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09/20/2004: Gross party favors, Mr. Peanut’s car and a survey.

Today on the Halloween Countdown, “Grosser Than Gross” Party Favors! Six bucks for a well organized clump of fake vomit, oozing bugs and other disgusting fun stuff.

By the way, I can’t believe how much stuff I’ve already found for the Countdown. I’m actually at a surplus point. Don’t remember it being so easy last year. I’m now up to eight different Halloween cereals (we’ve covered three already), but the real insanity was realizing that I’ve collected four different kinds of Halloween yogurt. I don’t know what I’d do without this excuse to buy every pumpkin-graced piece of shit in sight…so much fun. Speaking of fun, I ran into Mr. Peanut’s Nut Mobile today.

SPOOKY Survey: Not just a normal survey mind you yes. Okay, you’re throwing a Halloween party. Nothing fancy…you’re just having some people over, maybe in costumes, maybe not. There’s a stormy forecast for the night, so if the party busts you can’t blame the weather for setting improper tone. Your job: pick out five movies that’ll haunt your guests, and one spooky activity so you don’t all feel like you just sat around watching movies all night. OK GO.


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Discussion Thread: 102 comments

first 2 days in a row?

holy crap is that a record.

i rule.

yeah ill read the article now :)

Ghosted by ralph @ 09/20/2004 10:12 PM EDT

five movies:
the blob – 88 remake
scream – perfect party movie
return of the living dead – need i say more?
beetlejuice – awesome!
killer klowns from outer space – klowns!

scary activity:
ummmm, sacrifice a lamb in a circle of fire?

Ghosted by ralph @ 09/20/2004 10:16 PM EDT

scream
the ring
the sixth sense
seven
critters (the original)

game: blind fold and make them touch weird shit like peeled grapes (supposed to be eyeballs) sort of thing.

Ghosted by Melissa @ 09/20/2004 10:49 PM EDT

I’ll choose not to make a pointless comment by stating my place in line.

:-) hooray!

* Night of the living dead (the remake its really good actually)

* Taking Lives

* Thirteen Ghosts

* Gothika

* Dawn of the dead (once again, the newest one. its AMAZING.)

and as for a game, i’d have to recommend a game called ‘7 deadly sins’ and its like an adult version of truth, and you can play with up to 21 people, and i actually used it for my back up plan incase my outdoor cowboy party got ruined from the hurricane.

Ghosted by Lucy @ 09/20/2004 10:58 PM EDT

"it’s also a thousand times oilier, to the point where I felt criminal not masturbating immediately after handling it."

classic. And the scary activity maybe?

Ghosted by jono @ 09/20/2004 10:59 PM EDT

Dawn of the Dead, the new one just cause its awesome

The Evil Dead (my personal fav horror movie)

Halloween

Scream (yes Ralph, perfect movie for this)

The Excorcist (scares the crap out of everyone)

game: MONOPOLY!

Ghosted by ANdrew @ 09/20/2004 11:01 PM EDT

shivers
the blob
evil dead
exorcist
rosemary’s baby

for a game, i’d have to go with a halloween-themed version of pictionary.

Ghosted by candice @ 09/20/2004 11:19 PM EDT

I want to know more about the 7 deadly sins game. Please tell me how to play.

Ghosted by mindsuckr @ 09/20/2004 11:23 PM EDT

My own:

- Friday The 13th Part IV
- Elm Street III
- Evil Dead 2
- TCM (especially if we’ve got some newbies)
- Ghostbusters (..put on at the point in the night where everyone wants to be home but lacks the sobriety to get there)

And probably The Worst Witch, skipped forward to you-know-what-part.

Game: Dungeonmaster. I’ll give you the rules someday. It’s like the Asshole dice game, tho.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/20/2004 11:30 PM EDT

I’m making everyone bring their own movies.
Then we get more of a selection and the chance to mock people’s bad taste.

Spooky activiy: "Spin the bottle with Harry Herpes" and I’m going to have a pinata filled with live worms, fake blood, and some dismembered body parts.
Great G-Rated fun.

Ghosted by red @ 09/20/2004 11:31 PM EDT

For a doctor, Dr. Mad really doesn’t pay much attention to hygiene…

Ghosted by Bob Goatse @ 09/20/2004 11:32 PM EDT

The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Ring
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes
Return Of The Killer Tomatoes
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (horrifying)

Okay, so I’m not a horror movie buff.

And then we’ll all play Zombies Ate My Neighbors on the SNES (just bought it the other day), Rampage on NES, Eternal Darkness on Gamecube, or, if I decide to ever buy it, The Typing of the Dead on Dreamcast. Yeah, I’m a game nut.

On an unrelated note, yay me for finally picking a name I may or may not be consistent with when posting. No thieving.

Ghosted by John who henceforth shall be RoboLogna when commenting @ 09/20/2004 11:32 PM EDT

Evil Dead
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors
Dawn of the Dead
Creepshow (1 or 2.. or both)

Activity? Hmm.. Quarters? That way you could just make rules to go with the movie along the way.

Ghosted by Matt (#2?) @ 09/20/2004 11:33 PM EDT

Damn, forgot Timesplitters 2 with all zombies, or perhaps Doom. Or, if someone else brings them, the Darkstalkers games. Think I’m done now.

Ghosted by RoboLogna @ 09/20/2004 11:35 PM EDT

Ok that’s the second day in a row my post was deleted. Is it my computer?

Ghosted by Mr King @ 09/20/2004 11:53 PM EDT

Um, okay… what would I watch?

…

Sorry, it just takes me a minute to get into this new mindset, of having friends, I mean.

Um… okay, here’s a list of five films I wouldn’t object to picking:

* Jacob’s Ladder (absolutely)

* Dawn of the Dead (the remake… I was suprised how good it turned out. What the Resident Evil movie SHOULD have been.)

* Dracula (come on, give him his props, he’s DRACULA)

* Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon (and none of that "Manhunter" crap either… yes I’ve seen it, and I like CSI too, but give me a break)

* Silent Hill (to accomplish this I would need to finish my time machine, go into the future two or three years, buy the movie and return to my own time… but how would HAVING it in the present affect the future? Dun-dun-DUH!)

I guess that’s technically five, but since one of my choices won’t exist for a few more years, I’ll add:

* Dolls (a SciFi Channel classic! Two middle fingers way up!)

Ghosted by Night_Trekker @ 09/21/2004 12:15 PM EDT

Movies (without having read your guys’, wouldn’t want to use ideas not genuinely mine):

The Ring
Incubus (Shatner version)
The House on Haunted Hill (only if it’s really storming)
Dead Alive (My personal favorite)
The Lost Boys (not because it’s spooky, just because I love it)

And for the spooky activity, I’ll have to go with that 90210 Twister Matt reviewed a while back.

Ghosted by Mara @ 09/21/2004 12:21 PM EDT

wait, screw House on Haunted Hill, I just remembered in full detail how much that movie actually sucked. I’m replacing it with Unsane.

Has anyone here seen that? I’ve never encountered anyone who has seen it (except the friend who introduced me to it), but it might be random enough for this site.

Ghosted by Mara @ 09/21/2004 12:25 PM EDT

Night of the Living Dead
Friday the 13th part IV
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
and finish it off with good old
Halloween
The game we would play is called
"Eat candy and drink alcohol until you feel so sick you wish you were dead"

Ghosted by Buster @ 09/21/2004 1:15 AM EDT

Five Movies:

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Young Frankenstein

Wait a minute… That’s it. I don’t like most horror movies anyway.

Spooky Activity: Well, last year I went to an Organ recital with a bunch of people. They played "Ride of the Valkyries (sp?) and other "Spooky" pieces.

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 09/21/2004 1:45 AM EDT

Five Movies

Night of the Living Dead (classic)
Poltergeist
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Scream
The Shining

Activity….Heavy Drinking

Ghosted by Craig @ 09/21/2004 2:19 AM EDT

1. The Nightmare Before Christmas
2. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
3. Interview with the Vampire (I’ll jump at any chance to watch my DVD :) )
4. From Hell
5. A Nightmare on Elm Street movie – I forget which ones are which. It’s been too long.

Activity – I would bust out my old board game titled "Nightmare" that I forced my family to play *once* with me when I was little… It was weird, and had a video tape you watch as you play. You were supposed to turn up the tv all the way so it would scare everyone to death when the "gatekeeper" came on. I think they have a revamped version of this out called "Atmosfear" that I saw at work… I’ll have to check it out.

Ghosted by Ryane @ 09/21/2004 2:31 AM EDT

Movie 1: Evil Dead (A must!)
Movie 2: House on Haunted Hill (for a lark, it’s almost scary, right?)
Movie 3: Thirteen Ghosts (Sometimes you’ve got incorperate ‘Hollywood Horror’, and this is the scariest piece of hollywood crap I’ve ever seen.)
Movie 4: Night of the Living Dead (’68 version, an oldie but a goodie.)
Movie 5: Dawn of the Dead (It can’t be halloween without, can it?)

Activity:
Pop Silent Hill into the ol’ PS2, and pass the controler.
Nothing says Halloween in my book, than a classic survival horror game, that is remembered as being the scariest of the series.

Ghosted by Jay @ 09/21/2004 3:15 AM EDT

Movies:
1. a random Scream – Just to start things off with something popular

2. Motel Hell – Pig mask and chainsaw! Joe Bob Briggs is great!

3. Troll 1 or 2 – Whichever had the baseball at the end, scared the hell out of me as a kid.

4. Leperachaun in the Hood – Ice T’s in it, so terrible it’s scary.

5. Nothing – Everyone would leave after I put the last one on.

Activity:
Dodging things people threw at me for playing Leperachaun in the Hood.

Ghosted by Trampus @ 09/21/2004 4:13 AM EDT

#1: Brain Dead (think it was called Dead Alive in the US)
#2: Meet the Feebles (scary dirty muppets *shudders*)
#3: Evil Dead
#4: Bad Taste
#5: Dawn of the Dead

Activity: A board game called Ghost House. You had to drop a glow in the dark skull through a coffin which would in turn set of booby traps around the house KILLING YOU. Mwahahaha (does anyone else remember this game or was it another of my childhood nightmares?)

Ghosted by ToeKnee @ 09/21/2004 4:13 AM EDT

1. Night of the Lepus
2. Sleepy Hollow (the only movie that has *almost* made me faint)
3. Interview With a Vampire
4. Suspiria
5. House II

and for a 6th pick on hand: Dracula Dead and Lovin’ It! or Once Bitten.

Ghosted by kittygirl @ 09/21/2004 4:31 AM EDT

1. Devil’s Rain (so everyone could see the Michael Myers/Bill Shatner mask at the end)

2. Donnie Darko (Frank is about the scariest shit I’ve ever seen)

3. Jacob’s Ladder (isn’t that the one w/ the jerky shadows that drag people off to Hell? Shudder…)

4. Gremlins (for fun)

5. The Deer Hunter (more of a psychological horror, but an awesome movie, so I’d have to include it)

As for an activity – drinking and carving pumpkins. We could use the pumpkin cuts as poultices for when everyone gets bleery-eyed and starts chopping off appendages.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 09/21/2004 8:07 AM EDT

My favorite scary movies are Shining and Poltergeist.

But I would prefer watching these movies on MST3K:

The Touch of Satan
Werewolf
Soultaker
The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
"Manos" The Hands Of Fate
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Hobgoblins

Activity? When I was little we played Hide and Seek in the dark once.. So how about any activity, just in the dark.

Ghosted by springsprite @ 09/21/2004 8:32 AM EDT

No way that vomit was worth $.50. It’d be lucky if it sold at a quarter.
Also, they "stuck on your shoe" accessory should have been made to look like a dog turd. Easier to replicate and more believable.
I liked the bug oozing, though. That would be cool to throw into the bottom of someone’s backpack or at the bottom of their landry hamper. The weight of the books (or clothes) would squoosh the guts out, and the bug itself would be tangled up in everything, in all of its sticky glory.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 09/21/2004 9:35 AM EDT

hey matt, you almost make me want to work in the city with all the funny shit you see on a weekly basis. but, its still not worth the commute.

Ghosted by mikey @ 09/21/2004 9:48 AM EDT

movies:
1.ginger snaps
2.night of the living dead
3.friday the 13th part 6
4.halloween
5.sleepaway camp

game:candyland bitch

Ghosted by xxl @ 09/21/2004 9:50 AM EDT

If I were putting together a movie night for Halloween this year, it would look like this:

1. Dark Water
2. Dead and Buried
3. The House that Dripped Blood
4. Phantasm
5. Zombi 2

Ghosted by Ubu Rex @ 09/21/2004 10:21 AM EDT

Ok I have to say it just beacuse no one else has….

Mr Peanut looks like his is driving a huge yellow penis.

Ok now to movies-
1. Final destination- Only the first one. The second was crap.
2&3. Children of the corn 1&2- the only good ones of the lot. The little girl siging bible verses scared the hell outa me.
4. NOES 3 Dream warriors- Cus I loved the wizard kid. "I don’t beleave in fairy tales kid…"
5. Return of the living dead 3- The guests are drunk and need a 50/50 mix of horror and gothic hot chick boobs.

Game?
Blood bobbing- Get some non staining fake blood and fill a small tub with it till it can cover a normal sized head. Buy various fae body parts till you have around three of each (3 eye balls, 3 ears, 3 fingers, 3 toes, 3 assorted). Put them in the mix. First person to bobout one of each wins.

Ghosted by Mr Mango @ 09/21/2004 10:33 AM EDT

Geez, I want to work where you get to see Mr Peanut on a regular basis. Not to mention GIANT FREAKIN ROBOTS. That Dracula show ever start?

Ghosted by jhnnywalkr @ 09/21/2004 10:50 AM EDT

Let’s all go to da moobies:
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
GhostBusters
War of the Worlds
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
CreepShow
Bonus: Alien

Activity?
Dark Tower
or that one game that randomly turns on a colored light on the board and reveals vamps and werewolves
My copy of Classic Dungeon
and, of course, a couple rounds of Beavis and Butthead’s Scream Phone.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 09/21/2004 12:04 PM EDT

What ‘you know what’ part in ‘the worst witch’? God, now I gotta rent ‘the worst witch’.

Ghosted by Max @ 09/21/2004 12:32 PM EDT

1. The Shining
2. Poltergeist
3. Ghostbusters
4. The Exorcist
5. The Mothman Prophecies

Activity: Sport hunting the tourists who invade my city every October and make any drive from my house to anywhere take about 20-30 minutes longer than it should. Asswipes.

Ghosted by B-Dawg @ 09/21/2004 12:37 PM EDT

1. House on Haunted Hill
2. Dawn of the Dead (first one)
3. Evil Dead 2
4. The Exorcist
5. Plan 9 From Outer Space

Activity: Take my clothes off. That’s enought to freak anybody out.

Ghosted by Rayzak @ 09/21/2004 12:41 PM EDT

1) Godmonster of Indian Flats (Giant killer sheep movie. Really.)

2) Donnie Darko (It’s got a Halloween connection and I’ve been looking for an excuse to watch it again.)

3) The Thing (Despite having seen this movie at least a dozen times over the years, it still makes me jump.)

4) The Attic Expeditions (Because one of these days I’m going to watch that movie with someone and actually figure out what happens in it. Also, Seth Green was great.)

5) Eraserhead (I don’t know anyone who’s made it all the way through a viewing of Eraserhead. Figure that’d be a good way of clearing the room when it got to be that time.)

Hmm, only one actual horror movie… Oh well…

As for a spooky activity… I guess the scariest thing I can come up with off the top of my head would be for guests to help me clean my fridge. There’s bound to be stuff in there that’ll put a Hollywood effects crew to shame. And I think it’s moving… Aaaaahhh…

Ghosted by AgentSix @ 09/21/2004 12:55 PM EDT

The Exorcist
The Sixth Sense
Signs
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street

Activity: Ouija(Spelling?) Board

Ghosted by J-Dog @ 09/21/2004 1:00 PM EDT

Yeah, I was going to suggest that the Ouija board be taken out, at risk of it not working and nobody having fun. However, depending on who is going to the party, there could be that one kid who ALWAYS FUCKING manipulates the damn ouija board pointer thing, to make it say worthless things, like so and so’s moms a whore, and that so and so blows dead goats.
Speaking of blowing animals, you know in "The Shining" where she is running up the stairs, and then she see’s this…well, it’s a bear, giving this other guy a blowjob. The woman puts on a mortified face, and then runs off, and another word is never mentioned about it. Hold the Phone. Pop quiz. What would I do, if I were in a haunted hotel, and a man was trying to get at me with a blade, and I saw a guy in a bear suit giving some other stooge head? It would have something to do with grabbing him by his bear collar, taking off his mask, and sputtering in his face "Th-this is n-no time for beeaaaarrrr bloooowwwwjoooobss!"

Did anyone offer up the film "The Changeling?" Well they should have if they didn’t. It’s a fine film.

Ghosted by MartinezWallace @ 09/21/2004 1:13 PM EDT

Yeah, I was going to suggest that the Ouija board be taken out, at risk of it not working and nobody having fun. However, depending on who is going to the party, there could be that one kid who ALWAYS FUCKING manipulates the damn ouija board pointer thing, to make it say worthless things, like so and so’s moms a whore, and that so and so blows dead goats.
Speaking of blowing animals, you know in "The Shining" where she is running up the stairs, and then she see’s this…well, it’s a bear, giving this other guy a blowjob. The woman puts on a mortified face, and then runs off, and another word is never mentioned about it. Hold the Phone. Pop quiz. What would I do, if I were in a haunted hotel, and a man was trying to get at me with a blade, and I saw a guy in a bear suit giving some other stooge head? It would have something to do with grabbing him by his bear collar, taking off his mask, and sputtering in his face "Th-this is n-no time for beeaaaarrrr bloooowwwwjoooobss!"

Did anyone offer up the film "The Changeling?" Well they should have if they didn’t. It’s a fine film.

Ghosted by MartinezWallace @ 09/21/2004 1:13 PM EDT

Does anyone remember a movie from the late 70’s involving ventriloquist dummies and their owner killing people. This movie terrorized me as a kid, it had a clown dummy and I remember a line going something like "Clown knows" were the guys main dummy turns its head on its own and speaks.(Clown new about a killing I think). I believe the guy who starred in it was the one on the TV show Soap with a ventriloquism dummy, but IMDB doesn’t list a credit for this movie under his name. If anyone can help I will be forever grateful!

My 5 would include this one along with:
Phantasm
Exorcist 1
Exorcist 3
Trilogy of Terror
The Other

Ghosted by Mike @ 09/21/2004 1:16 PM EDT

A really cool movie is a …hocus pocus, a bette midler sarah jessica parker lesbo fatasy is like… awesome

Ghosted by Evan @ 09/21/2004 1:26 PM EDT

I don’t know yet since I own about 70 different horror movie titles, but if I had to..

The Shining
Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu
House on Haunted Hill (Not the remake, the 1950s version.)
Psycho

Ths scary activity: Hide and go seek in the dark. This one can be scary as hell since if you’re hiding in a closet you can scream real loud and grab them which is always a turn on.
You can do all kinds of other scary crap in that game if you think about it.

Ghosted by Corwin @ 09/21/2004 1:40 PM EDT

I don’t know yet since I own about 70 different horror movie titles, but if I had to..

The Shining
Night of the Living Dead
Nosferatu
House on Haunted Hill (Not the remake, the 1950s version.)
Psycho

Ths scary activity: Hide and go seek in the dark. This one can be scary as hell since if you’re hiding in a closet you can scream real loud and grab them which is always a turn on.
You can do all kinds of other scary crap in that game if you think about it.

Ghosted by Corwin @ 09/21/2004 1:40 PM EDT

Hmmm…my five:
1. IT (really long, but I love Stephen King)
2. The Shining (again- Stephen King)
3. The Ring (scared me in the theatre!)
4. Donnie Darko (great film)
5. The Exorcist (It absolutely is the scariest movie ever.)
For my activity, I agree with Corwin- Hide and seek in the dark, but outdoors, only. I live in the woods, and I have done this activity on my birthday in November…it wasn’t supposed to be scary…but is was. It always is.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 09/21/2004 1:55 PM EDT

Mike, I think the movie your thinking of is "Magic"

Ghosted by Trash @ 09/21/2004 2:12 PM EDT

Awesome Donnie Darko props.

I want to add a cartoon. Dot and the Kangaroo. No, don’t laugh. Seriously. That bunyip, he was mucho scario.

Ghosted by trajeal @ 09/21/2004 2:15 PM EDT

OK…five movies…hmm:

Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Blair Witch Project
and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (scare ‘em shitless!)

As for the actvity, I would say the drinking of Halloween-themed beer. In other words, beer dyed black, or orange, or perhaps even red.

Ghosted by Nate @ 09/21/2004 2:17 PM EDT

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