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RUE MORGUE’S 24 Days of Halloween Toys Mystery Calendar: DAY 16

By PAUL “NOMAD” NICHOLASI 

Greetings to all Spooky Kids! Today is DAY 16 of our 24 Days of Halloween Toys Mystery Calendar! Each day from now ’til the high holiest of creepy days, you’ll be able to click on a vid below and reveal the TERRORS that hide beneath … on the lazy Susan … OF DOOOOM!!!

Disclaimer: RUE MORGUE is not responsible for anyone’s brain exploding from fright. Thank you for watching!

The Bootleg Horrors of Mexico
 
In the last couple of years, it’s become clear that children will latch on to the creepiest of things. If there’s a reason for this, I haven’t found it. Slenderman and Siren Head were both the spookiest of online sensations. Considering Siren Head is a giant monster with massive speaker horns for a head, it’s a little shocking. Then came Five Nights at Freddy’s, a game about surviving the night in a closed kid’s amusement restaurant where the robotic mascots creep up and attempt to eat you. Adorable. The kids went so crazy for it, you’d be hard-pressed to find one actually terrifying toy from the game. IT’S ALL KID FRIENDLY!!! Meanwhile, in Mexico where they give no f**ks and like their horror extra scary, you’ll find Five Nights bootlegs that are the level of nightmare fuel we should have gotten in the first place. As an added bonus, they all have disco lights in the chest – as if to say, “Come … dance with me…” And then they eat you. VIVA MEXICO!

Check back here every day until Halloween for more unspeakable playthings!

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