COSTUME IDEAS
Dye some gauze in black tea for an aged look & wrap yourself up as this guy whom Abbott & Costello met in a 1955 film
the Mummy
This candy "melts in your mouth, not in your hand"
M&Ms
He says the movie line "You don't know the power of the dark side"
Darth Vader
In 1910, less than a century after this novel was published, it had it's first film adaptation with Augustus Phillips as the title scientist
Frankenstein
A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds
Jack-o-Lanterns
Why not dress up as this Barrie character the boy who would not grow up
Peter Pan
Nobody better lay a finger on 'this crispety, crunchety candy bar I've been saving
Butterfinger
At the end of "Avenger's Infinity War" he snaps his fingers & wipes out half the inhabitants of the universe
Thanos
This Simon Pegg horror comedy puns on the title of a George Romero flick
Shaun of the Dead
It's said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest
orange & black
Roll up the sleeves of a blue denim work shirt, put a red bandana in your hair & you can be this feminist WWII icon
Rosie the Riveter
These Everlasting jawbreakers sold under the Wonka label change colors and flavors as you eat them
Gobstoppers
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode has another confrontation with this crazed killer in 2018's "Halloween"
Michael Myers
2017 saw the 8th film in the "Saw" franchise, & 3 additional letters were needed for this, it's title
Jigsaw
The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she Ike's better half, hung owls & goblins
Mamie Eisenhower
A costume for 2 this double crossing pair from Mad Magazine one in black and one in white created by Antonio Prohias
Spy vs Spy
"At work rest or play you get three great tastes in" this galactic goody
Milky Way
He's the non human villain in "2001: A Space Odyssey"
HAL
In 1990 Christine Elise battled this homicidal doll; in 2019 it was Aubrey Plaza
Chucky
This no hands Halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona
bobbing for apples
If the guys are gangsters, wear fringed dresses & be these 20's gals found in a Fitzgerald title
Flappers
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't" better get one of each of these just to be sure
Almond Joy & Mounds
He's Dudley Do-Rights dastardly mustachioed nemesis
Snidely Whiplash
Ari Aster followed up "Hereditary" with this "seasonal" tale of a trip to a Swedish festival that goes horribly awry
Midsommar
This 20th century performers museum in Scranton, Penn features an online seance every Halloween
Houdini