The Frightfully Ghoulish Halloween Spooktacular Thread 2013

[Jive Turkey]

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Original) - YouTube

 

[u2popmofo]

CREATUREZZZZZZ!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm LIZTENING 2 GOTH MUSiC RITE NOWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jive Turkey]

 

[u2popmofo]

I'm going to drink a pumpkin beer while listening to Joy Division after midnight and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!!!!!!

 

[LemonMelon]

 

[No spoken words]

This thread = fuck you JT

 

[gvox]

I'm going to drink a pumpkin beer while listening to Joy Division after midnight and NO ONE CAN STOP ME!!!!!!!!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

All of JT's Halloween 'Stories' Here

 

[bono_212]

You stole my gif :-(

 

[LemonMelon]

I just started reading House of Leaves because it seems rather spooktacular.

 

[bono_212]

As I've mentioned in the previous thread, I really loved to read X-Entertainment back in the day, and now that he has a new site, this is actually the first year I've followed his Halloween Countdown (Dinosaur Dracula!). He does start it kinda early (September 1st!), but it has made this whole last month a lot more entertaining in my life.

He had a great list of ideas to make the Halloween season a little more entertaining that I've been trying to stick to. The whole article is kinda long, because of it being the first day of the countdown, but I figured I'd share the relevant bits along with some of my own opinions:

#1: Stuff your DVR with spooky things!
It’s all about the keywords. Play around, and you’ll be amazed at what you’ll find. Search for “horror,” and “Halloween,” and “spooky,” and “monsters,” and “ghosts,” and whatever else you can think of. You’re going to find so much awesome shit. Once you get a good stock going, you’ll never once be at home without a “Halloween thing” to do.


Ashley's Note: I love this idea, because you're going to find things you may not have found simply by a genre search or a Halloween Search. Additionally, Travis and I put together a list of horror movies we wanted to watch this season, and then sorted the list basically from, "Not really horror, but still creepy" all the way to "This is Halloween movie and can only be watched on Halloween" and have slowly been working our way to the creepier movies.


#2: Draw and color like you’re six years old.
One of my favorite things about this season is how it lends itself to a certain kind of art. Grade school art, basically. Grab a pad, grab some markers, and go to fucking town. Invent creatures, or pay tribute to your favorite movie monsters. You don’t have to be a polished artist to get joy out of this. I sure ain’t.
(PS: That purple demon up there. It’s like someone crossbred a Hutt with Gorga the Space Monster.)


Ashley's Note: Instead of doing this, I'm making my own fabric Halloween decorations for the window, because I apparently think I'm Martha Stewart.


#3: Read a scary book!
This is pretty obvious, but here’s the thing: You can make a night out of just GETTING your scary book. Don’t blow the opportunity by scouring Amazon. If there was ever a time to go to a brick-and-mortar bookstore, this is it. You’ll feel a special connection to your scary book if you do it that way, and besides, bookstores are inherently Halloweeny. I can’t explain why, but they are.
Then, when you get home, curl up with a blanket and some crazy seasonal tea, and have at it. Bonus points if you read during a thunderstorm!


Ashley's Note: Like Travis, I, too, am reading House of Leaves. I meant to start it sooner, but I got distracted by finishing A Dance with Dragons.


#4: Find, buy and eat lots of Halloween junk food.
Here’s one way that September definitely tops October. Almost all of the random “Halloween foods” arrive in September (if not earlier), while October’s debuts are a comparative few. It’s kinda hard to wait a month when Frute Brute and Halloween Crunch are in your face every time you go to Target.
I say, don’t bother trying. Trick-or-treating has already marked this as the best season to not care at all about what you put in your body. Don’t let the kids have all the fun. You deserve some, too.
So go for it. Find the Cadbury Screme Eggs, and eat ‘em until you puke. It’s okay, because puke is Halloweeny.


Ashley's Note: I don't allow myself to do this until October 1st, so you can bet that I am going to be at the store tonight or tomorrow.


#5: Go for a walk!
I swear, this isn’t lame. Last year, me and Ms. X got in the habit of going for “spooky walks” at night. We tried to find the most desolate and/or wooded areas. It was a blast. We saw no ghosts and were chased by no serial killers, but every time we went on one, I came back feeling not just physically energized, but mentally, too. Like I was ready to watch every horror movie ever made, or at least two of them, because walking makes me tired.
If you think about it, the appeal makes perfect sense. We all go out at night, but how many of us actually take the time to enjoy the night itself? Do it. I command you.


Ashley's Note: I still haven't done this because the weather here has been decidedly unfall-like for most of September.

 

[cobl04]

Sarcasm and Too Much Crap!: Creepy Old Vintage Halloween Photos (24 Pictures)--- No super heroes and sexy nurses

 

[bono_212]

 

[bono_212]

My Target didn't get FrankenBerry in yet

These are awesome

 

[u2popmofo]

I like how they are displayed proudly amongst the CD collection.

JT, if this was Facebook, I'd "like" your terrifying old Halloween costumes picture.

 

[lazarus]

All of JT's Halloween 'Stories' Here

I just started reading House of Leaves because it seems rather spooktacular.

Have fun. There's a long "exploring" scene that is more frightening than anything I've ever read by Stephen King, Clive Barker, anyone.

 

[bono_212]

I like how they are displayed proudly amongst the CD collection.

JT, if this was Facebook, I'd "like" your terrifying old Halloween costumes picture.

I was really lazy last year and never put my Halloween tea light candle holders away, so I figured that made a good spot for the cereal

That's Cobbler, not JT EDIT: Never mind, I see that JT posted a picture from the same article Cobbler posted. But since he did it before Cobbler, I suppose that's just another friggin' moment.

 

[bono_212]

For the curious, in no particular order, here's The List!

Spoiler

Dracula
Bram Stroker's Dracula (1992)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Bride of Frankenstein
Hellraiser
Hour of the Wolf
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
リング
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tetsuo, The Iron Man
The Blair Witch Project
Suspiria
The Changeling
The Devil's Backbone
The Lost Boys
The Masque of the Red Death
The Mist
The Old Dark House
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Skin I Live In
Vampyr
Young Frankenstein
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Faust
Kaidan (Ghost Stories)
Wait Until Dark
The Conjuring
Dead of Night
The Haunting
Perfect Blue
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Warm Bodies
Let Me In
Rec.
Dark Skies
28 Weeks Later
A Nightmare on Elm Street/Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Scream 1/2/3/4
From Dusk Till Dawn
Troll 2
Blade
Fright Night
The Woman in Black
Halloween 1/2
30 Days of Night
Final Destination
Frighteners
Tremors
Pet Semetary
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Children of the Corn
Daybreakers
What Lies Beneath
The Host
The Witches of Eastwick
The Tale of Two Sisters
Arachnophobia
Gothika
Phantasm
Scanners
The Tenant
The Vanishing
Village of the Damned
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
House of Wax
Tenebre (Unsane)
Session 9
Cloverfield
Cube
Abbot & Costello Meet…
Dark Water (Honogurai mizu no soko kara)
Gojira
Cat People
The 7th Victim
I Walked with a Zombie
The Leopard Man

Probably won't get close to watching half of these, but it's fun to have around and it was fun to make.

 

[Jive Turkey]

JT, if this was Facebook, I'd "like" your terrifying old Halloween costumes picture.

Oh, I'm sure they'll end up on facebook at some point

 

[cobl04]

I was really lazy last year and never put my Halloween tea light candle holders away, so I figured that made a good spot for the cereal

That's Cobbler, not JT EDIT: Never mind, I see that JT posted a picture from the same article Cobbler posted. But since he did it before Cobbler, I suppose that's just another friggin' moment.

He didn't share the article with all the pictures

We don't do Halloween anyways, so I better get outta here. I just know you love creepy old pictures.

 

[bono_212]

I hate them

 

[u2popmofo]

He didn't share the article with all the pictures

We don't do Halloween anyways, so I better get outta here. I just know you love creepy old pictures.

I honestly just assumed it was JT because of the similar picture, not sure how i didn't catch that it was you who posted it. Regardless, I thought it was a cool link.

I spent a Halloween in Australia, actually. Spent the entire day inside an incredibly hot and humid warehouse, supervising backpacker temps on a QA project. It was not fun. I remember watching some really shitty Stephen King movie on TV that night (which I assumed was on because it was Halloween).

EDIT: Sleepwalkers was the movie.

 

[Bug]

Anything Can Happen On Halloween - YouTube

 

[bono_212]

Anything Can Happen On Halloween - YouTube

This is great even if you've never seen the whole movie, but it makes me miss Pla the Great a lot. She used to post pictures from it all the time :-(

http://www.x-entertainment.com/worst.html

(I didn't plan on posting about X-Entertainment again, but that article still remains one of the funniest things I've ever read on the Internet.)

 

[Jive Turkey]

That makes me feel embarrassed every time I watch it

 

[LMP]

>>> Harry Potter

 

[bono_212]

That makes me feel embarrassed every time I watch it

Don't be ashamed of greatness

 

[u2popmofo]

It's a total B movie, and has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the films in the franchise, but I've been wanting to see the actual "R" version of Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. I've only ever seen it edited for TV.

 

[bono_212]

I've never seen it. Every time I try, I fall asleep. I hear it's got some remote connection to the other films by sorta explaining how Michael keeps coming back again and again and again?

 

[Danny Boy]

Was that movie rated R? I'm pretty sure I saw it in a theater even though I was only 10 at the time.

That's the "Three more days to Halloween" one, right?