1988 Topps Fright Flicks Cards

I first mentioned these back in the spring when I filed a report on the HorrorHound Convention. These cards were produced by Topps in 1988 and ran the gamut of horror films of the time, from the first three Nightmare on Elm Street movies to other movies like Fright Night, Predator, Day of the Dead, and yes even Ghostbusters. For the longest time, this was the only place you could find cards dedicated to the original Ghostbusters movie, that is until the Ghostbusters cards came out earlier this year from Cryptozoic. Anyway, I grabbed this pack at the aforementioned convention for five dollars, which is about the best price you can find on these. There are nine cards per pack and one sticker, let's see what I've got.

The first card is from the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie. I haven't seen that movie in quite a long time and I think it's time I need to revisit it. I don't really consider Ghostbusters a "horror film", it's more of a comedy but I can see why it was include as fans of the movie would buy the cards. This Slimer card is really cool though. Another movie I don't consider a horror film is Predator. I classify it as more sci-fi and I've only seen it a handful of times. It's a pretty good movie but the only thing I remember from it is Jesse Ventura stating "I ain't got time to bleed".

Left to right, these cards are from Vengeance: The Demon, Nightmare on Elm Street II, and Poltergeist. I've never seen, let alone heard of Vengeance but that scene they chose looks pretty creepy. I haven't seen Nightmare 2 but it's on my list to check out. I need to do that soon as Halloween is approaching fast. There was a remake of Poltergeist last year that did horrible business and I've never seen the original either, but that clown just looks creepy.

Closing out the pack are cards from three movies I've never seen, Fright Night, Poltergeist as I mentioned above, and Day of the Dead. Since I have no knowledge of these films, I'll speak to the card design a bit. It's very clean and simple, just a still from the film with a somewhat cheesy caption on it. 

The backs are equally as clean. There's a brief story on the back and I really like the design on the bottom with the film title in the marquee. 

There's also a sticker included in the pack, here's the one I pulled. I'm writing this during my break at work so I pulled this image from Trading Card Database. It's not my favorite sticker of the set but if you put all of them together, you form a nice collage of sorts.

Overall, this was a really fun pack to break into and if I can find more packs for a reasonable price, I'll definitely get more as I'm planning on building the set and collecting the four different wrappers. It's nearly Halloween and I've got a few more Halloween related posts before putting Project Halloween in the books for the year. 

Announcing Project Halloween 2016!

Yes, I know it's only August 1st but that means we're only a month away from Labor Day and the end of summer. So this year on the blog, it's going to be Project Halloween 2016 beginning on September 1st! That's right kids, two full months of macabre mayhem featuring everything from horror themed trading cards to cheap masks to fall festivals and lots of stuff in between.

Why am I doing this you ask? Well, to be honest, trading cards are available all year round in many different outlets but Halloween and fall only comes around once a year, so what better way to celebrate than having a two-month Halloween extravaganza! Over the past few years, Halloween has become my favorite holiday, even more so than Christmas. It's the one part of the year where you can enjoy horror movies, macabre decorations, and plastic tombstones without getting laughed at by the general public.

Up until a few years ago, my friends and I would make yearly Halloween specials and put them up on YouTube. We stopped mainly because it got too expensive and trying to align everyone's schedules was a complete and utter nightmare. Since it's too hard to get everyone together, I've decided to start up a "Halloween countdown" of sorts here ... yes, right here, on this blog. I've already got at least a dozen topics already on the drawing board ready to be written about and more to come considering there is probably lots of Halloween themed junk food, candy, and general madness that hasn't been released yet, and probably won't be until mid-to-late August.

Stay close, trading card posts will continue through August and then the Halloween fun begins on September 1st and will run through Halloween itself! It'll be a monster mash big enough that'll be sure to please Frankenstein and all his pals.