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09/20/2008: Halloween Countdown ‘08: Scary Art Contest!

Welcome to the first Saturday Night Thread of the 2008 Halloween season! EXCITING. While normal SNTs usually exist without any set theme, Halloween is a special time of year…so if you plan to converse, think deadly!

One of my favorite things about the spooky season is the increased amount of horror movies on television, and though we’re still a few weeks away from that effect really sinking in, there are a few choice films airing this evening. Pick your poison!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III — 11:35 PM on Cinemax More Max
The Craft –  11 PM on HBO Signature
Trilogy of Terror 2 — 1 AM on Sci-Fi

Note that all of the times listed are EST, so adjust accordingly depending on where you live. Much as I love TCM III, I think I’m going to go with The Craft leading into Trilogy of Terror 2, assuming I don’t pass out before one or both movies airs. (It’s looking to be a martini night.)

If you’re looking for a Halloween activity a bit more spirited than watching scary movies on cable television, maybe this X-E Art Contest will help you out?

Your Mission: Create a work of art featuring Jason Voorhees dancing. That is your only rule. You can draw it, build it in Photoshop, make it out of macaroni pieces — whatever you like. It just has to feature Jason Voorhees DANCING.

(UPDATE: The deadline has passed! Thanks!) You have until Sunday at 12 noon EST to complete your piece. When finished, e-mail your opus to me, and I’ll highlight the very best entries in tomorrow’s post. Actually, if only ten of you enter, I’ll highlight all of them, no matter how horrible the entries are. We’ll see how this goes.

Need more incentive? I will objectively choose a grand prize winner, and that person will receive five packages of ancient Ghoul-Aid, the spookiest Kool-Aid flavor ever! I must add a disclaimer that the Ghoul-Aid is being offered for collectible purposes only, but I’m fairly certain that it’s still safe to drink.

Five runners-up will receive single packs of Ghoul-Aid, so even those of you who aren’t modern day Da Vincis have more than a fair shot at getting free Kool-Aid.

Remember, all entries must be received by noon EST Sunday!

If you’re not interested in watching the proposed horror movies or drawing Jason Voorhees dancing, you’re still welcome to partake in the usual SNT festivities. Enjoy!


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Discussion Thread: 394 comments

@mystie: those labyrinths are actually pretty cool, they’re for religious contemplation. each ring you go in, you focus more deeply,

Ghosted by another matt @ 09/20/2008 11:32 PM EDT

He would so be watching it on YouTube…or he downloaded a torrent

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 09/20/2008 11:33 PM EDT

Lol, Fairuza totally steals this film, we have chick from Prison Break, Neve Campbell from Party o Five, and the chick from Half Baked (who is now hanging out with Kathy Griffin).

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:33 PM EDT

True Blood is pretty good. It must be doing good ratings because HBO already renewed it for a second season.

That new Fringe show on Fox isn’t bad either.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 09/20/2008 11:34 PM EDT

Tres: I think his power is out at the moment. :/

Cheetara: Oh, the promos were incredible. They really didn’t explain what the movie was about, which I suspect may be part of the reason it wasn’t a wild success. Not that a movie like that was going to be anyway. But the promos were all mysterious and almost always included the “DON’T BURY ME…I’M NOT DEAD” part, which was just totally haunting to me as a child.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/20/2008 11:35 PM EDT

Mixed feelings on Fringe JLAJRC, like Pacey and crazy dad, but can’t stand the female lead.

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:35 PM EDT

A huge church had one of those labyrinth things in atlanta and we checked it out one lazy Saturday; as another matt said, it was all meditation and such. It was pretty cool….

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 09/20/2008 11:35 PM EDT

At 1am the Craft is showing again on Starz. Just thought I would let you all know. I posted a couple of links that are alternatives to youtube one is all one movie not seperate parts in the halloween 8 ball thread. Fuck I’ll do it again…

Here is the link

I search on OVguide.com for a specific movie I am looking for usually. I go on joox.net daily and I have built up quite a good collection that way. Through orb.com I can play it through my Wii’s internet channel (yes!!!) so that solves the wanting to sit on my couch instead of in front of my computer problem. But you can find most movies streaming through ovguide.com just browse the sites or type in a specific movie. They aren’t the best quality but it works.

Bill I have texas chainsaw massacre! I don’t like it though I don’t like all of the running around screaming “NO! PLEASE! STOP! SOMEBODY! HELP! STOP!” and sobbing. I would rather watch child’s play or something.

I watched Gremlins 2 on HBO last night. They play that movie ALOT but I am not complaining. Great movie that one is. Still haven’t watched nightmare before christmas yet.

I want to do a saturday night fever Jason! Or a Pulp Fiction at the diner Jason! Anything with Jason doing an impression of John Travolta apparently.

Now I just have to get an Elvis costume and a bottle of gin…

Ghosted by Goob @ 09/20/2008 11:36 PM EDT

He’d have downloaded it on Waiterbots laptop, be watching it with Waiterbot critiquing it and asking when Cher and Jack Nicholson were going to turn up over his shoulder.

Ghosted by Guise @ 09/20/2008 11:37 PM EDT

Power is out? But does he have access to wi fi a laptop, laptop with wi fi? If no wi fi, old school dial up modem that stays on when the lights go out?

And I can’t wait for spellbound guy to get tossed out the window!

Ah, memories, light as a feather stiff as a board! Will they start doing Bloody Mary? Memories of late nights in camp bunks, and slumber parties.

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:38 PM EDT

Fringe seems like a good idea that is too unfocused right now….I’ll give it a few more weeks then decide whether or not I’ll stick with it. I actually watched Smallville this week…for old times sake I guess (it’s the last season) and was so glad to see new episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 09/20/2008 11:38 PM EDT

I wonder how many of us actually watched this movie AT slumber parties…*looks around guiltily*

Did boys play Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board?

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/20/2008 11:39 PM EDT

Gremlins 2 on HBO, glad to hear it is getting so much play on HBO considering that the currently aren’t releasing it on DVD.

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:40 PM EDT

Goob: we watched the same movie last night!

Ghosted by Shuanfu @ 09/20/2008 11:40 PM EDT

Slumber parties were all about Goonies, or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when I was much younger.

Remember friends would go to bed at 12:00 during slumber parties.

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:42 PM EDT

Squee…there’s a line of decency I shouldn’t cross, but your question makes it sooo tempting. :D

Ghosted by Guise @ 09/20/2008 11:43 PM EDT

Oh God Hellraiser was nasty. Bleck.

Ghosted by Mystie @ 09/20/2008 11:43 PM EDT

Man, that last part of Trilogy of Terror 1… AWESOME.

Ghosted by Beckner @ 09/20/2008 11:44 PM EDT

Mystie: Yeah, just wait until you see the sequel. Holy shit.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/20/2008 11:44 PM EDT

Okay, everyone nastiest horror movie ever?

To me, nothing, can top Audition!

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:45 PM EDT

Hey everyone! I just wanted to drop in and say happy SNT! Does anyone else here collect the Spooky Town collectables? My wife and I recently became addicted! Those things are awesome!

Ghosted by Shauncho @ 09/20/2008 11:46 PM EDT

Okay, coolest scene in the movie, Nancy doing in her evil stepdaddy!

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:47 PM EDT

$175,000.00 in LA? Did it go that far in the mid 90s?

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:48 PM EDT

Tres: I can’t do the really nasty/gory ones. A lot of the Troma stuff, even tongue-in-cheek, is too much for me.

Shauncho: We’ve been considering the Spooky Town stuff around these parts. They’re indeed awesome. So inspired and the kind of stuff you can stare at for hours.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/20/2008 11:48 PM EDT

Obvious blonde wig? And Lonnie Anderson joke? When was this made?

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:52 PM EDT

Matt: We bought 3 pieces in one week. Michael’s had a huge sale. It was awesome! We bought the one called “Halloween Party” and another one that is the Morgue… There is just something about the spooky sounds and the lights that really put me in the Halloween spirit :)

Ghosted by Shauncho @ 09/20/2008 11:52 PM EDT

I tried the hair/eye color change thing.. And then you know, got hair dye and contacts..

Ghosted by Cat the Vampire Slayer @ 09/20/2008 11:53 PM EDT

175 grand gets you a high-rise apartment, with fancy jukebox? Those were the days, I guess…LOL Tresjolie, we’re of the same mind.

I can’t go for the super gross stuff either. I thought the nasty gags in Planet Terror were pretty bad.

I’m so shallow. More than anything, I wanted the “change looks on cue” powers. Then again, I spent a lot of time wearing dye gloves and scrubbing Punky Color off my forehead in those days.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/20/2008 11:53 PM EDT

Ah, Punky Colour. So much more refined than Manic Panic.

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/20/2008 11:54 PM EDT

Hey Matt, I just sent you my entry in the Contest. I hope you enjoy it!

Ghosted by Thomas @ 09/20/2008 11:54 PM EDT

I remember scrubbing purple manic panic from the tub.. for days..

Ghosted by Cat the Vampire Slayer @ 09/20/2008 11:55 PM EDT

serpent and the rainbow? When the guy gets bit in the face by a snake has always stuck with me.
Goob: tcm starts in 10! Sleep starts in 10 hours.

Ghosted by Bill @ 09/20/2008 11:56 PM EDT

Never saw this film until it was released on cable, but then had eventually had to get the DVD.

Always regret never discovering this when it was first released.

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:56 PM EDT

ooohh are we doing a sleepover theme now???

*pssst* when rev falls asleep we can freeze her bra!

Ghosted by mandy_decomposing body parts_Reeves @ 09/20/2008 11:56 PM EDT

Okay, I should not be thinking of Captain Planet during this “Hail to the Guardians,” scene?

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/20/2008 11:58 PM EDT

What bra?

Ghosted by Rev. Back It On Up @ 09/20/2008 11:58 PM EDT

Matt: I can imagine how that one line would be haunting as a child. For me, it’s all about the scene where the flaming boat floats into his bedroom at night. For some reason, talking about this movie has made me think of Poltergeist. The woman falling into the rain-filled swimming pool and the coffins popping up scared the bejeezus out of me.

Ghosted by Cheetara @ 09/20/2008 11:59 PM EDT

Nancy is totally playing without a full deck.

Ghosted by Cat the Vampire Slayer @ 09/21/2008 12:00 AM EDT

Ah yes, although “Super Nancy,” is the most fun!

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/21/2008 12:02 AM EDT

Golden rule for camping as a kid, don’t be the first to go in to a deep sleep and snore, unless you want to be carried in your sleeping bag out of the tent, across to a neighbouring field and left under a bush.

Also, is it wrong that since waking I’ve wanted to look up how much summer camps are to rent off-season, despite being in the wrong damn country for it?

Ghosted by Guise @ 09/21/2008 12:03 AM EDT

Shuanfu Cool! What actually happened was I saw the beginning in an earlier showing of it and I fell asleep. When I woke up about 20 mins later I wasn’t in the mood anymore and when off and did something else. then about 4 in the morning I flipped through the channels and saw it was on again and saw the rest.

I think we should all do at least one night something on Stickam. So at least 7 (one in the main cam and then 6 little ones) of us can be on webcam and be on chat when we are all watching the same movie together. Maybe a streaming movie online simultaneously? I have two webcams, one on my laptop and one from before maybe that would work? Could I possibly open up one browser and stream from that one while being on the other?? IS THAT POSSIBLE?!!? Inquiring minds want to know! I would point one to the tv and one to myself. Huh. I’ll have to research that and see if it’s been done before just to cure my curiosity.

I think I just might make some homemade rice pudding. I haven’t done it in a while and we really don’t have any desserts in the house to speak of. I would have to cram in that with watching movies, drawing a Jason that has rhythm and all of this other criteria.

Ghosted by Goob @ 09/21/2008 12:03 AM EDT

“What did I do to deserve this?” .. the cry of the bitch who gets just what she deserved.

Ghosted by Cat the Vampire Slayer @ 09/21/2008 12:04 AM EDT

Aww, did someone do that to you Guise? That stinks!

Summer camp to rent in off season? What do you want to do in one?

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/21/2008 12:05 AM EDT

Poor sharkies :(

Fairuza just reminded my of an amusing statistic I read earlier today, that Latinas make up 11% of the population but use 17% of the lip liner in this country. I thought it was funny that somebody thought to make the comparison.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 09/21/2008 12:06 AM EDT

ITA, Cat, the racist b—, totally deserved it!

Is Fairuza Latina?

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/21/2008 12:08 AM EDT

Tres, um, not exactly…I helped to carry though. It may be sucky, but try not giggling when you think of a school friend in Bravestar underpants calling out “Heeeeello?” from the other side of a bush at seven in the morning, followed by “mooooooo”.

Well, dreamt of a gathering of X-E and a vlog of being stalked in the woods…but, a Friday the 13th/Sleepaway Camp marathon in real campsite would be good too, I guess.

Ghosted by Guise @ 09/21/2008 12:10 AM EDT

So I just finished watching Sweeney Todd. I liked the musical but what a bloodbath!

Ghosted by Cameron T. @ 09/21/2008 12:10 AM EDT

I don’t remember Fairuza going batshit this early in the film. HE’S SORRY HE’S SORRY HE’S SORRY

Ghosted by Matt @ 09/21/2008 12:12 AM EDT

Oh cool, I would be totally up for a Friday the 13th Marathon in a sleepaway camp, Guise.

Ghosted by Tresjolie9 @ 09/21/2008 12:12 AM EDT

Tres: I couldn’t make it 30 minutes into “3 Extremes” because of the gore.

The local WB station here is playing “Ghoulies 2″ at 1am tonite.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 09/21/2008 12:14 AM EDT

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