NICE.
I'm fan of scary movies too. I have a small list of ones to catch up on this year, but I've been in such a Halloween funk that I haven't even started yet and we're already half way through October! Guess I better hop to it. What are your favorite Halloween/scary movies to watch?
It's funny that you're not really into Halloween.. and yet this totally sounds the premise of a Halloween flick to me:
let's just say that if I start ditributing candy it will probably be coated in solutions of different concentrations of toxic proteins (possibly lethal) I got from the local flora.
Maybe you're more in the spirit of it than you think??
Is it weird to say my favourite scary movies are movies I have only watched once or twice and never watched again? The first horror movies I remember watching are Halloween and Candyman when I was around 8 or 9 (far too young ) and they scared the crap out of me and I didn't want to watch them again for a long time and then when I got older I felt like if I watched them again it might ruin them beacuse they wouldn't be as scary as I thought they were. So far that weirdly paradoxical reason they are my favourites.
By the way have you played\watched Until Dawn?
I think that makes perfect sense. I'm sort of the same way actually. I had a similar thing with The Shining. Same deal as you, watched it way too young when I spent the night at a friend's house (I was also about 8 or 9) and it terrified me. I was I think 25 before I watched it again, and it definitely did lose some of the mystique. But then again, I also felt like it was a classic that I couldn't justify not watching as an adult either.
I have yet to upgrade to the next gen console but it's at the top of my list for when I do, which will likely happen on Cyber Monday. I've watched a few Let's Play vids on it... though not tooooo much. Don't wanna spoil anything. But it would be PERFECT to play leading up to Halloween though!!
I´m doing sacrifcial BBQ every Friday, so that´s not special.
But poisoning kids sounds like fun. Shame that we don´t have "Trick or Treat" in my country.
We actually don´t have a Halloween. We call it - sorry, but it can´t be translated precisely - Souls Day. More or less.
Sure, we have pumpkins, but they´re only for the right "atmosphere". But what we actually do is that we go to cemetery and light candles on the graves of our loved ones and people we knew. It has christian origin, but Czech people are doing that even if they don´t believe in god. That´s how we revere our dead.
Only thing I don´t understand is why so many people talk to that grave. After I lit a candle I usually go the pub and have drink for all the dead.
Been using the same sheet for almost that long.
Don't know where my wife got the idea, but this site is pretty instructive. The skeletons look something like this:
My friends and I had a tradition where we'd get dressed up in costume, go out to eat, hit up a few spook houses, then go home to drink and play board/video games. Haven't been able to do that as much the last few yew with new babies and conflicting work schedules though.
Sadly where I live, trick or treating or halloween in general aren't a big thing. Didn't keep me from going trick or treating a few years.
Then there was a time I did nothing. And now I watch horror movies on halloween. It started with the old Dracula, the wolf man and the invisible man. Then I watched Halloween. This year I plan on watching friday the 13th.
1) I usually get into the Halloween spirit by watching some classic horror movies (black and white), such as Dracula with Bela Lugosi or the original Body Snatchers.
SoulLess, stick with the classics! Believe me, the black and white horror movies are better because they actually focus on entertaining as opposed to gore, blood, dead people, etc.
2) My plans for Halloween are to go to my sister's house and help her pass out candy (I live with my parents in a gated retirement community, so not much happens here for Halloween.)
3) I purchased a Riddler costume for ComiCon earlier this year, and had a great time wearing it! I plan to wear it again for Halloween this year.