Here's a clever costume of a headless zombie carrying around a box full of body parts, except one of the severed heads is still allive and looking around!
Clever costumes abound these days, but we like the ones that make people lose their heads!
Sit back and enjoy the soothing sight of splattering clay and the sweet sound of Sufjan Stevens as he tells the tale of Mr. Frosty Man, with a little help from animator Lee Hardcastle.
This ain't no Gumby short, this is claymation ultraviolence at its finest, as we prepare to bid adieu to Halloween and hello to the snow!
--via GeekTyrant
Photo: redwingx/Flickr
Photo: redwingx/Flickr
Amazing pumpkin artist Ray Villefane is back with another disturbingly good work of pumpkin art, and this year's works are more terrifying than ever before!
He's using three of the largest pumpkins in the U.S., along with some regular sized ones, to create a life-sized shambling pumpkin zombie display for New York's Botanical Garden, complete with dripping guts and a ghastly expression on it's face.
Enjoy a brief video of the master of pumpkin carving doing what he does best, and be thankful that you don't have any pumpkin zombies lurking in your neighborhood...
--via Flavorwire
More horror films than you know were based on, or inspired by, real life events. Wes Craven himself told the story of what inspired Nightmare on Elm Street: a series of Southeast Asian men who died while having nightmares. One of them was a 21-year-old who refused to sleep.
Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines: ‘You must sleep.’ He said, ‘No, you don’t understand; I’ve had nightmares before — this is different.’ He was given sleeping pills and told to take them and supposedly did, but he stayed up. I forget what the total days he stayed up was, but it was a phenomenal amount — something like six, seven days. Finally, he was watching television with the family, fell asleep on the couch, and everybody said, ‘Thank god.’ They literally carried him upstairs to bed; he was completely exhausted. Everybody went to bed, thinking it was all over. In the middle of the night, they heard screams and crashing. They ran into the room, and by the time they got to him he was dead. They had an autopsy performed, and there was no heart attack; he just had died for unexplained reasons.
But that's just one of ten horror stories behind the movies you'll find at Flavorwire. Link
The spiritualist movement rose at about the same time photography was invented. Therefore, it was no wonder that the earliest use of trick photography was to show evidence of spirits that one could communicate with -for a small fee. Buzzfeed has a collection of quite a few of these "spirit" pictures. Link
Magician Rich Ferguson "aka The Ice Breaker" is out on the streets of San Luis Obispo, CA for Halloween scaring people with a pretty impressive trick. I am not positive how he does it, I think something to do with stilts, but if I stumbled on this unexpectedly like these people do- I would be freaking out too.
-Via Daily of the Day
Although it is unclear whether Charlotte, North Carolina, is any more obsessed with Halloween than other cities, there are some interesting people there who take Halloween very seriously. Creative Loafing featured four of those people and the ways they celebrate the holiday. Drew Badger, pictured, is a haunted house consultant who also organizes the local Zombie Walk, among other ghoulish activities.
Drew Badger was only 10 when he inadvertently gave his first haunted house consultation, in 1977. His elementary school was holding its annual Halloween carnival, which included the "Tunnel of Terror." The "really lame attraction," Badger recalls, was comprised of taped-together refrigerator boxes and witches and ghosts made by first- and second-graders. So, Badger and his friend decided to fix it up.
"I cut a hole in one of the boxes, and my buddy got a bowl of ketchup," Badger says. "We smeared it on our arms and when the next group — a group of fifth-grade girls — got to the hole, we reached through and screamed and yelled. They screamed and yelled and got outta there. Within five minutes, we had a line out the door. Something must have clicked in me at that point."
Also meet a man who makes giant monster costumes, a guy who drives a spooky hearse for fun, and a woman who had a Halloween "shotgun" wedding. Link -via Fark
(Image credit: Justin Driscoll)
If you're looking for a gruesome addition to your costume that'll fill folks with fright yet faithfully pay homage to your favorite scifi flick then you gotta check out this tutorial which reveals how to make a latex Chestburster puppet.
This project does require a basic understanding of sculpting and casting, and you need materials like liquid latex, plaster and plasticine to create a finished product like the one pictured above, but if you've ever wanted to try your hand at creating a latex puppet this tutorial is a great way to get started!
There are plenty of Halloween weddings these days, but it’s one thing to incorporate a few elements of the holiday into your celebration and an entirely different matter from painstakingly ensuring that every aspect fits in with the creepy theme. Here are a few Halloween weddings that really go the extra mile to set the mood.
Jaclyn and Matt Cooper not only dressed like a gorgeous ghoul and Freddy Krueger, they also entered the ceremony in style, emerging from coffins.
Of course, you can’t just dress like that and then put the groomsmen in their Sunday best. So instead, these wedding partiers all went as some of the other famous movie monsters we’ve grown to love.
Naturally, the cakes also went along with the horrific theme and as if a spider web and skeleton couple didn’t make the main cake spooky enough, the groom’s cake was a spider-covered casket.
For those arachnophobes who were too afraid to touch the spider-covered cakes, there was always the adorable and appropriately-colored dessert table to munch from instead.
All images from Jaclyn and Matt’s wedding courtesy of Andrew Vicar’s Flickr stream.
Tina and Rob both work at the Ohio haunted house called 7 Floors of Hell. In fact, it’s even where they met, so the haunt’s graveyard couldn’t be a more fitting place for the couple to tie the knot.
While usually the bride is the one who makes the grand entrance, this time the groom did when he was carried to the altar in a coffin by six pallbearers.
Looking for a fun way to spruce up your house for Halloween? Then hit the dollar store and buy a dozen or so skeletons and a can of silver paint. Just disassemble the skeletons, glue the parts together and then paint them silver -voila!
Halloween is nearly upon us folks, so here are some last minute costume ideas for video game fanatics who also have a sense of humor.
They range from the ridiculous (dressing like video game company founders and game developers) to equally ridiculous without needing an explanation (Ninja Golf, Minecraft Person, Knight) to those which will elicit the question "what video game is your costume from?" (Bowler, Banjo Hillbilly, Wall Street Kid).
Now you can actually wear a costume of sorts to your friend's Halloween party!
Did you know Tootsie Rolls were put in soldiers' ration packs during WWII because they could survive all types of weather conditions? Well, that's only one of the many fascinating facts about some of the most classic Halloween candies around.
Meatheads are good for more than busting down doors, they can also feed a pack of hungry Halloweenies!
Making your own Meat Head appetizer platter is simply a matter of covering a plastic skull with a layer of red Jell-O (so the meat skin will stick), then add layers of flayed flesh and garnish with a bed of greens, with pickled onions and olives for eyes.
Peel the skin off this poor sap and serve up a smile, or a frown from the vegetarians in attendance...
Link --via Obvious Winner
You know that if a zombie dies, you have to destroy his brain, but assuming the zombie apocolypse hasn't thrown law and order out the window, will the cops arrest you for running down the streets slaying the undead? After all, they used to be human, so is it murder to rekill them? San Diego criminal attorney Peter Liss says no, but he warns there are other legal issues you'd have to worry about like desecrating a corpse and illegal weapons charges.
Link Image Via siska maria eviline [Flickr]
They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're altogether ooky, these Halloween themed cakes!
Take a slice out of your boring Halloween food by creating a horrifying visual delight for your guests. They'll appreciate the time and effort, and you'll enjoy watching their facial expressions as they take a big old bite of brain cake.
Mmmmmm.....meaty!
