Halloween is finally here time to get dressed and get ready to go out trick or treating, hang out with friends, maybe plan a Halloween movie night at home? Whatever the plan is for tonight stay safe and have a good time, here are a few other ideas to try out with the family:
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Carve Jack-o’-Lanterns
The tradition of carving pumpkins dates all the way back to the 1800s, and it’s quickly become one of the most popular Halloween activities. This season, make it a family affair! Grab a pumpkin for each person, then let everyone choose from one of our free carving stencils. Then lay down some newspaper for the pumpkin guts, set out the supplies (here are 7 must-have pumpkin carving tools), and get to work!
Making ‘Boo Bags’ is a sweet and easy way to bring a little cheer to your neighborhood this season. The idea is simple: Have the kids help you make a bag filled with all kinds of Halloween candy, toys, and other items. Then leave the bag on a neighbor’s porch for them to discover, with a note prompting them to do the same for someone else.
It doesn’t feel like fall until you’ve hopped on a hayride around the pumpkin patch with a warm cup of apple cider. Read up on how to pick the best pumpkin at the patch, then gather the family and start filling your wagon with the biggest gourds you can find.
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Go Trick-or-Treating
Going door-to-door yelling “trick-or-treat” might be the most iconic Halloween tradition. After many missed out on the activity due to the pandemic last year, go all-out this Halloween. Before you head out, teach your kids about the history of trick-or-treating, and have them prepare a trick to perform just like old times.
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Light Luminaries
Light your driveway or sidewalk with spooky Halloween luminaries that’ll light the way for trick-or-treaters. Get the whole neighborhood involved! Coordinate an afternoon for everyone to gather and create their own paper bag luminaries, then display them throughout the neighborhood on Halloween night. To keep them as safe as possible, use battery-powered tea lights ($5, Walmart) instead of candles.
Decorate Halloween Houses
Move over, Christmas gingerbread houses! This holiday, start a new tasty tradition: Decorating Halloween cookie houses! There are plenty of pre-made kits to choose from, or you can make your own from scratch. Whichever option you choose, be sure to deck it out with plenty of black and orange candy!
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Make Halloween Cookies
We’ll take any excuse to eat more candy corn, and decorating cookies is one of our favorite ways to do so (besides eating it straight out of the bag, of course). Use Halloween cookie cutters ($10, Walmart) to make a batch of sugar cookies in all different shapes, then use Halloween candy and royal icing to decorate them.
Dressing up in costume is one of the most memorable parts about Halloween for young kids, and this year you can make it even more special. Start a tradition of having a costume parade among siblings, cousins, or neighborhood friends. Get the costumes ready a few days before Halloween, then have all the kids do a big reveal for their friends before the big night.
Halloween time is almost here but not everyone is ready to be out and about so maybe a horror movie marathon is the best option this year! If you are anything like me you have your top 10 Horror movies you can keep watching over and over again anytime of the year. If you don’t have a list or even own a scary movie here is http://www.imdb.com list which has some of my favorites. Most streaming services also have their collections out all thru October also. Get a bowl of popcorn, your favorite drink, and get ready to look behind your shoulder for most of the evening:
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller 8.5 Rate 97 Metascore
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
One of the finest films ever made and the greatest horror film of all time features dark, twisted and thrilling storytelling and masterful direction from the master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho is now a legendary film
A young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.
A frightening tale of Satanism and pregnancy that is even more disturbing than it sounds thanks to convincing and committed performances by Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon that results in one of the finest horror movies of all time that features excellent direction and cinematography.
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
A truly terrifying piece of film making that has beautiful cinematography and documentary-style camera work filled with disturbing imagery that creates non stop suspense, The Texas Chainsaw drenches the Texan dessert in blood in a terrifying exploration of cannibalism and isolation.
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Though it deviates from Stephen King’s novel, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a chilling, often baroque journey into madness — exemplified by an unforgettable turn from Jack Nicholson. With excellent direction from Stanley Kubrick and iconic scenes, The Shining is terrifying.
The Exorcist rides its supernatural theme to magical effect, with remarkable special effects and an eerie atmosphere, resulting in one of the scariest films of all time. With great performances and creepy moments, The Exorcist is a classic.
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on beach community off Long Island, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Compelling, well-crafted storytelling and a judicious sense of terror ensure Steven Spielberg’s Jaws has remained a benchmark in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills. Jaws is terrifying and one of the greatest films ever made.
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller 7.7 Rate 87 Metascore
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Scary, suspenseful, and viscerally thrilling, Halloween set the standard for modern horror films. Halloween revolutionized the horror genre and made an icon of Micheal Myers in one of the most terrifying movies ever made.
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi 8.4 Rate 89 Metascore
After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
A modern classic, Alien blends science fiction, horror and bleak poetry into a seamless whole. With claustrophobic thrills and chills and an empowering performance from Sigourney Weaver, Alien is a horror classic.
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery 7.2 Rate 96 Metascore
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Don’t Look Now patiently builds suspense with haunting imagery and a chilling score — causing viewers to feel Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie’s grief deep within. Filled with emotion and terrific performances and twisted storytelling.
As thought-provoking as it is visually compelling, The Witch delivers a deeply unsettling exercise in slow-building horror that suggests great things for debuting writer-director Robert Eggers. Wit excellent cinematography and twisted and creatively dark storytelling.
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery 7.4 Rate 85 Metascore
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.
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