The theme this year was Scary Monsters, Super Creeps and it was AWESOME!

Here are the winners for Scariest, Funniest, Sexiest, Beast of Show and Best Potluck:

The costumes are a lot of fun to spot in this video, especially the haunting visage of Hunter Thompson at the 4:12 mark. The lyrics to Wait and See don’t have anything to do with Halloween, but I love the song anyway just because of the video.

I really recommend Special Affections, the album Wait and See is on. It reminds me of an early album by New Order. You can buy it here:

• Special Affections by Diamond Rings at Amazon.com
• Special Affections by Diamond Rings [iTunes link]

I especially love Halloween episodes on How I Met Your Mother. They are so much fun. Here is why Barney loves Halloween:

Here is the Halloween Walk of Shame Parade:

I love this one, too. Flight Suit Up!

The result is an incredibly creepy time capsule of a school from the late Fifties.

• An abandoned but perfectly preserved Japanese school — Tokyo Times

It’s surprising how quickly a building can change from loud and vibrant to silent and creepy. If my home, with its Xbox and comfy chair were abandoned and preserved for half a century, would it be just as eery?

• Retrospace: Retrospace Podcast #22
• Retrospace: Retrospace Mix Tape #16: 2011 Halloween Mix

Here is the list of music and clips from Retrospace Podcast #22:

• “Night Gallery” theme (7 seconds only)
• Halloween III TV promo
• “Cthu Thlu” – Caravan
• “Visiting Hours” movie Radio Spot
• “Horror Movie” – Skyhook (1975) – (portion of song only)
• Woolworth Halloween radio commercial (1978)
• “Kolchak – The Night Stalker” TV theme
• “Halloween” soundtrack clip (1978)
• “Werewolf” – Gary Warren
• “H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N Spells Halloween”
• Bobby “Boris” Pickett WCOP Boston radio spot
• “The Munsters” TV theme
• Clip from “Young Frankenstein”
• “Docteur Jekyll Et Monsieur Hyde” – Serge Gainsbourg
• Clip from “Scary Spooky Stories” LP 1973
• “Rosemary’s Baby” theme as sung by Mia Farrow
• “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” clip

Here is the list from Retrospace Mix Tape #16:

• Jacula – Soul Satan 1979
• The Duponts – Screamin’ Ball (At Dracula Hall) 1958
• Movie Promo The Haunted Strangler
• Bo Diddley – Bo Meets The Monster
• Billy Demarco & Count Dracula -Drac’s Back 1962
• Revels – Midnight Stroll 1959
• Virgil Holmes – Ghost Train 1961
• Buchanan & Goodman – Frankenstein Of ‘59
• The Verdicts – The Mummy’s Ball 1961
• Hollywood Flames – Frankenstein’s Den
• The Nu-Trends – Spooksville 1963
• Milton DeLugg & The All-Stars – The Munster’s Theme 1964
• Thomas Newman – To The Shock Of Miss Louise 1987
• John Zacherle – Coolest Little Monster 1960
• Five Man Electrical Band – Werewolf
• Bill Doggett – Monster Party 1959
• Johnny Fuller – Haunted House
• The Jayhawks – The Creature (From Outer Space) 1957
• The Kac-Ties – Mr Were-Wolf 1962
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Feast Of The Mau Mau
• Allan Sherman – My Son, the Vampire 1964
• Bobby Please And The Pleasers – The Monster 1959
• Redbone – The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
• The Fiends – Theme from The Addams Family 1964
• Johnny Otis Show With Marci Lee – Castin’ My Spell
• Billy Lee Riley – Nightmare Mash 1963
• Sonny Richard’s Panics With Cindy And Misty – The Voo Doo Walk 1962
• Swingin’ Phillies – Frankenstein’s party 1958
• The Monotones – Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1958
• Howlin’ Wolf – I Ain’t Superstitious
• Jackie Morningstar – Rockin’ In The Graveyard 1959
• Buchanan & Goodman – Frankenstein Returns (Part II)
• Morgue And The Ghouls – Morgus The Magnificent
• Orvin Yoes – The Vampire 1960
• Combustible Edison – Bewitched 1995
• Combustible Edison – Coven of Witches 1995
• Trax – Watch Out For The Boogie Man 1977
• Nosferatu – Willie The Fox 1970
• The Vamps – Disco Blood 1977
• Saxon – Princess Of The Night 1981
• Jack Malmsten – Satan Takes a Holiday

Enjoy this campy Halloween fun!

Via: Incredible Old Victorian Houses Made Out of LEGOS! – News – GeekTyrant

Years ago, I went as Tippi Heddren in The Birds.

I developed that costume myself. I found the dress at a thrift store and made the head dress out of an angel’s halo with the fluff removed and craft store birds on strings. You can actually BUY a costume like it now: When Birds Attack Costume at Amazon.com

I wouldn’t recommend that costume, however. The Halloween party was a never ending barrage of “What are you supposed to be?”

I had never seen the movie, so I rented it so I could analyze her dress and hair. The creepiest scene however didn’t have Tippi Heddren in it. It’s here:

Those broken tea cups hanging in the kitchen caught my eye and filled me with dread. This Halloween, grab some movies by Hitchcock and enjoy the tense suspense!

Hitchcock photo via: YIMMY’S YAYO™

Via: MemeCats: Just in Time for Meowloween – Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger?

• Instructables: zombie makeup
• Gelatine recipies for normal prosthetics and zombie skin. – HauntForum

This year’s Halloween theme is Scary Monsters, Super Creeps, so I’m going as a mummy and I’m looking for makeup techniques that will look like I have thousand year old skin. Hopefully some of these links will help me.

Update 10-26-11: I tried to the liquid latex and toilet paper method. It didn’t look good on my first try and I probably could have learned how to make it work with a few more trial runs. Unfortunately, my face reacted to the liquid latex. It was itchy, red and sore for a couple of days afterward, so I abandoned that idea for my costume.

The directions for the liquid latex recommended that I do a test on my forearm before using it, which I did, but I didn’t have a reaction. My face, apparently, is FAR more sensitive than the skin on my forearm. Don’t be stupid like me. Do a tiny test on your FACE before spreading that stuff all over. Give it at least thirty minutes to see if there is a reaction at the test site before doing your test run for your Halloween makeup.