Halloween

Listen to Christopher Lee read Tim Burton’s original The Nightmare Before Christmas poem

In 1982, while Tim Burton was still working at Disney, he wrote the poem The Nightmare Before Christmas, which would eventually become the animated Halloween classic. As it’s October and our thoughts are turning to skeleton kings and Oogie Boogie monsters, let’s take a moment to listen to that poem, read by none other than…

io9 Lauren Davis Oct 13

Slutty Sesame Street Halloween costumes prove (again) that nothing is sacred, culture is a sham

Last week, we profiled a range of godawful Halloween regalia that’s undeniable proof our society should just cut the theatrics and ramp up those ritualistic human sacrifices Jack Chick’s always warning us about. https://gizmodo.com/sluttiest-and-weirdest-store-bought-halloween-costumes-5948481 Today, a new batch of All Hallow’s crapola has us freebasing Skor bars and black licorice Chuckles. Why? So we can…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 10

Show Us Your Best Imaginary Selves in io9’s Annual Halloween Costume Show!

Every year, io9 does a Halloween costume show in October, featuring some of your best costumes every week until Halloween. Above is one of our favorites from last year — it’s Kaylee’s shindig dress, created and worn by Lilacwire. (See all last year’s gorgeous costume awesomeness here.) Previously, we did our costume shows on Flickr,…

io9 Annalee Newitz Oct 9

Everybody Needs to Make a Pumpkin Keg to Drink Beer Out of This Month

I want to see a pumpkin keg at every Halloween party this month. Seriously, it’s the most festive, tastiest way to spice up the alcohol. Here’s how to make one. The instructions come courtesy of Celebrations.com and it’s pretty simple. You just need a pumpkin (duh), alcohol (double duh), a tap handle and a carving…

Tech News Casey Chan Oct 5

I Paid Strangers $50 To Tie Me Up And Scare The Shit Out Of Me

I’m stuck in a cement hallway. The only light is from a collection of blinking TVs, scattered on the ground. I take a step forward, and so does a figure on the TV screens. It’s me. I’m watching myself… I try creeping forward until my bare foot lands on something cold and wet and feels…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 4

Sluttiest and Weirdest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes for 2012

It’s almost Halloween — the time of year when the whole world does cosplay. Every year, the Halloween superstores roll out their new line of costumes that are vaguely reminiscent of the year’s hit movies and television shows. Except a whole lot sluttier. Check out our round-up of the trashy, strange and occasionally quite good…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 3

This Year’s Best Halloween Costume Is Cheap, Easy, and Awesome

Last year around this time, a NASA JPL engineer blew us away with a Halloween costume that used two iPads to create the illusion of a gaping hole in his chest. Cool, if you could afford two iPads. For the 99 percent of us that couldn’t, he promised that his 2012 costume would be equally…

Tech News Brent Rose Oct 3

Holy Crap They Put Candy Corn in Oreos

As if there wasn’t enough temptation this time of year with store shelves overflowing with Halloween candy, now Nabisco has created this weird mutant lovechild of deliciousness that will be impossible to resist. The intoxicating white ‘creme’ that has made Oreos popular for over a century is now being enhanced with the essence of candy…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 7

This is history’s greatest news article about someone shooting a shotgun full of peas

We’ve seen vegetables transformed into musical instruments, but we haven’t read nearly enough news stories about legume-based artillery. Thankfully, this blurb from the November 2, 1907 edition The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican satisfies our inexplicable craving for 105-year-old news stories about angry farmers shooting annoying children with peas on Halloween. To wit, from TWO…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Aug 8

Scary movie villains retire from haunting and move into the old folks’ home

It’s been three decades since films like The Shining, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street first arrived on the big screen, and their villains haven’t gotten any younger. So what happens when Freddy Krueger and Jason get too old to keep chasing down kids? Photographer Federico Chiesa, with makeup and styling help…

io9 Lauren Davis Mar 24

These Avengers and Spider-Man costumes have already ruined Halloween

This happens like clockwork once every few months. A perfectly nice Halloween costume manufacturer sends us the latest disguises based on [insert upcoming $150-million movie’s name here] and we have an ethical obligation to make fun of them. It’s not the fault of the designers. I bet there was an idealistic intern out there who…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 7

Pug + Wampa = Wampug

Good morning, internet. As a prize for being up at such an ungodly hour, here is your Wampug (a.k.a. YouTuber StarWarsChick01‘s dog Chubbs). Now go seize that day, galvanized and emboldened by what you have witnessed here. See also: AT-AT canine cosplay. https://gizmodo.com/why-thats-a-dog-cosplaying-as-an-at-at-walker-5847916 [Via The Mary Sue]

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 13

Giant Head Costume Is Apple’s 1984 Commercial Come to Life

For a paranoid section of the population, a giant face on a monitor can be an Orwellian nightmare come true. But, a giant face on a monitor that walks around town in a white jumpsuit is actually pretty cool. Still, he should definitely keep an eye out for a girl in red shorts wielding hammers.…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin Nov 11

Watch Squirrel Faces Pucker When They Bite Into Your Vinegar-Spiked Jack-O-Lanterns

You worked damn hard on your Jack-O-Lantern and nobody’s going to make you move it until that pumpkin is a pile of Thanksgiving mush—especially not some infernal squirrel who’s nibbling it for winter sustenance. Luckily, it turns out that the fluffy-tailed vermin despise the scent of strong vinegar almost as much as people do, so…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 1

io9 Halloween Costume Show: “Last Weekend Was Crazy” Edition

Last night’s crazy Halloween debauch marked the end of our annual io9 Halloween Costume Show. You guys really outdid yourselves this year. Damn! Check out the standouts from the weekend. You posted a ton of other incredible costumes in our Flickr gallery, so go check them out. Missed out? There’s always next year, plus you…

io9 Annalee Newitz Nov 1

7 Tools to Keep That Sugar High Going

It’s November 1st, which means you’re going to have to wait an entire year for the opportunity to dress up like a serial killer and harass your neighbors for free candy, without police intervention. In the meantime, here are seven gadgets to satiate your sweet tooth and keep that sugar high going. Tabletop Cotton Candy…

Health Andrew Liszewski Nov 1

The 8 Best Scary Movies to Stream Tonight

Tonight is Halloween, so you’re probably either out taking your kids to collect candy, or getting shitfaced. But it’s Monday! So don’t do the latter—instead, get drunk off fear. Here are the best spooky flicks to stream online. Whether you use Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon video on demand, odds are there’s something that will make…

Movies Sam Biddle Oct 31

Halloween Magic Tricks for iPad Are Worth Some Treats

These Halloween magic tricks for iPad are pretty simple, but fun. Do you have any tablet or smartphone Halloween tricks of your own? Send them to [email protected]. [Mashable]

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 31

Seven Tools to Make Your Front Porch Terrifying on Halloween

It’s Halloween. Do you have your decorations ready for all the trick-or-treaters? If not, you can still pick up some last-minute accessories to make your house extra-extra-creepy this year. Here are seven creeptastic tools to help. Strobe Light Want a cheap way to catch people off guard? Overload their senses with a strobe light. They’ll…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 31

Laser Carved Pumpkin Produces Impressive Results and Terrible Smells

In a stroke of pure genius, Jack Chalkley decided the intricate pattern he’d chosen for his pumpkin was too complicated for his limited carving skills. So he converted his design into vector art in Illustrator, fed the results into his laser cutting machine, and plunked his pumpkin down on the cutting bed. The results are…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 31

Listen to Christopher Lee read Tim Burton’s original The Nightmare Before Christmas poem

Slutty Sesame Street Halloween costumes prove (again) that nothing is sacred, culture is a sham

Show Us Your Best Imaginary Selves in io9’s Annual Halloween Costume Show!

Everybody Needs to Make a Pumpkin Keg to Drink Beer Out of This Month

I Paid Strangers $50 To Tie Me Up And Scare The Shit Out Of Me

Sluttiest and Weirdest Store-Bought Halloween Costumes for 2012

This Year’s Best Halloween Costume Is Cheap, Easy, and Awesome

Holy Crap They Put Candy Corn in Oreos

This is history’s greatest news article about someone shooting a shotgun full of peas

Scary movie villains retire from haunting and move into the old folks’ home

These Avengers and Spider-Man costumes have already ruined Halloween

Pug + Wampa = Wampug

Giant Head Costume Is Apple’s 1984 Commercial Come to Life

Watch Squirrel Faces Pucker When They Bite Into Your Vinegar-Spiked Jack-O-Lanterns

io9 Halloween Costume Show: “Last Weekend Was Crazy” Edition

7 Tools to Keep That Sugar High Going

The 8 Best Scary Movies to Stream Tonight

Halloween Magic Tricks for iPad Are Worth Some Treats

Seven Tools to Make Your Front Porch Terrifying on Halloween

Laser Carved Pumpkin Produces Impressive Results and Terrible Smells

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