halloween

Flotsam & Jetsam

12-Year-Old Pulls Knife On Mum Over ‘Gay Justin Bieber’ Costume

4:03PM Max Read | According to police in Surprise, Arizona, a 12-year-old boy threatened to stab his mother on Halloween after she refused to let him trick-or-treat in a “gay Justin Bieber” costume. She “disarmed her son without injury and called the police”.
People

Snoop Dogg Looked Cooler Than You Did On Halloween

11:38PM jeff neumann | Snoop posted this picture of himself looking incredible on Halloween on Twitter: “Happy Halloween my Twizzles!! From Count Snoop!! Hahahaah.” Image via thingsinmypockets, Buzzfeed.
Flotsam & Jetsam

NYC Steakhouse Selling Lady Gaga Meat Dress For $US100k

7:41PM RackedNY | Lady Gaga’s meat dress might be old news, but since Halloween is coming up, the New York Daily News resurrects it for one last stunt. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Butchers Warn Against Wearing Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress

2:26AM Brian Moylan | Butchers agree that wearing a knockoff of Lady Gaga’s meat dress for Halloween is not a good idea.
Flotsam & Jetsam

Introducing The Mark Zuckerberg Halloween Mask

7:05AM Ryan Tate | He mediates our most intimate relationships. His story will soon dominate cinemas. And his attitude toward privacy can be downright terrifying. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the ultimate in spooky this Halloween – hence this free cut-out mask. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Here Are The Official Lady Gaga Costumes That Will Be Ubiquitous This Halloween

4:31AM Maureen OConnor | The age of Gaga ubiquity is upon us. Official, licensed Lady Gaga costumes have arrived at Halloween stores and include used soft drink-can hair rollers and lots of fishnet. Prediction: Gaga prisoners outsell sexy prisoners this years. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Will The Nu-Vampire Trend Please Die? Tonight?

12:15PM Foster Kamer | Remember the Tarantino/Rodriguez camp-fest that was From Dusk Til’ Dawn? George Clooney killed a bunch of south-of-the-border stripper/hooker-vampires using holy water-loaded Super Soakers. That was in 1996, and it should’ve been the end of vampire-cool. Now look where we are. More »
Big Screen

The Horror Movie Encyclopaedia Of Awful Ways To Die

6:53AM Brian Moylan | Why bother with Halloween? Save yourself the trouble and check out this compilations of the worst ways to get killed. More »
Big Screen

Michael Myers Victimised By Weinstein’s Game Of Chicken

6:09AM Richard Rushfield | While the box office savants are impressed with the better-than-expected grosses of this weekend’s horror flicks — Final Destination 3-D and Halloween Rebooted 2 — the question on many lips is why did this slasher showdown have to happen? More »

Jokers Galore

10:43AM Seth | It’s The Office Joker-off! Creed wins. Shivverrrrr… We mentioned the Today Show‘s fairytale costumes this morning, but you really need to watch the whole Matthew Broderick-narrated introduction (a marketing tie-in for The Tale Of Despereaux) to appreciate how exquisitely awkward and unsettling the whole thing was. Stick around for Kathy Lee’s diva-fit over being forced into a fur suit to play the Wolf. (We think that’s a fur suit.) Then click here to see a dog hungrily investigate Al Roker’s blue crotch button. The Sword celebrates the guy-in-a-bear-suit-blowing-a-guy-in-a-tux scene from The Shining (or as they call it around Defamer HQ, Tuesday), and nine other “homo-oriented horror flicks.” Somehow this costume ended up on a list of Worst Halloween Costumes Ever. Perhaps this list was compiled in Bizarro World, where the “worst” is actually totally kick-ass. You want bad? We’ll give you bad. (Though an A for execution.) OK, this isn’t Halloweenish, per se, but here’s the cover and song listing of Britney Spears’s new album, Circus. Pay special attention to track #9, “Mmm Papi.” We smell a hit. More »