Host Halloween Horror in your Living Room With your Favourite Halloween Outfits
Fancy a night in with a bloke with a bolt through his head? What about the following evening with a lady sporting a fearsome set of fangs? Well hosting a Fancy Dress party is one way to get them in
It's easy to host your own horror Hell nowadays thanks to some fantastic and fearsome Halloween outfits around. But it's not just the fancy dress costumes that make the evening eventful. It's also possible to appear to sip globules of blood from a glass or sadistically saw through the odd limb or two thanks to a wonderful array of gimmicks you can buy online or at your local Fancy Dress shop where you are sure to get a great gory Costume for Halloween.
You can recreate the infamous Count Dracula in all his gruesome glory and have your party guests massaging their necks with fear. Bram Stroker's infamous character who landed in Whitby in 1987 is probably the most notorious of horror merchants. Those piercing, hypnotic eyes, striking masculine good looks and let's face it - teeth that are sharper than a cheese cutter (well, they'd have to be to make their mark on white, virgin, female flesh) - are enough to make females faint in anticipation of a kiss to remember for eternity. Well, there's a lot at stake...
The world's most frightening characters in their Halloween Costumes do not just want your blood. They will have your soul too, well thanks very much. And in the most bloody way possible. Freddy Krueger, who probably one of the most recognisable Halloween Outfits, loves playing with sharp instruments. In fact he even wears them - the four fingers on the glove of his left hand are pointed and sharp (just perfect for slashing the odd teenager with). This former He's also been known to reach for the odd dangling rope and This former child murderer has a serious personality problem. In order to catch him babysitters are often the best bait. Just don't fall asleep when he’s around.
And think you could sleep when old Leatherface is around? Star of the hit horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, his face mask is fashioned from the flesh of victims. The rest of their body is usually chewed over by the family of cannibals he grew up with. This character was actually based on a real life murder. The Leatherface mask makes great Halloween Costumes.
Finally, what evening of Hell would be complete without a visit from Mr Hannibal Lecter. Everyone’s favourite educated serial killer, has a rather distinctive mask when being transported between jails. He also enjoys a nibble on the odd security staff. If Lecter is your Halloween Costume of choice remember to carry a bottle of Chianti with you for you never know…
Friday, 15 April 2011
Zombie's, Real or Just Good For Halloween Outfits
One of the most feared creatures of modern horror has to be the zombie a modern favourite for Halloween Costumes - lumbering around in his or her tragic trance with no soul and - more terrifying - no way to die (well he's already dead). All he wants is human meat, more specifically live, jelly-like brains. His pale pallor and torn-away flesh make him hideous to look at - which of course, make him great for Halloween outfits. This uncoordinated and soulless creature appears unstoppable. No stake (vampires) or endless cups of caffeine (Freddy Krueger) will help you here.
So how do you become a zombie? And, more usefully, learn to kill one (actually make that more than one as they tend to lumber around in groups). To buy a Zombie Costume for Halloween just search on-line for Zombie Halloween Costumes. In the meantime we'll give you a quick potted history here of the creature which worryingly has its roots in real life West African mythology.
Zombies were believed to be come from Haitian slave plantation workers. The only way to prevent the dead body becoming a zombie at that time apparently was to remain at the unfortunate corpse’s graveside watching over it until its flesh began to rot. Legend has it only those who had recently passed over were targeted and used as obedient, unquestioning servants (i.e. zombies).
Another recorded zombie emergence was in Hierakonpolis in Egypt during a British dig where an explorer happened upon a tomb containing a partially decomposed body. The brain had been infected with a virus, and the tomb was covered in scratch marks where the body had attempted to claw its way out.
Being buried alive and re-emerging would also count as being a tad zombie-like. This would happen in past times when medicine was not as advanced. Catatonia - a particular affliction of schizophrenia - has also been attributed to the zombie legend.
We've famous film director Bela Lugosi to thank for the entrance into popular culture of this creature in the early 1930s in his film White Zombie. The zombies lay passive for decades until 1968 when George Romero revived them for Night of the Living Dead which is where most of the inspiration comes from for the modern Halloween Halloween Outfits and have been around as a Halloween Fancy Dress Costume
ever since. Their emergence was - scarily for us today - the result of a nuclear spill.
So how do you kill a zombie? Well, getting back to their origins, West African legend says if you feed a zombie salt it will return to the grave - all very neat and tidy with not too much exertion involved for us living beings. By far the most successful method is by destroying the brain first, usually with a sharp instrument (this can prove tricky!). Once achieved you should then burn the body to prevent any resurrection, or should that be re-resurrection. So if you need some ideas for your Halloween Outfits this Halloween perhaps you could become one of the living dead.
So how do you become a zombie? And, more usefully, learn to kill one (actually make that more than one as they tend to lumber around in groups). To buy a Zombie Costume for Halloween just search on-line for Zombie Halloween Costumes. In the meantime we'll give you a quick potted history here of the creature which worryingly has its roots in real life West African mythology.
Zombies were believed to be come from Haitian slave plantation workers. The only way to prevent the dead body becoming a zombie at that time apparently was to remain at the unfortunate corpse’s graveside watching over it until its flesh began to rot. Legend has it only those who had recently passed over were targeted and used as obedient, unquestioning servants (i.e. zombies).
Another recorded zombie emergence was in Hierakonpolis in Egypt during a British dig where an explorer happened upon a tomb containing a partially decomposed body. The brain had been infected with a virus, and the tomb was covered in scratch marks where the body had attempted to claw its way out.
Being buried alive and re-emerging would also count as being a tad zombie-like. This would happen in past times when medicine was not as advanced. Catatonia - a particular affliction of schizophrenia - has also been attributed to the zombie legend.
We've famous film director Bela Lugosi to thank for the entrance into popular culture of this creature in the early 1930s in his film White Zombie. The zombies lay passive for decades until 1968 when George Romero revived them for Night of the Living Dead which is where most of the inspiration comes from for the modern Halloween Halloween Outfits and have been around as a Halloween Fancy Dress Costume
ever since. Their emergence was - scarily for us today - the result of a nuclear spill.
So how do you kill a zombie? Well, getting back to their origins, West African legend says if you feed a zombie salt it will return to the grave - all very neat and tidy with not too much exertion involved for us living beings. By far the most successful method is by destroying the brain first, usually with a sharp instrument (this can prove tricky!). Once achieved you should then burn the body to prevent any resurrection, or should that be re-resurrection. So if you need some ideas for your Halloween Outfits this Halloween perhaps you could become one of the living dead.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Vampire Fact Fiction or Just a Halloween Costume
Vampires--Fiction or Not
Far from being a modern subject, or just a theme for Halloween Outfits, the idea of vampires walking among us actually dates back to the decade of 1720 to 1730, which ended when the Habsburg Dynasty exhumed the bodies of two men suspected of being vampires, and were apparently unable to prove or disprove the accusation. Further back than the 1700s, in many languages the word vampire meant the same as demon and people had an idea there was some unexplained evil out and about.
Whether such creatures are real or not cannot be scientifically verified because nothing has ever been captured and documented with DNA or other such evidence of their actual existence--at least nothing we would accept as proof today. However, the vampire bat is the only flying mammal that feeds exclusively on blood, therefore, the existence of a higher form of blood-drinking mammal cannot be ruled out either.
Count Dracula
A vampiric character first appeared in a novel in Polodori's "The Vampyre", in 1819. From then on, and especially after the vampire masterpiece--Bram Stoker's "Dracula"--was published in 1897, vampires, if fiction or fact, were here to stay. Count Dracula was supposedly killed with a wooden stake driven through his heart while he slept--the only way, it is said, to kill a vampire. He reappears, though, at least once a year in the form of Halloween Outfits, showing up at parties and among the fancy dress at a Halloween Costumes ball. From the time he first made his appearance to this day, costumes for halloween are not complete without one portraying Dracula with his black cape and fangs.
In the 1920s and 1931, Bella Lugosi captured the audience in films with his dramatic portrayal of vampires that were pure evil. These characters were not the "romantic" vampires we see in later films and books, and that are the inspiration for Halloween fancy dress and
Costumes For Halloween. The 21st century Vampire is often a "good guy", reluctant to harm humans, but Lugosi's vampires were scarier night stalkers with no qualms about killing.
Vampire Books and Movies
Anne Rice captured the immagination of readers with her books collectively called, "The Vampire Chronicles". All her books were based on the first one "Interview With The Vampire" published in 1976, and the movie by the same name was made from the book in 1994. Her vampires were portrayed as both evil and good. Vampires were locked within our culture by then and readers and movie fans cannot seem to get enough of this popular theme. Books, TV series and movies were churned out in rapid succession, including "True Blood" from HBO, "The Vampire Diaries", and "Twilight". One of the latest Vampire movies to be released is "Daybreak".
The vampire is one of the most popular among Halloween Costumes and almost every costume store features everything one would need to look like a vampire, including stunningly real-looking fake blood, punture marks for the neck, and of course, plastic teeth or "fangs".
People enjoy dressing like Vampires and getting into the role because vampires are all that we want to be: invincible, scary, dashing, sexy, and of course, eternal. The sex appeal of the vampire comes from his or her power and often charismatic portrayal in books and on the big and little screens. Vampires have never been sexier or more attractive, especially those characterized as "good" vampires who only reluctantly kill because they must eat, and then kill only "bad" humans. Be careful around Halloween, however, because you cannot be sure if the vampire you meet is a person in costume or the real thing.
Far from being a modern subject, or just a theme for Halloween Outfits, the idea of vampires walking among us actually dates back to the decade of 1720 to 1730, which ended when the Habsburg Dynasty exhumed the bodies of two men suspected of being vampires, and were apparently unable to prove or disprove the accusation. Further back than the 1700s, in many languages the word vampire meant the same as demon and people had an idea there was some unexplained evil out and about.
Whether such creatures are real or not cannot be scientifically verified because nothing has ever been captured and documented with DNA or other such evidence of their actual existence--at least nothing we would accept as proof today. However, the vampire bat is the only flying mammal that feeds exclusively on blood, therefore, the existence of a higher form of blood-drinking mammal cannot be ruled out either.
Count Dracula
A vampiric character first appeared in a novel in Polodori's "The Vampyre", in 1819. From then on, and especially after the vampire masterpiece--Bram Stoker's "Dracula"--was published in 1897, vampires, if fiction or fact, were here to stay. Count Dracula was supposedly killed with a wooden stake driven through his heart while he slept--the only way, it is said, to kill a vampire. He reappears, though, at least once a year in the form of Halloween Outfits, showing up at parties and among the fancy dress at a Halloween Costumes ball. From the time he first made his appearance to this day, costumes for halloween are not complete without one portraying Dracula with his black cape and fangs.
In the 1920s and 1931, Bella Lugosi captured the audience in films with his dramatic portrayal of vampires that were pure evil. These characters were not the "romantic" vampires we see in later films and books, and that are the inspiration for Halloween fancy dress and
Costumes For Halloween. The 21st century Vampire is often a "good guy", reluctant to harm humans, but Lugosi's vampires were scarier night stalkers with no qualms about killing.
Vampire Books and Movies
Anne Rice captured the immagination of readers with her books collectively called, "The Vampire Chronicles". All her books were based on the first one "Interview With The Vampire" published in 1976, and the movie by the same name was made from the book in 1994. Her vampires were portrayed as both evil and good. Vampires were locked within our culture by then and readers and movie fans cannot seem to get enough of this popular theme. Books, TV series and movies were churned out in rapid succession, including "True Blood" from HBO, "The Vampire Diaries", and "Twilight". One of the latest Vampire movies to be released is "Daybreak".
The vampire is one of the most popular among Halloween Costumes and almost every costume store features everything one would need to look like a vampire, including stunningly real-looking fake blood, punture marks for the neck, and of course, plastic teeth or "fangs".
People enjoy dressing like Vampires and getting into the role because vampires are all that we want to be: invincible, scary, dashing, sexy, and of course, eternal. The sex appeal of the vampire comes from his or her power and often charismatic portrayal in books and on the big and little screens. Vampires have never been sexier or more attractive, especially those characterized as "good" vampires who only reluctantly kill because they must eat, and then kill only "bad" humans. Be careful around Halloween, however, because you cannot be sure if the vampire you meet is a person in costume or the real thing.
Monday, 11 April 2011
Halloween Outfits
Witches Halloween Outfits at Halloween
Common Halloween Costumes always include the halloween fancy dress of Cinderella, princesses, fairies, and witches. Many people remember reading stories of witches, including the Wicked Witch of the West or the White Witch, and so include the idea of witches in their Halloween Costumes lineup. But what is the origin of the idea of including witches in the array of costume choices?
The practice of magic or witchcraft is ancient. Early literature of the Greeks had the story of Circe, a witch who could change men into beasts, and Hecate was a witchcraft goddess whose presence was indicated by dogs barking. In some cultures, witches were not considered menacing but were the wise women who knew herbal healing remedies. It is probably from the practice of combining herbs in potions that cauldrons became associated with witches. However, Europeans had a deeply imbedded pagan culture, and the church’s tradition of baptizing infants came at the quarterly witches’ sabbath.
In the late 1600’s, witches were viewed as entirely evil by the Puritans. They believed that devout persons could discern witch activity in sickness; mysterious symptoms such as loss of sight, speech, hearing, or appetite; convulsions; and hallucinations. Many innocent men and women were accused and jailed, and 19 were convicted and killed by various means for the crime of witchcraft during the notable Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693. The Biblical injunction, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18), was justification enough for the witch hunts. Both the Salem court documents regarding Sarah Good and a later Arthur Miller play, The Crucible, are common readings of these trials in modern American high schools.
Some of the accoutrements of a witch’s halloween outfits Halloween Outfits include a pointed hat shaped like a cone and a broom. Archaeologist Margaret Murray associated prehistoric paintings of a god with horns with Satan and evil. This horned image of a devil has prevailed into modern times, and perhaps it is no accident that the Halloween costume standby for a witch’s hat is pointed as well. In a botanical sense, witches’ broom is the result of an attack of parasites on shrubs or trees. The result is an abnormal cluster of branches or twigs that grow upright to resemble a broom or bird’s nest. However, few putting together a Halloween outfit would associate the witch’s broom with an infestation of fungi, mistletoe, or mites. Most people today connect the witch’s broom with the early belief that witches flew on brooms on Halloween.
So the next time plans called for a magical Halloween Fancy dress, consider the witch Halloween Costumes with its long history of good witch, bad witch and the many symbolic accessories associated with these halloween outfits.
Common Halloween Costumes always include the halloween fancy dress of Cinderella, princesses, fairies, and witches. Many people remember reading stories of witches, including the Wicked Witch of the West or the White Witch, and so include the idea of witches in their Halloween Costumes lineup. But what is the origin of the idea of including witches in the array of costume choices?
The practice of magic or witchcraft is ancient. Early literature of the Greeks had the story of Circe, a witch who could change men into beasts, and Hecate was a witchcraft goddess whose presence was indicated by dogs barking. In some cultures, witches were not considered menacing but were the wise women who knew herbal healing remedies. It is probably from the practice of combining herbs in potions that cauldrons became associated with witches. However, Europeans had a deeply imbedded pagan culture, and the church’s tradition of baptizing infants came at the quarterly witches’ sabbath.
In the late 1600’s, witches were viewed as entirely evil by the Puritans. They believed that devout persons could discern witch activity in sickness; mysterious symptoms such as loss of sight, speech, hearing, or appetite; convulsions; and hallucinations. Many innocent men and women were accused and jailed, and 19 were convicted and killed by various means for the crime of witchcraft during the notable Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693. The Biblical injunction, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exodus 22:18), was justification enough for the witch hunts. Both the Salem court documents regarding Sarah Good and a later Arthur Miller play, The Crucible, are common readings of these trials in modern American high schools.
Some of the accoutrements of a witch’s halloween outfits Halloween Outfits include a pointed hat shaped like a cone and a broom. Archaeologist Margaret Murray associated prehistoric paintings of a god with horns with Satan and evil. This horned image of a devil has prevailed into modern times, and perhaps it is no accident that the Halloween costume standby for a witch’s hat is pointed as well. In a botanical sense, witches’ broom is the result of an attack of parasites on shrubs or trees. The result is an abnormal cluster of branches or twigs that grow upright to resemble a broom or bird’s nest. However, few putting together a Halloween outfit would associate the witch’s broom with an infestation of fungi, mistletoe, or mites. Most people today connect the witch’s broom with the early belief that witches flew on brooms on Halloween.
So the next time plans called for a magical Halloween Fancy dress, consider the witch Halloween Costumes with its long history of good witch, bad witch and the many symbolic accessories associated with these halloween outfits.
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