Spooky Movies Vs. A Bucket of Blood

Much as I like your typical horror movie I find the really creepy ones are the ghost movies. What you don't see is often more scary than a bucket of blood sprayed all over the screen. Remember, for full "jump-in-your-seat-effect" watch it in the dark and no talking.

• The Others - a refined ghost story
• The Woman in Black - I prefer the old one.
• The Awakening - has really good actors and a proper movie look
• The Innocents - creepy old movie based on the short story "Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
• The Skeptic - this is a b-movie that only has a rating of 5,8 at IMDB but it certainly had me jumping in my seat.
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The following are not necessarily ghost stories - but still quality creepy movies:

• Carrie - the original movie with Sissy Spacek
• The Shining - Stanley Kubrick + Stephen King = scary
• Let the Right One In - the original Swedish movie is better than its American counterpart
• Ringu - the original NOT the American re-make
• The Fog - again I postulate that it MUST be the original

How to Make Halloween Poison Bottles

Having props around the house for Halloween is half the fun during Halloween. I like to place poison bottles in either the bathroom, kitchen or where ever I find it appropriate. Not REAL poison bottles of course but fake ones. You grab an empty jar, can, bottle or other container that you think will be "appropriate". If it is see-through you can put stuff in that look like poison:

• Flour
• Sugar
• Rice with a bit of food coloring. I like green myself
• Vitamin pills
• Whatever harmless materials you can find in your kitchen

Notice that your poison should be non-toxic so that if a child get hold of the content it will not get sick.

Here are some of the labels that I use for my bottles. I have put them on a single sheet of paper to make it cheaper to print.

How to Make Your Own Halloween Party Invitations

It is easy to make your own Halloween invitations if you have access to a photo editing program like Photoshop:

1. Decide on a THEME for your party that will be reflected graphically in your invitation. E.g. Dead Rock Star theme can be illustrated by Dead Elvis image.
2. Find inspiration for your LAYOUT. Search Google Images with search words like: halloween invitation, cool invitation, invitation layout.
3. FONTS are great for spicing up your design. If you don't already have grizzly fonts in your editing program there are plenty of free fonts out there. I found 1001fonts.com for you with loads of awesome free fonts including a bunch of Halloween inspired fonts.
4. The CONTENT. Remember to include the where and the when, what to dress as if you have a specific theme and what to bring.

Here are some of the Halloween invitations that I have made over the past years. A few times I have snail mailed them but mostly I email them as a PDF or jpg attachment.