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Top Movie Picks for a Halloween Party

Posted by Judy Bird on October 15, 2015
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Haunted Graveyard

After the doorbell stops ringing and you’ve handed out your bowls of candy and chips to all the ghouls, goblins and the popular movie Minions in your neighbourhood this Halloween, it could be time for your friends to gather for a late night scary movie binge.  Make some popcorn with orange or green coloured butter drizzled over top, pour some concoctions and potions and get down to it! We’ve made a list of our top scary movies you might want to consider watching….. if you’ve got the nerve. If planning a Halloween dance, you might even consider having one of these play on a big screen for added background fright.

  1. Halloween – 1978
  2. Scary Movie – 2000
  3. The Exorcist – 1973
  4. Scream – 1996
  5. The Shining – 1980
  6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre –  1974
  7. The Cabin in the Woods – 2011
  8. The Conjuring – 2013
  9. You’re Next – 2011
  10. Paranormal Activity – 2007
  11. Poltergeist – 1982
  12. The House of the Devil – 2009
  13. It Follows – 2014
  14. Sinister – 2012
  15. V/H/S/2 – 2013
  16. The Grudge – 2014
  17. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil – 2010
  18. The Orphanage – 2007
  19. Ring – 1998
  20. Re-Animator – 1985

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Tips on Planning an Adult Halloween Party

Posted by Judy Bird on September 30, 2014
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Happy Halloween

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If you’ve read my previous blog on ‘Halloween – It’s the Costumes and Decor that make it So Much Fun!’, you’re well up to speed with the fact that I have a ‘small’ obsession with Halloween.  What better way to share the experience than through a Halloween party! Having had and attended many a Halloween party, I thought I’d share my tips on planning an adult Halloween party.

1. Don’t assume everyone is in love with Halloween as much as you! Always invite more people than your house can hold as there are always a few that want nothing to do with the craziness.

2. Consider having an actual Themed Halloween Party to give people ideas of what to wear. Google what’s hot for the season in terms of T.V. shows for theme ideas and always remember the old standbys. i.e. Sexy Disney Characters, Favourite Famous Couples, Zombie Party, Provocative Witches & Warlocks, etc.

3. Decide on whether this is a dinner party or an ‘After 8’ soiree.  Plan on having goulish foods on your menu whether main attraction or nibbles. The creepier the better.  Jello molds shaped like a brain, chocolate pudding with gummy worms, mummy pillsbury rollups, puking pumpkin guacamole dip, bloody finger sugar cookies (dipped in raspberry jam) etc… Don’t be shy asking guests what you would find helpful for them to bring.

4. Decorate the area your guests will be partying in with skulls, bones, mice, spider webs, low lighting/black lighting, witch’s hats and brooms, scary skeletal pictures on your walls and signs leading them to the dungeon/asylum.

5. Create a music playlist of songs that are popular but interject some Halloween favourites like ‘Time Warp’, ‘Dragula – Rob Zombie’, ‘Monster Mash’, ‘Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon’, ‘Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr.’, and of course ‘Thriller – Michael Jackson’.

6. Consider having a Mad Scientist bartender to make up your special concoctions/brews for the evening. A blood stained white lab coat, rubber gloves, stethoscope, wild hair, dark rimmed glasses and goofy teeth will keep your guests on edge. Plastic spiders frozen in ice cubes are an interesting touch to drinks along with an ice bin with plastic syringes filled with your favourite shooter!

7. Get your creative juices flowing with your video invite.  Wear a costume to go with your theme. Set up an eerie, goulish backdrop with dim lighting, spiders, skulls and scary music.  Pretend you are the character you’ve chosen to be with voice and mannerisms and make your video enticing, fun and inspiring for your guests. Remember to put all the key party information in the text of the invite.

8. Consider selling admission tickets to your Halloween party/event and donate all proceeds to a favourite charity. Eventastic is the perfect invite platform allowing guests to buy tickets online.

9. Check out Eventastic’s Halloween Pinterest Board for more cool party/decor/costume ideas.

Make your Halloween party Eventastic Spooktacular!

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Halloween – It’s the Costumes and Decor that make it So Much Fun!

Posted by Judy Bird on September 25, 2014
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Jeeves, our butler loves Halloween!I love Halloween. There. I said it! I have loved it since I was a small child and dressed in goofy outfits racing from house to house to fill my pillowcase with tons of candy.  What a funny ‘tradition’.  The weeks of planning what to wear almost became as exciting as the actual event of wearing the final chosen costume.  As I got older it didn’t get any less exciting for me and in fact, it not only was about the costumes and candy anymore, it was about the decorating and party planning. It’s truly a great day when I can retrieve my bins (yes I said BINS with an ‘s’) of Halloween decorations out of storage in early October and start carefully placing all the eerie pieces in their special places.

What is it about taping spiders, webs and goulish shadowy figures on the insides of my windows to lend to a haunted house feel for those adorable innocent little trick or treaters that is just SO MUCH FUN!  Yes,,,I put tomb stones in my flower beds and drape sticky webs over my shrubs.  I have ghosts hanging from now orange glowing porch lights and the most creepy scary music I can find to play outdoors on the eve of Halloween through a slightly open garage door.

Inside I have multitudes of spiders, worms, skeleton bones and skulls strewn over tables lit with soft flickering candle light at night.  My dining room takes on an ‘Adam’s Family’/ ‘Munsters’ feel with black crows on my chandelier, more webs, black candelabra on the table with torn muslin and spidery serving trays awaiting the jellied brain and blood (raspberry jam) soaked finger tip cookies.  Witch’s hands are placed here and there, creeping out from unsuspecting spots. Black cats with their backs arched and hair on end are perched high on cupboards looking like they’re ready to pounce.  Small rubber mice peer around corners and sit on gourds and mini pumpkins on my mantle.  And.. of course… don’t forget the mannequins dressed in various outfits looking like they’re sneaking around corners where you least expect.  Even Jeeves our butler (yes…that’s right) is ready for service with blood filled goblets.  With dark dingy pictures of fake relatives now hung on my walls, eyes following you as you walk by, and various decorative signs saying ‘This way to the Asylum’ my decorating is complete.

I think sometimes my family and friends wonder if  I’m a bit nuts when they come to my home in October. Along with all the wacky Halloween decor, I have racks of costumes both bought and handmade as well as drawers of various wigs waiting for the choosing. Life for me is about having fun and keeping things interesting and what better event to let your creative side run wild than Halloween.  I think it’s time to have a party!

Happy Party Planning from Eventastic!