The Nocturnal official Halloween Season Thread!

Nerin

From the 1st of October to the end of Halloween, this thread can be used for your pix, links and suggestions all relating to halloween.

heres my little contribution to start things off:

History Channel Documentary

Nice little documentary on google video. III-ERRRR-LAAND gets a good few mentions.

Nice Spooky Pic

some cool pumpkins

link1 link 2 and especially for doom and galva


My Movie suggestions-

90s Dracula and Frankenstein. (francis ford coppola version and kenneth branagh versions) i likes em, and they arent that spooky

Galvasean

*purchases pink shirt and yellow pants*

Dracula was fairly good, almost ruined by Keanu's 'performance'.
Frankenstein on the other hand... blergh. How the hell did he learn to read anyway?

My Halowe'en movie pic is EVENT HORIZON. That and John Carpenter's The Thing.

Nerin

I agree with the thing. Event horizon though?! For halloween?!

Acacia

Can we suggest Halloween costumes? I was thinking Harley Quinn from 'Batman' would be cool.

Galvasean

Nerin wrote: »

I agree with the thing. Event horizon though?! For halloween?!

Every day is a good day to have

all hell literally break lose

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The original Alien and also Aliens (to a lesser extent Alien3) are all good choices too.

Feeling more light hearted? Go for Fright Night. Picked up a boxed set with that John Carpenter's Vampires and BS' Dracula for €9 in Golden Disks.

Speaking of light hearted, seek out Dracula: Dead And Loving It.

orestes

Gotta agree with nerin on this one. Event Horizon, although an awesome film, does not qualify as a Halloween flick to me.

Galva, I think you are getting mixed up with sci-fi scary movies and what Halloween is all about. There are loads of freaky sci-fi movies, but they aren't Halloween movies imo.

Now the Lost Boys, THAT'S a Halloween flick!

Galvasean

Acacia wrote: »

Can we suggest Halloween costumes? I was thinking Harley Quinn from 'Batman' would be cool.

Go for it. there's bound to be about a million Joker going around.

anonymous_joe

Acacia wrote: »

Can we suggest Halloween costumes? I was thinking Harley Quinn from 'Batman' would be cool.

Harley Quinn rocks!

Acacia

Galvasean wrote: »

Go for it. there's bound to be about a million Joker going around.

My thoughts exactly.

Aisling(",)

oh yay halloween
costumes yay...cant wait.
think im going to a party that night.

Galvasean

orestes wrote: »

Gotta agree with nerin on this one. Event Horizon, although an awesome film, does not qualify as a Halloween flick to me.

I cant see how its less a Haloween film than The Thing.

orestes wrote: »

Now the Lost Boys on the other hand.....

Agreed. ive been avoiding the sequel..

Check out near Dark, arguably the best vampire film ever made. Was a box office flop though, overlooked in favour of the more MTV friendly Lost Boys which came out around the same time.

orestes

Acacia wrote: »

Can we suggest Halloween costumes? I was thinking Harley Quinn from 'Batman' would be cool.

Mmmmmm.................

Galvasean

orestes wrote: »

Mmmmmm.................

Beware the dreaded paper cut.

Jim

I'm dressing up as Francis Whitman from The Darjeeling Limited.



If I end up going somewhere that requires dressing up ofc.

Acacia

Everyone seems to love Harley Quinn!:) Now, there's just the small problem of making the costume...

orestes

Galvasean wrote: »

I cant see how its less a Haloween film than The Thing.

Halloween is about the super-natural; ghosts, withches, spirits, ghouls, all that kinda stuff. Sci-fi is about aliens, technology gone mad, and the likes.

I might be wrong, but that's the way I've always classified the two anyway

Acacia

Hocus Pocus- best Halloween film ever. And it features a reasonably good-looking Sarah Jessica Parker.

Aisling(",)

i love hocus pocus

used to scare me sideways though

a few years ago wanted to get all scared so me and a friend watched carrie.it was actually the funniest filim id seen in ages

Acacia

Yeah, it's the same with 'Sleepy Hollow' or 'Nightmare Before Christmas'. They seem really scary when you're a kid, but when you watch them now, they're hilarious.

Aisling(",)

sleepy hollow always just seemed kinda weird to me.
i get scared at very unscary films though.was watching ghost ship during the week with my mam and dad and got scared and screamed and they spent around half an hour laighing at me

Dord

Candy apples and razor blades
Little dead are soon in graves
I remember halloween

This day anything goes
Burning bodies hanging from poles
I remember

HALLLOOOWWWWEEEENNNN, HALLLOWWWWEEEEEEENNN, HALLOOWWEEEEENNN!!!





Any suggestions for a halloween costume? I'm finding it hard thinking of something that would go with a beard (I'm not shaving it again! :mad:)

Galvasean

orestes wrote: »

Halloween is about the super-natural; ghosts, withches, spirits, ghouls, all that kinda stuff. Sci-fi is about aliens, technology gone mad, and the likes.

I might be wrong, but that's the way I've always classified the two anyway

What is more supernatural than

Hell? They literally go to hell in Event Horizon

Nerin

Lost boys is a great film. 70% of the simpsons halloween specials are great. Hocus pocus too! Love it,SJP looked foxy

Galvasean

Nerin wrote: »

Love it,SJP looked foxy

Wow, that movie is old!

If anyone has a copy of Zombies Ate My Neigbours on either super Nintendo or Megadrive I highly suggest dusting it off. Great fun.

star-pants

Galvasean wrote: »

If anyone has a copy of Zombies Ate My Neigbours on either super Nintendo or Megadrive I highly suggest dusting it off. Great fun.

Zombies? where theres a boy & a girl and lots of things killing you?
we have that on the snes downstairs

Galvasean

star-pants wrote: »

Zombies? where theres a boy & a girl and lots of things killing you?
we have that on the snes downstairs

That's the one. Crack out the SNES! (and invite me over)

Doctor DooM

Galvasean wrote: »

Wow, that movie is old!

If anyone has a copy of Zombies Ate My Neigbours on either super Nintendo or Megadrive I highly suggest dusting it off. Great fun.

i am reasonably sure one of my neighbours IS a zombie.

Whispered

Anybody else going to see *EDIT: the new care bears movie* ?

grames_bond

Dord wrote: »

Any suggestions for a halloween costume? I'm finding it hard thinking of something that would go with a beard (I'm not shaving it again! :mad:)

its normally funnier if you have beard if you dress up as somebody that doesnt have a beard! great laugh!

Jim wrote: »

I'm dressing up as Francis Whitman from The Darjeeling Limited.

If I end up going somewhere that requires dressing up ofc.

*cough* boards halloween beers *cough*

Nerin

Can't believe nightmare before christmas hasn't been mentioned halloween is workin out good for me this year,the halloween beers seems to be on the 1st of november,so i can still have my traditional halloween night shenanigans

grames_bond

Nerin wrote: »

Can't believe nightmare before christmas hasn't been mentioned

it (kind of) has

Acacia wrote: »

Yeah, it's the same with ... 'Nightmare Before Christmas'. They seem really scary when you're a kid, but when you watch them now, they're hilarious.

see? (does that count)

Nerin

grames_bond wrote: »

it (kind of) has



see? (does that count)

lol,woops,was skimming the thread in work and missed that :embarrassed:

Acacia

Nerin wrote: »

lol,woops,was skimming the thread in work and missed that :embarrassed:

You missed my post? I feel so un-appreciated around here. *sniff*

Nerin wrote: »

Lost boys is a great film. 70% of the simpsons halloween specials are great. Hocus pocus too! Love it,SJP looked foxy

I agree with the 'Simpsons' Halloween specials, always good! Though I remember waiting for some good spooky shows one Halloween night when I was a kid, but RTE, in their infinite wisdom, had to decided to show three hours of horse-racing instead...that sucked.

Nerin

Acacia wrote: »

You missed my post? I feel so un-appreciated around here. *sniff*






I agree with the 'Simpsons' Halloween specials, always good! Though I remember waiting for some good spooky shows one Halloween night when I was a kid, but RTE, in their infinite wisdom, had to decided to show three hours of horse-racing instead...that sucked.

sincere apologies and hugs yeah,rte are odd. When i was younger it seemed every second year they'd have a good night. Then it just died. Then tv3 had week long halloween stuff,now feck all

Acacia

Nerin wrote: »

sincere apologies and hugs yeah,rte are odd. When i was younger it seemed every second year they'd have a good night. Then it just died. Then tv3 had week long halloween stuff,now feck all

*accepts hug*:)

Yeah, tv is fairly crap for Halloween stuff, especially the Irish channels with their constant re-runs of 'Casper, the Friendly Ghost' or 'The Blair Witch Project'. I shall be stocking up on dvds myself. The Horrorthon in the IFI looks good too.

Nerin

Acacia wrote: »

*accepts hug*:)

Yeah, tv is fairly crap for Halloween stuff, especially the Irish channels with their constant re-runs of 'Casper, the Friendly Ghost' or 'The Blair Witch Project'. I shall be stocking up on dvds myself. The Horrorthon in the IFI looks good too.

since i celebrate most of october with halloween goodness,i will be browsing through many shops looking for cheap movies

Whispered

No discussion of the unmentionables

Nerin

:rolleyes: sorry it took so long-i'm modding via mobile :rolleyes:

grames_bond

it's something we cant talk about!

Galvasean

<snip> Damnit

Acacia

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Whispered

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Nerin

Woah. No discussion of mcd damnit! :mad:

Whispered

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Nerin

MOD WARNING- Leave it now. Please kthnxbai

grames_bond

back on topic: have i missed something or has no one mentioned halloween yet.....mike myers anyone? (not austin powers, the serial killer)

Nerin

Thanks graham btw. Back on track-silver bullet by stephen king is a good old fashioned one.

Nerin

I dunno,i was never a slasher fan,myers was ok though. First one was good

Acacia

grames_bond wrote: »

back on topic: have i missed something or has no one mentioned halloween yet.....mike myers anyone? (not austin powers, the serial killer)

I've only seen the remake by Rob Zombie, and I really like it. Is the original one better though?

grames_bond

Nerin wrote: »

Thanks graham btw..

no worries

Nerin wrote: »

I dunno,i was never a slasher fan,myers was ok though. First one was good

yeah i likeed the first one and h20, but they did go a bit ott with them! Bram Stoker's Dracula is a great one! i did drama years ago and did a section of it as the exam at the end.....kicked ass!

star-pants

Brack... always a hallowe'en thing, and monkeynuts!!
And a coconut, broken with a hammer, aye they were the days!
And trick or treating... fun times!

Nightmare before Christmas is good
HocusPocus another one, sorry but sjp is still a bit of a horse
was never into the Hallowe'en/Friday 13th/ nightmare on elm street etc
Not hallowe'eny but The Frighteners was a good one
Hallowe'en Town
Casper
Goosebumps used to be on a lot too...

I've got my costume ordered already