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flick
or treat
host
a halloween movie night
by
Yee-Fan Sun | 1 2 3 |
All
your favorite thrift stores are boasting kitschy fun costumes in
their display windows; the telephone poles are awash in flyers advertising
debauched Halloween carousing at one club of another. In years past,
you’ve done the crazy costume party thing yourself, checked out the
annual parade, endured the bar crawl. This year, though, no real
plans have yet materialized. You’re too broke to spend a night out
on the town; you’re too stressed to labor over a creative costume;
you’ve recently moved to a new pad, and the place just isn’t fit
to host a great big crowd of rowdy masqueraded revelers.
Still, with less than two weeks left till Halloween, you’re feeling
a little bummed that you have no plans for celebrating one of the best
holidays of the year. But wait -- no need to resign yourself to a boring
night at home just yet. With only a modicum of advance prep, you can
pull together a Halloween movie night for you and your fellow party-deprived
pals that’s low on money and effort, but still buckets o’ fun. Here’s
the lowdown on how to host a fabulous movie spook-a-thon…
pick a
theme
One of the great things about hosting a Halloween movie night is that
you can tailor it to suit just about any crowd simply by adjusting
the movie theme. Halloween movies come in all sorts of styles and
genres, from bloody gore-fests and creepy psychological thrillers
to classic kiddie animations and lighthearted comedies. You can choose
mainstream blockbusters or indie arthouse gems; go for thrills and
scares, or aim for laughs and nostalgia. So the first thing to figure
out, once you’ve set your mind to hosting your film fest, is what
movies you’re going to show. Choose two or three flicks that relate
to one another, and that are likely to go over well with your particular
group of pals. A few themed ideas to get you started …
- Zombies!
| Any of George Romero’s Dead films (Dawn of the Dead, Night
of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Land of the Dead), Evil Dead 2,
Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Resident Evil
- I vant to suck your blood (classic vamps) | Nosferatu,
Dracula, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- I vant to suck your blood (hipster vamps) | From
Dusk till Dawn, Blade, Underworld
- Straight outta hell | Rosemary’s
Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen
- Psycho killer (qu’est-ce que c’est) | Halloween,
Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th
- Boo! (funny ghosts) | Ghostbusters,
Beetlejuice
- Boo! (scary/creepy ghosts) | The
Sixth Sense, The Shining, The
Others, Poltergeist
- Halloweenies (non-scary, family-friendly fun) | The
Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit:
Curse of the Were-Rabbit,
It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
it's
coming!: run this way...!
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