Vintage Halloween Pics / Pumpkin Carving Ideas / 1982 Masks Book

First off, this is always a cool feature on this site--the best pumpkin-carving ideas. Love seeing these, and wish I had the time to carve more pumpkins.

https://coolpumpkindesigns.blogspot.com/2013/10/more-epic-pumpkin-carvings-2013m.html?spref=tw

Here's a neat 1982 Halloween masks book I came across.

Sorry I've been lax on updating this, but with the release of my new movie Terrortory 2, things have been hectic. You can stream it for FREE here!
https://www.amazon.com/Terrortory-2-Richard-Cutting/dp/B07HR461QX/?tag=empyrecomics

Rare Topstone Costume and Masks

Topstone was a well-known mask and costume-making company that I talk about in the book, along with the amazing Ben Cooper stuff. Here's some masks and accessories that you don't see that often.

First off is this cool "Nate" mask from the movie "Creepshow"!

Here are some hands that Topstone made. I'm not sure whether they were for a specific costume(they probably were), but they're pretty cool.

This old man mask is super detailed. The side view makes me think that maybe this was based on an existing character.

I'm not POSITIVE that this is Topstone, but it certainly looks like it.

Vintage Halloween Photos Pictures

I know--it's been a while. I've been very hard at work finishing my newest film Terrortory 2, so have been neglectful...

So here's some vintage Halloween photos--everybody likes these, right?

I'll try to update a little more often...

 1950s

1954 

 1961

1944

 Unsure about the last two

Halloween Safety 1977 & 1985 / 31 Years of Halloween Commercials / Sexy Vintage Pics

Big apologies for my complete failure to keep this updated--this has been the busiest Halloween I've ever experienced in terms of movie and freelance work, so I've just had no time.

But here's a very cool safety video from 1977--look, kids trick or treating at NIGHT! Crazy. (I get a little cranky at kids who trick or treat at 5:30pm...some of us eat dinner, ya know? :) )



And here's one from 1985. I'd like to put all these safety videos together in one video and color correct them. Mebbe I'll do that someday...



This one's also a reminder to me because I want to watch them all tonight--31 years of awesome Halloween commercials!

And here's some cool Betty Grable(or possibly Anne Nagle?) Halloween publicity photos from way back that maybe you haven't seen.

Anyway, gotta go hand out candy to trick or treaters, and then head out to a party.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
(Never enough days!)

Halloween Cookies / Monster Silly Putty / Skeleton House / Brachs Candy Banner / M & M Lights

I know--eleven days into Halloween and I'm only just now posting? 

Been busy working on the movie, so it's consuming all my time, but I'll see how many of these I can get up this month...

Here's a cool Halloween cookie box from the 80's(I think). Front and back, and it includes a hologram pumpkin. Cutting edge technology, ya know?

I really wanna know what the cookies looked like...

Next up in some monster silly putty. I had the Dracula silly putty when I was young, which means these are definitely 1970-something.

What's this? A scene from some unknown Harryhausen movie?

Nope, somebody with some cool Halloween decorations. No idea who.

This is a cool, VERY long banner. Here's the whole thing, then the close up of the repeating pattern.

Lastly are these M&M Halloween lights. I don't see a lot of demand for these, which is probably why this is the only picture I've ever found of them.

Still, kind of neat.

Lastly, here's some cool Halloween screensavers and images you an download.
http://spirithalloweens2017.com/scary-halloween-images-2017-scary-halloween-wallpapers-pictures-hd/

Links

This is a pretty cool way to make a jack o'lantern candy bowl for ice cream or other goodies. Gonna pass this on to the wife:
http://www.delish.com/cooking/videos/a55590/jack-o-lantern-bowls-video/



And these are some pretty cool windshield wiper decorations that are macabre enough for Halloween all throughout the year.
https://wipertagstore.com/collections/halloween

Halloween Candles and Pillows and Other Awesome Stuff

https://horrordecor.net/collections/halloween

This is really more of a note to myself to go buy some of this cool stuff. That headless horseman potholder's pretty cool, but I'd rather have it on a pillowcase or something.

But they have some really cool candles like this one:

I mean, how sweet is that? Burns for like 110 hours and smells like pumpkin.

They have others, ones that look like ghosts that smell like baked apple pie, and more! (I think one smells like candy corn, and I can tell you that I like the smell of candy corn better than the taste...)

Check it out--I'm going to get me some of these before Halloween, so I have to order soon! (it takes 21 days to get the items because they're all handmade)
https://horrordecor.net/collections/halloween