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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.

Posted by Matt on 09/20/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 102 comments

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kittygirl @ 09/21/2004 4:31 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/21/2004 8:07 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by springsprite @ 09/21/2004 8:32 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/21/2004 9:35 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by mikey @ 09/21/2004 9:48 AM

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

game:candyland bitch

Chestnuts roasted by xxl @ 09/21/2004 9:50 AM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 09/21/2004 10:21 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr Mango @ 09/21/2004 10:33 AM

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?

Chestnuts roasted by jhnnywalkr @ 09/21/2004 10:50 AM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 09/21/2004 12:04 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Max @ 09/21/2004 12:32 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 09/21/2004 12:37 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak @ 09/21/2004 12:41 PM

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…

Chestnuts roasted by AgentSix @ 09/21/2004 12:55 PM

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

Activity: Ouija(Spelling?) Board

Chestnuts roasted by J-Dog @ 09/21/2004 1:00 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by MartinezWallace @ 09/21/2004 1:13 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by MartinezWallace @ 09/21/2004 1:13 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 09/21/2004 1:16 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Evan @ 09/21/2004 1:26 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Corwin @ 09/21/2004 1:40 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Corwin @ 09/21/2004 1:40 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 09/21/2004 1:55 PM

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

Chestnuts roasted by Trash @ 09/21/2004 2:12 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 09/21/2004 2:15 PM

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.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 09/21/2004 2:17 PM

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