Avoiding the Rack

If there ever is a time to make your old Hogwarts costume still relevant, it is now. With the last installment of Harry Potter hitting the theaters, wizards and witches are likely to take a backseat to vampires, hobgoblins, were-monkeys, or whatever kids will obsessively spend their parent's money on next.  Before you let your wizard costume collect dust in the back of your costume closet, give it a last hurrah at the height of its popularity. Harry giving his old costume a last hurrah Cedric (or otherwise known as sparkly vampire Edward) recycling his old wizard costume On that note, this year is not only the best time to recycle your old costume but also build a new one. I realize that, of all the years of this Harry Potter craze, I have never seen these guys on Halloween: Oh antagonists, you are so unpopular I know the Death Eaters are a crazy cult that praise a man that basically thinks he's going to be the first half human/half snake President o...

Want to be something truly scary for Halloween? Character don't get any scarier than The Housemaid from the 1960's classic korean thriller about the entanglements of an extremely creepy housemaid and a family that's working way too hard to keep the husband's affair with her under wraps. Yep, that's her sneaking a peek at what her lover is doing with his wife. Luring her lover into bed. Supposedly the movie was so disturbing and the actress was so convincing that movie-goers would passionately yell out "Kill the bitch!" among other obscenities in the theater. Needless to sa y, Lee Eun-Shim never got another acting job due to the graphic nature of this role and how great she was at giving the whole of South Korea the heebie-jeebies. Now I know most girls don't score any points for being creepy or scary on Halloween. Luckily, the 2010 remake of The Housemaid adds another adjective to the character's repertoire: sexy. Oh ...

If you're anything like me, you'll scramble around the day of Halloween searching for your new disguise in pure desperation. Not quite desperate enough to dish out $60 for a tiny piece of cloth that might cover your mid-section (if only that) but desperate enough to check every thrift store in town for any shining gem of an idea that you very much need. No, this blog isn't for the well prepared and yet it isn't for the lazy folks but for everyone in-between who are looking for that shining gem. Think of this as a way to form a well thought out game plan for that drunkest of drunk nights without running the risk of bumping into another person dressed up as the same sexy disney princess or mindless zombie. This is a blog to get your creative juices flowing while staying timely and relevant and feel free to add the adjectives "sexy" or "zombie" to any of the ideas you might find on this blog. I'd like to think that people dress up in costume for...