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SCREAMING AT 2026 UPDATES!

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Sorry fer how long it’s been since the last update here, but we know y’all been keepin’ up with our daily posts on the rest of our socials to know what we’ve been up to lately. But fer you anti-social butterflies out there, here’s the rundown —

If you’ve been contributin’ to our Patreon, you’ve seen we have Screaming Soup! PVC toys in the works. We’ve got Deadwest, Mandy, and Billy fully realized and waitin’ to go into production with six more of our cast in the workshop phase. There’s still some kinks bein’ worked out and paint decisions bein’ made fer the initial three, but we’re gunnin’ to get ’em up and sellin’ ‘fore the end of the year so long as forces outside our control work in our favor. Until then, we could very well be sellin’ some con exclusive prototypes at an upcomin’ horror show in the style of Monster In My Pocket toys, fangs crossed.

The next episode of Screaming soup! is still in production and had to undergo a bit of a rewrite. We’ll be helpin’ Ted look fer him a new Invisible Man fer his posse of classic monsters, but this see-through scare’s gotta have some cool twist which will bring alotta weirdos outta the woodwork applyin’ fer the position. What’s got us so pumped fer this upcomin’ episode is the amazin’ voice cameos we’ve wrangled. Not only will we have some familiar horror channels lendin’ their talents to some new characters, we even have two bona fide celebrities joinin’ us, and one of ’em’s a HUGE horror hall o’ famer! We’re ’bout to explode with excitement over this fantastic development and wanna animate the episode all the faster fer you Scream Freaks to enjoy!

Lastly, come and see us at what could be the most important horror convention ever pulled together — RETRO-HORROR CON! September 11-13 at the Embassy Suites in Greenville, SC, we’ll be the official host with the most as we emcee a weekend of toys and terror brought to y’all by our amigos at Toy Federation. Three days of toy shoppin’, lobby swappin’, room tradin’, karaoke, and let’s not forget — horror celebs! Yup, we’ve got Dee Wallace (The Howling, Cujo), Henry Thomas (E.T., Psycho IV), both Greasy Stranglers, Arthur Burghardt (Killjoy, G.I.Joe, Transformers), the freaky clown girl from Terrifier 2, and a demogorgon actor from Stranger Things. If that ain’t ‘nough scare fer yer buck, I’ll also be rubbin’ elbows and hostin’ a panel with the Cryptkeeper himself, John Kassir, as well as a panel and exclusive pizza party with Five Nights at Freddy’s actors Kevin Foster (Freddy Fazbear) and Audrey Lynn-Marie (Charlotte). Add the Saturday night celebrity dinner where fans can literally sit and chew the fat with all these terror-ific talents at once, this is destined to be a weekend no one will forget. Especially if yer one of the lucky few to snag the con’s exclusive toy line of Coffin Creeps from coffincreeps.com. So, git on over here to see yer favorite animated horror host fer pictures and autographs and pick up some Screaming Soup! merch like cards, pogs, posters, and promotional comics!

Other than that, please show your support for our show with donations through Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, and Ko-fi, purchase Screaming Soup! Fan Club Kits and exclusive merch, catch up on all past Screaming Soup! Seasons, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, watch our daily TikTok movie reviews and read recent bite-size reviews for the newer horror films we’re checkin’ out in our blog R-Rated Reviews, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets (are they still called that?), subscribe to our video channels, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail comin’. You can also warm up some Screaming Soup! leftovers with reruns currently playin’ on Beta Max TV, Sluggo’s The Vortexx, and Mr. Lobo‘s OSI 74 .

See ya later, Scream Freaks!

SCREAMING AT THANKSGIVING AND RETRO-TOY CON!

Howdy there, Scream Freaks! After weeks full of holiday parties, noisy parades, and belly bustin’ dinners, most folks would double over dead from exhaustion, but not us! We dropped dead forever ago and feel more alive than EVER as Thanksgivin’ returns, encouragin’ us to admit things we’re thankful fer.

Right now, we’re most thankful for bein’ a part of Retro-Toy Con recently, which is this unbelievable toy convention thrown by our compadres over at Toy Federation. These guys know how to party, let us tell ya. Not only did they make sure to pack the dealer room with an unbelievable mix of toys from yesteryear and today rangin’ from obscure Freddy Krueger knockoffs to mainstream mainstays like Star Wars and G.I. Joe, they even booked all kinds of celebrity guests from our favorite Saturday morning cartoons, Friday the 13th Part 2, the WWE hall of fame, and let’s not forget — yer favorite animated horror host Deadwest!

Yessir, as part of the star line-up, we happily spent the weekend meetin’ you Scream Freaks who showed up while as well as tradin’ quips with wrasslers Hacksaw Jim and the Million Dollar Man, doin’ Cobra Commander impressions with Arthur Burghardt (G.I. Joe’s original Destro), sharin’ candy with Jem and the Holograms‘ Samantha Newark, slingin’ back drinks at the bar with Warrington Gillette aka the first Jason Voorhees to kill onscreen, hangin’ ten with the first gang of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actors, Rob Paulsen, Cam Clarke, Townsend Coleman, and Barry Gordon, and catchin’ up with our amigos Mark McCray and Dan Klink from The Best Saturday Mornings of Our Lives podcast. Fanboy overload, right? Even better, we got to be Retro-Toy Con’s MC the whole time, makin’ important ’round the clock announcements while teasin’ the other guests with random messages. “Attention Hacksaw Jim. We checked, and we’re sorry, but you can’t use yer 2×4 when thumb wrasslin’ yer fans.”

Sure to go down as one of the greatest achievements of our afterlives was Rob and Arthur complimentin’ our pipes. Words can’t describe what receivin’ that kinda validation means to us comin’ from such talented voicebox dynamos. Only other moment that comes close to beatin’ it was at the end of the con, when we zipped from one cartoon superstar to the next for closin’ statements with the best one bein’ Samantha sayin’, “Show’s over, Synergy.”

This vendor had a beast of a My Pet Monster collection!

And if that weren’t ‘nough of a treat, we even had the honor of hostin’ all the celebrity panels! We asked Warrington ’bout his journey from Wall Street broker to bein’ celebrated as one of the few actors to play Jason over a little kumbaya campfire, and he pitched fans an offer to own a part of his newest flick, Bloody Social. Arthur Burghardt held our hand in shock as we revealed our interest in him takin’ us down memory lane to when he was a magic hobo in Full Moon’s Killjoy. The panel that was the most fun fer us, however, was forcin’ Hacksaw Jim and Ted “The Million Dollar Man” Dibiase to sit through a slideshow of their greatest hits in plastic as they gave their feedback on all the different toys made in their image over the years. We forgot to record our pow-wow with Arthur like dumbasses, but we’ll be sharin’ the audio from the panels with Warrington, Hacksaw, and Dibiase ‘fore long, so y’all can get a taste of the fun we had.

Speakin’ of yappin’ with talents, we even managed to steal Rob and Cam away from their turtle fans long ‘nough to interview ’em fer their work on the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon series for our Killer Tomato Retrospective we’ve been teasin’. Cam not only played Gangreen’s evil sidekick, Igor; he even voiced one of the killer tomatoes from the second season ‘long with Rob’s mutant veggie, Mummato. We still can’t believe our luck! We’re incredibly thankful fer their participation in our project and can’t wait to add their clips of ’em playin’ with their mutant tomato chew toys with everyone else’s stories of bein’ in such a wonderfully wacky series.

Speakin’ of the Killer Tomatoes Retrospective — UPDATE — We’re comin’ closer and closer to completin’ this bucket list of a dream project. Editin’ is just ’bout done, the animation shouldn’t take too long, and after we drop in the soundtrack –POW! We hope to have this sucker out there for y’all to enjoy ‘fore Valentine’s Day! What could be sweeter than the first ever behind-the-scenes feature of anythin’ and everythin’ Killer Tomatoes with ’bout 20 interviews of nearly everyone involved from the filmmakers to the cast and crew?! We can’t wait!

Other than that, please show your support for our show with donations through Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, and Ko-fi, catch up on all past Screaming Soup! Seasons, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films and comics we’re checkin’ out in our blogs, R-Rated Reviews and Sequential Slime, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our video channels, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail comin’. You can also warm up some Screaming Soup! leftovers with reruns currently playin’ on Beta Max TV, Sluggo’s The Vortexx, and Mr. Lobo‘s OSI 74 .