Halloween - The Greatest Holiday of All

Friday, October 8, 2021

Ben Cooper things of interest...

Image from the book linked below

So yeah, I'm a terrible blogger. I missed an entire year. Life gets in the way sometimes, especially when you have like 10 blogs...

Anyway, another Halloween season is upon us! I recently came across a couple of links that I thought were interesting, and first is this new book. I just ordered it. It's pretty expensive($30 plus $10 to ship--I mean, media rate should only cost like $4, as I ship my books all the time but I'm interested enough that I'm biting the bullet on it)

This link will show you some pics plus has the link to order the book:

https://13thdimension.com/viva-ben-cooper-you-need-this-groovy-new-halloween-history-book/

The same web site has this cool list of what they think is the coolest Ben Cooper costumes ever. Not sure I'd agree with the order, but many of those are my favorites(and I owned quite a few as a kid).

https://13thdimension.com/the-top-13-frank-romano-ben-cooper-costume-designs-ranked/?fbclid=IwAR1Y9TE7EKmTossudm3qMF0EABR1SvjWnBHGpZYspWjPlgOxzMH4R-noJik

And finally is this article from last year about adult-sized Ben Cooper costumes. I've never heard of these, nor seen them so I'm curious if anybody else has. I'm going to go check into it. I'd love an adult Spidey, Mummy, and a couple of others.

https://13thdimension.com/finally-ben-cooper-is-back-with-costumes-for-adults/

Anyway, hope to post a couple more posts before this year's Halloween hits.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Vintage Halloween Pics / Elvira Halloween / Monster Safety Kit (Count Chocula Booberry Frankenberry)

I know, it's been nearly a year since I posted here. It has, as I'm sure you're aware, been a ridiculous year. I could stack the excuses here high and wide, but why bother? Let's just try to enjoy the greatest holiday while there's still a couple of days left!

First up are some vintage pics, including a classic featuring the great horror hostess Elvira, as well as some 60's images(and one 70's one, the Indian mask girl)

Finally, here's a very cool kit that I know some of my friends wish they had right now...

Anyway, have a great and spooky Halloween, and here's to hoping next year we're back to normal.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Vintage Halloween Pictures - Weird, Creepy and A Blackface Costume

Three clown kids--always a Halloween staple!

This pic from 1959 of a young Crusader

These two ladies prove you're never too old for Halloween!

I have no idea what's going on here. Probably not even Halloween related, but it's weird...

Sorta looks like a deleted scene from Clockwork Orange...

Uh...yeah.

From 1961, back when blackface was apparently A-OK...

Happy Halloween everybody! Wish I had time to post more stuff!

Friday, October 11, 2019

Empire Ghost Blow Mold / Vintage Pictures

Wow, wish I had more time to post, but I'm in the midst of pre-production on another film. Another Halloween that's gonna fly by too fast...

Here's two different ghost blow molds. The first is Empire brand(front and back pic), and I think the second is called General Foam(both sides).

Here are a couple of vintage pics I came across. The one shows some kids in their classic costumes, while the second has a couple of girls hula hooping, but you can see some vintage Beistle decorations on the wall behind them.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Halloween 2019 Approaches

Summer's winding down, and I see more and more countdowns to Halloween.

So first up is this pretty cool tutorial on how to make fake rotten pumpkin decorations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbuks1xL13s&feature=youtu.be

Then we have some neat Zest Soap masks from the 1960's. Very Ben Cooper like.