So … the wife and I found ourselves down at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles this weekend to partake in their annual Spider Pavilion event. The show, which presents a variety of exotic spiders brought in from around the world, runs from now until Nov. 6.
The deadly species are kept encased in a viewing area, while the harmless—but still very creepy—arachnids are housed in a walk-thru landscaped area, where they spin their webs freely, feed on bugs, and occasionally drop down to scare the curds and whey out of visitors.
Over the Halloween weekend, the Spider Pavilion was held at night. Aided by small complimentary flashlights and buckets of alcohol (consumed prior to the event), Mrs. Muertos and I braved the experience and even took a few photos for your viewing pleasure.
An intriguingly spooky trailer for the Ti West-directed supernatural thrillerThe Innkeepers has hit the web. Shark Night’sSara Paxton stars in the film as one of the last clerks working at the haunted Yankee Pedlar Inn before its scheduled demolition.
Peep it:
The official synopsis reads:
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire and Luke – are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels.
As the Inn’s final days draw near, odd guests check in as the pair of minimum wage “ghost hunters” begin to experience strange and alarming events that may ultimately cause them to be mere footnotes in the hotel’s long unexplained history.
The Inn Keepers costars Pat Healy (Rescue Dawn), George Riddle (”The Onion News Network”), and Kelly McGillis (Top Gun). It was shot in Connecticut at the actual Yankee Pedlar Inn, a hotel long believed to be truly haunted. The film arrives on VOD Dec. 30 and will play theaters on Feb. 3.
Paxton, who got her start in a string of family-friendly features, broke out of her good girl image with her starring role in 2009’s brutally violent—and so-much-better-than-the-original—remake of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left.
Paxton has since starred in this summer’s fish-&-chicks frightener Shark Night 3-D and will be seen in Indie Entertainment and Sundial Pictures’ truth-or-dare thriller Liars All, producer Jack Heller’s (Homecoming) cabin-in-the-woods set chiller Enter Nowhere, and upstart banner New Artists Alliance’s dead child ghost story Static.
Horror fans may want to keep an eye on former ABC Family star Johanna Braddy (”Greek”). The 24-year-old actress recently wrapped The Collection, Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton’s sequel to The Collector, and can currently be seen on the big screen in Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity 3.
Braddy also toplines CastLight Pictures’ found footage thriller The Levenger Tapes. Directed by some guy named Mark Edwin Robinson, the film stars Braddy as one of three college students who go missing while trying to find a lost eight-year-old girl in the wilderness.
