Long Drawn Absence of the Hotel

Hi everyone!

Long time no see to all you horror fans out there.  As any visitors to my site may have realized over the last several months, is the lack of updates to Panic Hotel.  I’ve had many things I’ve had to do with my life, but I hope to get Panic Hotel up and running again soon.

My hosting is almost up in a few weeks, and I’ve had to decide weither to keep the site up and running or not.  I would like to try to keep it running if I can.   In this situation, I would like to rekindle everything and rework the site to make it more effectient and make it run smoother.  after making the current version of the site, I quickly found that adding new pages to the site was damn near impossible to do without ruining things.  I didn’t have any room to place things I wanted to add, so I will have to remedy that in the new design.

Also, I would love to have you all send me your horror stories so that they can be viewed by all!

Anyway, that’s about all I have for you all, hope to hear from you with your story ideas!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

Saw…the video game??

Hello folks, and welcome again to the Panic Hotel Blog.  I realize it’s been a while since the last post, but thanks for visiting the site anyway!

 There are two things I’d like to cover in this blog post.  They both relate to Saw.

The first thing I’d like to mention is that I just watched the fourth iteration of the series a few nights ago on dvd.  I never had a chance to see IV, or any of the other versions of Saw in theaters, so I was able to get the dvd versions for fairly cheap considering several of them are getting a bit older.

I thought the fourth movie in the series wasn’t too bad.  It does bring to life more information on John Kramer, a.k.a Jigsaw’s background, and some of his motivations for becoming the sick dude we all know and love.

Boy, it sure gets more complicated with each  new movie.  Not like other movie series that never really dive much into the main plot.  I think we all know some series that follow that lead.

But anyway, the other Saw related thing that I found just now was the possibility of a new Saw video game.

Um….weird?  But cool?  That’s pretty much my thought on it.  I wonder how they would pull it off and make it feel like it’s supposed to be part of the Saw universe.

It can’t be like other horror video games like Resident Evil or Silent Hill, because those games seems…different than how horror works in games like RE or SH.  I feel that in these two game examples, they were made to be games.  Saw, well, it was made to be a horror *movie*.

It would be hard to convey the exact type of horror that Saw does.  Sure, horror and gore can be pulled off in most games and movies, but I feel that the way they do it in Saw really makes you cringe.

Is that guy really gotta saw off his own foot?

Will that chick really kill that dude just so she can live?

That I felt is better served up on the screen, at least, this far.  Silent Hill came close, with that feeling that could make you feel all, “ugh” inside.  Granted, I’m a bit biased….Silent Hill is my favorite horror game series.  RE never really hit it off with me quite the way Silent Hill did.

So that’s basically all I needed to say!  Thanks for readin’ with me!

Happy Scaring!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

Panic Hotel Link Update

Hello everybody.

 I apologize for the lack of updates to this blog, although I’m glad to see traffic trickeling in anyway.  Today, we have a new link for you all to be able to visit.  It is centered around the dark gothic theme.

To visit it, click here:
http://www.panichotel.com/links.htm

The newest links are on the top, as is this one.

Happy Scaring!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

Possible Panic Hotel Change and Additions

Welcome to the latest blog of Panic Hotel.

Today, I’d like to share with you a new page that I’m making.  It features some ideas, recipes and sites for special effects and recipes for your horror/scary movies.  These are all cheap and easy was to make blood and a way to be able to shoot somebody with a gun and have blood spill out.  Naturally, it could increase in size as I find more info, but for now, it’s in an infant stage.

The link for the mage is located here.

Also, I’ve also been thinking about making a total site redesign.  In general, with the additions of several of the pages and themes of the site, such as Haunted Places pages, I haven’t been able to add them to the site where they are easily assessable from every page.  With every new page and theme I create and am forced to link them only from the main page, I get increasingly fustrated.  I know it gets very confusing for those people who could potentially visit those pages, but don’t know where to look exactly for those places within the site.

Until then, please keep it up and please bear with me until I get the site redesign underway!  Thanks!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

A Haunted Addition to Panic Hotel

Welcome to the Panic Hotel Blog!

I’ve finally added a new item in the Haunted Places section of the site!  It deals with Leap Castle!  You can find it here.  Come along and visit it and learn why Leap Castle is so haunted!

 Daquine
www.panichotel.com

An Update, or a lack there of….

Greetings ladies, gentlemen, ghouls and all you assortment of monster!

Welcome to a long delayed edition of Panic Hotel.  Unfortuantely, I am disappointed to say I have no updates to the site, and I haven’t had one for a while, and I won’t have one for a little while from now.  There has been very little interactivity from others to post their stories on the site recently, and I’m trying to think of ways to get people to post.

Also, I’ve been looking up info on more Silent Hill stuff.  I know even though the news of Silent Hill 5 was announced back in July, I have just found out about it.  Being somebody who is interested in purchasing either an Xbox 360 or a PS3, hopefully in the next 3 or 4 months, I would love to get my own copy of that game.  And it looks good.

I’ve also read a review on Silent Hill Origins.  Although I would love to play the game itself, I’m not so sure about system it’s played on.  I’m not sure if just Silent Hill Origins is worth purchasing a PSP.  I have yet to see more than two *good* games on that system aside from Silent Hill.

Well, anyway, that’s all tonight folks!  I hope you all have a good Christmas season!

And Happy Scaring!

 Daquine
www.panichotel.com

A New Story to Bless Panic Hotel

Hello folks!  Daquine here for more scary story goodness!

 Today, I uploaded yet a new Misc Story to the fold of stories!  It’s called The Girl and the Grave!  I hope you all enjoy it!  I’ve always loved these types of stories.  These types of stories that never really have any ghosts, goblins or and real monsters at all.  Just your own mind and imagination at work. 

I will keep trying to post more stories, both classic and new as time passes.  I’ve also been working on SEM work, so if any of you are interested in what we’ve been trying to market, check out another of my blogs on Word Press, DaquineSEM.  Our first marketting campaign site is www.prayerquake.net.

But I digress, I hate diving off the subject at hand.  Scary stories!  I hope you all with forgive me for my shameless advertising.  lol.

Anyway, come visit!

And as always, keep on scaring!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

Late, Post-Halloween info, and Linkage.

Hello everybody!

It’s been over a week now since Halloween, and all is well, and we’re now on our way from transitioning from the scariest holiday of the year to the ”eat-till-you-freakin’-puke-then-eat-some-more” holiday.  Of course, I refer to the holiday of Thanksgiving for all us Americans (Assuming I have any readers that are from beyond the borders of the States and wouldn’t have any clue as to our holidays).

 But besides that, I know these links I am including today in my blog could be considered a tad late, when you consider what they link to.  The first link, the Scariest Moments In Gaming, is a podcast entry I listen to frequently.  It originates from a game site I like visiting, IGN.com.  Check it out if you have game interests.  Go on.  Do it.  I know you want to.  `_^

The second link, also originating from IGN.com, is a simple list of halloween songs that are great for halloween.  Again, I’m quite sorry it’s over a week late, but I have been busy with life outside the net.  I use that excuse alot I’ve noticed, but hey, I ain’t gonna lie to you.  I guess this will be a great heads up for you all NEXT year  at halloween.  I’ll have to link back to this post in October ‘08 I think.  

Scariest Moments In Gaming (IGN Podcast)
http://games.ign.com/articles/831/831081p1.html

Halloween Hits (Halloween music to make a mix of)
http://music.ign.com/articles/457/457458p1.html

And as far as Panic Hotel goes, I am looking forward to getting some more personal written stories up in the Misc. Stories section, once I get more time and the energy to write again.  I hope to do this very soon!

So I will end this blog right now, so you can all go about your lives!  Have a great up-coming November!

And what ever you do, don’t eat too much of that candy.  It’ll make ya puke.  ^_^

 Happy Scaring!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

Panic Hotel Info, Blog Linkage and A New Story!

Hello my fine horror loving friends,

 Today, I looked at the Panic Hotel visitor count for the month, and we’ve broken the minimal visitor amount that I set earlier in October.  I hoped we would reach at least 200 visitors this month, and today, as of 6:45pm, I found we have exceeded those expectations!  At last count, we got 221 unique visits!  Again, I know that’s not much by the standards by other, bigger sites, but that’s good for me.  The visit count seems to increase by at least 50 - 100 people per month so far.

On another note, I found an interesting blog link.  Check it out here.  It’s called Evolution of the Horror Genre.  Check it out.  It’s cool.

And for Panic Hotel news, I’ve added a new story!  And it’s not a classic story either!  It’s in the Msc. Story section.  it’s called The It.  Go read it and see what you think!  I  hope to get more stories written and submitted soon!

Cya all later!

And Happy Scaring!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com

Happy Halloween!!!

Panic Hotel and all it’s doings.

Welcome my friends.

Today, I’ve added a few new links to some YouTube clips to the Haunted Places section of Panic Hotel.  These two clips are for Queen Mary and the other is for Waverly Hills Sanatorium.  I love haunted places! Yup Yup!

And also, sorry for the lack of story and Haunted Places updates, especially for it being so close to Halloween, but I’ve been busy the last two weeks, and I haven’t had much chance to really look around for some good haunted stories and places.

On a more personal note, I’ve obtained my own copies of Saw and Saw 2.  I’m sure all you others would say to me, “Man, those are old!  Why did it take you so long to get those?  Sheesh!”  Well, although I enjoyed the movies, getting them right away wasn’t the highest priorty at the time.  Besides, they were cheap when I got them, and you can’t pass up a good deal on a good horror flick.  I’m looking forward to seeing Saw IV.  But who knows when I’ll see that.  lol.

 Talk to you guys later!

Happy scaring!

Daquine
www.panichotel.com