Halloween

[omega 616]

This thread was brought about by two things, firstly a thread about a girl needing help with her costume for a party and secondly by mushroomhead.

As a kid Halloween is a time to be scary and dress up as scary things, well the lads do. Carve scary pumpkins and decorate your house to look like the Addams family home.

As people get older the costumes go very mundane, (outside of cosplay) all you get are supermen, batmen, mummies and vampires, none of which are scary.

Girls always go for cute things, which I have never gotten. "hey, what scary thing do you want to be this year?" "a princess/fairy ..." not too scary now!

I just want to know were the horror went, I know were all grown up and realize dressing as a something that meant to be scary wont be but at least do more than vist the local costume shop, Mr Ben style (there's an old reference for you!)

How about going as a clown, just to fuck with people who are scared of them? How about going as just something random like this guy?

Scarier than batman and superman.

vampires haave be the worst, (apart from the original style and the evolved ones from the blade series, all the vampire films have involved normal looking people who only look different at night, so if you ever go to a fancy dress with no costume just claim to be a vampire blending in.

What do you guys think? Should Halloween be scary or just a reason to dress weird?

 

[Colour Scientist]

Girls always go for cute things, which I have never gotten.

Ha. Wow.

OP: Costumes for Halloween are rarely scary even when people are trying. I don't think it matters whether your costume is horror related or not as long as there is some effort put into your costume.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Halloween should be a time to wear Shatner masks and kill teenage babysitters.

I have always thought it was just a time to wear costumes and hang out with friends myself. Going as something scary is just a bonus.

 

[New Troll]

Halloween should be less focused on stuff like costumes and being scary and focus on what really matters, like people having a good time, especially the kiddies.

 

[omega 616]

Halloween should be less focused on stuff like costumes and being scary and focus on what really matters, like people having a good time, especially the kiddies.

Isn't the whole point to be scared? Like roller coasters, you don't go on them for a pleasant ride like a merry go round, you go on them to be scared. The same reason people watch horror films, there not there for the story 'cos most of the time it's crap, they want to the frightened.

 

[werty10089]

Last year I went as a "Hanukkah Tree" a.k.a a tree with a menorah on top, the year before that I was a present. This year I went as a vampire-zombie-horse. Don't know soo much about next year.

 

[rokkolpo]

Well here in The Netherlands we have something called Carnaval, which is Halloween apart from background.

We just tell you up front we want to be silly for a week or so.
(We validate ''silly'' even more by temporarily making alcohol ridiculously cheap)

 

[Genixma]

Well last year I tried to go back to scariness and made a plague doctor's mask from scratch. It ended up breaking the day before with it rolled off the table. So I had to patch it up with gauze and spray paint it again. The end result was this:

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With that shown I answer your question with: I believe Halloween should be scary but that doesn't mean you can't dress up weird for it.

 

[000Ronald]

Why not both?

Something can be scary and absolutely ridiculous at the same time. Look at most horror movies, at least the good ones. A Nightmare on Elm Street[footnote]A pedophile child killer with a wicked sense of humor is horribly disfigured and murdered in a vigilante execution but manages to live on in the dream world, where he goes on to murder the children of the people who murdered him, as well as anyone else. Ridiculous? Yeah. Terrifying. The first time, yeah. [/footnote]...Final Destnation[footnote]A handful of people escape certain death only to be hunded down and killed in bizzarely improbable ways by what is implied to be the force of death itself. Ridiculous? In more ways than one. Terrifying? Yes, especially for someone like me, who believes in free will very strongly.[/footnote]...Marble Hornets[footnote]A really, really tall guy with no hair or face is stalking at least two people for no discernable reason. Oh, and he causes audio/visual distortion on the video whenever he appears. And there are sociopaths wearing masks involved in it. Ridiculous? Patently so. Terrifying? More than almost anything I've ever seen. No, really, it's terrifying, and I don't even know why.[/footnote]There are others, but those aren't for me to mention.

The thing about Halloween is you should do what you want to do, not what everyone else is doing. It is your chance to stand out, but only if you want to. If you want to dress up as Batman because you secretly want to be Batman, have at it. If you want to dress up as the guy from Texas Chainsaw Massacre for shits and giggles, go for it. Just make sure you have fun. And don't dress up as a faceless, hairless, rail-thin giant. They will beat you with baseball bats.

 

[omega 616]

Well last year I tried to go back to scariness and made a plague doctor's mask from scratch. It ended up breaking the day before with it rolled off the table. So I had to patch it up with gauze and spray paint it again. The end result was this:

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With that shown I answer your question with: I believe Halloween should be scary but that doesn't mean you can't dress up weird for it.

Weird is just as good as bad, just think it's silly you get like 6 supermen, 4 batmen, 2 vampires and 8 mummies and the odd Roman turn up with countless fairies, catwomen, princess's and playboy bunnies.

Just something that makes you stand out and with a scary vibe to it. Plus it could be a good conversation starter, nothing starts one off better than "so what are you?" can't say that to a guy with a big red S on his chest...

 

[Genixma]

Well last year I tried to go back to scariness and made a plague doctor's mask from scratch. It ended up breaking the day before with it rolled off the table. So I had to patch it up with gauze and spray paint it again. The end result was this:

[]

With that shown I answer your question with: I believe Halloween should be scary but that doesn't mean you can't dress up weird for it.

Weird is just as good as bad, just think it's silly you get like 6 supermen, 4 batmen, 2 vampires and 8 mummies and the odd Roman turn up with countless fairies, catwomen, princess's and playboy bunnies.

Just something that makes you stand out and with a scary vibe to it. Plus it could be a good conversation starter, nothing starts one off better than "so what are you?" can't say that to a guy with a big red S on his chest...

Agreed, and before anyone actually asks what I was trying to pull off as it looks nothing to a usual Plague Doctor my answer is initially was trying to cosplay something similar to this: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=plague+hunter#/d2fdn00 but lacked funds. So I made do and it turned out the mask was enough to strike the vibe for it.

 

[omega 616]

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I am not saying either/or, I am saying those that you listed are scary. the ones I listed (superman, batman etc) are all hero's, what's so scary about a hero?

I thought Halloween was about frights, pumpkins having scary faces carved into them, cobwebs and skeletons hanging from walls and doors, not "never fear for popular super hero is here to save the day!".

Instead of spiderman, go as venom, same costume but black and the villan, it makes it instantly more scary. You could go for the Brock (is it?) venom that's the size of the hulk and has a different head but that requires more work to make the costume.

 

[Doclector]

In my book, if it f***s with people's minds, then do it. If you know someone who has an irrational fear of John Mclane (meaning you know a european terrorist) then don that white vest and let ye olde brick sh***ing begin.

Though i can't remember the last time I dressed up for halloween. I think the farthest I've been recently was coming into college with a hannibal lector mask and my hair combed back. I would like to though.

 

[Ranorak]

Well here in The Netherlands we have something called Carnaval, which is Halloween apart from background.

We just tell you up front we want to be silly for a week or so.
(We validate ''silly'' even more by temporarily making alcohol ridiculously cheap)

It's also not mend to be scary.
At all.

silly, weird, sexy and drunk.
Not scary.

God, looking forward to it already.
Think I might try The Mask this year.

 

[megs1120]

I wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween as a kid, so I'm completely confused. There are rules?

 

[rokkolpo]

Well here in The Netherlands we have something called Carnaval, which is Halloween apart from background.

We just tell you up front we want to be silly for a week or so.
(We validate ''silly'' even more by temporarily making alcohol ridiculously cheap)

It's also not mend to be scary.
At all.

silly, weird, sexy and drunk.
Not scary.

God, looking forward to it already.
Think I might try The Mask this year.

It's as much meant to be scary as it is to be silly, weird, sexy.
That's the fun of Carnaval.

 

[omega 616]

I wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween as a kid, so I'm completely confused. There are rules?

You couldn't celebrate Halloween? That sucks.

It is meant to be a scary day of the year, just watch loads of horror films or go to a party in fancy dress and try and get an apple out of a big bowl without using your hands and eating toffee apples as one of your 5 a day!

It seems to have turned into dress as your favorite hero and for girls dress like a hero with almost no clothing.

There not so much rules as breaking tradition, like celebrating xams by having a kebab and fries or thanks giving with a pizza and veg smoothie.

 

[Kittz]

.__.;; Adult costumes usually has a fetish club that comes with it. Vampire? Fetish! Zombie? Fetish! Britney Spears? Horror club in room 103. Tell them Deadpool sent you.

 

[StBishop]

That dude has venom's markings... But he's red. Carnage?

He's more inaccurate than random.

I wasn't allowed to celebrate Halloween as a kid, so I'm completely confused. There are rules?

You couldn't celebrate Halloween? That sucks.

It is meant to be a scary day of the year, just watch loads of horror films or go to a party in fancy dress and try and get an apple out of a big bowl without using your hands and eating toffee apples as one of your 5 a day!

It seems to have turned into dress as your favorite hero and for girls dress like a hero with almost no clothing.

There not so much rules as breaking tradition, like celebrating xams by having a kebab and fries or thanks giving with a pizza and veg smoothie.

Just quietly?
What the fuck does a kebab and fries have to do with Christmas?

OT: I don't care, it's not celebrated in my country.

 

[FamoFunk]

Hallow e'en - great excuse to dress up and get drunk.

I really like Hallow e'en, I do.