The Halloween Thread. - Let's talk about the greatest holiday of them all.

The Cringe Connoisseur

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I'm having an all day halloween party this year and i'm going to be playing classic horror movies all day with drinks and snacks.

So far i'm thinking Halloween (1978}, Dracula (1931), Bride of frankenstein (1935), The return of the living dead (1985), Halloween 3 (1982), Trick r' treat (2007), The monster squad (1987), Coraline (2009) and also maybe some classic Twilight zone and Addams family episodes as well.
 
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From The Uncanny Valley said:
IT'S FUCKING AUGUST.
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Halloween people are a breed all their own. They love Halloween like a junkie loves crack or an autist loves trains, they put the Christmas people to shame in passion though not numbers. The Calendar hits August and you wake up to find an entire cemetery in their yard that they moved themselves in the dead of night. You notice a new scarecrow in their yard out there at all times not moving before you notice your neighbor's wife bringing it food and realize it's actually just them standing there staring at passersby counting down the days until October 31st. If you so much as make eye contact with them they absolutely will invite you to their Halloween party. They have a better selection than most candy stores for kids, and need a good portion of November to cope with Halloween being over. They spend the entire months of September and October ritualistically watching the same horror movies they've seen hundreds of times. This year's costume, whatever it is, is something they wear the entire week before and after Halloween. Sometimes they will throw Santa hats on their Halloween decorations so they can keep their stuff up longer.
 
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Are people going to be watching those movies or are they just background. Because it's an odd mix with some very un-fun movies in there, unless you have a very specific crowd in mind. Better off starting with the 70s classics, ramping up to 80s Italian Zombi-types and then melt movies (or Terrifier duology) as the evening progresses.

Hope you have a lot of sexy nurses, sexy cops, sexy vampires, and sexy serial killers at your party. Unless it's a mainly kids party, then maybe fewer.
 
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I like Halloween the best, but I hate how the merch comes out so early now. It's not that the stores are excited about Halloween; they want to speed everything up and have the Christmas stuff on the shelves by the second week in October.

I hand out full-sized candy bars because that is the life stage I am in. The children of this town need to remember the Old Ways.
 
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Schwarzwald said:
Halloween people are a breed all their own. They love Halloween like a junkie loves crack or an autist loves trains, they put the Christmas people to shame in passion though not numbers. The Calendar hits August and you wake up to find an entire cemetery in their yard that they moved themselves in the dead of night. You notice a new scarecrow in their yard out there at all times not moving before you notice your neighbor's wife bringing it food and realize it's actually just them standing there staring at passersby counting down the days until October 31st. If you so much as make eye contact with them they absolutely will invite you to their Halloween party. They have a better selection than most candy stores for kids, and need a good portion of November to cope with Halloween being over. They spend the entire months of September and October ritualistically watching the same horror movies they've seen hundreds of times. This year's costume, whatever it is, is something they wear the entire week before and after Halloween. Sometimes they will throw Santa hats on their Halloween decorations so they can keep their stuff up longer.
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Why you gotta call me out like this? Lol but seriously though it's such a fun holiday and I as well as most core millennials have super nostalgic feelings for it so I love to keep the old traditions alive. It's a shame how pussies have turned it into a boring safe space for children isolated in parking lots now. There's just no soul.
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Are people going to be watching those movies or are they just background. Because it's an odd mix with some very un-fun movies in there, unless you have a very specific crowd in mind. Better off starting with the 70s classics, ramping up to 80s Italian Zombi-types and then melt movies (or Terrifier duology) as the evening progresses.

Hope you have a lot of sexy nurses, sexy cops, sexy vampires, and sexy serial killers at your party. Unless it's a mainly kids party, then maybe fewer.
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Watching of course and the classics aren't about "fun" they're all about atmosphere, they're some of the most iconic and inspirational horror films ever made after all and their moody fog and creepy crawly filled atmospheres just scream "Halloween". And honestly I don't know if i'll do costumes or not yet I haven't decided.
TheLostMarxBrotherFucko said:
Add John Carpenter's The Thing. Favorite horror movie.
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I might but i've been thinking more along the lines of straight up traditional horror to better fit my classic halloween vibe.
Aunt Carol said:
I like Halloween the best, but I hate how the merch comes out so early now. It's not that the stores are excited about Halloween; they want to speed everything up and have the Christmas stuff on the shelves by the second week in October.

I hand out full-sized candy bars because that is the life stage I am in. The children of this town need to remember the Old Ways.
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We have trunk or treak around here and I hate it, it's like no one cares to even put up decorations anymore and it's sad as fuck, I vividly remember walking the streets back in the day going door to door for treats in the cool fall air with the leaves blowing down the streets and decorations and jack o lanterns everywhere. It's such a sad thing to see these traditions die due to laziness. You're one of the real ones for sure.
 
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Halloween is my favorite time of the year. I'm an animatronics nut and tend to go all fuckin' out with decorations and such. I'm already getting ready for this year; putting money aside for some new spirit Halloween stuff, and some more mega animatronics. I also help out with the local haunts and contribute to theming and setting animatronics up. I have two sheds full of my Halloween shit at this point.

I typically spend Halloween nights dressed up, passing out candy from my garage—if they're brave enough to walk through my yard of horrors. I got a giant spider prop that absolutely terrifies most of the trick or treaters that come through. Had it for nearly fifteen years at this point. This shit gives me life.
 
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Shitted Scaredless said:
Don't hate it. It's the only thing keeping Christmas from advancing further into the year.
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It's not working. Stores are just putting out Halloween stuff earlier and earlier, not because people (other than in this thread) want July skeletons, but because that means Christmas stuff can come earlier.

One day stores are just going to have a Christmas aisle all year.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate other ones, and part of appreciating holidays is how they occur in their own times, marking their own seasons. In North America, imagine looking at an inflatable Snoopy-dressed-as-Santa with the sickly scent of fake fir with too-much-cinnamon around you in the heat of a muggy afternoon.

You wanna talk "war on Christmas," talk about forcing it out of its season.

The Cringe Connoisseur said:
I vividly remember walking the streets back in the day going door to door for treats in the cool fall air with the leaves blowing down the streets and decorations and jack o lanterns everywhere. It's such a sad thing to see these traditions die due to laziness.
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This was the dream, but usually you'd see a lot of kids in big jackets, and have to guess their costume by the legs and headpiece. If you're going door-to-door, pro strat is to pick a costume that can be warm, too. Wolfman dresses in layers more easily than Dracula's Bride, and Sexy Cop should probably plan on staying indoors.
 
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The Cringe Connoisseur said:
Dracula (1931)
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Based, as much as I love Hammer Horror and Christopher Lee as Dracula, the '31 version is my favorite.

I love carving pumpkins and usually start planning pretty early, my neighborhood doesn't get a lot of trick or treaters though so I'm decorating more for the raccoons than visitors. They're missing out because last year I gave out Pokemon cards as well as candy. (To the kids, not the raccoons)

I want to go hard decorating at work because we're a pretty small, kid- friendly shop and it would be fun.
 
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