It’s just one of the best times of the year. Everyone loves a good scare in the comfort of their own homes.

I have a pumpkin design that looks great as a magnet, and badges and loads of stuff, it is the same pumpkin that was used in the short ident video above.

It was made in response to seeing the horror channel‘s ident’s and I wondered why they were taking themselves so seriously. This is carried across the scheduling too, there’s not much fun being had in terms of line-up. It’s almost criminal, I mean sure I get it: horror, but horror comes in many forms and pairs beautifully with other genres, in particular comedy when often the spectacular nature of ‘entertaining’ deaths is unintentionally laughable.

Plus just in terms of sheer diversity, there’s not much original programming going on, it’s all films or reruns of old (mostly) American t.v. shows. There’s so much the right person could do to maybe lift it’s profile a little, it does seem to have focused too tightly in on the branding, and it’s a shame.

Although they are currently running a competition to see this show in the theatre, and it’s got to be seen in the theatre, it’s awesome in that space, and set up much better for an audience than the film was. So I’d totally recommend it.