Just in time for Halloween...

As a special tribute to Halloween, we’ve compiled three of the most frightening things we’ve recently stumbled across.

1) The first is fairly straightforward. While working our way through the pages of Frightcatalog, we found this treasure, the fully-animated Vomit Barrel.

As the name might imply, this is a life-sized replica of a zombie perpetually heaving its guts into a barrel. Just so you don’t get any crazy ideas, the barrel is marked “INEDIBLE.” Best of all, the vomit function activated by motion sensor and includes all relevant sound effects. Perfect for your next Rob Zombie show...

There’s even a video of the Vomit Barrel in action after the jump.

2) Next, we turn to NACS Online (The Association for Convenience and Petroleum Retailing), where we find the following listed under Cool New Products:

Introducing the Monster Chili Cheesedog, from Don Miguel Mexican Food!!!

As the copy entices:

“Forget the mess and hassle of the traditional cheesedog. The 1/3-pound Monster Chili Cheesedog gives your customer a better tasting, more portable alternative. The Monster Chili Cheesedog is perfect for the roller grill or hot to go. It is also available not fried, so customers with deep fryers can also take part in this delicious new idea that will keep consumers coming back.”

Ma, it’s time ya done fire up the deep fryer, we got Monster Chili Cheesedogs a comin…Yup, I done hear that train a comin...

3) And finally, we saved the most frightening for last.

For reasons unclear to all, someone got the bright idea of doing a Bob Dylan Broadway musical choreographed by Twyla Tharp, the mind behind Billy Joel’s recent revival. But rather than tackling sticky subject matter—like, say, the long-standing allegations that Dylan used Ramblin Jack Elliot as an entre to Woody Guthrie’s world before turning his back on both greats—this is straightforward Broadway treatment.

And what would such treatment look like? Will the motorcycle wreck get a new dance move?

To quote Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal, “"The Times They Are A-Changin' is so bad that it makes you forget how good the songs are.” Or, as The New York Times Ben Brantley suggests, a “systematic steamrolling of Bob Dylan.”

But don’t trust us, see for yourself. Happy Halloween!