October marks the start of the spooky season – costume shops begin to pop up, haunted houses open their doors and festive decorations cover lawns across the country. Read more...
Photo: Sean Fontaine, a first-year undeclared humanities student, used to participate in Halloween festivities in Hong Kong because of the international nature of the city, which celebrates Halloween every year. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)
Stress and fear permeate UCLA’s campus every October as students prepare to take their first midterms of the year. Ironically, one form of escape among students Tuesday night was “Haunted Hill: Apocalypse,” a one-night haunted house put on by the On-Campus Housing Council in the Covel Grand Horizon Room. Read more...
Photo: Zombies, ghouls, cannibals and mad scientists roamed Covel Commons Tuesday night as part of “Haunted Hill: Apocalypse.” (Emily Perkins Rock/Daily Bruin senior staff)
No new Halloween movies premiered on Disney Channel this October – and that’s just fine. Cheesy Halloween flicks have been a staple for Disney Channel since the first Disney Channel Original Movie “Under Wraps” premiered in 1997. Read more...
Photo: The Disney Channel Original Movie series “Halloweentown” has remained a staple for Disney Channel’s October programming since the first film premiered in 1998. (Creative Commons by crashdummy.net via Vimeo)
Josh Shtein transforms into a butcher knife-wielding cannibal when he creeps on set for his job at Universal Studios Hollywood. The third-year sociology student works as a “scare actor” for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights, an event featuring special Halloween-themed mazes, shows and scare zones based on television and movie franchises such as American Horror Story and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Read more...
Photo: Third-year sociology student and Hooligan Theater Company member Josh Shtein landed a job as a “scare actor” at Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights after a month-long audition process. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Music fans can find it hard to decide which albums to stream and which to skip, considering the surplus of new music released. Each week, A&E columnist Sean Lee will compare two albums and recommend which one students should listen to. Read more...
Photo: Both Eminem and Tyler, The Creator use jarring lyricism and weave dialogue into their respective shock-rap albums “The Marshall Mathers LP” and “Goblin.” (Left: Aftermath Entertainment, Right: XL Recordings)
The “The Nightmare Before Christmas” soundtrack magically ties together Halloween tunes and Christmas carols. Seventeen thousand people filled the Hollywood Bowl to the brim Friday night for the live screening and orchestral performance of Tim Burton’s holiday cult classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” The soundtrack composer and songwriter of the film Danny Elfman contributed live vocals to the event. Read more...
Photo: (Harish Balasubramani/ Illustrations director)
The painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights” hung above Leonardo DiCaprio’s crib. In childhood, DiCaprio viewed the painting as an image of terror and wonder. As an adult, DiCaprio thinks the artwork represents today’s problems surrounding climate change, he said in “Before the Flood.” Viewers of the film “Before the Flood” see an in-depth look into the causes and effects of climate change through the eyes of DiCaprio, an actor and United Nations Messenger of Peace focused on climate change. Read more...
Photo: In the documentary “Before the Flood,” Leonardo DiCaprio explores the effects of human consumption on the environment around the world, including in Canada, Greenland, China, India and Indonesia. (National Geographic)
