears and horse hairs in this quick-moving animated piece involving TONS of hand-manipulated photos and home made sketches. If you want to see more of Alyssa’s super cool animation and other works, visit Movingarden.com

And if you want to see day 26, look no further than this very spot.