How to Make Brains

Edible brains are easy; you've seen the recipes for gelatin or cake brains made in a brain mold. But here's how the folks in Hollywood do it, to give an authentic look and feel when zombies eat them on camera. It's not the delicious recipe you need for a party, but if ingested, it is digestible. The text of the recipe is at Underwire. Link

The brain mold is available at the NeatoShop!


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Goofy Jack-o'-Lantern Cupcakes

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Lisa's jack-o'-lanterns aren't scary, but they sure are delicious! Tootsie Rolls and Tic Tacs round out the features. The googly eyes? No, those are homemade. You can find the recipe for them as well at the link.

Link -via Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons


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Strange Halloween Tales Of Suspense To Astonish Starring M.O.D.O.K.

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Marvel Comics presents an incredibly cool animated short called Strange Halloween Tales of Suspense to Astonish, starring that giant floating head M.O.D.O.K. dressed as the Mistress of the Dark and lots of Halloween themed bits set in the action packed Marvel Universe.

You'll scream with laughter at the ridiculousness of it all, or it's free! Oh wait, it's already free to watch...

--via Nerd Approved


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How To Make A Frighfully Cute Pumpkin Mouse Hotel

If you're tired of the same old carved pumpkin looks, or you'd like to add a touch of whimsy to your Halloween decorations then check out this Mouse Motel tutorial and let the rodent inspired fun begin!

And if mice aren't to your liking you can easily use something more sinister, like snakes or mini monsters, or add some grisly pasta guts and gross out the neighborhood.

It's an easy and fun way to give your jack-o-lantern that lived in look, instead of the same old carved face.

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Scaring The Living With The Trick-Or-Treater Dummy Prank

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Who knew that standing around motionless and saying nothing on Halloween would scare the living daylights out of the fine folks giving out candy?

The guy in this video found out the fun way, by setting a dummy trick-or-treater on their doorstep and filming the horrified reactions of the people as skeleton boy just stands there.

--via SISFTI


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Retired Movie Villains Now Haunt The Retirement Home

Have you ever wondered where old movie villains go when they don't die after battling a slew of meddling heroes in a series of sequels?

Well it turns out they end up in retirement homes just like many seniors, except their stay will be a bit more extended...

Check out this gallery of images by photographer Federico Chiesa and see what happens to scary folks when they've grown too gray to act like a ghoul.

Link  --via io9


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Top Gun Twins Will Soar Into Your Heart



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Here's an adorable pair of Top Gun twins riding right into the danger zone, hopefully they won't make any unauthorized drops along the way!

No wonder Goose and Maverick are such a big hit with the ladies, they're drop dead adorable in their flight jackets and aviator shades.

--via Laughing Squid


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9 Great Halloween Cocktails

The best thing about this candy corn cocktail (in my opinion) is that it doesn't actually taste like candy corn. Instead it features pineapple vodka, orange sherbert, pineapple juice, milk and simple syrup. Yum!

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Hipster Frankenstein Knows It's Hip To Be Square



Hipster Frankenstein is here to tear your precious Halloween down with his snarky wit and been there, done that routine.

He's got the style, the glasses and lots of contempt for those ghoulies who aren't as groovy as he, because being a hipster is a lifestyle and not just a fashion choice.

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The Stories Behind Three More Horror Classics

Back by popular demand, I give you the stories behind some of your favorite horror classics - Part Two!

The Omen

I'm watching The Omen as I type this - how great is Gregory Peck? And he almost wasn't cast in the part - the first pick was Charlton Heston, but he turned it down to make Midway. And thank God for that - just about a year earlier, Peck was contemplating retirement because he had been in a nasty string of box office bombs. But then The Omen came along and revived his career. He took a huge pay cut, but did option to get a cut of the film's gross. The movie made more than $60 million in the U.S. alone, so it quickly became Gregory Peck's highest-paying movie ever. On to the trivia!

                          • The little boy who played Damien, Harvey Stephens, dyed his hair dark just to play Damien - he was actually blond. It's the only major film role he ever had, although he did have a brief cameo in the 2006 remake as "Tabloid Reporter #3."
                          • I was delighted to find out that the actress who played Mrs. Baylock was in Hot Fuzz (I adore Simon Pegg). She was Joyce Cooper, the lady who ran the inn that Sgt. Angel stayed at - the one he had the "Fascist" and "Hag" verbal spat with.
                          • Equally interesting - the girl who played the nanny who offs herself in Damien's honor is Jack Palance's daughter, Holly.
                          • The scene where the baboons attack the car at the safari park really scared Harvey Stephens and Lee Remick. At first the scene wasn't working - they tried putting a baby baboon in the backseat of the car to make the baboons angry, but much to everyone's dismay, the baboons didn't really care. Instead, they took the head baboon, causing the herd to go insane, rushing and pounding on the car. That terror you see on Lee Remick's face is real. She wasn't expecting such a violent reaction.
                          • When the goldfish bowl falls to the floor and smashes, they're not really goldfish. They're just already-dead sardines painted orange, because director Richard Donner refused to kill goldfish just for the sake of the movie.
                          • Just like the 2006 remake, marketing made a huge deal out of 666 being the sign of Satan. If you remember, the 2006 version came out on 6-6-06. The '76 version was sneak-previewed on June 6, 1976, and you'd better believe that date was picked on purpose. While movie patrons were in the theater watching the preview, theater employees were busy putting up posters to be seen as soon as the customers exited the theater. They read, "Today is the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of nineteen-seventy-SIX!" THe trick worked - many customers were seriously spooked.
                          • Maybe The Omen is cursed. Much has been made of the bizarre accidents that befell members of the cast and crew. For instance: Scriptwriter and novel writer David Seltzer's plan was struck by lightning. Gregory Peck's plane was struck by lightning too, on a separate occasion, and he was almost killed in a plane crash - he canceled his reservation on a flight that ended up plummeting to the ground, killing everyone on board. Director Richard Donner's hotel was bombed. The Rottweiler trainers were attacked by the dogs they were training. Eerily, the girlfriend of the special effects coordinator who rigged up the famous decapitation scene was decapitated a couple of years later. And even people barely involved were at risk: a warden where the safari park scene was filmed was killed by a lion just a day after the scene was shot.
                          • The scene where Lee Remick falls from the second floor of the house was done not by having her actually fall, strapped into a harness or anything. She "fell" standing upright and was pushed backward by a dolly onto a "floor" built onto a wall.
                          • How did the unknown Harvey Stephens get the prime role of Damien? Well, during casting, director Richard Donner told all of the little boys who were auditioning to attack him like they would attack Kathy during the church scene. I mean, that's probably fun for any little boy - but Stephens really played it to the hilt, scratching and clawing at Donner's face and kicking him in the groin. The groin kick must have really won Donner over.

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One Hundred Candies We've Loved And Lost

Sometimes manufacturers of the sweet stuff we all crave on Halloween can be as fickle as a cat in a fish market.

Brands and flavors come and go, leaving us with sweet memories, a few new cavities and a hole in our hearts for those tasty treats we miss most.

Take a gander at this collection of one hundred candies that we only had the chance to know for a little while before they were gone.

It's like they always say - only the delicious die young...

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A Tribute To Minimalist Halloween Decorations



Decorating for Halloween doesn't have to be an overblown affair, sometimes putting out fewer props means you show your love of All Hallows' Eve in other ways.

Other times less is less, and too few decorations indicates a lack of imagination and a fear of putting forth too much effort.

The folks who put together this gallery of minimal Halloween decorations would like you to know that they're taking notes on the choices you make- they're watching, and if you cheap out on the decor you'd better step it up with the candy!

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Perfect Nails for Any Dexter Fan


These nails would be really easy to do yourself -just splatter a little red polish on your nails and then have a boyfriend or someone without painted nails use polish remover to get the mess off of your fingers. They would be perfect for a Dexter viewing party or for all kinds of Halloween costumes.

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Halloween Makeup Tips From A Five Year Old Girl



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If you like your Halloween makeup tutorial videos with a host that's so cute she'll make your dimples sore then you're gonna love these Halloween look vids starring 5 year old Madison.

She'll walk you through the process of applying three festive face painting looks for Halloween- sunflower, clown and cheetah, and you'll simply want to die from all the cuteness!

--via Boing Boing

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Teddy Bears + Zombies = Dawn Of The Ted



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Sometimes a cute, cuddly teddy bear is good for more than just comforting a lonely kid.

Sometimes the fate of all bearkind sits on the shoulders of one Misery Bear.

Sometimes the fluff flies and things get tough for a stuffed toy.

This Halloween, pay a visit to an old bear shaped friend who's having a beary bad day in Dawn Of The Ted!

--via Geeks Are Sexy

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