FEARnet Holiday Gift Guide Part 1
This holiday season, don?t settle for the old standards when you go gift shopping. Suppress that urge to give khakis and try something different, something terrifying. Remember, just because October?s come and gone doesn?t mean you have to stop celebrating all things sinister and spooky. This season boasts more then just CDs of Christmas songs performed by pop-punk bands, more then peppermint striped ties (and shirts and pants and socks), more, even, then little reindeer who poop chocolate candy. We?ll help you sort through it all and find that perfect holiday gift for the person on your list who hates the perfect holiday gift! FEARnet?s here to help you counter all that holiday cheer with something a little darker. These are some of our favorite picks for this holiday season.
Music has the power to soothe, relax, and (some believe) even heal. But if you?re a horror fan you?re probably not looking for too much of that. Check out our reviews of some great new CDs that just hit shelves that would make a frightfully good gift for any horror fan. There?s Creature Feature, a new NIN remix CD and Apocolyptica just to name a few. Let these startling soundscapes surround that special someone on your list.
Do you have a friend or loved one who just seems to have everything horror related? This holiday season treat them to some of the newest in collectibles and terrifying toys. Sideshow collectibles has a great set of horror figures from New Line (including a sick battle scene between Freddy and Jason, and a not so sick figure of Pamela Voorhees), a creepily realistic looking Chucky doll, and even an Evil Mickey Mouse (yea, you heard right, evil?mickey mouse?go now!). Remember, you?re never too old to play with toys, so long as you call them ?collectibles?.
Is someone on your list a Rob Zombie fan? Well, this season you can really treat them with several gifts focused on the maestro of the morbid. Zombie just released a new live album, you can read all about it in our review and the album is available for purchase on Amazon. Also available from Amazon is Rob Zombie's Halloween, which is available in a special two disc unrated version. And finally, for that big surprise, Rob Zombie?s currently on tour all across the country, surprise someone you know with tickets to a show. Check his tour page out for dates and locations. If you're feeling lucky, enter our contest for a chance to win tickets to see Rob Zombie and Ozzy Osbourne on tour!
DVDs are a common holiday gift, but often, friends and family can mistaken someone?s love for the macabre for much scarier things like Hugh Grant films or something equally as torturous. This year, be sure to get the DVDs on every genre fan?s hotlist. The Complete Third Season of the BBC show Dr. Who is a definite must have or if you want to splurge on the perfect gift, pick up seasons one and two as well. And it just wouldn?t be the holidays if you didn?t give or receive a gift packaged in an awesome shiny suitcase-esque box filled with all the glory of the new Blade Runner Five-Disc Ultimate Collector?s Edition (also available in Blu-Ray)--something guaranteed to please any fan.
Stay tuned as we bring you more of the newest and greatest this holiday season, including horror films to die for, terrifying new books, and gore-filled graphic novels. Until then?happy shopping!
