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What to Wear, How to Scare, if You Dare
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Written by Kayla Dubnick, Online Features Editor
Halloween is a night notoriously filled with ghosts, goblins and monsters. Lurking around every corner is the potential for evil, fright, and a dare to scare. It’s a night that brings out the kid in everyone. Whether you’re 6 or 60, everyone loves the idea of portraying a character. Halloween is the one night out of the year when it is completely sociably acceptable to pretend and transform into being someone else. Anything goes people!
The concept of trick or treat here, lends itself more to the trickery than the treats. Not that we don’t all love a good old fashioned Baby Ruth or Butterfinger, but let’s face it, the nights all about what we wear. Some of the best costumes aren’t store bought. The most creative minds can develop a story line from their own closet. With a wild imagination and a little bit of cash, the craziest scenarios can be seen on this night. Yet still, there’s always someone who’s willing to drive the distance, spend the money, and take the easy way out by purchasing a “pre-packaged”, traditional costume. At any party or costume store, one may also find the non-traditional costumes as well.
Some of the bizarre costumes this year will include: the infamous Octomom, Jon and Kate plus 8, Twilight and True Blood vampires, and the 5-minutes-of-fame Balloon boy and his parents. Even though these costumes may happen to be the most recognized, they also happen to be the most ridiculous. Every year, there is someone’s who’s made it in the news to become costume-worthy copied. Whether from good or bad influences, there’s always someone who feels the need to buy into the drama. No doubt, this year will prove to be the most outlandish of all. So ask yourself, what to wear, how to scare, if you dare.
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Top 10 Halloween Movies
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Written by Zach Ellman, Online Entertainment Editor
Here’s a look at the 10 best Halloween movies ever made. These movies will give you nothing but spooks, thrills, and chills.
10. A Clockwork Orange- This creepy movie is about a fraternity of men, led by Alex DeLarge, who roam through the streets of London by killing and raping the citizens, causing mayhem around the city. This gruesome film is one of director Stanley Kubrick’s most famous movies.
9. The Shining- Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, based on the book by Stephen King, is one of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. A writer named Jack Terrace takes a job offer as a caretaker of a hotel over the winter and moves in with his wife and son. As they become stuck in the hotel from the snow, Jack becomes possessed and tries to kill off his wife and child, who has psychic abilities.
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre- This classic horror movie tells the story of a group of friends who are roaming through the middle of nowhere in Texas and come upon a family of killers and cannibals who chase them with chainsaws, sledgehammers, and more weapons of terror. The movie was based on the killings of real life killer Ed Gein.
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street- What would later be known as director Wes Craven’s masterpiece, A Nightmare on Elm Street is about Freddy Krueger terrorizing the children of Elm Street by killing them off in their dreams, literally. As he kills them off one by one with his four razor sharp knives on his fingers, the kids must stay awake before it’s too late.
6. Scream- In the town of Woodsboro, California, a mysterious masked figure is killing many students at Sidney Prescott’s high school. Could it be a coincidence that it just happens to be the one year anniversary of her mother’s death? Could it also coincidence that the masked figure was also said to have killed her mother and is out to get her too?
5. The Silence of The Lambs- FBI Agent Clarice Starling is assigned to investigate the gruesome murders of a copycat killer, who is known as Buffalo Bill. When she needs help with the investigation, she turns to the cannibalistic Dr. Hannibal Lecter who has been locked up for years for eating his clients. As she asks for his help, he plays mind games with her and asks her about her life. As time is running out, Starling must try to crack Lecter before Buffalo Bill kills again.
4. Friday The 13th- When Jason Voorhees was a child at Camp Crystal Lake, he drowned on Friday the 13th. Years later, a group of counselors start to become killed off as Jason, who is now the size of a hockey player. This gruesome horror story has had many prequels and even a recent movie remake.
3. Halloween - On Halloween in the town of Haddonfield, Michael Meyers kills his older sister and is sent to a psychiatric hospital to be observed by Dr. Samuel Loomis. After years of being incarcerated, Michael escapes and returns to Haddonfield and starts to kill off Laurie Strode’s friends. Is it possible that there could be a connection between the two or is Michael Meyers just trying to scare the people of this small town?
2. The Exorcist- This movie is just plain creepy and will give you goosebumps. The story is about a little girl that becomes possessed by a demon. However, when a Jesuit priest named Father Damien is requested by her mother, he performs an exorcism on the child, which turns out to make matters much worse. From spinning heads to levitation, The Exorcist will blow you away.
1. Saw- This movie is about a killer named Jigsaw, who places in victims in “games” to determine whether or not they will live or die. From “games” like the reverse bear trap, to pulling the hair out of your scalp, the “games” get worse and worse each time. However, there is a reason to who he picks and how he is connected to them. This movie is so scary, you’ll want to look away each time something bad happens.
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